Iron Heart IH-634S - World Tour 2010 - 2013
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As expected the weekday hijacking has already taken place. Let's see how well I manage to uphold, Will try get 1 or 2 every few days at least.
Following up from the Fake Eames Lounge Chair the other day, Mrs Snowy's green-lighted 'research' into the real one's on this coming weekend, should be fun.
This morning it was up with the sun, to ride into to city for work, which can be seen in the back left of the photo.
1/2 the day was going through a new storage system (3PAR), this shot was taken around 3 hours into the meeting. Informative, Enjoyable, but long, a general theme you'll be seeing in my days, no doubt;
Oh and this is from Saturday, no why, no why not, so yeah.
Might even speak next time
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Yeah I'm not really a video person, saw the button and thought I'd give it a try. Something different. If I can I may as well :).
Per Random Rants, I got pulled onto a Severity One, All Systems Down call @ 2am this morning, and was up until around 730-8am. 5 hours sleep later, not the most alert or happy Snowy. Didn't dare risk putting on the WT's as I'd likely put my foot through them.
Up side is 1/2 a day @ home off work, cleaning, drinking tons of coffee to remain conscious
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I feel ya, man! Happy recovery…
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Back to back meetings for most of today, and most of tomorrow.
Managed to get out to a local cafe near the office where they know how much I enjoy pour over coffee. They made me 2 varietals at the same time to compare and contrast. Something I've never done with pour over. Made for a super amazing meeting, albeit maybe too little focus on the meeting
This evening I took my team out to dinner as thanks for some of the hard work they've done over the past few months. They picked a seafood restaurant, live crab and parrot fish fresh from the tank. I had salt and pepper tofu. Kinda neglected to take food photos being a vegetarian, did find the towelette pretty tho :).
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Photo from the office kitchen looking west over the edge of Darling Harbour, and in the distance is Anzac Bridge.
The cranes in the foreground remind me of Finn. They're building a casino & hotel complex there. Sydney has a 1 casino license monopoly until 2030. The current casino is right across the water. This new construction came about as the owner has lots of money and somewhat openly bribed the state government that it was time to review the 1 license monopoly ahead of 2030. Money talks as they say.
At lunch I popped down to The Rocks, which is one of the very first areas settled in Sydney by Captain Cook / The first fleet. A very famous and as historic as modern Australia gets. It'll be featuring more clearly in coming days, it's close to the office so sometimes walk down around the area to clear my head
Also down in the rocks
This is of Jack Mundey, "a distinguished Australian union and environmental activist. During the 1960s Mundey was a crusading unionist, an advocate in a wide range of issues, from safety reforms on building sites to wider social issues, such as feminism, gay rights, and the impact of international politics. Mundey considered all of these matters appropriate targets for union activism."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_MundeyUp close of the prior work, really nicely done
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Love that city…
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What a nice post about your working neighborhood. I expect you're not wearing the WTs to work, right?
Had to grin about the restaurant post, showing only their towelette packaging…could be read as a seriously damning judgment about the food quality there, by I think it's much rather your wicked sense of humor, Snowy?!! -
Hi 501/IH,
You're correct, no WT's @ work. My contract specifically says no jeans with tears, which I find amazingly specific.
You also read the sense of humor correctly. Food was great, but as a vegetarian it's not the most comfortable of locations. The pictures of the fish on the towelette were more comforting to me, hence the playing.
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Another weekend, another chance to do my bit for le tour.
Started it off as usual doing my bit around the house and fishtank. When I was working from home, a fish tank sounded like the most logical and amazing thing ever. Working full-time it's far less enjoyable. It's still low maintenance, but such a small tank is constantly due for something. It started with Shrimp, that didn't survive the heat of Australian Summer. I then moved to catfish to help keep the glass clean, around that time I got a job, and that's where it's at.
Soba was very helpful when I was putting my shoes on this morning;
It was a really nice day out today, Spring is certainly here, t-shirt weather and warm in the sun, only slightly chilly in the shade.
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Just enjoyed the video, indeed great to have your voice there, makes it so much more personal. Nice accent, not too heavily "down under".
The jeans look fantastic, I think. Worlds better than any new or artificially "distressed" denim ever could. I wager you'll have a similarly difficult time of letting them go as I did when my -still unrecorded here- leg was over.
Another thought: that cap is a clever choice, suits you great, and this comes from a guy who abhors wearing anything on his head. But your face plus this cap = perfect combo.
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Thanks for the support gents.
501, I was just instagramming with Finn saying pretty much so that about letting them go, really into them now :). The cap thanks, it's still love/hate on first sight by most. After years of baseball caps, I'm glad to have something totally different :).
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So after Mrs Snowy came home, per the video, we headed into the edge of the city, an area called Surry Hills. Following up from last weekend, I wanted to check out some furniture and see how it worked/cat friendly it was.
Surry Hills up until the 1980's was slums/ghetto, since then it's been gentrified and is now one of the most up market suburbs in Sydney. Lots of amazing food, wine, bars, as well as galleries and boutiques. There feels to be lots of architecture firms around the area but have never managed to qualify why it feels like that.
After walking out the store with an Eames Lounge Chair, we went for a walk in the area to show some of the scenery
H-san anyone?
The view from my desk back at home as I was uploading the video. (smudges are on the outside of the window). That's the city in the distance.
