Ooh blogger em android

What is this and how does it work?
Attempting to use android blogger!

harden up john you don't have a hurty knee!

And one for the expats.

Chop Part 1

This chassis rail is in pretty bad shape, and needs a fair chop near the wheel arch.

This is the lip of the rear end of the tray. - See below for it's removal.

The rear end of the tray has been removed - all the spot welds of the tray ground out, and the panel ground off at the edge.

ZigZag

Seriously, what is it with engineers and train spotting?

Signals are green!

Please keep limbs wholly within the carriage at all times!

A locomotive!

This is a poem my dad used to read to me by Walt Whitman

"To a locomotive in winter"

Thee for my recitative,

Thee in the driving storm even as now, the snow, the winter-day declining,

Thee in thy panoply, thy measur’d dual throbbing and thy beat convulsive,

Thy black cylindric body, golden brass and silvery steel,

Thy ponderous side-bars, parallel and connecting rods, gyrating, shuttling at thy sides,

Thy metrical, now swelling pant and roar, now tapering in the distance,

Thy great protruding head-light fix’d in front,

Thy long, pale, floating vapor-pennants, tinged with delicate purple,

The dense and murky clouds out-belching from thy smokestack,

Thy knitted frame, thy springs and valves, the tremulous twinkle of thy wheels,

Thy train of cars behind, obedient, merrily following,

Through gale or calm, now swift, now slack, yet steadily careering ;

Type of the modern—emblem of motion and power—pulse of the continent,

For once come serve the Muse and merge in verse, even as here I see thee,

With storm and buffeting gusts of wind and falling snow,

By day thy warning ringing bell to sound its notes,

By night thy silent signal lamps to swing.

Fierce-throated beauty !

Roll through my chant with all thy lawless music, thy swinging lamps at night,

Thy madly-whistled laughter, echoing, rumbling like an earthquake, rousing all,

Law of thyself complete, thine own track firmly holding,

(No sweetness debonair of tearful harp or glib piano thine,)

Thy trills of shrieks by rocks and hills return’d,

Launch’d o’er the prairies wide, across the lakes,

To the free skies unpent and glad and strong.

Subydoobedoo

Project Subaru. - This brumby needs grooming.

5th of July - Stripped all the parts off the back end incl the fuel tank so we can start cutting!

Hope

"Just when i had made my today secure with safe yesterdays i see tomorrow comming with its pale glass star called hope it shatters on impact and falls like splinters of cruel rain and i see the red oil of life running from my wrists ontotomorrows headlines."

Spike Milligan December 1971

Psalm 19 - Wordspeak.

I've been enjoying the landscape of Geelong, and even more the sky-scape.

The weather is very changeable here at this time of year, with 10 mins of rain and then 10 mins of freezing wind, and 10 mins of beautiful sunshine (repeat infinitely). The land is flat, so you see a 'lot' of sky, and it is vast.

The sky brings unstoppable forces of water, wind, fire, light and darkness. It directly affects us as it meets our skin, as we breathe it in, as we observe its great delivery of life-giving light, gravitational effect, rain, and seasons to name a few.

Psalm 19 starts off with an observation of this grandeur and attributes it to God's glory. The heavens tell His glory and speak of it all day long, and all night long. You can't avoid it's declaration. The sky declares irrefutable power, Unchangeable patterns of continuity, heat that you cannot hide from, awareness and revelation of contrasts, sustenance that we cannot do without, and our powerlessness to change it. The sky achieves all this without words, without speaking, without a voice.

After this reflection, the writer draws our attention in contrast to another revelation of God and his Glory. One that is greater and affects more deeply. One that has power to affect not only the physical situation, but the spiritual, cognitive, and eternal. God's Word is the focus now, in his revelation with speech. His Word first used in creative power to form time, energy and substance is now brought directly to the objects of his creation in restoring grace, comfort, wisdom, enlightenment and salvation. Let's have a look at how the writer saw this greatness.

The law of the Lord is perfect, restoring the soul;

He saw a Word which was soul restoring. A soul with just the sun, moon and sky as revelation does not have a hope, or any certainty in life other than based on the continuum of yesterdays that a tomorrow will happen, and the sun to rise again. Death is still certain. Pain is still real. Joy is still lost. The Word of the law which Israel has directs them to the character of God, and his relationships in the past with his people. This gives a better hope, a life and a restoration. Everything in this revelation declares a God who undoes the mess we do. A God who saves, who comforts and restores his people. All the ceremonial, moral, and civil law, and all the words of reminder restore a soul who would otherwise have fallen out of fellowship with the God of the universe.

The testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple.

Just as the sun comes up every day, testifying to the continuity of life as we know it, the testimony of the Lord makes wise the simple. What can we depend upon other than something that is proven to be trustworthy. What is wisdom if it is not a distinction of which testimony is more important than another, and a discernment of which testimony is trust-worthy. This discerning person makes choices and takes actions based on that trust-worthy testimony and proves themselves to be wise. God testifies and his testimony is true. The evidence is history, and this in His Word is the testimony that changes the simple person to a wise person.

The precepts of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart;

What kind of instructions give anyone joy? So often we see people calling God a kill joy or a fun-stopper. But the writer finds joy in his deepest heart by these instructions. These instructions give meaning and joy by clearing a way through all the options of how to live that is satisfying, productive and - well - rejoicable!

The commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes.

Based on this trust-worthy testimony the now wise & joyful person takes in the instructions or commands of the Word of God, not in un-reasoned illogical obedience, but based on the trust-worthy testimony doing the wise thing of following the commandments. These - the operators manual - provide the 'lightbulb' moment. These instructions make all the parts look like they belong, that there is a place for everything. They really do make the wise person see the world in a different light. They are pure and enlightening. They are correct and unmistakably clear. The commandments of the Lord do enlighten the eyes.

The fear of the Lord is clean, enduring forever;

The wise and enlightened person who is filled with the testimony and commandment of the Lord is a long way better than the one who just has the sky for revelation by now. Their purpose, their confidence, their past, present actions are all assured. The writer now moves on to some future and eternal consequences of this revelation. The Fear of the Lord is pure enduring forever. This is the response to the revelation of the Glory of God. It isn't a to-do list of 'make God happy' items. It isn't a meditation of transcendence. It isn't a 'she'll be right mate, make the most of life till I kick the bucket' way of life. It's an acknowledgement of His Glory. It's a submission. It's a trembling of sorts. It's awe.

People call a lot of things 'awesome'. Kids call McDonald's thick-shakes 'awesome'. Teenagers call thrill rides at theme parks 'awesome'. But they're not. The sky is awesome. But worthy of far greater awe is the One who reveals his Glory and character by them. The same One who reveals his heart and mercy directly by words. The fear of the Lord is to acknowledge and trust what he has said to be true and, as a response, to live by it.

Fear of the ocean is the beginning of not drowning in it, but Fear of the Lord is the beginning of eternity with Him.

The judgments of the Lord are true; they are righteous altogether.

Don't be a blamer or a hater - you can't change or question the judgements of the Lord. they are pure and clear and completely righteous. His perfection in judgement is faultless. The standard of judgement matches the standard of the revelation and meets it completely. There may be no place hidden from the heat of the Sun but more certain is that there is no place hidden from the true righteous judgement of God. By the fear of the Lord the righteous stand in this judgement, and all others will fall by it.

I'll leave the rest for your own meditation.

Moreover, by them Your servant is warned;
In keeping them there is great reward.

Who can discern his errors? Acquit me of hidden faults.

Also keep back Your servant from presumptuous sins;
Let them not rule over me;
Then I will be blameless,
And I shall be acquitted of great transgression.

Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart
Be acceptable in Your sight,
O Lord , my rock and my Redeemer.