My week of Monday 9 to Sunday 15 March 2026 saw both an ibis and me start building a new home. Well, mine is already built, so it’s mostly about preparing to move in. The ibis seems to have quite a bit of work to do.
The crowdfunder I launched five weeks ago is reaching a key moment: my actual move from the Blue Mountains to Campsie in Sydney. As you’ll read below, this week is going to be intense, and it’s now that I really start burning through the cash.
As the GoFundMe widget should now say, at least at the time of writing, The 9pm Stilgherrian’s Dramatic Decamp to Campsie is now 69% of the way to its second target. Nice! Thank you all so much.
Podcasts
- I’ve uploaded the fourth full episode of Another Untitled Music Podcast to Mixcloud. All of the existing episodes are already on YouTube. We still plan to resume recording new episodes in March. I should probably organise that with Snarky Platypus.
- On Wednesday I recorded two more special-guest episodes of The 9pm Edict which I described last week. Add in the episode with David F Porteous from the previous week and I now have three episodes in the edit queue. They will all appear in due course, of course.
Articles
- The Weekly Cybers #108. Atlassian lays off 1,600 staff, VPN downloads soar as adult sites block Australia, and Trump releases a cyber strategy.
Photos, Videos, Media Appearances, Corporate Largesse
None of these. You can subscribe to my YouTube channel to be notified when new videos appear and when livestreams are scheduled. There’s going to be one on Tuesday!
Some Interesting Links
- New animals have been discovered Australia, including blond echidnas.
- Bundeswehr, the German armed forces, has posted hundreds of archival films from the Cold War era. The first three I watched were aircraft operating from an autobahn (1988), the remarkable Dornier-13 VTOL aircraft (1969) , and some tank-hunting helicopters (1992)
- From J Draper, I Tried Riding A Penny Farthing (And It Taught Me About Feminism).
- Someone has cloned the classic computer game Minesweeper and made a Straits of Hormuz version.
- Mysterious large steel cylinder suddenly emerges from the ground in Japan.
- This week’s suggested follow: It’s a topical one this week, what with the war on Iran causing such a disruption to shipping. What’s Going on With Shipping? is a YouTube channel concentrating on “maritime industry policy, and current events in the maritime sector, along with maritime history”. The host Sal Mercogliano knows his stuff.
The Week Ahead
The busy month of March continues, and this is the busiest week of all: The Big Moving Week.
Monday will be full of me filling boxes. Ideally I’ll pack everything I have at Wentworth Falls, which is not a lot, because I want to avoid having to come up here again later in the week to finish the job. If I do, though, that will be Thursday.
Tuesday is the big moving day itself, when a household’s worth of stuff is extracted from storage where it’s been sitting for 15 years and delivered to the new apartment in Campsie — and that’s when I start living there and start digging through the boxes.
On Tuesday evening I’ll kick off The Great Unboxening with a brief video livestream to give you all an indication of the kinds of things which might become available. At this stage that’s planned for 9pm AEDT.
Wednesday is mostly a pre-unboxening, when I extract all the household essentials such as kitchen equipment. I’ll also be testing all the appliances to see if they still work after 15 years in storage. I expect the refrigerator will be completely filled with mould, so that will be fun.
On Thursday I’ll post another old episode of AUMP to Mixcloud.
Friday sees The Weekly Cybers newsletter as usual, and perhaps a second livestream. Make sure to follow me on YouTube.
Sunday sees my final evacuation from the Blue Mountains. We’ll take a van up to Wentworth Falls, grab the few boxes of stuff and bags of clothing that have allowed me to survive there, and return to Sydney. And so ends an era.
Further Ahead
- NEW: He Huang’s TEMU Joke Factory, Sydney, 3 May 2026. Long-time readers will know that I’ve been really enjoying her comedy in recent years.
- Takashi Wakasugi’s Wabi-Sabi Comedy, Sydney, 16 May 2026. I saw Takashi’s work-in-progress show back in December, so it’ll be interesting to see how it all comes together.
[Photo: An Australian white ibis (Threskiornis molucca) collecting nesting material in Campsie, Sydney, on 14 March 2026. It’s hunched over ready to launch itself into a steep climb up to the palm tree where it’s building its nest.]