…still with the shitty net access. So just some more short news with the full story to come.
Spent two full days out on the highway near Coolgardie waiting for a lift, there was an old hitchhiker when I got there and when another arrived I decided to head back into Kal. If nothing else I am starting to work up a good tan.
I think I was spoilt last time I hitched across, that was just before Christmas, just before New Years 2000, everyone was happy and travelling and generally had good thoughts of humanity. The mood isn’t so friendly out there now.
A friend from Kal (Oscar - he gave me a lift from Norseman to Adeliade in 1999) is going to give me a lift down to Kambalda at 1pm today and I’ll try from there. I washed my lucky hitchhiking clothes so I should be rolling across the Nullabor in no time.
Big G’Day to Adam Goat and Stu Badhair… you guys would have loved it in Kal last night, the pub put on Country and Western singer (cowboy hat, mic headset, strumming his guitar while his computer provided the backbeat), the pub was goin’ nuts calling out requests - ‘She’s my ute’ was a favourite.
yeeehaaaaa
hey everyone, i’m in kal at the moment but can’t talk long - the internet rates are kalazy ($10/hour) so i’ll wait till i get to adeliade till i update with stories and fotos from the road (i’ll go to the uni of s.a. and pretend to do some research).
mel, i posted a letter today.. now i’ll race it across to melbourne.
According to the National Youth Week I am still a youth (under 26 years of age on 5 April 2003) and can enter their competition:
First Prize:
a computer package worth up to $3000, become staff journalists at Girlfriend Magazine for three months, including a week in Sydney to work with the editorial team.
yeehaaa..
old men like Barney can only dream of becoming a ‘journalist’ at Girlfriend Magazine.
there are a million things i should be doing. but instead i put in a search engine (below left). it doesn’t work that well on account that there is hardly anything to search on this web site, may be one day i’ll run out of distractions…
i added some flash sound files on the writing page (down the bottom. i got a feeling these aren’t gonna work in all the different browser/computer set-ups.
the page should load with a flash play and pause button below the photo. when you press play the track should start almost immediately while the rest of the track downloads (ie: it should stream).
if you have problems getting these little toys to play please leave a comment below. i’ve got heaps more to add, but i want to make sure they’re going to work first.
cheers
k-bo