The Chronicles Of…

So here’s an update of some of the things that have been happening…

- There’s no internet at home, hasn’t really been for almost 2 weeks, not quite but almost
- Therefore no blogging and not much Twittering or Facebooking or anything (cause when I have the internet at home I’m awesome at keeping up with all those!!)

- I went to Melbourne not last week but the one before. Good to catch up with people, course is getting harder, still good things to learn but just a little uncomfortable at times

- We moved house 2 weekends ago, actually I flew in from Melbourne and went straight into moving day… New house is good, but has leaked a lot in this rain, not that the owners would have known cause it pretty much hasn’t ever rained like this…

- Finally got some parts in for the Jeep, starting look a little more vehicle-ish. Bushes and shackles are in and wheels/axles/diffs are back under it. Next on the list is a cross-member to support the gearbox, shocks, and preparing and painting the underside of the body and then putting that back on

- Everything to do with the computer system at work is failing, internet is very intermittent here, we’re finally changing providers, I can’t access our main computer system due to a temporary set up for the internet, we’re due to get a new server cause the old one is old and our Volkswagen systems keep dropping out and I’m forever trying to get them back up

- Family is starting to do well again, we were all sick and unsettled from the move, although Hamish is having midnight snack cravings as he doesn’t eat much during the day

Well that’s about it for now… I should go work… and hope that the internets stays up long enough for me to post this…

All I want is a freebie, Is that too much to ask??

I have a laptop, I broke the screen, it only works when plugged into power (but don’t they all after a while) and I thought I would ask your help.

In today’s throwout, because cost of repair is about the same as cost of replacement, kind of world I was wondering if anyone had, or knew someone who had, an old Dell Inspiron 6000 (although the number possibly could be slightly different and still work) laptop with that may have crapped itself but the monitor is still ok on it that they’re willing to give to me?

I’m not really expecting a yes, naturally I’m hoping for one, but not expecting it.

So go forth and me one! please…

C’mon, you know you want to devote some time to this!!

Coke put this “Happiness Machine” in a college campus in the US. Very Cool.

The current car, which is a ute, that I drive for work is an older car that only has an AM radio, no money wasted on silly options like the FM band.

Anyway so on the masive 8-15min drive to and from work I get to listen to some AM gold and today they played a song!! Doesn’t happen often, and it surprised me, it was Ben Folds Five, which I thought would have only came out on CD so not sure how they were able to play it but good on them!!

This may come as no surprise to you guys who have listened to AM since before it was cool… but I didn’t know a) that they played songs, and b) that they’d play Ben Folds Five

Caleb’s (3 yrs old) favourite song at the moment is The Salmon Dance by The Chemical Brothers, whenever we hop in the car he always asks for the fish song to be put on.

I’m happy with this, much easier to listen to then play school songs or the like.

Him and his little brother really get into it too, pretty funny at times.

The youtubes won’t let me embed it, so here’s a link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyHakCQN0Ss

Peace out.

I haven’t blogged for a bit cause I been away and there’s still part of me that wonders if it’s a good idea to tell the world (or the few people who may see these blogs) that I’m not home and the house is empty…

But anyway…

So yesterday I had a family from our church come in as they are looking at buying a car that will better fit their family and gear in. I spent a couple of hours test driving cars with them, hanging out and chatting, sometimes we spoke about the cars but most the time it was nice to chat about whatever and it be considered work.

I’ve noticed recently how nice it can be just to stand out in the sunshine chatting to people and it be considered doing your job.

Then today I had this other guy come in, never seen him before, he was half interested in a ute we had for sale and asked what his trade in would be worth. I had a chat to guys about it and they decided it was only worth about $1000, which is in the ballpark of what I was expecting.

So I went and told the guy this and he went nuts!! He said he should come inside and rip the guys head off that said it was only worth that. Then told me he’d been offered $7500 for it, which we don’t believe as  it’s clearly not worth that and I nicely said that’s a crazy price, at which he went nuts again saying how crazy this place was etc…

He was very proficient in the use of four letter words too, but this is prime time so i can’t repeat them here…

By the way, this little incident didn’t get me down and make my day worse but in fact kind of made my day as I thought it was the hilarious!! I can’t believe he went nuts and started threatening us just because he thought his car was worth more than it was.

It’s been a pretty good weekend, although busy…

Friday night was our youth groups (The MOB) end of year pool party and they hired out the Water slides at the local pool for an hour which was top fun. Then we had a bit of a feed before a few formalities followed by some time dedicated to perfecting our bombs, before being told not to…

Saturday, was only yesterday but I already forget what I did. I think it started with a bunch of shopping then home for some lunch and a wee nap, a bit over an hour and half I think, before heading off to the Carol’s by Crackerlight put on by our church. It was a good night and we got heaps as publicity from one of the local radio stations as they held a competition to see who would light the fireworks.

Then today was the novelty of church in the morning as our service isn’t on tonight and they had a couple of invitation type services this morning. Tonight we’ll be having a bunch of people over for take away, watching Hamish & Andy and heading up to the church for the Christmas lights display.

This won’t be breaking news to some, but I just don’t get politics… it so hard to keep up with and I don’t know who is charge of what and all the different levels, and distinctions between governments, councils, local members, state, federal blah blah blah…

I’m not sure exactly how it all came about but there’s a new leader of the Liberal party I believe, and that had something to doing with our climate change. A bunch of people voted, although I’m not sure who, and some guy won by 1 vote.

Now, unfortunately I’m not playing dumb… I just don’t retain this stuff too easily and have never been able to…

I can’t remember who used to be the leader of that party, and I can’t even remember now who the new leader is.

Now I hear other things like that because of what happened there may be an election… but what’s the point, they just voted for a new guy, shouldn’t we give him a chance before voting him out.

I also hear the phrase double disillusion, it all a bloody illusion to me, let alone a double one!!

Maybe I’m again showing my stupidity here but up until recently I could never remember if ALP stands for Australian Labour Party or Australian Liberal Party. But then someone pointed out that one of the parties just shortens their name, so now I think is it The Libs or The Labs, and surely it’s not The Labs, therefore ALP must stand for Australian Labour Party.

You should know that I’m also not writing Politics off, I understand how important the whole thing is to running a country, but for the average (or below average) person it just seems to be a little overwhelming…

Chris Waghorn

Political Correspondent

Dubbo

That tries to manage people when in fact you’re not their manager at all…

Gave Caleb his birthday present last night, added in some of the older stuff tonight and got this…