Random stuff

This weekend I helped my good friend Ed take some stuff to the TIP (dump), buy some material for a retaining wall in his garden (yard), and general man stuff. The dump in Brisbane is awesome. You drive up to a weigh station, they weigh you going in, you drive into the big building in the pics, throw your trash into the pit Mad Max style, a giant bulldozer crushes things in front of your eyes and pushes it around all transformer like, then you drive out, they weigh you, and you pay per the kg you unloaded. It's like an orchestrated ritual of testosterone and human waste all mixed in together into one harmonious right of passage for all Australian males.

Exhibit A, Ed:

Exhibit B thru Z:

In another demonstration of Australian bureaucracy and feaux regulation here is a Brisbane pedestrian with a license plate: