The Chronicles Of…

Well my holiday is coming to an end pretty soon, which means I was meant to have done a whole list of activities to start the year in a good way. Let’s see how I’ve done:

1. Get my car serviced / airconditioning fixed.
Took my car to the airconditioning guy this morning, who told me it would cost almost $700 to get it working again. I haven’t even come close to getting the car serviced.

2. Find out what happened with a guitar I tried to sell in 2008.
Went into the shop who were selling it for me, and they don’t have any record of it. They’re going to call me at some stage, so who knows. I know the guy who owns the business though, and he’s honest, just forgetful, so I should hear something eventually.

3. Teach Vanessa how to drive.
Not. One. Lesson. But it looks as though we may get access to a small automatic car soon, which belonged to her Nan. We’ll see.

4. Exercise every day.
Been for a few runs, done a few pushups. Nothing too spectacular. Been swimming once or twice, which was nice.

5. Read for fun.
Read a few books, which is good. Finally, I’ve achieved one of my goals…

6. Catch up on sleep.
Yep, at least I’ve done plenty of that.

7. See friends and be relaxed.
Ditto. (This is getting good, just ignore the first few).

8. Fix my computer.
Nope. Ok, I’m slowing down again.

9. Write some songs.
No, but I did play some guitar which sort of, kind of counts?

OK, that was my version of New Year’s Resolutions. How did you lot go?

I don’t normally whinge about Facebook, I figure so what they a few changes, it’s not important enough to care too much about.

But at the moment I have to admit that it confuses me a little…

I had it set so I just saw status updates on my home page, but then realised that I was missing out on being told when friends put up photos, which sometimes I like to look at.

So I changed it back News Feed, there’s also that live feed too which I occasionally look at but I’m not sure what that is.

Now that I’ve gone to News Feed I find that statuses will pop up more that once and in front of newer ones. And if you flick between News Feed and statuses I see that not all the statuses show up in the News Feed…

What happened to the old showing all the status updates and photos and that together and me having to be able to flick over to just status updates if I want, or in the normal view just clicking to hide some of the stupid application updates forever.

Am I making sense?!

Today I went to the Apple Shop in the city to try to get my iPhone fixed. The home button has been playing up, so that I often have to reboot the phone in order to get back to the home screen (which is very frustrating).

I turned up at the shop assuming that they’d whinge about me not having the right paperwork, or try to fob me off onto Optus or something. I had my ‘cheerfully stubborn’ attitude ready to go, but didn’t need it at all! I was greeted by an iGeek who told me that there were no appointments available at the GeniusBar until next week, but that I was welcome to wait around on the off chance that someone didn’t turn up to their appointment. I was told that I was third in line (a bit like Prince Harry?), and that it may take a few hours.

I went upstairs and sat on a bench with my book, thinking that I’d wait 20 minutes or so, and then admit defeat by making an appointment, and coming back into the city next week. About 15 minutes later my phone was being serviced, and 45 minutes after that I had a brand new display fitted, and the button was working pefectly.

Yay Apple!

I’m working tomorrow, Saturday, not really looking forward to it mainly because I would just rather be doing something else…

But you know what I love about working on a Saturday morning?! Smoko!!

I don’t normally buy my lunch, actually it’s fairly rare that I do, but when I work on a Saturday and the guys says “smoko time! What do you want?” I’m there.

I mostly get a steak sandwhich with pineapple and cheese, which I was introduced to by the boss, and it’s good.

It might be that I’m really hungry now, but I’m already looking forward to it and thinking what I might have…

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.

I found this website last night: punk christmas.com, and downloaded a whole bunch of the mp3’s for free!

I’m loving punk Christmas carols!

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.

Apparently this cost $300 to make and the dude has been offered $30M from Hollywood to do what he wants! I can’t imagine that the $300 included software or editing/shooting time, but still very impressive!