Fishies!

A while back in my blog i posted about how my bristlenose catfish has been laying eggs and they hatched about a dozen baby catfishies. Well, they all disappeared, my assumption would be they either got eaten by the guppies or lost the fight for food in the tank and starved to death.

Well last week i noticed just one hatchling stuck on the grass. Then a few days ago, BAM!! I saw these babies stuck on the tank wall.
I counted about 8 or more. So fearing that would starve again i started dropping in bit more algae chips in for them, but then my tank started to get real filthy from the uneaten food. So i siphoned the tank and started to feed them less.

I can't find them anymore, i think they are too dumb to find food on their own..... *insert sadface*

3 Days in the saddle.

So upon realising that the Scott 24 is on the 9th-10th oct, which is in fact only about 3 weeks away, it finally hit me that if i don't do anything now I'm screwed.

Well I'm already screwed, but I know but i could potentially be so screwed that i just wont have fun when i go. So i figured i better do something about it.

Saturday arvo I hit loftus up for a short lap, the sun was setting and also i was due to be at brighton at 5 (which i got there at 6, oops!).
Sunday after work I did a full bmu lap, and on Monday (yesterday) I did 2 laps of Appin.

Saturday at loftus would of been my first solo ride in a very very long time, maybe a year or even more. It was also the first time of me being on the bike since i went down to Stromlo. It was quite frustrating really, I was never out of breath but I just couldn't go any faster. Also riding through the single tracks I noticed i don't have much style anymore, instead of say "Calving it up" I was more just rolling past. Sure it was still fun but i knew I have done better.

Sunday after work i figured i should ride again to get use to being strained from riding. Got there and i bumped into a guy named Warren who is apparently part of the bmu forums . He noticed i was wearing the bmu jersey and said hi, shame i just got there and he was leaving.
This time i did the full lap, my sit bones on my bum was a bit sore, this surprised me because i didn't even ride for that long the day before. It was a bit better than the day before, I could flow a lot better through the single track but i still lacked a lot of power and speed, which was again a bit frustrating. I was never out of breath but when i wanted to go a bit faster than i just couldn't.

Monday would be my 3rd day consecutive on the bike. It's been a while since that has happened, I cannot even guess how long its been since this last happened. Surprisingly I was feeling fine, bottom was feeling good too.
The single track at Appin is substantially more technical than loftus and it was clear i have lost a fair bit of fluidity. I managed to fit in 2 laps in 90 mins, i considered heading home after 1 lap but that means the commute time would of double of my ride time and i just couldn't hack that. I did the first lap at a cruising speed and then on the second i tried to speed things up a bit. In the end both laps clocked in at 45 mins. So much for trying huh?
This time I could put more power down in the pedals but after a short amount of time my legs would forget that and then my legs start mushing at the 'comfort' speed. Then when i noticed this mush i would speed up again but my legs would soon forget again becoming a cyclic process.

Today, i figured i should rest but hopefully i can study enough to hit Manly Dam up tomorrow morning with Jing.

Re-reading what i just wrote i realised i have had quite a quick improvement in just three days. I hope if i can keep this up i will be up to scratch at the Scott.

Weekend.

This is what i get up to on my weekends.
Before:

After:
The roller shutter has been giving me the shits these past few weeks because when its operating the actual sheet metal has been absolutely screeching against the guide rails. I just thought a dab of grease/lube would of fixed it but in the end i had to loosen the rails and readjust it a bit. Now the screeching has turned into a twerp.

Maccas

I never go to Maccas, but i just had to try this. Thanks Bel for the suggestion! Next time though, the guy has to be smart enough to make the flurry then add the hot fudge, as opposed to mixing it all up together.

Textbooks

How wonderful is it when your lecturer writes his own textbook, then creates an assignment which forces you to buy the $99 text book and then upon completing such assignment through a combined effort of 50 man hours you realise that the textbook you have just purchased is made redundant for the rest of the semester.

Fan-fucking-tastic. I better pass.

Cheeeese

First time ever eating Blue Cheese.

Quite nice! Can't quite explain the taste of moldy cheese, maybe... Sour, tangy, nutty, cheesy with a hint of rum? lol

Not too sure but it's a first for me and i quite like it with some crackers, strawberries, grapes and apricots.

First batch.

Ok, so the first batch of photos i took with my ultra rad camera are developed. Here are just a few.



I quite like this shot.


I don't even remembering taking this picture. Nor do i know where it is.

This in my opinion is best shot of them all. By luck the settings were all perfect, plenty of light and the colours are astounding!
This picture also has a bit of a story to it which to me anyway makes it just so much more interesting. Driving down along one of the heaviest trafficked roads in Sydney, I notice the driver of car on my right, a middle aged man wearing a simple black suit, white shirt and black tie. Driving a classic Mercedes, metallic grey, smooth lines and simple just how a high classed luxury car should feel and look. The man was talking, no one in the front seat, windows wound all the way up and in the rear passenger seat sat a man, middle aged but his aura gave a more youthful feel than the driver. Resting his arm on the window sill, his watch just caught a sparkle in my eye. This man was a man of class. So then the red light came both mine and his car was at the front, we both stopped and out came my camera. Which is why I call this picture "Chauffeured".

So after this first batch of photos i have learned alot.

• ASA/DIN is an old fashioned abbreviation which is equivalent to ISO.
• This camera cannot take macro shots.
• Any shot taken with a shutter speed of less than 1/250th will give poor photos.
• When taking photos in low light, I must concentrate and think about the settings.
• The camera does not exactly have a zoom, but it does specify a distance which must be taken into account.
• Photos should be taken at least 1 meter away from subject.
• The film itself has an ISO rating.
• These photos are way rad!

In the first batch, the roll of film allowed 24 shots. Only about half were decent. There are a few more photos on my flickr. Check em out.