I have *got* to find a different route home

It happened again - driving on the way home and there was an accident at the same intersection as last time. It wasn't nearly so big or dramatic - two cars turning right both went for the same spot in the outside lane and the outside one got pushed out and spun. On a completely selfish note, at least this one was traveling away from me! Slightly less self-centred (but every bit just as worrying), the two drivers (both rather big tough-looking young guys) were OK but their first reaction out of the cars was to start yelling abuse at each other!

Still, unnerving to be in the same spot and watch almost the same shit go down again!

And I'm off again!

Just packing to go to Genghis Con ready for this afternoon. I'm going with Darren so I will drive up to his place, leave my car there and then we'll drive up to Perth in his (much nicer, bigger, more comfortable etc, etc) car. Staying in a hotel up there that I have never even heard of, let alone stayed in before - Aarons Hotel Perth - so that will be interesting. The Con programme looks like it is filled with all kinds of fun stuff so we should have a blast!

First night of Genghis Con

Just got back to the hotel after the first night's goings on at Genghis Con. Spent a couple of hours making a Gnerf rocket launcher (which was surprisingly similar in performance to the commercial ones) with Darren. The inner geek in me became the outer one as I couldn't resist trying to work out the parameters for a successful rocket - the launchers seemed to be near-identical in performance to the commercial ones. Experimented with length of rocket, fin size, profile and position along with weight of rocket. Little difference - it seemed to be plain and simple weight that was the only factor and we couldn't reduce the weight of ours any more. However, with the curved fins that we tried we did get a rifling effect that made our shots much less susceptible to wind shear. Less range but more accurate. Wez, your endless patience in repeating the instructions a dozen times to me was greatly appreciated.

*waves to Lily* Yes, Lily, you make the best rockets!

Shot up the road to Hot Box and grabbed a very nice nasi goreng, a little heavy on the coriander but hot and plentiful (and less than $10).

Returned to more manufacturing - foam rubber weapons for the combat LARP tomorrow. I went for the basic one-sided sword, average length, handle with no guard (mainly because it was so late by this point that I just couldn't be arsed to add one). I made a surprisingly functional sword - nothing fancy but then you got no points for prettiness!

Got back to a fairly warm and stuffy room at the hotel but discovered that it had a very effective air conditioning unit which cooled the room in minutes.