I finally got around to finishing the second Imperial Guard tank I have.

Leman Russ Demolisher

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Also…

Holy fuck we’re getting married in about thirteen hours!

!!!!

I’ve finally gotten around to taking some photos using my new light stand and umbrella setup!

Devious. Very devious.

Awww!

Oooh!

I’m really pleased with how they came out!

Woo! We scored a dining table and four chairs from eBay for $80. 😀 We picked up our coffee table yesterday, now we’re just waiting for the TV stand and side table to arrive, and we still need to find a book case. Once that’s done, the unit is fully furnished!

We went down to Dee Why Beach this morning and we snapped a few photos. kungfupolarbear has a few more that will be uploaded later, these are my ones.

Waves crashing

Dee Why Headland

A somewhat delayed entry!

So obviously we’re back in the country now! And I’m back at work. Grumble.

The flight back was fucking horrible. There was this baby, wouldn’t have been even a year old, that was randomly shrieking at the top of its lungs. Not crying, full-on banshee wailing. There was quite a bit of turbulence too, just to add to the fun. Thankfully I’m not motion-sick.

We arrived back in Sydney on Saturday morning, breezed through customs, and ended up getting a lot done in the morning before we passed out! We opened a joint bank account, deposited kungfupolarbear‘s cheque that she brought over plus the one we got as an engagement present from her grandparents, got her a pre-paid SIM with 3, and did a bit of shopping.

Unfortunately whatever it was that kungfupolarbear was sick with in Florida came over with us. Thankfully we were able to pay $60 to go to the doctor, it took all of probably ten minutes, and we came out with a prescription for antibiotics, which themselves cost about $15.

Yesterday we went to Ikea, which was pretty much made of fail. We had Lily, who’s got a cold at the moment and I’m fairly sure she’s teething, so she was extremely grumpy towards the end. We found a few things, but none of them came in the colours we wanted, and kungfupolarbear was coughing and wheezing too.

I’m back at work now too, boo. It’s like I never left. Although I’ve only got today and tomorrow and then it’s the weekend again! kungfupolarbear is off to see the new Wolverine movie with a couple of my friends. She gets along extremely well with all of them, which is excellent.

I’ve uploaded the photos I took to Flickr. I’ve added a handful below.

Old buildings

Sunset over St Augustine

Holly

Launch Pad "A"

Saturn V engines

iPhone camera vs proper camera with actual flash

iPhone camera:

versus

Proper camera with external flash:

Jumping!

😀

I tweaked both of the photos a bit. The iPhone camera one was just the auto-levels button in Aperture, to bring the brightness up — it was really dim — and the real one was brightened just a bit, and the temperature changed to be a bit less yellow.

I think I just confirmed my lack-of-taking-photos-at-home theory from my previous post… we were up at Mum and Dad’s for dinner, and I ended up taking a bunch of shots!

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Climbing 1

Binhead!

Watching volcanoes on TV

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And now to hopefully take advantage of the extra hour sleep tonight because of daylight savings ending! ::faceplant::