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A day in the life of..

Ozgreg — Sun, 11 May 2008 04:31:59 +0000

Ever since the deck was built the next door neighbour cat Leo (his actual name is “ginger” but we both feel he is much more of a Leo than a “ginger”) has been making our place his home. Like all cats, he was out on a mission, first moving in on our new deck, then into our garden, the back room and finally just moving in.. The funny thing is, this is not our cat, not that you can ever own a cat, cats choose owners, and if you are lucky they might let you share the house with them.

Australian Open 2008

Ozgreg — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 22:22:30 +0000

Once a year, Melbourne hosts the Australian Open. Now I am not the biggest of Tennis fans but the prospect of going to watch some of the world’s best is hard to ignore (plus Sharon loves to go) so we usually make a night of it and watch the two night games at the Rod Laver Arena. This year we got to see Davenport VS Sharapova (and yes those grunts are really irritating live) and Roddick VS Berrer which turned out to be a surprisingly good game, not the expected Roddick whitewashing the opposition.

I also took my Canon G9 along to test how it would handle the court lighting and how many blurs I would snap of the ball being hit at the 150+ KM speeds and was pretty impressed at how the G9 handed these demanding situations. (showing it’s true colours as one of the top notch point and click camera)

Sunshine Coast

Ozgreg — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 04:58:03 +0000

With Christmas all over, Sharon and I went up north to visit my family up in the Sunshine Coast. Normally this time of the year you would get the daily tropical thunderstorms and clear blue sky however the weather had a different surprise in store for us and instead a intensive low developed just of the coast of Fraser Island and instead we had eight days solid of some of the worse weather I’ve seen all the way down the Coast as far as Tweed Heads with High Seas, blinding Rain and intensive wind gusts. We managed to get down to the Coast and take some pretty spectacular photos of the high waves and a few silly individuals who ignored the beach closed signs to ride the four meter swell.