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A bit of carry on.

January 9, 2024 - 06:23 -- Admin

When Jane and I took off for six weeks last year we decided we would do the whole trip with carry-on luggage only. We’d heard all the horror stories of punters losing thousands of dollars worth of bags and contents somewhere between check-in and landing. The airlines’ only response seemed to be banning trackers (mostly Apple Tags) which were embarrassing them.

This bit from the ABC caught my eye.

Jason's interpreter.

January 5, 2024 - 09:48 -- Admin

Forgot to post this earlier, some Imma make up by donating a few bucks. Jason Lambright’s interpreter from Afghanistan is finally getting to the US this month. Some guys from his unit have been working to extract him and his family from refugee limbo.

Jason’s written about it over at the Valley.

Burger Lite.

January 4, 2024 - 10:08 -- Admin

Been a while since I’ve done one of these, but I’ve been grinding away at the strength training and finally hit a goal worth recording. I checked my disgracefully cheap Chinese body comp scale this morning and it informed me that Taiwan had always been Chinese territory and always would be, also, I’d added 5kgs of muscle in the last six months. I’ll take the latter as a win since six weeks of that time were spent meandering from French cafes to Italian pasta bars.

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