Doings in the Mango

One of my retirement presents was a GoPro camera. I'm very new to this technology so I'll apologise in advance for the amateur efforts in video editing so far.

Most of my family can't understand why grown men sit and watch videos of scenery rolling by viewed from a velomobile, but there is something addictive in it!

So here are some of my latest offerings;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-JGO8mJ9PY

Life changes

Quite a while since my last blog entry, blogs are a bit like that, many entries in the flurry of enthusiasm and then life intervenes and the entries become less and less.

Well since the last entry I have had quite a significant change in life-I have retired from work. I was an Air Traffic Controller in the the control tower at Brisbane Airport. The traffic levels due to the mining boom in Australia went through the roof. Work became a real slog, working flat out from the start to the end of the shift was wearing enough, combine it with shift work, especially night shift and the time came when I had just had enough.

So on March 1st 2013, I commenced Recreation Leave, followed by Long Service Leave (34 years) and then formally retire on February 8th 2014. However I am effectively retired now and so far not really missing work at all.