Simon and cake

In the morning Simon came to check our cars. He has a little mobile garage service.

In the back is this ancient piece of equipment that can be used to check old engines. It's not of much use anymore because these days cars have digital controlled engines and there is no standardisation across manufacturers unfortunately.

The engine of our little car. Not quite the Chevy big block...

The brakes inside the back wheel.

In the afternoon Nicole made a cake, A rather super delicious cake I must say!

Half the kitchen table was full with ingredients.

In the meantime it's got really cold outside: 15C.

And so much for cleaning yesterday. Last night's and todays bad weather dropped even more leaves in front of our door than there were before...

Here's Nicole with the finished cake, all proud and so she should be.

A single piece of heaven. For more info on the cake check Nicole's blog.

Mason Dalí / Scab : Off

SCAB TIME, ENJOY! This was right before it came off today, more than a week after the fatal slip while walking Mason... Scab free at last!

Today was a public holiday (Anzac day) here. Yes, ex-colleagues who are reading this, Australia has about twice as many pub. hols than The NL! ;-) (And if one of em is on a weekend, it moves to the first monday after!) Anyway, because of this I could walk Mason again. Here we are getting ready.

Mason finally sniffing trees again.

I made this picture whilst walking. It looks like Dalí shot it...

It was very cloudy today. Aparently it's like this every Anzac day.

Somewhere funny things were growing in the grass.

Mason waited at every curb.

We walked past Caesar again and said hello.

Somewhere along the way a cat started following us. He thought Mason was very interesting, or maybe it was looking to pick a fight or something.

At the end of the afternoon Mason had to go home so it was back into the boot of the car for him.

Back at the ranch I fiddled around with my to-build power supply.

I did a lot of driving today. When driving to Semaphore we saw this train. Absolutely fascinating of course.

Good food

My bus arriving in the morning.

The moon shining over Coles, a supermarket.

Every morning sofar, at the same stop, a guy has come in, talks with the driver, makes notes, counts people, stamps his card and leaves the bus again.

The Origin building in town. Origin is an energy company.

After work we went out for dinner. We discovered a place called Vagabondo. I'd never have thought it to be so nice so my expectations were not too high but oh dear, surprise surprise! I ordered saltimbocca and it was THE best one I ever had. There was also mashed potato, green beans, onion and a mustardy sauce involved. Unreal, what a fine discovery!

The office life

Hordes of people who can't wait to get behind their desks.

Streets are full of busses delivering the office-slaves right on time.

The street where I work.

The staircase at my work.

Our elevator is sssllloooowwwwwww.

And then it was lunch time! Woohooo! Unfortunately a few cigarette smoking leather-heads next to us spoilt a lot of the fun by creating an ash tray smell all around us.

Nic picked me up from work. It's nicer than going home by bus and also faster.

At home Mason was still there and he was very excited to see me :-)

Met de vlam in de pijp...

Scheur ik door.. over Main North road. On my way to work. Man I love being bi-lingual, zo leuk!

I did lots of reading again. It's very interesting, I've come across a lot of nice features of C# but sheesh, every now and again I feel like falling asleep. I did a cool exercise this afternoon though which made time go quite fast thankfully. I'm hoping to finish this book tomorrow. Then general Windows/C#/.Net stuff is out of the way and we carry on with ASP.Net. Hello World, here I come! :-)

During lunch I met up with a very cute girl that I know.

At the end of the day it was back into the bus.

At the bus stops, all Adelaide's work-drones were lined up, waiting to get on my bus.

Immigration : Ended.

Today marked the end of the last immigration stage. A 5 month period of bumming around has come to an end as I have started working again. Mixed feelings... But I ain't going back! :-)

At the bus stop in the morning. Bus was late, just like last time and just like in A'dam ;-)

Driving down town in the sun.

During lunch time I walked around outside and explored. Believe it or not I had trouble finding a sandwich shop. I must've been blind or something. I found one in the end though.

The office hasn't moved yet so we're still cramped away in an old building that's really way too small. This is my view.

I have 2 screens now so I can work twice as hard! ;-) My desk is stuck between the manager's desk ad the wall. Thankfully he seems a good guy so I don't mind really. I do hope we'll move soon though...

Already today my 3 books from Amazon were dropped off. One is about making your own charcoal foundry (metaal gieterij), one is about making your own lathe (draaibank) using home made parts from the charcoal foundry and the third one is about making a small injection moulding machine (spuitgiet machine). This was also bought with the Amazon voucher my ex-colleagues from Furore gave me, thanks again guys! :-)

The Simpsons clouds

While driving to see Anna, Gianna's mum, in the hospital today (she had 1 hip replaced for the 2nd time), looking at the clouds made me hum the start-tune from The Simpsons.

The Simpsons clouds were everywhere today, even on our way into the Adelaide hills.