Let the Travian addiction begin

8:41 am, January 4th, 2009 | No Comments »
Posted in boythings, gaming, geekery, internets by Jarod

Thanks to the crazy88 boys I’m now semi addicted to Travian. It’s one of those sassy online in-browser strategy type games. I played Utopia on and off here and there, but seems a little different. Somewhat more refined.

Once I’ve been playing for more than a few days I’ll post a mini review. Be warned though, it might only consist of a few (swear) words if I end up getting smooshed by people bigger than me.

Planes on final approach

11:28 pm, January 2nd, 2009 | No Comments »
Posted in bikes, boythings, geekery, photography by Jarod

Since moving to the inner west I’ve wanted to head down to the north end of the north south runway at Kingsford Smith Airport. You know, to generally be a camera nerd and take photos of planes rushing 50 odd metres overhead. This morning, I finally go around to it.

I know I know, that photo is tiny. Smash this link to see it bigger though.

Crazy Kitties!

3:17 am, January 2nd, 2009 | No Comments »
Posted in boythings, cuteness, internets, roundups by Jarod

It’s a pretty simple concept. Hit the play button, watch the cats be stupid, piss yourself with laughter. Well, that’s what I just did anyway.

Goodbye 2008, Hello 2009

11:07 am, January 1st, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Posted in bikes, boythings, local by Jarod

Yay for sky explosions!! And Damish for once again letting us invade their rooftop!! And the City of Sydney for lashing out with 6 million dollars of fireworks in these times of financial crisis!! And to the sky writer who wrote ‘The Creator is Jesus‘ at about 8pm over Sydney Harbour!! And to horrible traffic coming back over the Harbour Bridge!!

Here’s to another fantabulous year on this humble little planet we call Earth.

I’ll be damned if I’m not having a much more quiet NYE in 2009.

The Camera Blackboard

6:38 pm, December 31st, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Posted in boythings, cuteness, girlthings, photography by Jarod

Goosync… three weeks on

11:20 am, December 31st, 2008 | No Comments »
Posted in bikes, geekery, internets by Jarod

A little while ago I did a little mini review on Goosyncing Google Calendar to my Nokia E71. Well this is the even shorter review which takes place after using it every second day or so.

The only negative that both Liz and I found is that a week or so ago we both couldn’t sync for a few days. An error message stating that a connection couldn’t be established or something. We presumed their server was down and were just patient and things returned to normal pretty quickly. Other than that it’s been a bundle of joy which works nice and seamlessly such that you don’t know it’s there.

If you want to sync your Google Calendar to your E71 (or anything on the S60 platform), get Goosync. Don’t worry about the subscription version unless you’re a super duper mega power user, the free version will do fine.

Nut and Bee lust.

8:34 pm, January 5th, 2009 | No Comments »
Posted in cuteness, girlthings, internets, roundups by Liz

Every time I receive a newsletter from Nut and Bee, Jarod has to restrain me from buying all the cute things.

Annette’s Sketchbook Sweeties are absolutely adorable. I already have eight of them hanging on our walls (unfortunately, in out of the way places due to the whole ‘no putting holes in walls while renting thing’), and have been wanting to add to the collection for ages.

Although, until we get walls we can poke holes in, I’ve had to settle for a notepad and a bunch of stickers. Still, it’s a win in my books. :D :D

A side of Train we hadn’t seen.

7:39 pm, January 4th, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Posted in boythings, girlthings, local, traaiiiiin by Liz

So, we took Train to the vet today. We’ve been talking about doing it for a couple of weeks because her 1 year vaccination was due. Being the responsible pet owners we are, we clipped her claws in preparation of a little bit of anger and took her along to the vet.

During the short car ride in she was fine, mewed a little in a curious way but seemed okay. Once we got into the surgery, she got very, very quiet. Little did we know what was to come.

We took her in to the examination room, and she refused to come out of the carrier. That was an easy fix - the roof easily unclips. Turns out, that was a bad move.

Angry kitty had come out to play, and was not going to have a bar of any kind of check up or injection. The Vet did his best to win her over, but gave up and asked a nurse for assistance. He suggested to bring some gloves in, but she declined. Little did she realise what she was in for.

She put a towel over Train in an effort to get a hold of her (and to calm her down with darkness) and Train went mental. Not just a little mental, but totally fucking out of her little kitty mind mental. She was screaming and growling like an angry bear and waving her claws and teeth at everyone she could. The nurse decided perhaps the gloves were a better idea after being punctured with the aforementioned claws, and came back in to pin her down for the injection.

Train was so scared/angry that she lost control of her little kitty bodily functions and so not only did she get her nails clipped and a vet visit, when we got home she also needed a bath :(

The Vet was kind enough to provide us with a prescription for Valium ’so we could prepare Train for next time’ and we were sent on our way.

She’s totally fine now, doesn’t have a problem with us touching her or going near her, but geez, we’re going to have to prepare for the next visit. Thankfully it wont be for another year.

I don’t think I like the new Doctor :(

10:59 am, January 4th, 2009 | No Comments »
Posted in girlthings, internets, roundups, whinging by Liz

Matt Smith has been named as the actor who will take over from David Tennant in Doctor Who - making him the youngest actor to take on the role.

At 26, Smith is three years younger than Peter Davison when he signed up to play the fifth Doctor in 1981.

Smith will first appear on TV screens as the 11th Doctor in 2010.

He looks a bit… emo.

BBC News.

Oh noes, no power.

4:23 pm, January 3rd, 2009 | No Comments »
Posted in girlthings, internets, local, photography by Liz

There’s a reason I couldn’t be a journalist, and that’s because I’m not that good at writing things as soon as they happen. Things generally sit for a day or two. If someone pokes me in that time, then I might write about it, if not, it generally gets forgotten.

But, on Thursday night, there was a power outage. It was near midnightish, and neither Jarod and I could sleep. So, we used the internets on our phones and discovered, thanks to ABC Online’s superior news coverage, that we could blame a Marrickville Chocolate Factory for the no powerness. (Or, perhaps the fact it was next door to an electricity sub station).

On Jarod’s super early bike ride the next day, he rode past and took a photo or two:

Apparently around 35,000 homes were affected, but all was restored by 6am.

2008 in review.

9:26 pm, December 30th, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Posted in girlthings, internets, local, roundups by Liz

I figure that I should probably do a filler post as the ‘last for the year’. I know I wont do it tomorrow — I’m not one of the lucky ones that has time off.
But anyway.

2008 in Summary:

January: Unemployed! I do miss it a little, but I don’t miss the no-money-coming-in thing.

February: Started with LEGO.

March: Spent lots of my pay on aforementioned LEGO.

April: Missed the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. Tried to ignore the coverage as much as possible.

May: According to our Google calendars, we wormed the cat. How exciting!

June: We started this blog, and I made the first post. June was also the month our hot water heater and electricity decided it wasn’t going to play fair.

July: I left LEGO and started with the mysterious Alliance.

August: Jarod created the LEGO Olympics. You may say that this should be in Jarod’s summary, but I don’t think you realise how much time, effort and table space was put into this. There was a very valid reason I made him pack the LEGO away at the end of the Olympics.

September: The second annual Train Day occured! Oh, and it was our one year anniversary. Aww.

October: Jarod finally got to meet my parents (lucky him) and I was no longer 21.

November: I got to see Emma finally get married. Through the lens, and all. (www.mrandmrshancock.com).

December: Jarod and I have now lived together for a whole year. And I keep forgetting special anniversaries like that. At least Jarod knows he’s pretty much guaranteed to look good when he remembers a date.

In 2007 I traveled a whole bunch - Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide… and this year kinda sucked that I only got to go to Bathurst, and that’s mainly because I wouldn’t have missed Emma’s wedding for the world. I didn’t get to see all the lovely people I made friends with in all those lovely cities (well, except Brisbane, I don’t call that city lovely), but thanks to the internets I can still say hi.

I have grand plans of going to Melbourne and Perth next year (along with our Brisbane trip for another wedding in Jan), but we’ll see how that goes. Apparently when it’s not a company business trip it costs money and you have to take annual leave. Aww.

Hope everyone has a fantastic New Year.

See you all in 2009.