Many requests for a Barney costume

Latey I have been getting a lot of requests for an adult Barney costume for children's birthdays. Usually these are two to three year olds. Most people are happy if they can find something that sort of looks like Barney, at least what the colour concerns. Unfortunately there is a legal issue with that character and there is no way to get an official character performer for half an hour to maybe up to two hours. This is a pity, because the character is very popular amongst kids.

Children's birthday party in dinosaur costume

This last Saturday I was asked to be in a dinosaur costume at a children's birthday party. The first half an hour went fine, kids were bugging me the whole time. The second half an hour became quite hot and I had sweat dripping off my nose inside the suit. When I finally got out I was wet all over.

Being a dinosaur at a children event

This coming Saturday I was asked to be in a dinosaur costume for a childrens birthday party. Unfortunately I am not that great with children, but I will see what I can do to entertain them. The suit that I own is going to get hot. A few days ago, I tried on the suit because I haven't worn it for a long time, just to discover some annoyances that are currently being fixed. The feet would have shown as well which is not nice.

The original design of that suit had seperate feet which are just resting on the wearer's feet. The result is that they get partially underneath the actual foot or get kicked off completely. The head also had two collapsing sections which reduce vision considerably and the head was not staying properly in position anymore.

Walking from Kensington to Monte Vista in the rain

Two days ago, I had the fun and joy of falling asleep on the train and getting off two stations too early. The station that I got off at was called Kentemade which is in the Kensington suburb. The station looks nearly identical to the Monte Vista station that I normally get off at. The train stopped there and I woke up, both sides looked more or less correct based on what I could see. This was the last train for the evening. By the time I realised the station was wrong, the train was moving again.

After that story, I neded up walking toward Voortrekker road to head in the direction of Monte Vista, but I had to pass Facreton first and then through Vasco suburbs. Kensington itself can be a maze, especially at night. After many wrong turns, I finally got to Voortrekker road, then the rain started.

Much walking later with the rain coming and going, I finally reached Vasco, then heavy rain hit. Fortunately that was the last on the route. Since I was running about 40% of the route, the entire trip took 1 hour and 20 minutes.

Port Forwarding for Lan Bridger

Recently I have had the fun of trying to set up port forwarding on my router. There is a lot of documentation on the internet, but most of the time the issue of the IP address just happens to be skipped. Routers seem to need that IP address otherwise they would not know where to do the routing to.

To set up Port Forwarding, you actually need to set up a Virtual Server on the router. Then all that is required is the IP address (usually the IP address of your own PC or server that hosts a specific service), the port range (Lan Bridger uses port 40001) and the protocol which is All,TCP or UDP. What helps a huge amount is the tool for checking if your settings are correct which can be foudn on the Port Forwarding website