Riding Down Under - Tropical Cairns Australia

[MacDoc]

Surprise

Looking good for ride to Kuranda.
and it was
Lot of traffic and it's Anzac Day.
Village in the Rainforest lived up to the rainforest bit with a tiny shower.
Sun out again. Pigging on bratwurst and generous saurkraut and fried onions.
Went to pay and the owner waved me off. I've be going there regularly since 2011 and the food is always tasty.
His mum is still working there everyday - she’s 92

 

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too sweet
Midnight feed of mac n cheese was good.


Looks okay - lovely temps but very windy.
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Nother quick solve unaided

Napped earlier, super small supper, midnight snack in order tho I had few sea salt chips. There is sourdough raisin bread in the pantry which the ants were after.
A trip to the furnace aka toaster will show them...little extra added protein.

Resolved my fry pan dilemma. Ended up with a high end Tfal coated hand me down that could be classified as a lethal weapon it's so heavy. From dottor in law. DINKs with high salaries and no kids so we get useful, expensive hand me downs. ( Qantas captain and Sheraton Hotels director ). We will likely get an off lease Tesla next year.

Partner approved and dishwasher tolerant so peace is kept....and for free as fits our pension income which is eroding far too quickly. :dance:

Korean Wings at the bowls club this noon.
Nope - closed Mondays...tomorrow then.

 

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Who would have guessed Priusland !!

Noraly in good spirits.

 

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nice walk to bowls club and got my wings

 

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Marc on the ragged edge....Africa trip abandoned...he's fried

Decent sleep but rainy blustery day. Watching science videos and keeping dawgs company.

Lazy tonight

 

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Topic came up on another forum about late night hours.


I got used to 40 years of working from home and especially when working remotely from South Africa or Australia navigating both time zones and even dates.
Staff could handle the normal day to day biz and I'd deal with the off hours stuff. Many graphics arts and music clients were night owls as well....few 9-5.
Client did this original cartoon based on an actual 3 am event ..the details make me laugh every time I open it.

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On a bit of a good Wordle roll here and double badge - all green and a birdie.

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Looks good for a ride tomorrow and hoping a used mcycle jacket fits.

Australian brand and even better ventilated than what I have. Looks in good nick.
$40 hard to pass up. Just need to ride to the shop with no jacket on. 3xL Australian should fit.

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MOTO DRY SUMMER-VENT JACKET FEATURES
S600 Denier H/D Abrasion Resistant Material

• Active Air Power-Mesh Panels
• Adjustable Waist Belt
• 1600 Denier Super H/D Abrasion Resistant Material
• CE Protection (Shoulders & Elbows) & HDF Back Protector
• Soft-Roll Magnetic Collar System (Fold Back)
• Velcro Cuff Closure with Gusset
• Adjustable Arm Strap
• Long Padded Kidney Panel
• Genuine YKK Zips
• Night Safety Reflective

I'll add in my CE2 armour and I have a Joe Rocket Liner that does not need to be zipped in that I think I can keep in my top case. My Joe Rocket mesh short jacket is getting to be 40 years old tho even the original velcro still works. Better constructed then.

 

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Washout

Bed for me after late night at the movies.
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Marc bails

Good novel on the go, Juice and the Hunger Games Trilogy on Netflix

Much more better result ...rested
A pleasant jaunt this time

Noraly back home

Getting oldsucks. Fell in the kitchen ...hit my head on the frig.
Not as bad as it looks


Clearly knock on head reduced brain function
Oh what a tease ....vocabulary let me down

 

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Feeling much better after a hard afternoon feeling like I'd been in a car crash with whiplash...I hurt in a lot of places, mostly shoulders and neck.- could hardly get out of bed. Only now with good drug mix, of Panadol and Celebrex do I feel normal - a solid early eveninig sleep certainly helped.
Doc gave me a clean bill of health and replaced the butterfly clips on the wound. Got my right leg X-rayed too as I'd been geting the occasional aches and pains in the area of the leg breaks. Feels fine now loaded up with mild pain killers

Enjoying left overs from our curry feast last night. Partner did an excellent job and we all enjoyed the time to have quiet conversation with friend instead of trying to overcome club noise. I get to chop up the chicken and beef as the resident carnivore

Almost bailed then 2 am neurons woke up - two choices - missed

 

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Scale ....the wilderness to the north of me - only 35,000 people

the Cape York Peninsula in Australia is significantly larger than the United Kingdom. Covering roughly 137,000 square kilometres (about 52,900 square miles), it is larger than the UK.

a dire murder mystery yet unsolved

Off to see Brian Cox in Sydney in the am.

 

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Stopped following the noobs that conquered the world two up on a Vstrom 1000 ...gutsy and they were very young and inexperienced.
Now Lavi has her own bike and ...

She looks good as a blonde and has greatly improved as a rider

Vegging getting my sore neck to ease up before Sydney.

 

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Flew to Sydney to see Brian Cox

Lovely W Hotel ...low cost for us...shark may be indicative of regular rates.

Brian Cox ...amazing
2 hours of entertainment that will stretch your neurons near to breaking

Emergence

I'm on older OS and my older MacBook Pro ...struggled

But 2 hours of Brian Cox was brilliant last evening

 

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Pathetic....
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Noraly live was interesting. She looks really good

Heavy training schedule and it shows √
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Piece of ...

 

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Oxycodone ...yikes.
Been battling with a sore back and shoulder since my fall last week and normal panadol 2 x 500 mg did not seem to be working at all and soreness was not improving with time.
I had a small amount of oxy left over from a previous script and tired of hurting so I popped one and as I recalled from hospital it worked quickly. Can see why there is an underground demand. Pretty damn effective

Will go to doc on Wednesday and find out root cause of the pain tho now pretty sure I just re-injured a forever torn rotator cuff problem from a bad come off offroad on the KLR when I hit some green moss ....that was nearly 10 years ago and was a painful ride home.
Had mostly got my range of motion back but doc said at the time my right shoulder was a mess and could not be fixed....I just learned to live with limited range of motion.
I was getting steroid shots for a bit but as predicted they became less and less effective. Might have to try one again if this continues to hurt.
At least I got a solid 3 hours sleep out of the experiment with the oxy. Could barely feed myself at supper was so sore.
Hoping the pain abates and I'll return to my usual "it sucks getting old" regimen of daily panadol 2 x 500 three times a day. Might try adding in a 100 mg Celebrex tonight.

toil n trouble ...

 

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Best day in a while tho that's brutal wind gusts - makes for nice breeze on the deck tho.
With continued ( tho getting very slowly better ) sort neck and shoulder ....think I will pass
Really need to get into doc and get a handle on the problem. very debilitating even sitting here typing shoulder is sore. appointment made for tomorrow.
I get 5 free physio visits a year but need doc to approve...mebbe make apptment for tomorrow.