As you may have noticed if you’ve checked out my 365 project lately, there are quite a few blank spaces over the last couple of months. I was doing quite well with it, right up to our trip to Austria.
The trip turned out to be a lot more tiring than I expected and I didn’t get as much time with my camera over there as I’d hoped or wanted. The trip was a great experience, but the courses and terrain were hard work. Couple this with the heat over the first few days (between 25c and 30c) and by the time we got back to the apartment each day we were exhausted. It took me about a week to recover from the trip and by this time I was way behind with my project. Once I’d got behind, I found it tremendously hard to get going again.
Well, I have managed to get going again, mostly due to getting my hands on some new kit. I’ll be uploading the recent photos to the galleries here in the next couple of weeks but for now you can see them at http://www.365project.org/andyb/365
Not long to go now until we set off for Austria and the EBHC 2010 tournament. This time next week we’ll just be hitting the road….hopefully!
Quite looking forward to it now, although I’m not quite sure what to expect. Everything is now sorted out as far as transportation goes. I now have all the documentation needed for the car in my possession, the ferry is booked and all the archery equipment declared. I now just need to check the driving regulations in the countries we’ll be passing through to make sure I haven’t missed anything.
The only part I’m not really looking forward to is the ferry crossing. I don’t really do boats, think it’s a motion sickness thing to be honest. The last time I was on a ferry was just after the Herald of Free Enterprise disaster. Not a good crossing, although the severe hangover I had probably had more to do with it. Still, if I can conquer my fear of flying, a short boat trip should be a piece of cake.
I’m trying to figure out a way of plotting the trip using the GPS in my iPhone. I’ll put an update here if I mange to figure anything out.
Just lately I’ve found that both myself and Kay have been making quite a few new arrows, well it’s mainly me to be honest 
Up to now, we’ve only had the one fletching jig between us. When you both want to make arrows it gets a bit time consuming sharing the jig. On a recent trip down to Quicks archery I decided to get a new jig. The only jig I’ve used up to now has been the tollgate fletching jig. Unfortunately, Tollgate were bought out by a company called Arten who have stopped making the jig. I looked at several jigs and finally settled on a Cartel.
I made half a dozen arrows with the cartel jig, but I wasn’t overly impressed. I still preferred the Tollgate. I started to have a dig around ebay and see if there were any second hand Tollgates for sale. Luckily I found two currently on offer and proceeded to watch them. The prices weren’t bad, both of them were currently at about £12. I decided to stick a bid on one of them and find out if there were any auto bids on there. I got my bid accepted at £16.50.
I continued watching both items, but there was no further movement on the one I was bidding on. Having experienced ebay sniping before I made sure I was in front of the computer for the last hour of the auction. Nothing much happened, that is until some little bastard put a bid on there with 15 seconds to go. No when I’m sniping I leave it late, but 15 seconds is taking the piss. Thankfully I had an auto bid on up to the amount I was willing to pay and got the bid on just in time to piss the other bidder off. I eventually won the item with a bit of 19.50.
I figured the person that I beat for this particular jig would then go off and bid on the other one that was up for auction. He’d managed to annoy me enough for me to go and bid on the other jig. I put an auto bid on this one up to £15 (it was currently at £10). The auction ended at roughly the same time the next day, so once again I made sure I was in front of the PC. Sure enough, with 20 seconds to go someone, I assume the same person, someone tried to outbid me. Yet again, I still had enough time to get my counter bid in and win the item. The ironic thing is I actually got the second one cheaper, the second one only cost me £18.10. I didn’t particularly need a second one, but now we have 3 in total. It does make making arrows a lot faster with 2 or 3 jigs on the go at the same time.
I’ve been meaning to post this for a couple of days after a colleague pointed out the website to me. Unless you know me and where I work it probably won’t make much sense to you, but if you do, then you’ll probably get quite a bit of amusement out of it as I did.
Head on collision is probably an understatement, and 100% is easy with a good memory and pass4sure. What a hero!
Just a short update, but occasionally I come across a website I think is really useful.
I came across the Council Tax Valuation List today so just thought I’d share it. It will let you check the council tax band of any property. Useful if you think you may be paying more than you should!
Testing Windows live writer this time. Looks like this will let me insert images and float the text around them. Looks quite nice and is simple enough to use.
There is one problem though, its only available on Windows and I want something that I can use on a Linux distro.
As the picture indicates, I want the moon on a stick!
Testing this from gnome blog. Doesn’t look to be much use to be honest. No image support!
After almost 7 years in my current house it looks like I’ll be moving soon. Kay and myself have decided it’s time to move in together. To be fair, we pretty much moved in together from day one, we’ve just been running two houses and only living in one. I haven’t spent a single night at my place since I went over to meet Kay that night at the end of August.
We’ve got a place together in Mansfield Woodhouse. Bigger than my old place, but there will be more people in it so it makes send to get the couple of extra bedrooms and it isn’t all that much more expensive either.
We get the keys on the 29th December, so if some of my websitses are unavailable for a period of time, you know why. My servers will be in transit and I’ll probably be waiting for my broadband to be reconnected.
It will be nice to have a place that is ours, rather than one of us moving into a house that was originally the others. It’s a fresh start for both of us.
