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Solar Panels

Dave — Sat, 08 May 2010 07:21:39 +0000

Snakes revisited

Dave — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 01:05:17 +0000

Had the trees along the side of my house cut down and the guys doing the work brought me these as presents

Three different snake skins - peg for scale.

Picture doesn’t show it too clearly, but they are all from different snakes. The scales and size change in each one.

Solar Hot Water

Dave — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 05:25:33 +0000

Had solar hotwater installed today.

With a Hills Solar 22 tube solar tube collector and a 250L tank. Theoretically we should reduce our power usage by ~40% according to the literature. Only time will tell.

Installing the manifold.

The manifold installed.

Installing the tubes

The tubes

The tank arrives

Installing the tank

The finished tank

Torchlight Gems

Dave — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 06:14:02 +0000

I spent too much time playing Torchlight

Below is a table showing all the different socketable gems that can be upgraded.

	Deep	Flow	Pure	Life	Eyeball	Core	Fire	Cold	Skull
Cracked	1 Armor Degraded/+2 Dexterity	+3 Electric Damage/+2 Electrical Resistance	+4 Damage/+3 Armor	+3 Poison Damage/+2 Poison Resistance	2 Mana Stolen/+2 Magic	2 Health per Second/+2 Strength	+3 Fire Damage/+3 Fire Resistance	+3 Ice Damage/+3 Ice Resistance	1 Health Stolen/+2 Defense
Dull	3 Armor Degraded/+3 Dexterity	+6 Electric Damage/+4 Electrical Resistance	+9 Damage/+5 Armor	+6 Poison Damage/+4 Poison Resistance	3 Mana Stolen/+3 Magic	4 Health per Second/+3 Strength	+6 Fire Damage/+4 Fire Resistance	+6 Ice Damage/+4 Ice Resistance	5 Health Stolen/+3 Defense
Discoloured	6 Armor Degraded/+4 Dexterity	+9 Electric Damage/+7 Electrical Resistance	+14 Damage/+9 Armor	+9 Poison Damage/+7 Poison Resistance	5 Mana Stolen/+4 Magic	6 Health per Second/+4 Strength	+9 Fire Damage/+7 Fire Resistance	+9 Ice Damage/+7 Ice Resistance	10 Health Stolen/+4 Defense
-	10 Armor Degraded/+5 Dexterity	+12 Electric Damage/+10 Electrical Resistance	+18 Damage/+12 Armor	+12 Poison Damage/+10 Poison Resistance	6 Mana Stolen/+5 Magic	8 Health per Second/+5 Strength	+12 Fire Damage/+10 Fire Resistance	+12 Ice Damage/+10 Ice Resistance	14 Health Stolen/+5 Defense
Cut	14 Armor Degraded/+6 Dexterity	+16 Electric Damage/+13 Electrical Resistance	+24 Damage/+16 Armor	+16 Poison Damage/+13 Poison Resistance	8 Mana Stolen/+6 Magic	10 Health per Second/+6 Strength	+16 Fire Damage/+13 Fire Resistance	+16 Ice Damage/+13 Ice Resistance	19 Health Stolen/+6 Defense
Polished	19 Armor Degraded/+7 Dexterity	+19 Electric Damage/+15 Electrical Resistance	+28 Damage/+19 Armor	+19 Poison Damage/+15 Poison Resistance	9 Mana Stolen/+7 Magic	11 Health per Second/+7 Strength	+19 Fire Damage/+15 Fire Resistance	+19 Ice Damage/+15 Ice Resistance	23 Health Stolen/+7 Defense
Star	25 Armor Degraded/+9 Dexterity	+22 Electric Damage/+19 Electrical Resistance	+33 Damage/+23 Armor	+22 Poison Damage/+19 Poison Resistance	11 Mana Stolen/+9 Magic	13 Health per Second/+9 Strength	+22 Fire Damage/+19 Fire Resistance	+22 Ice Damage/+19 Ice Resistance	28 Health Stolen/+9 Defense
Flawless	31 Armor Degraded/+10 Dexterity	+25 Electric Damage/+21 Electrical Resistance	+38 Damage/+26 Armor	+25 Poison Damage/+21 Poison Resistance	12 Mana Stolen/+10 Magic	15 Health per Second/+10 Strength	+25 Fire Damage/+21 Fire Resistance	+25 Ice Damage/+21 Ice Resistance	32 Health Stolen/+10 Defense
Perfected	39 Armor Degraded/+11 Dexterity	+29 Electric Damage/+24 Electrical Resistance	+43 Damage/+30 Armor	+29 Poison Damage/+24 Poison Resistance	14 Mana Stolen/+11 Magic	17 Health per Second/+11 Strength	+29 Fire Damage/+24 Fire Resistance	+29 Ice Damage/+24 Ice Resistance	37 Health Stolen/+11 Defense
Named	48 Armor Degraded/+12 Dexterity	+33 Electric Damage/+28 Electrical Resistance	+49 Damage/+34 Armor	+33 Poison Damage/+28 Poison Resistance	15 Mana Stolen/+12 Magic	19 Health per Second/+12 Strength	+33 Fire Damage/+28 Fire Resistance	+33 Ice Damage/+28 Ice Resistance	42 Health Stolen/+12 Defense
	The Grand Depths Ember Shard	The Eternal Flow-Ember Shard	The Infinite Pure Ember Shard	The Spire City Life Ember Shard	Etlitch’s Eyeball	The Sea Kings Core Ember Shard	The Fire Queen Fire Ember Shard	The Earthstar Cold Ember Shard	The Pirates Skull

Badger Badger Badger

Dave — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 23:07:27 +0000

It’s A SNAAAAKKKKEEE!!!

A neighbour knocked on the door and told us that there was a snake on our roof. By the time we found it it had changed from a roof snake to a palm snake.

Breakfast was tasty.

Spot the Python.

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This skin may be from the same python. But it looks too long for it to me. We have had bigger pythons in the back yard in the past.

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Drawing Development

Dave — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 06:58:44 +0000

I have no idea how kids are supposed to develop but in the past 6 months Liam has gone from potatoes with arms to full stick figures.

12th Nov

30th Nov

Beer

Dave — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 06:50:21 +0000

A client recently sent me some of my own branded beer.

Apparently I’m fantastic enough to get my own beer.

Yum! Paint!

Dave — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 04:28:08 +0000

Emily after a painting session.

Apparently she missed a spot

How does your garden grow

Dave — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 02:30:03 +0000

Emily harvesting peas from the vege garden

Everyone at work

It came from the sky!

Dave — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 02:09:07 +0000

Had a visitor the other day. A Red Browed Firetail crashed into my back window and knocked itself out.

Liam touching the bird.