Category: Trip

The Arrival

  • December 28, 2013

Both of my domestic flights had delays which meant running in airports to make connections. The international flight was a near continuous 15 hours of turbulence that made virtually any activity outside of listening to music on headphones impossible. Taken as a whole, this was by far the worst travel to Australia I’ve ever done.

Which made me even happier to arrive, and to rendezvous with Bernard at the airport soon afterwards.

What followed was a day that included some shopping…

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Some eating…

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Some drinking…

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And picking up the car!

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As of right this moment I’m going on 48+ hours without sleep and am slurring my words.

Tomorrow we’re off to the Blue Mountains but before then I’ve got a date with a pillow!

  • Posted in Family
  • Robert

NYCC ’13 in Two Days!

  • October 8, 2013

Friday is KLS’s birthday, and once again we’re turning it into an event by attending New York Comic Con.

This year we upgraded to VIP tickets. No lines for us! We walk the path of kings!

Expect all the usual nonsense here on this blog as I experience the madness of NYCC. I’ll do my best to get shots of the wildest, wackiest, otakuest and maybe even prettiest 😉

I wonder if we’ll see any cosplay better than this:

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Oh yes! I have prepared a costume… watch for it on Saturday 🙂

  • Posted in Otaku
  • Robert

For Your Eyes Only

  • September 28, 2013

Operation ‘First Fleet’ is confirmed.

Operatives ‘Slim Dusty’ and ‘Banjo Patterson’ will disembark at Mascot in 81 days. Though their transports will be different, they have synchronized their schedules to arrive near simultaneously. While their identities are a closely kept secret, here are artists sketches (SD on the left):

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Shortly after arrival they will rendezvous with their local contact, ‘Henry Lawson’, who will provide a safe house from which the operation will be carried out. Lawson’s current appearance is uncomfirmed, but he is believed to have not changed much since this photograph was taken:

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The operation will last for roughly three weeks, and the principle mission objectives are:

– Interact with locals, especially those working as vendors in fast-food restaurants
– Determine via personal experimentation the sugar content of local sweets and toroidal baked cakes
– Carry out rigorous experiments to estimate payout percentages of local lottery tickets and gambling machines
– While not performing the above, activate ‘profligate wastrel’ disguises to keep mission objectives secret

Operatives will regularly report on progress via this or a similar channel. Stay tuned…