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Easter at Lake Conjola

This Easter long weekend all the family went to stay at Sannas mums holiday house she is building at Lake Conjola 3.5 hrs drive south of Sydney.

We hired a couple of small boats for 3 hours for $70 each and went for a explore.

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Basima and me were steering all the way. I was wearing Basma’s sunnies and school girl hat, i didnt take mine, it was expecting to rain all weekend.

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We stopped at a small village called ‘Fishermans Paradise’ and played on the rope swing with the local kids.

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On the way back it was so shallow we grounded out a few times on the sandy bottom.

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In the afternoon Sanna and I walked over to Green Island which is only accessible over the black rocks at low tide. The island felt nice and remote, no evidence of other people on the island.

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Troy & Ali’s Wedding

Our good friends Troy and Ali were wedded on Saturday 2th March 2015. I was honoured to take part at my best friends wedding as the best man. I always tell Sanna I’m the Best man, and now to her annoyance she had to agree to me all day Smile

We couldn’t have asked for better weather, it was sunny and in the mid 20’s. The guests arrive for the wedding at the Lovely ‘One more shot pond’ in Sydney Centennial park. 20150328_103003

The boys Troy, Mark, Brother Justin and friend Chris line up waiting for the bridal party.
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The bride and bridesmaids arrive.
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Time to be wedded by the Minister (hiding behind Ali in the photo), who was a lovely guy originally from Northern Ireland.20150328_104740

The new Mr and Mrs Rose!
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Sanna look beautiful on the day too, our puppy Damien came too
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The Reception was held at in ‘The Atrium’ at the ‘The Grounds’ of  Alexandra. It was a  garden party theme, I stupidly forgot to take any photos of the reception, just one of the bridal party table. But you can see the place much better in the below video of my Best Man speech.20150328_143734

On the side of the reception room there was a lovely ‘men den’ of a room, fitted out will  a bar and all old things and lots of Whiskies, I pretended to serve Damien some Whiskies.

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A photo of the Cousin Jacks team!20150328_155819

My Best Man’s speech went down pretty well, made everyone laugh a bit. Click here to watch full screen

Here’s a copy of my speech for historic sake:

My speech today will be like a mini-skirt. Long enough to cover the essentials but short enough to hold your attention!

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Troy’s bucks party

My best mate Troys bucks party was this Saturday.  Being the best man i had to organise, which ended up being a treasure hunt around Sydney with team challanges (we split into 2 teams) and an outfit for Troy as ‘Batman’!

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Having a drink with Batman at Scruffy Murphys pub

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Half of my team for the day anf with a Scuffy Murphys bar chick.

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Batman showing off his strength to Leo.

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Baman riding a huge Black Bull
Batman licking the bulls balls for a challenge.

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Everyone wants a photo with Batman

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Batman cooling off, it was a 29 degrees day.

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Batman posing for a photo in front of a Sydney landmark for a challenge

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Batman photo bombing a wedding in Hyde Park, see him on the right

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Batman cooling off in hyde park water fountain for another challange

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Guinness stop at the Criterion hotel

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More people wanting photos with Batman

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Batman on thr phone the Gotham city commissioner

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Off duty Jetstar flight attendant likes Batman too

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More Bat fans!

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German Bat fans

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Video of Troys bucks party halfway stop: http://youtu.be/FzD4jYN5A6o

In the evening at the Friend in hand pub in the evening for some really noisey photo scoring from the days photos

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Video of Troys bucks night points scoring: http://youtu.be/GJOrtOf5DO4

Bondi iceburgs beers

We had a really busy fully packed weekend this week, work, staying at Sannas mums in Wollongong, beach walk and lunch with Brendon and Sam, then finished at the celeb hangout of Bondi Icebergs for beer and food with Damien and Max before he goes to travel New Zealand. Jam packed weekend, no rest.
Bon voyage Max!

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World famous views of Bondi Beach

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Here is a quick photo of us climbing up the rope from the beach by Brendons house in Scarbrough.

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Doom on AWS (Amazon Web Services)

I just spent a geeky afternoon creating my first public AMI (Amazon Machine Image) think VM Template in VMware speak, on AWS (Amazon Web Services), of course it had to be dedicated to my old favourite DOOM Smile. There are no games on the AWS community marketplace so this is the first, what better way to test out the cloud than playing a 90’s classic game J

Or deploy your own instance from the AWS community marketplace, just search for ‘doom’, deploy the instance with defaults and the username: administrator password: doomgame

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Here it is running, you can run it in a window or full screen. It runs a little bit slow but its fast enough to play and all sound effects and music is working although there is around a ½ second delay on the sound effects. I think the delay on the sound and framerate is not the CPU power of the AWS instance as it isn’t maxing out CPU, I think its remote desktop client struggling, anyway have fun.

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Maggie Beer sorry parcel

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Take note of great customer service. I ordered some food items from Maggie Beer the celebrity chef from Adelaide and it arrived too late before Christmas so I couldn’t take it to take my family.

I wrote to her, and to say sorry she sent me 3 little jars in a ‘sorry parcel’ and an apology note. Thats really good customer service.