Anyone else stuck at home over the Easter holiday period?

[Omaroo]

Work, work, work. Not feeling great either. Bad time of year financially for me, so can't go away for even one of the five days we have at our disposal. Dang!!

What to do?

All I could come up with today was to stop putting off the inevitable and clean my home office. Oh fun. :lol:

I can't wait for tomorrow now.... maybe start on the garage? Sigh.

Proof:

[mozzie]

yep same here chris... hoping to do some seeing out of the scope and cloud and damn rain :mad2::mad2: oh well i'm pouring concrete on my driveway each day so something is getting done!!!!!

[PeterM]

HI Chris,
Been painting the lounge, hall and family room so yup stuck at home, then tomorrow wife and I leave home at 3am for the dawn service at Elephant Rock, sound like a Ross Wilson song, but its a place near Currumbin on the Gold Coast.
Not a bad sky for 30 second images last night (took about 120 galaxy images and blinked them, no SN) tonight is crap. Nice home office there, are those Krix speakers? Whatever they are they look very nice indeed.

PeterM.

[Omaroo]

Concreting sounds like fun too Peter. LOL! At least it's constructive! :thumbsup:

Peter - they're Behringer Truth B1030A kevlar studio monitors. Painting... hmmm... I might start to think up some craaaazy colour schemes for my place. I'm over the neutral colours after 10 years. Maybe some textured finish? :question:

[ballaratdragons]

Yep, stuck at home for the whole 5 days.
Kids are too.
With ridiculously high Petrol prices and the cost of groceries now, can't afford to go anywhere.
So we are busying ourselves at home.

I am attempting to peltier-cool my AstroVideo camera with the guts from a car fridge, 1 son is making a door bell for his bedroom out of electronics bits, and other son is doing lots of drawing and making models with paddle-pop sticks etc.
Cheryl is doing the usual cleaning cooking washing etc.

The lack of funds to do most stuff is going to become more common for those of us stuck on pensions with all the price hikes.
I don't even have the luxury of saying I had to work over the Easter break.

[DavidU]

Yup, stuck at home myself ! Where is the Ulbrick amp to go with the guitar Chris?:lol:

[that_guy]

mum left me home alone for the week but thats like holidays for me so im fine :)

[Hagar]

Me Too, Work, yuk who needs it, Me I suppose. If I didn't like holidays and keep spending I could retire. Friday = Night shift, Saturday = Night shift, Monday = Day Shift, Tuesday = Day shift.
Today off but slept half of it after night shift.
Bugger the office and garage.

How much concrete do you need Peter. I thought your driveway was finished and quite a work of art at that.

[Omaroo]

Ohh.. that'd be nice David :) One day...!!

At the moment, the only thing I'm doing with the guitar is processing sound bites from it in the form of quick riffs through the analog Moog. I'm building a library of some pretty psychedelic sounds for advertising and website use. When I get time to actually sit down and learn to play guitar properly I'll have to think about a decent amp. The Ulbricks look nice :thumbsup:

[Octane]

That looks so awesome, Chris. Love the lighting, too.

I'm stuck at home at the moment. Spent a couple of days out at Frank's, but, I'm just not feeling it enough to dabble in hydrogen alpha. Will wait for new Moon.

At the moment, I've put the MacBook Pro into work -- started designing my own CMS (for managing my landscape work and creating a shopping cart) as there's nothing on the web that does what I want to do, so, am indulging in some development MAMP-style. I was so happy when I saw that all the bits that I needed were all pre-installed -- just two configuration files had to be changed -- DocumentRoot for Apache and socket lock value for MySQL/PHP. ;)

H

[norm]

Came down with a cold on Thursday and now stuck at home all week trying to recover....talk about bad luck and timing :mad2:.

Weather hasn't been the greatest in Sydney either with intermittment rain. Kids haven't been too bad yet, but if I don't take them for an outing or something soon its gonna be hell to pay :lol:.

Could be worse I guess!

Cheers, Norm

[jjjnettie]

I'm at home with my boys this weekend.
We've been doing yard work. Mowing, planting out some vegies, weeding.
I've got my scope out tonight, in the back yard. It's a glorious night.

[koputai]

Work work work all fiive days (14 in a row actually), away from home of course, in sunny Canberra. And the day I go home to Sydney, my wife takes off on a 2 week business trip........ ships in the night.........

But, up before sunrise tomorrow to walk through the bush to the top of Mt Ainslie to look over the War Memorial Dawn Service.

Cheers,
Jason.

[Ric]

I've been using the time to catch up with all jobs that need to be done around the farm.

The paddock is mowed and the bee's now have a supply of food for about a month or so to supplement their honey stores.

The next job is to give the chook pen a coat of paint and clean up the vege garden and get the winter crops in.

[Mariposa]

My four year old had the grommets inserted in his ears and had his adenoids removed on Thursday, so we are just home in recovery mode, it took him three days to feel normal again. Today he started running around like usual.

[acropolite]

Should have been at the shack fishing but we're stuck at home, HRH had to work Saturday and Today, the kids & grandkids have just arrived for a few days. Spent the afternoon riding the vacuum cleaner round the house, doing battle with the spiders and the past couple of days fitting a new Gps/sounder and maintenance on the boat.

Mow the lawns tomorrow then cook Roast Lamb & Pork on the barbie for lunch.

[Waxing_Gibbous]

Covered in Sheep droppings.
Cold.
Wet.
Rickity.
Every joint hurts.
Friends round for dinner.
My gawd they can talk.
I could give you my whole life's story in an hour.
Including the bits where I've been shot at.
They've spent 5 telling us about their goats.
The sky is crystal.
My scopes mock me.
I'm writing what may be my last words before I lose the will to live.
They think I'm buying farm supplies on e-bay.
A'dieu.

[ballaratdragons]

:rofl:

[erick]

Have had visitors all the time. They leave tomorrow. So we've done a bit of touring - Trentham Falls, Hanging Rock. And a city trip, then they took in a footy game.

Hopefully Tuesday is a small day trip for my wife and I - perhaps a Queenscliff to Sorento ferry ride for the first time.

But tomorrow we may see cloud clear so a visit to Snake Valley tomorrow night is on the drawing board. I've had the OK from my wife. Cross fingers for clear skies tomorrow afternoon.

[Blue Skies]

I wouldn't say I was 'stuck' at home, but I'm home by choice, trying to catch up on a heap of work, including things in the garden, before I go travelling in a months time. Then I've got another trip planned for July. I'm just happy I don't have to go to work this weekend, that's enough for me!

[Heath]

Went to Apollo Bay to visit folks and get some dark sky action. Left Wednesday evening, got to the Bay about 10:30pm to crystal clears skies. Did not get out that night, would have been a bit rude. Stayed down to Sunday afternoon and guess what? Not a night of clear skies the whole time. Get back to Melbourne yesterday and the weather clears.

Murphy's Law in practice

[mozzie]

hi doug
i'm going from the concrete driveway up to the shed where the truck parks the last job to do and the house is finished????? i think the kids wan't a pool...
it's taken a while to do iv'e been in hospital again 10 days this time...they've found out whats wrong and a operation in another 5 weeks and i'll be back on track..

[AdrianF]

I am stuck at home by choice we decided not to drive anywhere over the weekend (too many idiots). Did go to the Easter in the Country here. Going to do a pre sale service on my spare rideon mower after I have lunch and then go to my office and backup my hard drive on my work PC, employer is about to up grade from XP to Win7 and have to make sure I dont lose anything important.
Still a week of holidays left :D:D.

Might go up to Yarraman tomorrow or wednesday to mow the yard and visit friends in Blackbutt.

Adrian

[TrevorW]

yes and hating it but at least I don't have the crowds to contend with

[dugnsuz]

You need to get an iPad app out Dave!
Nice little setup Chris - should fend of the boredom during the l-o-n-g w/end. Like the Freedom 'Zed' desks - used to have my comp set up on one too...bugger to keep clean!
Doug

[shelltree]

Was away in Yamba for 3 nights but back home now. Going to enjoy a few days of photo editing and maybe some assignment work...maybe :P

[Gem]

At home making bigger and better plans for a bigger and better scope!! The sky is the limit!! :rofl:

[leon]

Yea I'm stuck at home as well, but mine keeps moving. :P :lol: around WA.

Leon :thumbsup:

[Hagar]

I hope everything is OK Pete. Say hello to the family from Helen and I and of course Bella.
We will probably see you later in the year.

Of course good luck with the Op.

Cheers
Doug

[GrahamL]

Doing yard stuff all weekend, today for someting differant cleaning the carpets.:thumbsup:

Off to see Bobby Dylan , Elvis Costello Paul Kelly etc tommorow
so the long weekend finishes a little brighter hopefully.

[snowyskiesau]

Spent the last few days packing for an upcoming move (Hobart).
Weighing each box as it's packed to make sure that they will fit in the new Van (http://cnc.turkeys.net.au/sprinter/van.jpg).

It's amazing the amount of 'stuff' I've acquired here in the last 22 years here despite it being a very small house.

[tlgerdes]

Stuck at home........... with CHOCOLATE :cool:

The Easter Bunny is my friend ;)

[AdrianF]

Well here I am at the big city of yarraman waiting on lunch. Finished the mowing and digging trenches friend wasn't home (so much for surprise visits) so after lunch we are heading home for a beer or 3

Adrian

[Davros]

Painted the lounge, painted the bathroom, now painting the toilet :sadeyes::sadeyes::sadeyes::sadeyes ::sadeyes: