Tuesday, June 26, 2007
goldddddberg
the goldberg family photo has been updated. right on time too. i was beginning to wonder how that clan was going.i really like nics jumper. im quite the fan. (but sebastian will always be my favourite.)
susys haircut really suits her face. v.modern. she was quite a babe back in the day, she's most def brought sexyback post-retirement.
Thursday, June 21, 2007
le chat noir strikes back
as i can finally see my last exam in the not too distant future (tomorrow) i have decided it's well and truely time that i do my usual mid-exam blog post. in previous exam periods there have been close to an average of 32982398 posts. i'm unsure of whats different this time. maybe too many distractions. maybe i'm just getting lazier by the day. the latter wouldn't surprise me actually: this morning i woke up at 9.30am and didn't move until 45 minutes later. i just sat there, in bed that entire time - too lazy to get up (or too cold) and too lazy to go back to sleep (or too cold.)it snowed in queensland the other day.
i dont get it. melbourne (and tasmania... but i cant speak for them... cos i dont know how much snow they get) is disgustingly close to antarctica, especially when compared to queensland, yet it hasn't snowed in melbourne in my lifetime. that is so unfair.
i was talking to aaron s last night who was appauled that i'd never been to the snow.
although, now thinking of it... i have seen snow, because my canberra host family took me up to see the snow on that montain thing that looms of canberra.
i cant wait for birri. me and the gheys, plus james and others who i have forgotten, are going down to pollys farm next week for some chill out time. it should be good fun. it's only for 2 nights, but it will still be nice. i'm thinking of going down to lorne-ish area after that and meeting up with jon + maybe others to attempt to scale this hill/wall in our vee-hee-cals. it's a competition to see who can do it with the most style. i will win. i said the winner wins a 1kg bag of m&ms... but i might change the prize to something less detrimental on the size of my gut.
i'd also just like to say that tomorrows exam is very silly. it is on the following programming language thingys:
- CSS
- JavaScript
- JScript
- XHTML
- DHTML
- XML
- ASP
- ASP.net
- SQL
- DBI
- ADO
hopefully i'll be sweet on most of them. i think i'm most worried about DHTML, on account of i'm not entirely sure of its exact purpose.
ok, here we are, from w3schools:
DHTML is the art of making HTML pages dynamic! DHTML is a combination of technologies used to create dynamic and interactive Web sites. To most people DHTML means a combination of HTML, Style Sheets and JavaScript.
thats lame.
ok, it's 11am now. i might go and get my book and do some study. or maybe i'll have a nice warm shower.
Labels: driving, exams, random, uni, weather
Friday, June 08, 2007
my week driving a manual.
on tuesday, jon picked me up after lunch (in his new car) and we drove out past richmond, out past alphington, past coburg, kingsbury, preston and lalor until we got to epping.for those that are wondering, epping is FAR FAR AWAY.
once there, we found 696 high street, which a website told me was the address of CustomLine motors. it clearly wasn't. the young men there kindly pointed me in the direction of customline motors and greased jon off lots. once at customline motors we checked out my car who had been admitted to hospital and was all fixed and ready to be discharged (after the $3200 doctors fee had been paid)
YEY! car was back.
on the drive home, i noticed that the car had a lovely grunt about it which made me feel proud to be a jeep owner. however, i also noticed it was idling a little too low. (around 500rpms.) not such a problem, as i thought it was just because the sensors were a little wet and it was a new motor, and there was a bit of water in the fuel tank still.
once i got home (after getting severely lost) i noticed i couldn't get the key out of the ignition. (i also noticed this at the petrol station, but it came out after a few attempts then)
as it turns out my gear shifty thingy isn't in the right spot. (it never was, but now its more not in the right spot) so it wasnt going into park properly. no biggie.
then later that night i needed to put the car inside the gates... i drove up the road so i could do a 3 point turn... and on moving from reverse to drive on the 2nd point, the car stalled.
how embarassing.
it also happened to be right outside my hardcore 4wd/dirt bike neighbours, who just weeks earlier had told me how they think wranglers are the most capable 4WDs on the market.
so, the stalling of an automatic car was a bit odd. but i didn't think too much of it, as it was still recovering after a motor transplant and all.
then the next day i had to do a few odd jobs around the place. i stalled 8 times driving to church street. now, this is just a 4 minute drive (make it 8, because finding parks in church is hell hard) the concern-o-meter was rising.
on my trip to westinghouse, i stalled another 3 or 4 times. one almost killed me.
so i decided i'd drive him like a manual. so since wednesday i've been so pedantic, but i've learnt to control the car so well. keeping the revs up, especially when changing from drive, to 1 or 2 or reverse.
so, i figured driving around in this manor probably wasn't so safe, so I downloaded a workshop manual for the wrangler and read it through... kinda. it didn't really tell me anything, except on how to change the globes, which i needed to do cos i got some rad narva plus 50's the other day.
the rest of the manual was far too confusing. bloody americans.
so today after my economics exam (fail btw.) jon picked me up and we went back to his to pick my car up (i left it there before my exam) took it for a spin back to my house to pick up the manual and globes, then went back to his for some fun times with nuts and bolts and tiny tiny tiny screws.
i fitted the new globes (which are so awesome) and we also emptied the lamps, which happened to be full of water and broken glass.
then i showed jon what i thought had to be fixed in order to fix my stalling problem. he disagreed and told me theres another way. but it's my car... so we did it my way. anyway, we knew what had to be fixed, but we didn't know how. so we undid all the surrounding bolts and sussed out the thingy that had to be fixed. once worked out, we did all the bolts back up and hey presto. car was fixed. i'm a freakin mechanical genius.
the end.
oh ps. when we took it for a test spin, we went down to caulfield park where there was this RAD pile of tanbark. so we put it in 4L and drove up it. it was so steep that we might have accidentally bent the exhaust, and the stuff that was floating around in the back of the tray hit the back windscreen.