TET.Life (The Extraordinary Tourist Life)

Back in the day I designed and built the majority of the skateboard ramps my friends and I skated at our house. Though I had plenty of help building because what skater doesn't want to help a new skate ramp get built as quickly as possible? The crowning glory of all the ramps I built was my backyard mini (pictured), which I've written about before in this blog. It started out as a 16 foot wide, 4 foot high, 30 foot long mini, to which I later added 1 foot extensions. It probably had a 6 foot transition but I can't be sure. I used to draw transition templates free hand and just eyeball it until it looked right to me. I never worked off a plan either. It's not a hard structure to just plan as you go.

Spider-Man Homecoming delivers on the promise of the new Spider-Man from Captain America, Civil War , with an enjoyable stand alone Spidey film that also clearly shows where the character fits in relation to the Avengers. Tom Holland continues to shine as both Peter Parker and Spider-Man with a good mix of self conscious uncertainty as well as decisiveness and resolve, when needed. In this film Peter is initially obsessed with becoming a fully fledged Avenger. In the meantime he's working hard at being a 'friendly neighborhood Spider-Man', looking for ways to impress Tony Stark with his superhero capabilities. In the process he discovers alien technology based weapons are being sold to street level criminals, which sets him on the trail of the Vulture, played by Michael Keaton.

I've been on Instagram for just over a year now and have been posting regularly enough that I feel, those of you that are on Instagram, might want to check my feed out. I now have posted enough images to get a good feel for the kind of things I like to share. I try to keep the selfies to a reasonable minimum unless I have good reason like this... "But with the blast shield down, I can't even see..." I can only assume the fold down lenses on these circle specs are for people who are constantly needing to be prepared for a spot of welding (spot welding?) But don't want to carry around a bulky welding mask. The double lense is really that dark! Did I mention I have a thing for circle specs? #glasses #fashion #onionskinglasses #sunglasses #specs #circleglasses A post shared by David Arandle (@etourist.tet) on Nov 2, 2016 at 10:45pm PDT

Being a fan of the 1995, Terry Gilliam movie, Twelve Monkeys , when I discovered SyFy channel had adapted it into a TV series, 12 Monkeys , I was interested to see how that would pan out. Although the show has been aired in Australia on free to air TV (I'm pretty sure I've seen it listed there at ridiculous hours on occasion), it's only recently that the first two seasons were added to Australian Netflix. So I added it to my list of shows to watch. This article is not so much a review of the show, rather it's my thoughts on adapting to the TV version after being a big fan of the film. At this point, I've only seen all of season one and the first episode of season two. Going into the TV series I literally went in cold, not knowing anything about the approach to this adaptation from pre-publicity or trailers beforehand. I didn't really have any expectations other than wondering if the show would stick to the movie plot lines closely and, if they did, how w...