Lately life has been getting in the way of all the fun things I have been wanting to do and having been promissing other that I would do.  Such things as Trinkets for valuable allies or tokens for trade, not to mention my desire to write rubbish in here every now and then.  Ahhh  Such is life, and as such this post like others before it will be just a general one.

Pewtery goodness is still happening, and lately whilst I have not had as much time as I would like I have created a nice Double Sided token for a friend and used s0ome techniques I have used before but not really described to increase the detail whilst also decreasing the time they took to clean up.  These tokens had a small ring on top of them to allow a string or small chain through, as the raw version of this was rather rough I used a pair of pliers to press the rough shape into a round shape and allow the teeth of the pliers to bite in leaving a nice knurled finish.  (Stay tuned for Photo’s next week.)

Last weekend I went for a drive which turned out a little longer than I thought because of my bad planning and lack of fore-thought.  I headed down to Ballarat to join the members of Stormhold, Arrowsreach and Cairnfel in their annual Survey expedition.  Walking into the event I was amazed but nut surprized at the authentic feel and beauty of the site.  With a small pine forrest seperating alot of the mundanities from the campsite, there was both lots of natural shade and a feel that we were away from everything.  The food was good and the company great, I meet some old friends and made some new ones, all in all a fantastic weekend.  I really enjoyed the event and wish to thank the hosts and organisers Ava, Hrothgar, Eleanor, Hanbal and all the others that helped.  Well done indeed.

And now I must get back to my latest project, one which I much keep quiet until after Canterbury Fair (which I won’t be attending, but which I have been working hard to get stuff ready for.  Til next time, take a huge bite out of life, before life gets a chance to take a huge bite out of you. ;)

P.S. Oh, BTW, the recent change in theme is because I updated the Wordpress software on my site and decided it was also time for a change of look…   Hope you all like it, allong with my fun little plugin hack…  I may even attempt more of those plugin hacks to intergrate this site more with Facebook.

So there’s this smart guy…  and he has a brilliant idea for marketing The Great Barrier Reef to the world.  So this guy sets up this really cool website that looks great, works well, and has this huge appeal, as it’s basically a job that pays $300K per year for a 6 month contract for an island care taker…  Oh…  btw, you know these Island things?  They pretty much take care of them selves…  in fact they have been doing that for millions of years.

One of the conditions of the job I believe is that you have to do quality control of the islands facilities…  So there you are, in your nice home, with spectacular views and all of the islands facilities at your disposal and an open mandate to use it all…  Does this really sound like work?  Doesn’t this “Job” just sound ideal?  Isn’t it just too good to be true?  Well of course it is.  It’s the brainchild of an advertising guy and is really just a competition designed to increase exposure of the Great Barrier Reef to the rest of the world.

From rumours I have heard, it’s working too.  The website it self was inundated with so many people trying to get a peek that for the first 3 days since it’s release the site was frequently not displaying.  The webhosting company responsible had to scramble into a frenzy of deploying more and more hardware just to keep up with the demand.  What started off as one server sharing multiple sites, expanded rapidly into multiple servers hosting one site.  It seems they have managed to finally catch up, as the site is finally stable and displaying well.

So, Do you want a great job?  it’s only 6 months, but just take a look, it’s the experience of a lifetime.

http://islandreefjob.com