Alex Lahey - I Don’t Get Invited to Parties Anymore Methyl Ethel - Trip The Mains The Chats - Pub Feed G Flip - Drink Too Much Tame Impala - Borderline Holy Holy - Maybe You Know Ali Barter - Ur A Piece Of Shit Ruby Fields - Trouble Kita Alexander - Between You & I George Alice - Circles
When we bought our house the real-estate agent said it was “Post WWII” (after 1945) but didn’t really know exactly when it was built. The survey plan we got for the block said it was updated in 1952, so it’s a safe bet it was about then.
Looking at historical aerial imagery that the Toowoomba Council publishes as an ESRI map, you can see it appear sometime between the 1946 and 1955 imagery.
When we moved into our house it had an old accumulation meter (read every 3 months) that was probably put in when the house was built (as it was apparently installed by the Toowoomba Electric Light & Power Company).
We got a ‘smart’ meter installed a few years ago. Unfortunately there is no way to get access to the data from it directly, so you can’t really use it to do home automation or anything useful in real-time.
This was the first year since we moved to Toowoomba where we haven’t been to the wine festival, but we were still able to enjoy the gardens.
Mum and Dad brought my grandparents down this year to see the flowers (and Lyra).
It was 70 years of the Carnival this year, so that was the theme at Laurel Bank Park
And we even managed to visit a few prize gardens.
The TSRC opened on the Sunday with a marathon (there was a also a bike race and open day on the Saturday that Mark and Julie went to). I only signed up for the 10km as I (correctly) assumed I would still be sleep deprived on the day.
The bypass was pretty impressive, although it was hard to see much from the eastbound lane.
The downhill was okay (after a quick pee stop), but at the turnaround point the uphill was disgusting.
Uptype: post date: Ubiquiti have discontinued UniFi Video. The cameras from reolink seem to be basically the same, but cheaper. I’d probably get them instead. Very annoyed that they made it end-of-life just after I bought the NVR.
Recently I ended up installing some IP security cameras at our place, and since a few people have asked about them I thought I’d do a quick summary on here.
It’s something we talked about for a while, since we had an incident one holidays.
Part of thinking of names for a child is deciding on which surname to use. There are lots of different ways of choosing surnames other than the modern English way of taking the paternal one. The wiki page on surnames is supringly detailed.
After having a unique name like Guinane, I didn’t want Newman as a surname because it’s too common. Looking at US Census Data it’s not actually as highly ranked as I was expecting, but still a lot more popular then Guinane.
Holy Holy - Faces
Such an awesome riff.
Ocean Alley - Confidence
This is the warm tunas pick for #1 spot, and well deserved. Also considered voting for Knees or Baby Come Back (which was easily the best Like A Version for the year).
Childish Gambino - This is America
Rachael is dissapointed I’ve voting for this, but it’s a great song and and even better video clip.
The Food and Wine Festival was great as always. Katherine was visiting from London, and Geoff & Carla also came up.
I didn’t think the theme at Laurel Bank was as good as previous years, but still impressive.
I actually thought Queen’s Park had better flowers this year.
There was a new event called the Night Garden, which was okay but probably not worth the admission price (I ended up winning free tickets from work).
Votes:
Alex Lahey - Every Day’s The Weekend Busby Marou - Best Part of Me Gang Of Youths - Let Me Down Easy HAIM - Want You Back Meg Mac - Ride It Vance Joy - Lay It On Me Milky Chance - Blossom Kingswood - Golden Methyl Ethel - Ubu Timberwolf - Íkaros Almost made it:
Vera Blue - Regular Touch Amy Shark - Weekend
