Weekend with my bruddah!

Frank came over from Canberra to look at houses with me... Cindy helped make us sushi for dinner!
The big question is do we find something that is a) a good investment, b) affordable for me to live in now, or c) affordable with housemate now and potentially perfect for later, and d) should we care about resale value if we find some place I would really like to live?

These questions arose after we discovered that if I rent the property from Frank at lowish rent the house would give me no option to have someone share, the option to live in a beautiful place where I could comfortably have a person share for now and pay about the same as a cheap place (but have the option to one day afford it on my own), or find something we can develop which may make me less comfy now but give me potential free rent later on and perhaps even be a good investment... I like option c.

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Jo visiting from Canberra

Jo, visiting me from Canberra is not game to try my food, so Molly Malones was chartered with the cooking... Here she is pictured chatting up repairmen about her heater problems at home, over a pint of Guinness.

Edible food today!

OK, still zero for presentation... and too bad the spinach was raw (turned the wrong stove on), but the champagne helped!

New Commute

New Commute is OK, I drive to Don and then ride my bike in on the river/beach tracks. Just what I need everyday, only 9kms or so each way, and it is mostly downwind and down hill:

In the morning I reckon it is an easy 30 minutes to work:



In the afternoon I ride home (via the pharmacist today) and take it very easy. Ran into a mate today and stopped for the loo... really is a very pleasant ride:

Dinner time...

Amazing how good food can really be ruined.... With the flavour gone so is the apetite. These are actually my left-overs as this was gross. I know I can do better.

No fixed address

One of the worst days in my life... I am leaving home. K is staying with the Puss, I am seeking shelter with a friend. We have separated :(This hurts a lot still. Will take some time to find my feet again. K and I decided to call it a day, but will remain best of friends, just not live together anymore. Why do us humans have to go through thse things...


Unloading at Cindy's house which needs a house-sitter for a while. I will be in Turner's Beach here for a while till I find something a bit more permanent, get my Disability Support back and sort out the bank accounts etc.

voyeurism

The sexy back-end of work... Odd little building, but the land is great. Would make a perfect development project here! In the mean time I work inside where they look after me well even though I cause trouble...

Railway Maintenance!

With all the controversy about the poor rail infrastructure in Tasmania I was surprised to see railway maintenance happening! Good on'um! On that note:

Future Transport Tasmania will be meeting this Tuesday next week
28th April at the New Sydney Hotel (HOBART!) in the conference room upstairs. Anyone who
wants to get involved in the nuts and bolts of the group and help us do stuff is
welcome.
Email Toby at futuretransporttas@dodo.com.au

Its
been a quiet week or two in the media regarding transport although the issue
always crops up. As you may have noticed today the Brighton Bypass has begun
construction, which will be fabulous for all those people who want to get to
Launceston and back five or ten minutes quicker! $164 million so that we don't
have to drive slowly through the Brighton shopping
precinct.

Might be worth considering what we could get
INSTEAD of a bypass for $164 million? Indeed, the rail network upgrade is
just $122 million -how good would our rail network be if we spent ANOTHER $164
million on it?

Please feel free to write letters to the
newspaper & ring up talk back radio and help us keep the issue of public
transport and rail in the media.

Many thanks,

Toby
Rowallan
Spokesperson
Future Transport Tasmania

Cycling hazards for men

Cycling with man-eyes render these rose bush branches invisible. On at least one occasion I rode straight into it with my hand! Idiot! At home I had to pull out one thorn. This is the bikepath (click on this GoogleEarth link and use your mouse to browse around!). I cycle along on the way home each day, up near the Devonport pool.

Formby Road

Probably the least exciting street in Devonport,... but here it is again, this time I got slightly moist. Notice the old diesel train. Tasmania's national railway is seriously lacking and no longer fit for any passenger service. So here you got the worst of the worst of Devonport!

TasRail's current locomotive fleet includes:-
Purchased from Tranz Rail:
12 DQ class locomotives;
3 QR class locomotives;
2 D class locomotives (similar to the New Zealand DXR class locomotives); and
1 New Zealand DC class locomotive.