Mobile Hut panel set to go West (epoxy) when thunderstorms pass

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After 5 years in mothballs, the Mobile Hut has been unwrapped from it tarpaulin, and a complete renovation has started.

  1. Two panels to be belted back and sheathed with 6oz glass cloth and West epoxy. One is in this pic.
  2. The rear door to be replaced with a heavier one, and also glass-sheathed.
  3. The trailer repainted.
  4. Inside
    1. stripped, and repainted
    2. remodelled, with a clear runway all the way up the centre, so a bicycle will fit inside.

I had intended to live in it next week at the Linux Conference in Brisbane. However we are still getting thunderstorms here in the afternoons, and the West System epoxy needs less humidity to set properly. The delay means that the hut will not be sufficiently refinished, so it will stay home, and I guess I get to just sleep in the car instead. Mirages are definitely less than ideal for this.

A weeks rain - will my ripening tomatoes split. Hoping for 2 dry days b4 picking.

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We are still having the wettest and coolest spring in years here on the Gold Coast. Right now all I want is for the showers to let up for 2 days, else my tomatoes are going to split. If I pick any in the wet, they are likely to collapse and rot within 2 days. So if I get the dry days, I will have a bumper crop. If it stays wet, as the forecast indicates, I might lose nearly all of them. Fingers crossed for some dry.

Gliding into Green Day Out

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Some of the many features of Green Day out: Meeting and talking -

  1. about other eBikes and bicycles, especially to Mark Allen and Peter Gorden, who have built a few e-cars and e-bikes. See their websites, Plugincars and HybridHonda. Having read their websites, I thought I had better get my own one updated. Also bicycle restorers (recyclers?) at the Bicycle Revolution
  2. about great and tasty organic food, eg from Roar Food
  3. to solar panel installers
Dozens of other stalls
Live music
Gliding into Green Day Out, and meeting other ebikers inspired me to update my ebike log.

Sleeping Dogs do lie

And I let them  :-) 
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, at least long enough to test whether I should use Posterous for pics and posts.
Key issues:
  1. Why another service?
  2. Is it easier to send to than blogger? Does it format stuff better. Either way, I really need a Linux-based tablet - something with a qwerty keyborad to write decent posts on the fly.
I kinda like the idea of a blog being reported on Twitter though, so the latter is merely a "head-up" for a service that can contain more than a 140 char message. Twitter really is very limiting, methinks.

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