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What I Did In 2013
5:00pm, Tuesday, April 29, 2014
Current mood: sick 
If you are a follower of my work and a reader of this blog then you would, no doubt, have been wondering what happened in 2013. Where were the blog entries? Am I still alive? Did I spend the year in hospital?
Yes I've been studying up on memes...
I agree that my output for public use in 2013 was disappointing: There were no music recordings and only one song: I wrote the music to “The Famous Warren Mars”. I played a few gigs with friends at the Glenelg Aged Care, I sang at ANZAC Day and I played at Frances Folk Gathering but that was about it. There were no new sections added to the website. Nothing added to the blog. I realise that it has been 7 years since the last recorded music album but there are currently serious problems with computer hardware and software vis a vis making audio recordings and I have been busy with photos, other website priorities and personal business.
Nevertheless there were a few new public works:
- Wrote some poetry: An Abbreviated Romance, The Ballad Of Julia Gillard, The Red Heart and Camping With My Ute. There was a lot of work in these.
- Added audio to my poems online.
- Thanks to the Arts Co rift there were just 2 paintings done and just a few drawings.
- Made the first Tekrath.
- Invented two new trumpets: 6 and 8 valves! These avoid the intonation problems inherent in 3 valve designs and also employ a more intuitive valve arrangement.
Private work that took so much of the year included:
- Researching, tracking down and buying my first ute. A Ford Ranger PJ (actually a rebadged Mazda BT-50).
- Designing a camping canopy to fit and getting it made. Fitting it out for camping including repositioning some of the members, placing solar panel, running electrics, placing shelves, getting metal parts custom built, installing fridge and stove, painting, screwing etc.
- Wasting time diagnosing power leakage in the house due to extended damp weather. Damn marginally faulty power point left in place by the previous electrician when he rewired the house because he was pinching pennies.
- Touring Central Australia and Some of Queensland and NSW in the ute! Absolutely fantastic! The Red Heart is a must do pilgrimage for any Australian.
- Finding myself in hospital for 5 days with acute Diverticulitis. Then, after being released, I had to have a Colonoscopy and develop a plan for managing the problem.
- Diagnosing and fixing mechanical problems with the ute including: Cleaning the caked-on muck from the MAF and MAP sensors. Replacing too light rear leaf springs with HD units. Fixing serious coolant leak by disconnecting the EGR and rerouting the cooler hoses.
- Finding and employing a multi-platform HTML web gallery, (The Turning Gate), that I can generate myself and which won't disappear or change without permission like Picasa did. I will be utilising this for my public galleries in the future so stay tuned.
My 4x4 ute complete with custom canopy.
In a perfect work the requirements of the personal would not perhaps take so much time away from the public work. However I do not live in such a world and although I have devoted my life to public work and will continue to do so yet I cannot deny that many aspects of the personal must come first.
I like to think that now that now that the ute and canopy have been well bedded down I can spend more time on my work that is piled up behind me, however, the fact is that there is ALWAYS something or many things that MUST be done first. Not least of these is the necessity to LIVE A LITTLE!
Currently reading:
Collected Works by H. P. Lovecraft