Hey guys!  Still working on being here more often!  Here are some photo's of my cycle to Eungella.  I'll be back later today to fill in the blanks about each picture.  I've put them all in my "Blog Photo's" gallery!

Well.. having more free time hasnt open the blogging flood gates here at Lessthanfour.  Not for me anyway.  Turns out that the "more free time" was just an illusion anyway.  My new job is starting to wear a bit thin, especially considering the pay cut I had to take to get there.

Apart from that I've had an extra long weekend with the kids so I'm feeling pretty content.  The boys were given a taste of some independence and were allowed to ride their bikes to the corner shop and back.  It only took them about twenty minutes but I think I developed an ucler large enough to take out a buffalo.  Their mission?  To buy ingredients to bake cookies and chocloate.  I gave them enough money to leave town, a mobile phone, a shopping list, a "rules" list and strapped a video camera to one of their backpacks to record the whole thing.  I was nervous okay.  In the end they made it back fine and now they want to do everything by themselves, which is kinda cool.

Don't ask how I got to be baking cookies, I know that's not exactly an extreme sport or anything.  Lets just say, everything turned out just fine in the end and that the fire brigade agrees.  Can they really ban me from cooking?

I had a pretty ordinary day turned around, yesterday, at work.  The police called to tell me they had found my bike!  Man, was I happy.  Whoever had stolen it was "up to no good" (in the words of the police officer) at one of the local schools and the police were called.  When they caught sight of the police they ran.  Leaving my bike behind.

The thief had removed all of the lights (forcefully) and stolen the heart rate monitor watch.  No other damage though and I got to ride it to work today... in the rain.

Thanks to all who spotted me stumbling back into Lessthanfour.

G'day everybody!  I'm back... anybody miss me? :P

So, I'm back after a long absence running a busy life that got way out of hand.  New job, the switch from civil to mechanical has been... um... challenging but worth it.  Getting in the groove with the new employee and co-workers is a little different but they're good people.  My sense of humour is different from what they're used to I think.

My bike was stolen last week, unbelievable.  They took it from the carport, lights on and all with me in the lounge right next to it.  The nerve huh?  Bring back public floggings I reckon.

Hit a snag trying to get my car license this week to, turns out all of the cars are manual (stick) transmissions in the learner cars.  I'm drawing up some plans/prototypes for an "arm" to do the job.  I know, I know, I could just go get fitted for something but over here that could take a year at best and I'd be left with an arm built for a single purpose.  I'm keen (ULTRA keen) to get back on the motorbike so I need an arm to do several jobs.  Once I have some decent drawings I'll post some pics.

I'm single again.  Which at this point isnt so bad, I needed some "me time" I think.  Funny thing was looking around and seeing all of the things in my life I had been neglecting.  I'll be busy getting a few things in order.  Like "lessthanfour", my house, my job/study and my mates who have been asking where I've been.

I think thats it?

I did stand on some broken glass lastnight while I was cooking the kids and I a BBQ dinner.  Today I'm limping around and blobbing out on the couch.