G’Day OUG

Where am I when I’m not here?

All over the place.

If ‘here’ is home, I’m far away, and have been for most of the last twelve months, and a lot over the last few years. I’m a traveller. A botanist, geologist, mad birdo and manic photographer, who just loves getting out and about all over this great land.

If ‘here’ is OLO, I’m not there very much any more, mainly because I spend all my previous OLO time photoshopping, indexing and uploading my photos online.

I haven’t lost the passion for environmental and social debate. It has just taken a lower priority these days.

I don't spend much time on other opinion sites, this one's enough for me. I do spend quite a bit of time learning much of the technical & scientific stuff there was not tine for when life was more demanding. Trying to get the math back up to scratch is not all that easy.

My real love however is a couple of classic car sites. They're the reason I bothered with the net in the first place.

Not the Ferrari/ Maserati type stuff, but poor mans sports cars like MGs & Triumphs. These are cars which aren't worth much, & most owners can't afford can't afford specialists to work on their cars, so we have to do it ourselves. So many who start unable to change a spark plug end up competent car restorers with help from the more experienced.

To me it's amazing when you find a small town USA 40+ year old lady English teacher, who had never picked up a spanner 10 years ago, advising a South African diamond miner how to tell which parts of his gearbox need replacing. That's sharing.

So apart from trying to keep the grass & weeds down between downpours, it will be my old sports cars keeping me busy, one way or another.

I don't regularly involve myself in other general discussion sites, a couple of special interest sites are the only other regular post sites. As Hasbeen mentions it's fantastic the sharing that can happen on those sites.

R0bert

Dear Johan (OUG),

Where am I when I'm not here? This is the only forum on
which I post. The rest of my time is spent all over
several places, from libraries, to aged care facilities.
Oh, and did I mention 2 grandchildren - and bike riding,
and jogging in the nearby park. Keeps me busy.
But I wouldn't have it any other way.

I do alot of photography and have a photo blog. I also have friends on YouTube and with blogs - writers and such - and spend time on twitter while I'm clunking away with photos in a photo editor.

0UG from what I could read, my server is not letting me on line for more than a few minutes
you got my land line problems wrong, here, in rain 12kb is it, dry its 26kb.
That will not change, while fibre ran past it was not used in local villages.
We have satellite, but wireless is increasing now, I can not get it yet but working on it.
May be gone for a few days/weeks, sorting it out.
Only post here but surf every place.