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Wish List

19 March 2007

Wish 1: Wireless Video Camera
Wish 2: Portable PVR
Whenever it gets close to my birthday or christmas time, and people ask me what I’d like, I can never think of anything. It’s only until a few days / weeks after that I start to have lots of ideas of things I really would like.
After going through […]

In hindsight

25 February 2007

Would you fly into this?Photo courtesy of “Julie”
There have been two stories lately in the paper… the latest being today, in the Sydney Morning Herald about a fatal glider accident where the pilot was decapitated.
Of course, with the gliding community being so small, the news is a hot topic on mailing lists / forums […]

Junior Nationals Championships Leeton, Day 1.9

3 January 2007

Hey everyone!
Firstly, welcome to 2007!
I hope you all had a very exciting New Year’s Eve, hopefully in a much more exciting place than Leeton (the place to be!).
It’s been fun so far… weather is holding out on us a little though. I’ll give a quick run-through of the time so far….
Official Practice Day
Beautiful weather… fairly […]

Preparations…

27 December 2006

Hey all
Today is the day I leave for Leeton to go on my 10-day long gliding fest for the Junior Nationals Gliding Competition. It’s been a shitfight of stress and tearing hair out trying to get everything organised. I swore that I’d be more prepared this year… HA!.
I’m going to be doing as many […]

My passion

20 December 2006

Hi All,
I’m thinking of taking a camera to JoeyGlide this year (the Under-25 Junior Nationals in Leeton), and doing some video posts as a bit of a change
Some friends of mine created this …. have a look! See what i’ve been up to the past 10 years…

Unplanned weekend escape

7 November 2006

Hi there everyone!
Well… last weekend turned out to be much more enjoyable than expected. The original plan was to get in the car and head out to Bathurst for the day, as I needed to make a showing at the gliding club as I was trying to persuade them to allow me to use their […]

There\’s a big geek in all of us….

11 March 2006

Time for a mandatory extra-geeky post. If you don’t understand what I’m about to say, have a read of this article, by the infamous Miranda Devine, titled Geeks in White Coats Shall Inherit the Earth, in which she says a number of truisms about modern society, that knowledge is now power, and those with particular […]

Big Update

23 December 2005

*groans*
The work Christmas Party is a deadly thing, especially when held on a Wednesday, and especially when I’m expected to go to work again at 7am the next morning for my shift.
It was quite a fun night, and had some of the spunkiest waiters I think I’ve ever seen. Almost makes me want to get […]

JoeyGlide comp days 2,3,4

10 December 2005

Hello there everyone!!!
I’m sorry I haven’t updated… have been sooooo active lately and with so little time, that I’ve rarely had the energy to type up a nice post like this.
I’m curled up in bed, it’s the final day tomorrow, so I’ll keep this short.
Wednesday was an interesting day… the task was very much over-set, […]

Joeyglide No-Fly 2

7 December 2005

Hi boys and girls!
Today is the second day that we’ve not flown. Yesterday was cancelled at the last minute because a strong inversion meant that the gliders could not climb about 2,500′ above ground, which simply isn’t enough to really go anyway. Thankfully, they had only launched 3/4 of the fleet before they realised the […]

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