ccxi) Los Heroes.

If it weren't for these bunch of intrepid people.

We'd still be stuck in the middle of the desert right now.

ccx) Twinkle Twinkle.

Look at the numbers of stars picked up by the camera and triple the density of lights in the sky.

That's how many stars we could see from the desert.

ccix) Dark Materials

Packing for my desert adventure...

..seems to be a distinct lack of colour in my clothes...

ccviii) Wispy.

Get A Room!!!

*grumble grumble*

ccvii) My Constants.

Watch. Wallet. Glasses. Keys. Phone. Camera.

Bet you have your lil ritual before you leave the house as well.

ccvi) So Close...

...yet so far.

You majestic bastards!

ccv) Fully Charged.

Ready to go.

Holiday begins in T-minus 5days...

cciv) Failsafe.

When in doubt:

Dessert.

cciii) Holy Macaroni!

You know that ep of The Simpsons where Homer got sucked down a 3D wormhole?

Think I found him.

ccii) Whip It Real Good.

These cheap-arse SkullCandy phones don't even come close to replacing my beloved and already much-missed Sennheisers.
But time, budget and the fact that the only shop I could find in Santiago that actually stocks Sennheiser headphones are charging silly-money for them means I must Make. Do.


Experience has taught me that such flimsy support of the wire near the jack will not do.
Again, Sennheiser knows how it should be done.


Electrical tape will eventually slip, and without any heatshrink handy,
I turned to the one who has always provided the answers I seek in my times of need;
"What Would MacGuyver Do?"


All it takes is a length of nylon cord, and a rope technique I learnt in Scouts, called "Whipping".

No, really.

*sigh*


The whole point is to allow the wire to produce a gentle curve instead of a sharp kink when it's in your pocket.
An inch ought to do it.


Use teeth to pull the locking loop into the winds, trim off the ends with a pair of nail-clippers.

Make it pretty.


That black bit where the cord jumps from the jack casing to the headphone cable began to bug...


So I gave it another layer of whip.

If anything is worth doing properly, it's worth properly overdoing.


All in all, about 2metres of cord was used to protect this inch of cable.

Who woulda thought that Pioneers Badge I earnt all those years ago would still be so useful today?!

cci) Another Big Glowy Pole.

Well, this was random.

cc) Baring It.

Nope, not creepy at all.

cxcix) Spry.

I'm sure this has some kinda deep meaningful meaning... not quite sure what it is tho.

cxcviii) Munch Crunch.

Dare you enter the tunnels of "snap snap pow"?

cxcvii) Make. Do.

Today, I took a door and an old clothes rack, and repurposed them into a standing desk/shelf kinda thing.

Grandad woulda been proud.

cxcvi) Chubby Cheeks.

Made a kid grin today. That'll do.

cxcv) Filters.

Dammit when will I learn that sunrays don't show up on compact cameras???

cxciv) Kunstmann... *snigger*

Careful not to drink the one on the right.

cxciii) Loungin'.

Celebrity cats in a cage.

cxcii) Dangles.

Nothing happened today. Here are my socks.

cxci) I Am The Black Mango.

There is just way too much awesome in this poster.

cxc) Moose Mousse.

Kinda makes me wanna go snowboarding...

clxxxix) Perks.

Soooo my students took me out to lunch today.

clxxxviii) Urgh.

Only pic I took today. It's awful. So awful.

clxxxvii) Nom Nom.

Found him on the office floor. Looked hungry.

clxxxvi) Teaching Styles.

Biching about the world you've been dealt always seemed a bit of a waste of energy to me.

I'd rather take the hand I have and shape my world into something I'm happy live in. Suck it. =)

clxxxv) So Close.

Just a tad more rummy sponge and a tad less cream and it woulda been perfect. The honey base works surprisingly well.

clxxxiv) Foo Dou Lau Memories.

This makes me weirdly nostalgic for Fortune House.

clxxxiii) FancyPants.

Sneaky ninjas, is there nowhere they won't hide?

clxxxii) Smiles.

Making the world a better place. One grin at a time

clxxxi) We All Scream...

Lil' frozen tubs of heaven.