Lift, Train, Fitness

bit cooler today, but still too hot to be doing much outside, spent about 1.5 hours walking around the lake at the park so little miss could ride her scooters and feed the ducks.

Spent a chunk of the day in my crafting shed getting a portable terrain box set up for AD&D away from home, my big full size terrain tables and dioramas are to big to transport lol. Box consists of a mix of hand crafted terrain pieces, reversible base board which fits snug inside the top of the box for gameplay and some printed terrain pieces I designed and laminated. Laminated stuff is a bit of a compromise, a fully crafted ship would be to fragile and bulky a a travel piece. I will see how it goes on Saturday when we have our monthly game night. If the box works ok then I will consider running a second game (I have had a few requests) in a public place or a game store down the coast.
 
Sounds like a really fun, creative project. Hope it works well!
 
I have never seen a D & D game let alone played it, but your talents never cease to amaze me, Tru!
 
Cate said:
I have never seen a D & D game let alone played it, but your talents never cease to amaze me, Tru!
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It seems to have become the "In Thing" recently, I have been playing since 1st edition when it was only played by nerds and accused of being satanic lol

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As for other members here, I think @Sunflower_ plays

you may not have recognised it but there have been plenty of movies and TV shows over the years which have shown people playing and there are a few celebrities who play I think would be fun to game with including Dame Judi Dench who can really bring a character to life.

When you consider how few face to face non computer games young people play now , it is good to see it becoming popular, even if the new rules have been simplified for the younger generations. We have 16 year old twin girls in our group and like my boys they are on the autism spectrum and one also has tourettes, and it has helped them learn to socialise and empathise with others better.
 
aiminglow said:
About the D&D - I'm agreeing with @Cate - you are a woman of wonderfully varied talents and achievements! :)
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The people who are usually the best at building model terrain and diorama are the model train guys, I think @overlandflyer is into model trains. I have learned a lot about building models from watching model train tutorials. Of course when I started playing it was all theatre of the mind but models are fun lol.

Not as hot today, but still feel in a bit of a funk, and despite being cooler it is still too hot to do much outside. I have a tanker due Friday to deliver water.
 
Early evening meal tonight, slow cooked pork ribs.

Water Tanker was able to come today instead of Friday, it has been about 4 years since we last needed to buy water. A tanker load costs $200
 
Living in a country that still flushes its toilets and cleans the streets with mineralwater (piped here from the mountains) I wish everyone here would have to live without ready access to tap water for a week to make us realize how wasteful we are.
 
Hopfully hubby isn't held up too long, bloody idiot drivers on our road again, careflight chopper came in low over the house, emergency services still set up in our driveway.

I have no sympathy, drivers speed, tailgate and overtake cars turning across traffic every day at the bottom of our driveway. hit with some flack on facebook when I updated the local thread to id the location better because I failed to show sympathy for idiots.
 
“If idiots could fly, the sky would be like an airport.”
― Laura Davenport
Hope you wake up feeling a bit better, Tru. Don't let the idiots ruin your life xo
 
Just feeling in a funk, almost no patience with people, most people are idiots.

game night on Saturday should be good, but hubby did buy me a new T-Shirt "I'd love to stay & chat but I'm lying"

I am not posting much in other diaries at the moment, but if anybody has questions I am willing to answer here.
 
Trusylver said:
Water Tanker was able to come today instead of Friday, it has been about 4 years since we last needed to buy water. A tanker load costs $200
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That's interesting, is the tanker your only source of water? How many liters or gallons lasted you for 4 years? In the US the average person uses 75 to 150 gallons of water a day, for a truckload to last 4 years it would have to be huge. LaMa is right most of us have very little appreciation for our water resources.
 
alligatorob said:
That's interesting, is the tanker your only source of water? How many liters or gallons lasted you for 4 years? In the US the average person uses 75 to 150 gallons of water a day, for a truckload to last 4 years it would have to be huge. LaMa is right most of us have very little appreciation for our water resources.
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Our water is usually collected rainwater, drought conditions means we are just not replenishing our supplies. Our house tank holds 30000 litres ( 6,500 Gal) and we have not had any meaningful rain since about March, which works out a lot less than 75 Gallons per day of water use lol.

We have shed tanks which have been empty for a while, we also have an empty Dam. We do have a large dam which has some water in it, but the water is only suitable for animal use.

Water is in such short supply that in the news recently it was reported that a rural fire station west of Brisbane had their water stolen.


There are a lot of things city people take for granted not just a reliable water supply, we have to maintain our own treatment system for waste (septic systems are not legal anymore due to environmental issues) we have no mobile (cell) phone reception, TV and Internet is via Satellite and is both slow, limited and in the case of internet, expensive. Medical services are limited and travel distances are large. Queensland (The State I live in) is nearly five times the size of Japan, seven times the size of Great Britain, and two and a half times the size of Texas.

The Royal Flying Doctor Service started operating on 17 May 1928 and is the only medical service many Queenslanders have access to, at least my family has access to a Doctor in town (people moving here have no access to a GP as there is not enough for the population), for anything serious the nearest fully equipped hospital is almost 200 km away, the accident yesterday is a good example where medical transport is not a road Ambulance but a helicopter.

As I sit here I can hear sirens rushing past our property, sounds like both fire and ambulance based on the 2 siren types and hubby was called out to a nearby fire about 30 minutes ago.
 
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poor sleep last night, hubby just got home from the fire front after an all nighter and fell into bed exhausted, volunteers are getting pushed to the limit and is worse in the southern states, where this pic is from the Clyde mountain near Canberra, an area I am super familiar with. I do not want to see the city burn again,
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Incredible :eek:
 
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