It's Raining, It's Pouring, The Old Bat Is... Waking Up Early To Drive To Hobart
Nov. 16th, 2009 09:18 pm![[personal profile]](http://s.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
etfbI drove in to Hobart first thing this morning, to show my driver's license at the car hire place so the nice lass wouldn't get into trouble for not sighting it before hiring me a car. I also picked up the Beloved's phone, which had an LCD-related incident when we were in Melbourne. It's been raining on and off all day, so it was a good test of the typical Hobart/Huonville commute, and I have to say it's not nearly as nasty as I'd been led to believe. The Huon Highway, which our sadistic GPS doesn't believe in, makes it much easier: I certainly wouldn't want to do the Huon Road route in less than perfect conditions.
We went off to the Tahune Airwalk, but the rain would have made that unpleasant so we backtracked and checked out the Hastings Caves instead. I stayed aboveground with the Boy Wonder while the ovary-equipped members of our party descended slimy staircases by torchlight and went oooh at stalactites and stalagmites and other such denizens of the deep. Then we did a bit more driving around, and then came back to our motel room and made dinner, because all this cafe living is all well and good but I didn't marry the best cook I've ever met for nothing, you know!
We heard from the mechanic. New radiator, flushing the engine, replacing the various compounds (eye of newt, chunky custard with extra yak fat, etc) comes to a little under six hundred kangaroubles, which is tolerable. And it will all be ready tomorrow arvo, so our plans are not significantly affected and we've gained a valuable insight into the usefulness of four wheel drive vehicles, which will serve us well when or if we move here. I see one of those little Subaru 4WDs in our future, I think.
I'm batting around ideas for how to be self employed. I can resurrect Captain's Log and the idea I had for a web page maintenance service for little companies that could benefit from an internet presence. Not sure if we could live off any such income though, and there would be a lot of programming up front before it started being valuable. Not time to give up the job search yet, I think.
We went off to the Tahune Airwalk, but the rain would have made that unpleasant so we backtracked and checked out the Hastings Caves instead. I stayed aboveground with the Boy Wonder while the ovary-equipped members of our party descended slimy staircases by torchlight and went oooh at stalactites and stalagmites and other such denizens of the deep. Then we did a bit more driving around, and then came back to our motel room and made dinner, because all this cafe living is all well and good but I didn't marry the best cook I've ever met for nothing, you know!
We heard from the mechanic. New radiator, flushing the engine, replacing the various compounds (eye of newt, chunky custard with extra yak fat, etc) comes to a little under six hundred kangaroubles, which is tolerable. And it will all be ready tomorrow arvo, so our plans are not significantly affected and we've gained a valuable insight into the usefulness of four wheel drive vehicles, which will serve us well when or if we move here. I see one of those little Subaru 4WDs in our future, I think.
I'm batting around ideas for how to be self employed. I can resurrect Captain's Log and the idea I had for a web page maintenance service for little companies that could benefit from an internet presence. Not sure if we could live off any such income though, and there would be a lot of programming up front before it started being valuable. Not time to give up the job search yet, I think.