False Start 2 - The Saga Continues

You might remember my post about a rain interrupted V8 Race Experience back in May. Those readers with an eagle eye and excellent memory would have realised that I had rebooked for the 8th July (yesterday). Last week when I looked at the forecast, it was fine for the whole of this week. Great! Until yesterday... Rain... Again! It had been raining on and off throughout the morning. I called weather hotline in the afternoon before I left, they said that although there had been rain, it had stopped, the track had dried and they were running the cars. Sweet!

So I took off to Eastern Creek, but the weather didn't look promising. It was dark and cold. As I got closer to the track, the sky got darker, and the rain started to fall. I got to the track and went into the V8 Race reception area, and they had stopped the cars and were waiting for the rain to cease.

I waited for a little while, but eventually, one of the guys that runs the V8 Race told all those who were waiting that there was little point in waiting around longer, because even though it wasn't raining at that stage, the track was taking a while to dry out, and there was still a bunch of people who were waiting for a drive and there wouldn't be enough time to get us into a car before the daylight runs out. So I now need to rebook again. The next lot of dates at Eastern Creek is the last week in September. I'll keep you posted.

UPDATE: Rebooked again for Wednesday 30th September... keep that in mind all you eagle eyes readers who are playing along at home...

The first weekend in July 09

Over the weekend I got a couple of opportunities to use my new camera. Thankfully the weather was fine and sunny for both days. On Saturday I went to Cumberland State Forest and has a wander through one of the walks and the nursery that is in the forest. In the nursery there were a few black boy trees that had just been watered. It was late in the afternoon and there was little light. Here is one the the photos:


Then on Sunday, I went to the lake in Norwest Business Park. It is a nice place there, and with the sun out, it made for a lovely afternoon. There was a guy who builds remote control power boats and he was running them around on the lake. They were rather noisy, but they were very fast and handled like they were on rails, turning sharply. I had a chat to the guy after he has crashed one of the boats into the wall on the edge of the lake (fortunately no major damage was done), and he was saying that the plain white boat was capable of speeds upto 80km/h. Here are a couple of photos I took:



Click here for a photo album from the weekend.

The Eagle has landed

My new toy has come in, and I now have it in my hot little hands, after waiting a bit over 2 weeks.




What is in the bag?




Yep, that's right, a Canon 500D Premium kit, with the 18-200mm lens.





And here it is, unboxed :-)





As I go taking photos, I will post some of the good ones up here.

Waiting for my new toy

I ordered a new toy, not last weekend but the weekend before, and I'm still waiting for it to arrive. More details when it finally gets here.

*C'mon, hurry up!!*

It's not soccer mate.... it's Football

Last night (Wednesday), I went to the Football (or soccer) at ANZ Stadium, Homebush, to see the Socceroo's play Bahrain in a World Cup qualifier match. The Aussie's had already qualified, but it was still great to go and see them play. I don't really follow the soccer... oops, Football, but I have enjoyed going to see the Socceroo's play a couple of times. I went with my girlfriend and some of her friends from work. We had good seats, in row 13, so fairly close to the action, and down beside the goal. Fortunately, the end of the field we were sitting at, was the end that the Aussie's were attacking in the 2nd half, which is also when they scored both their goals.

The first half was ended scoreless. The Socceroo's had more possession and a number of shots at goal, but hadn't been able to score. In the second half, they seemed to play a lot better and scored 2 unanswered goals to bring the final score in at 2-0. It was great to witness the win and it was a good game, but it was a damn cold night! It was freezing there.

Below is a picture that I took during the game. It is not very good quality, it was taken on my Nokia 6300.

Great Success

I went to a mates place last night to watch the State of Origin. Each year when I go there, I barrack for the team that I have picked in our work Footy Tipping competition, and follow the score closely (because we also pick the margin). Anyway, I picked QLD to win by 12 points (or so I thought), so I was disappointed when they won by only 10. When I got to work this morning though, I checked the results of the tipping, and I had actually picked QLD to win by ten! YAY!. Final score was 28-18.

New T-shirt

I found the following t-shirt on a website called Final Gear. They are my source of news for all things Top Gear and Fifth Gear. Recently they ran a competition to design a t-shirt, and below is one of the designs that was successful. I decided to get this t-shirt to go with my I AM THE STIG t-shirt. Can anyone translate the Morse code? -Don't worry, I already know what it says ;-)