Haven't had the time to update in a while. Lots of things have been conspiring to keep me busy: wife was away for 3 weeks in PNG with youngest (usual adventures with earthquakes, tsunami warnings, and giant pigs), infighting amongst bosses at the office, daughter starting at new school, frantic drawing of the next issue of Rally Mark, continued painting of 40k armies...
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Bit stressed out yesterday. Apparently there'd been an earthquake centred on PNG yesterday morning - 6.7 on the Richter scale, with a 6.1 aftershock. Our friend's in NZ rang to let me know, because as usual if it ain't Australian, you don't hear about it here. (To be fair though, abc.net.au did have something in their foreign news later in the day). Then...
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Well New Years was a gigantic washout. We've been trapped inside for the last week with 100kph winds, intermittent rain, and generally crappy weather. We were going to go the New Years Eve fireworks in the city, but by lunchtime it became pretty clear that wasn't going to happen. I can't believe they were stupid enough to hold out till minutes before the...
