Catalina Island and other travel

Spent a week in Dublin Ireland this month - nice and sunny not. The subsequent week was in Avalon on Catalina Island in Los Angeles.
Lovely island, great hotel.

Blast from the past

Spider cat?

Wall paintings while driving in Chennai

Too cool!

Driving in Chennai

Celebrating Diwali while in India..

We purchased about 10,000 INR of fireworks equating to several boxes worth and were allowed to let those off at the hotel (ITC Sheraton) - haven't been able to shoot fireworks since I was a kid and they were banned in Australia - this was awesome fun!!

Currently traveling to China, Japan, Korea and India

Spent a week in Japan, a few days in China and a weekend in Seoul. Am currently in Chennai, India and will be here for 2 or three weeks. Some pics here. View from hotel room in Tokyo, a Church in India and Indian painting on the street

1.6KW solar installed and Satellite dish

Deck finished

The deck is complete and looks amazing now that it is oiled. I just have to finish the exterior sides and decide on whether to put some kind of fencing or privacy on the perimeter.

Decking almost done..

Back breaking work I tell ya....

Decking moving along...

Decking coming together..

Laying the deck...

World cup, time off and decking

It's been a while since my last post. I took a month off for the world cup and enjoyed watching that. During that time I also started work on the decking in the al fresco and outside area of the home. Building the deck has been an enjoyable experience, and have found that I really love the hands on work. It has also proven quite cost effective - the cheapest quote for building this was in the $9K range. In total, this won't cost me more than about $2,500. $2,000 of that is just the Merbau decking, so overall it is a very low cost project to do yourself. Check out the pictures. I will spend the next 2 or 3 week ends nailing the decking on.

Have been in Dublin this week.. will be back in Sydney on Tuesday

Pictures from a famous restaurant - built some 400 years ago.. we dined in one of the dungeons below... :)

In Seoul for the weekend

Photos from my hotel room at the Grand Hyatt

Back from Eugene & Springfield, Oregon

Just spent last week in Oregon on business, glad to be back, unfortunately will be traveling to Dublin in Ireland on the 20th March again...

More pain awaits

Home theater completed part 2

Home theater completed

This is the entry to the theater with curtains - white on the outside black on the inside