Luna II and Twilight II are up. I am leaving for Australia starting at 4 AM-ish tomorrow morning. · 5:19am Dec 22nd, 2015
EDIT: If you haven't already seen it, check The Night is Passing for the illustration in chapter 48. It's pretty amazing. Took my breath away when I first saw it. Thanks to backlash91 for his brilliant work.
So yeah, I'm going to Middle Earth.
I will be back January 3rd. If you don't mind, I would love some PMs in my box. I'll still have my phone and will be able to access the internet a few times while I'm there and not doing adventure things, and I do so love letters.
Before I head out, I want to wish all of y'all a wonderful Christmas. If you're travelling, then I pray for small mercies. In general, we've all survived in one way or another and that is a blessing, isn't it? I, for one, shall be glad upon Christmas morn.
God bless you all. Keep safe, run the race, do the work in front of you, and be nice to cats--for they shall be nice to you in the last days. Or something. I don't know. I'll be back.
Australia? Surely you mean New Zealand?
I certainly hope you have a safe trip. Do not go stir-crazy on the flight there!
3635601 both!
Australia? I thought they filmed LotR in New Zealand.
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OIC...
I think there should be a photo travelogue titled "Cynewulf Flies West"...
3635603 hehe. They did! My first days are in Australia but MOST of the trip is in NZ.
We're hiking!
3635606 I'll see what I can do!
3635609 Hiking's fun.
I feel like a douchenozzle for pointing out such a minor detail, but I believe you meant Twilight II, not Celestia II
3635625 Whoooops. Thanks
3635631 not a problem
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That certainly sounds fun!
One of my friends went on a road-trip to New Zealand last year. She offered the following photography advice for taking majestic/breath-taking pictures in NZ:
1. Turn on camera.
2. Take photo with your back to the road/man-made structure.
Pop by when you get here, mayhaps.
3635638 This is powerful hoodoo wisdom and I shall take its conjuring seriously
Milford Trek, I think it's called? Four days out in the wilderness. I'm bringing a bowie knife and a nook and a fuckton of beef jerky and some tortillas. These are the essentials, you see.
3635647 I'm going to be in Cairns.
Tell me of the glories of Cairns. Or of Sydney. I will be in Sydney for a little while before I go to Sheep Island and Smaller Sheep Island. I am very excited about going to an Island populated by a sheep based civilization. It will be very educational.
(also, I didn't know you were a story approver! Congrats on my old job. Has it driven you to drink away your concerns about the state of humanity yet? Or was that just me? I was pretty awful at that job after the first few months.)
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Milford Track eh? GIS shows some pretty spectacular vistas.
If one was to use "Number of Computer Desktop Wallpapers" as a quality metric, then this would easily make the upper percentiles.
I do notice that nearly everyone pictured in "Milford Track" photos on GIS has some sort of wet weather rain gear on... Be sure to stay dry! Damp, soggy tortillas make for miserable eating.
3635659 I will eat my soggy tortillios and be happy for I have survived
Oh definitely, we're all kitted out for a flood. An actual flood will in fact not be deterred by preparation. But as a Mississippi native I think that I am uniquely suited for floods.
(Look up the Easter flood and also the one in like 79?) every sixty years or so a good majority of the state is flooded and everything is awful
3635656 I'm close to Sydney actually, hopefully the weather will have cleared up by your arrival. We're not used to tornadoes down here after all.
Job itself is going okay, filling in the night shift while Chesh deals with his catastrophe of the week has given me something to do with my time. Fortunately in my year-long hiatus I developed somewhat of a thicker skin to things.
Sucks to be you. Enjoy the heat
REMEMBER TO STOP BY MALVERN EAST IN AUSTRALIA
I LEFT A FEW STAINS THERE
YOU CAN TELL WHERE I'VE BEEN
3635908 LET IT BEGIN
THE KITSUNEINNNG
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Enjoy yourself dude.
Have a pastie.
3636298 :D I will try to enjoy myself
Be prepared for the heat as we've been having some hot weather of late.
3637263 oh I can handle heat
Is it a dry heat or a wet heat? It's wet back home, just pushes and pushes on you and punishes your every move
3637273 Fiordland tends to be pretty moist the average relative humidity at this time of year is about 85% in Milford Sound.
It has been pretty dry up here in the Bay of Plenty. I was in Tauranga the other day and I spent most of the journey home wishing my car had air conditioning.
3637288 there are cars without air conditioning?
... Like shouldn't that be in the Geneva convention
3637474 Well it was built in 1989 and AC was only available on the highest spec model is a base model. On the other hand it is very reliable because there is little there to go wrong.
3635757 Sydney was a beautiful city. It was very pleasant, picturesque....
...and clean. You may not be able to appreciate this, but the cleanliness I encountered was mildly shocking. American cities are... Well, to be blunt, sordid.
3637520 the cars are all very small here and I miss my armor plated gas guzzling freedom jeep
Also I didn't think the whole driving on the left and the steering wheel on the right thing would be that disorienting but holy hell it really threw me.
3639690 There are plenty of American cars and trucks out there and this is the time of year when they are out and about. Petrol these days is too expensive for most to use them as daily drivers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JR5Va0L5LyM
3635801 actually the heat has been kind of moderate. At least, by my standards.
3643857 Whereabouts are you, state-wise? Where I live it has been surprisingly mild. Usually the temperatures would be 40+ almost every day where I live but we keep getting rain.
3644042 I'm in Cairns, Queensland! And I have thoroughly enjoyed it. Was in Sydney earlier. Today's actually my last day here, as we'll be off to NZ this afternoon. I have enjoyed your accents and also your kangaroos, which reminded me of deer if deer were less skittish.