Felix In Sydney

Felix In Sydney 29/10/2005
Originally uploaded by cnschulz.

Saw the boy in Sydney this weekend. Saturday was hot and sunny so we went to the park with a biiiiig hill to ride the bike down. Felix went waaaay to fast. The video is funny because it goes from normal film mode to "hot pursuit" mode as Felix was about to career into a construction zone! Later we watched the boats, went for a ride on Daddys bike, played a little soccer and went swimming.

Sunday was raining so we went for a walk in the rain and saw beetles, bugs and spiders. We climbed up some rocks and found some dogs. We went back for a big swim. Felix is very confident in the water and he wasnt even worried too much when he slipped over a few times an went right under the water. Daddy was more worried than him! When I scooped him up I just reassured him that he was OK and he was straight back in the water. We were both exhausted by the end of the day and Im sure he slept as well as I did! :)

Google Base: All your base are, in fact, belong to us

Look, Ive said it over and over again... *I* invented the World Wide Database of the World. This is clearly a violation of my IP. I am going to sue Google. I checked out http://legal.google.com/ and they appear to not have bought all the lawyers yet. Maybe I have a chance...maybe...

Google Base: All your base are, in fact, belong to us

NSW MTBO Champs 2005

NSW MTBO Champs 2005
Originally uploaded by cnschulz.

The 2005 NSW MTBO Championships were held on the weekend at Newcastle. We rode on a new map for this area just 15 km north of Raymond Terrace. The map was excellent. A nice fast course with an excellent amount of route choice. My fitness was not a problem in this race... well... maybe it was; I was riding faster than my brain. I missed one intersection as I was trying to overtake a slow rider and ended up losing about 4 minutes. I also punched the wrong control once because I failed to read the control number (two controls were close together). That cost me another minute. If I didnt make those mistakes I would have placed 5th. A lot of time was wasted standing still trying to figure out the best route. I should have just picked one and started riding. The rule is that if you are spending a long time comparing routes then they are pretty much the same therefore you shouldnt be wasting time comparing them... Oh well. It was a fun day and my mate Graeme went home state champ in the 40-45yr division. Congrats. :)

Eels With Strings

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Originally uploaded by cnschulz.

Saw the Eels last night at the Big Top (Luna Park) with may mate Al. The Eels rock...well...actually they dont rock... but you know what I mean. What a show! They had a string section and the stage was very intimate. It didnt look like a band setup at all. In fact it looked a bit like ehat an "entertaining room" might have looked like in the 1800's; a couple of old (and I mean old) pianos, double bass, a saw, a drum set that was completly concealed and looked like occasional furniture, oh, and a big, pink, dildo. Yup. Dildo. One of the girls in the string section used it to vibrate on the mic to give a wierd but awesome sound! Mr E came out sporting a lovelly suit (pictured), a cigar and a cane that matched the atmosphere perfectly.
Mr E is an incredibly intelligent, tragic and funny person. At one point some half drunk woman let out a resounding "woooo" as he was chatting to the crowd. She was quickly cut of with "Uh...scuse me...*talking*". She returned a higher pitched garble to which he replied "Sorry, I dont understand Cat Talk... Where the hell are we anyway? *CatBurgh*?" ROFL. He had us in stitches a few times during the night.
"The Chet" on drums (and saw) was awesome... the sound he got out of those puppies was aaamaaazing. The Bass player was the standard "I am sooo much cooler than regular people" type of bass player but he did rock.
The girls string section were dressed for the opera (for a while - see below) and were very, very cute indeed and worked wonders with their contribution to the night.
The Eels are known for their encore shenanigans and we werent to be dissapointed this show. I lost count at 5 encores, each one rocked more than the next. Most people had left by the last encore (fools!) when we were treated to a lights-on intimate semi-concert with the Eels in their pyjamas! Brilliant night! :)

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Originally uploaded by cnschulz.

Microsoft invents recursive errors... except that they arent defined yet... When I first read that message I nearly went back in time... kinda freaky. :)

Signs of Danger

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Felix 15/10/2005

Felix 15/10/2005
Originally uploaded by cnschulz.

Saw the boy this weekend. It has been a while since I saw him last and I noticed how much better he is talking. He hadnt been interested in bike rides lately but this weekend he actually asked me for a ride (first time he did that): "Bike wide My Daddy?", "Sure, we'll go for a little ride...", "No, BIIIG wide Daddy!!", "OK then BIIIG ride it is!". I think ive taught him to say "Cool" as well.

It rained on saturday so we went to KidZone for a while and I showed him how to climb the big rope net ladder thing. Made me nervous as he climbed over the ledge at the top but he had no trouble at all! We went for a walk in the rain and found caterpillars and crickets. I slid him down a wet skate ramp bowl thing on his rain jacket... he went so fast that he actually started to slide up the other side! He loved it! ROFL. We searched for "tigers" in the bushes but didnt find any so maybe next time a visit to the zoo is in order... :)

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For whom the bell tolls...

St Johns Tower
Originally uploaded by cnschulz.

Yeah, so I thought I was going to have a boring weekend... Wrong!








I was planning a quite day when Conrad called and left a garbled message... something about 9am, St Johns Tower, climbing gear, rope, kites... So obviously I said "sure, why not"! Next this I knew I was inside a dark and mysterious bell tower covered in pidgeon crap (and various other unknown substances). Conrad is friends with the local minister and he was too scared to ascent the 3 rickety (and I mean rickety) ladders up to the bell tower. There is a festival in and around Glebe and we were helping out by hanging a giant banner on the side of the tower for a kite exhibition.

When we asked about the bells, the minister mentioned that one was broken and that the only person who could fix them in australia was in Adelaide! When we actually got up there we found that the problem was just that a spring had rusted through... So I wound it on ab little to avoid the rust and it worked like a charm... even got to ring the bells! I love lifes little adventures!

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Originally uploaded by cnschulz.

What an epic day! Simon, Rowan, Adam and myself headed up to wise-os for some biking. 1 hour into the ride and halfway up a climb a pin in my rear derailleur dislodged and sent the chain into the spokes. This caused one of the sprockets to snap in half... I wasnt going anywhere... We managed to get the chain spinning again using pliers, wire and a saw... It lasted about 10 km and then the derailleur was back in the spokes again. This time i did a good job of it and after 30 mins of engineering i had a single speed. Unfortuneately the chain still jumped so i ran a large part of the 15 km home... The most appalling events of the ride were to happen on the 3km flat tar section of road leading back to the ferry... Rowan and i were riding together when he called "car". I was moving over when the black BMW swerved at us and sped off. What a prick. What was worse was that he found simon about 1km up the road and collected him with the side mirror! Simon is fine and unhurt. The mirror came completely off but somehow Simon managed to stay upright... Epic epic day!

Don't Eat an Entire Fish at Once

Don't Eat an Entire Fish at Once
Originally uploaded by mrjoro.

Man! Do a flickr search for "stickfiguresinperil".

My brother Nathan and I are just about unconscious from laughter... and confusion... ROFL

The Dulwich Hill Shop Series Continues...

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Originally uploaded by cnschulz.

Free water uptairs??!! Would you go up? Not bloody likely! 8-O