Oct
17
Dionaea muscipula!
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I bought this carnivorous plant to eat flies. There are too many in Brisbane during the summer. I tried to play with it and it works great. You just slide somehing thin between the trap and it closes itself very quickly…quite impressive! Hopefully it will eat as many flies as it can! On the right hand side, it is a BAILEY. I love this Irish creme. I will drink some tonight to help me to sleep. I had only 4 hours and half of sleep the last two days.
Oct
16
He is my oldest IRC friend (~7 years). He was among the very first people who welcomed me to the dark side of internet. Today I heard him saying he had a friendly driving lesson last Saturday. I laughed a lot. He is about the same age as me and he does not have a driving license yet. To me it was one of the most important things to get when I grew up. It is like being independent: FREEDOM! Funny thing is he might be getting his flying license BEFORE his driving license.
I hold three driver’s licenses (French, US and Australian)
Oct
15
And the winner is….
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Nik0n d200. Now I will give myself two weeks to choose where to buy it from and to read all the technical details about the zoom.
Oct
15
Monday Monday Monday!
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I just do not like Mondays! I usually do not sleep well Sunday night so I am wasted on Monday morning. On my way to the pool, there were tons of trash bins that were bowled over. Another usual event! Some drunk people find it amusing to do that on their way home. People should not take their trash out anyways, some people leave their bins out all the time! It is very annoying!
My body is a bit sore today, I could not run much last week due to the rain. So the swim was a bit unpleasant but there were not many people surprisingly. At 4.2 kms, there was in the air this horrible smell, a burning smell. I could barely breath. During the summer, there are a lot of bush fires in Brisbane and its surroundings. People do not seem affected by the smell but it is KILLING me. I finally understand the pain of a person who is allergic! I cannot breath and worse of all, I seem to be the only one suffering from this horrible smell.
Yesterday, my neighbor showed me his place when I was about to go to Indooroopilly shopping center. I liked his place, very clean and ordered like mine. He is renovating his kitchen. He told me he bought his place for 357k. I thought it would be worth more. If I had a regular job, I can probably afford to buy my place now. He likes to play chess, maybe I’ll ask him to play a game sometimes. I probably need to play a few on yahoo.games first.
Oct
14
Hair color
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People often ask me nowadays whether I use some dye to color my hair. This picture best illustrates why they ask such question. They do turn copper-like shade because of the chlorinated water in the pool and the Australian sun.
Oct
14
Finally, my photos and web directory are backed up. Monday morning, I will bring the USB drive to the lab and make a third copy and also put them onto DVDs. I know I am being too cautious but I know by experience that accidents always occur at the least expected moment and usually all events converge to the same ultimate goal, the destruction of my data. All my data exist in multiple physical locations. That is how I keep all my pictures from many sources all these years.
Have you made a backup of all your data files? If not you should do it RIGHT now!
Oct
14
I am actively looking for these comics
I found this huge lizard in the backyard. It looks like a giant plastic tube:
Oct
13
Saturday swimming!
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As usual unexpected! Very nice swim today and, lucky, I had a triathlete next to my lane. At the beginning, I thought that he was too fast for me, but after few laps, I got back to his level. I hope the pleasure was reciprocal! The new vacuum cleaner is very powerful. My eyes are no longer red, I think I badly hurt them last weekend when I took off the lenses after the long run. My eyes were really dry and the lenses got stuck to the surface of the eyes. I should have waited a bit after adding few wetting drops for contacts before taking them off. No news from the cactus mix planted last week. I keep on watering the pot.
Everyday at 5:25 am, I take this road to go to the pool. It is very quiet and at the end of the road, I have the pleasure of seeing the sunset. The road is quiet, the birds are beautiful, and the sun is at the end of the road!
This weekend will be fully dedicated to my blog.
Oct
11
“Two roads diverged in a yellow wood
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And I took the normal one!” So I got the extension offer by email. I will have to sign the papers, confirm the information and I will get the 6 months extension.
Will I ever make that jump?
Oct
11
This is about the time again. I really hate it when it comes. My hair is getting too long! I doubt I will try the military style again. It takes too long to grow it back and my sister doesn’t like it much.
