Sneaky

I've got connected again through a friend's phone, and to celebrate here's the first Skeleton Guy since I got set up again after moving:

Absence

Yes well, it's been a bit of an enforced absence. Things went crazy all of a sudden. I had to move suddenly, and am now living in a small room in a boarding house type thing on The Terrace. I've gradually got myself sorted out. I've got my painting area sussed and should finish the first Skeleton Guy painted there this arvo (just the colour to do). I don't have the phone on yet and so don't have access to the Internet - hence the absence. I'm typing this up at Rose's new place. I'm going to wait until I know what's happening with my job before deciding whether or not I'll get the phone on. With any luck, I'll know what the story is at work within the next couple of weeks or so. It's been a bit of a saga.

Note: If you've tried to send me an email in the last three weeks or so, I won't have got it. I'm hoping to be able to check them this week, but we'll see. There are logistical problems.

...and the first for 2005

The last for 2004...

Southerly change

Some 2005 paintings

Pointless and absurd

Craziness

Besides wiping out the equivalent of a small (at least) NZ city, the 'deadly Asian earthquake may have permanently accelerated the Earth's rotation -- shortening days by a fraction of a second -- and caused the planet to wobble on its axis, U.S. scientists said on Tuesday.

'Richard Gross, a geophysicist with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, theorized that a shift of mass toward the Earth's center during the quake on Sunday caused the planet to spin 3 microseconds, or 3 millionths of a second, faster and to tilt about an inch on its axis.

'When one huge tectonic plate beneath the Indian Ocean was forced below the edge of another "it had the effect of making the Earth more compact and spinning faster," Gross said.'

Full story here.

Another diversion

I found this at Wired Kiwis.

Oh well

Staying at Steve and Anna's was a bit of a dead loss as far as painting was concerned. I was all geared up the weekend before last, but the last week of work really knocked the stuffing out of me, what with us getting radically restructured and all. It was good to just hang out in the sun, read books, and relax.

I'm back home now and will try to get some stuff done over the next week.