G'day all,

Hope you all had a good holiday period/solstice/etc.


I went into the house today to do some more work on it (Have been a slack bastard lately - haven't really wanted to leave my ol' man on his own.)

Walked in and noticed the back door was wide open. I originally thought I must have left it open the last time I was in there, since the town is pretty low in crime. (Except for trying to put flares through faggot's windows, of course =p )

When I went to shut it, I noticed that the slide bolt was bent, however, and the catch was torn open. The boot print on the freshly painted door was also a bit of a giveaway.


Padded up to the bedrooms to find everything had been ransacked. Of major surprise was the fact that a couple of certificates and photos of my son hadn't just been smashed or thrown across the room like some of my stuffed dragons, they had been placed in a pile safely. A bit of decency in the thief?

At this stage it's hard to tell how much has been taken - I could only really get part way into the room to take a cursory inspection - I have to meet the the Crime Scene Unit there tomorrow.

A cursory glance showed some quite obvious stuff missing, the scariest of which is the 2 sais and a 5'+ longsword. Seriously, how the fuck are you going to carry that around unseen?

The longsword is a purely decorative, mass-manufactured piece of crap from china worth less than $100. It never had an edge and would probably bend if it hit someone. The sai, on the other hand, were build solid and could easily be weaponised, which concerns me.

(I note in the newspaper that a 16 year old has been arrested after an incident in which he brandished "an offensive weapon" too. I hope like hell nobody has been injured with them!)

Also on the definitely stolen list:

My netbook (no big deal, but I wish I had the data backed up. And encrypted, because now my tax returns and furry prons are out there...),
The cash tin that my ex left with me for when I do the garage sale when it's all finished (dunno how much cash was in it, I have to ask her)
 nytekingcheetah's Xbox 360, controller+games that we used when he was here for a few months
My dad's toolbox + tools (that were rusty. Why the hell take them?!)
Some new computer components that were going to go into a PC later (new mobo, cpu, ram)
An Olympus digital camera, nothing special.

I'm afraid that the guitar I left there is also gone. I can't tell yet, however, as while that cupboard is open, I can't get to it without disturbing boot prints.


All in all, it's just stuff. It sucks that I've lost data (my fault for not having it backed up) and the receipts for everything I spent on the house that I get to claim half back when it sells (they were in the cashbox for safe keeping).

But at the end of the day, it's just stuff. The way I see it, someone obviously had a bigger need for the stuff/cash than I did.

As long as it isn't for drugs. And that they don't hurt someone with those sais. Those would piss me off somewhat.


Fortunately I don't celebrate Christmas, so it doesn't put a dampener on that for me. =p

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Also, a quick tribute to Chook, the Lyrebird at the Adelaide Zoo.

He was a fucking awesome little lyrebird that has just died, aged 32 years. (Good long life!) Nyte and I saw/heard him together earlier in the year and it was incredible to hear the sounds he was imitating.

RIP Chook, you brought a smile to a lot of faces!


Some videos of him in action:

Imitating the construction sounds when they were making a new enclosure for him (to make way for the pandas) as well as many different birds (including multiple kookaburras simultaneously)

Some of the best sounds are at the end, like drills and saws.



At the end is someone's car trouble, immortalised by Chook.

Amateur footage to show he indeed does it