What made you feel good today?

[MITCHAY]

I finally got around cleaning my house after a couple of months of holidays and work.

It's looking really good right now

[MITCHAY]

I smashed a few tins of VB today. In the spirit of easter. Have a good one!

[marty351]

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[.:4:.]

So this morning was attempt 1 of the intended use of the ute i bought my brother. And it was successful. Motorcycle in the back, strapped down. So its one of the smaller bikes my brother has, but the yamaha rd250lc fits easy, plenty of clearance. And the bonus was the previous owner left ratchet straps under the drivers seat. You cannot have too many ratchet straps. We also found the previous owners credit card. But, doing the right thing, he has been contacted to say if you havent already, cancel it.

[MITCHAY]

Just good to chill out, relax and have a few more tins. Frankie say relax

[marty351]

Originally Posted by marty351

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Wat?!

[Citroënbender]

Fixed my neighbour’s smoke alarm.

Some tight-fisted person had given her a smoke alarm but not installed or arranged installation.

So she left it face up on a kitchen shelf, out of the packet. After a while it had collected sufficient dust to false trigger regularly, it was then presented as a “Could I please help?” scenario this weekend.

I opened the case carefully and blew it out with generous amounts of dry compressed air, focusing on the photoelectric sensor labrynth. Since reassembly it’s now worked exactly as designed for ten hours; just the periodic confirmation LED flash. I’ll mount it legally tomorrow and call it a job done.

[.:4:.]

I got a call today from my old manager. He is a personal mate of mine. But it was initially a business call. I do not with hold information as i have no aspirations, inspirations, exacerbations or any other big words to want to go back to working there. But, for a 2 day old question that 6 people were too spastic to work out, i answered it straight up, and i dont even work there. So the call back was the social call. My old manager, he is a good mate. So the inadvertent compliment was the place has gone to **** as no one wants to make decisions. I used to butt heads with middle management, hence why my manager/mate liked me. I do not like to be told how to do what i know how to do. I am the captain of my own ship. A good tradesman is just that. You have to make the decisions at times.
But, it was good to catch up with a mate.

[Citroënbender]

Every week I fill the rubbish bin from the abandoned site next door, with a mixture of rubble and weeds. Bin weight limit is 70kg.

This week, it made the most satisfying “thump/crash” as a bucket of dried slurry and 25kg of ceramic tile offcuts hit the insides of the bin truck. Sort of like a good solid car crash but without casualties.

[Citroënbender]

Clean bill of health from the GP, told to watch my cholesterol before it became a problem and keep exercising. Due back in 12 months. Relieved, not unhappy about the money spent on a bunch of pathology stuff.

[five 7]

Originally Posted by Citroënbender

Clean bill of health from the GP, told to watch my cholesterol before it became a problem and keep exercising. Due back in 12 months. Relieved, not unhappy about the money spent on a bunch of pathology stuff.

You guys pay for pathology?. Glad its good news CB.

[Citroënbender]

Unless you have a strong family history of various conditions, tests for those issues (like an ECG) are charged extra. Basic pathology is covered under Medicare.

[BENT_8]

Panadol..copious amounts of Panadol.

[mondeomatureguy]

Hi Guy's
A few week's ago my wife went to visit a girlfriend of hers in Sydney and i was at home by myself so i decided to go for a drive to Bathurst.
I travel along the Taralga Road thru Taralga till i get to Oberon then stop get a feed and then go to bathurst.

There's a little place you travel thru to get to Oberon and its called Black Springs which is 24ks from Oberon.
As i was driving thru Black Springs i saw a man and a women on the side of the road looking around.
I stopped my car and asked "are you ok"? they told me they stopped for lunch and there Dog named Oscar who was a Cattle Dog went walk about and cant find him", his got a tag on his collar with there mobile number on it and he won't bite.

I told them " i will keep a look out for him" and got on my way again.
I am not sure how far away i was when i saw him walking on the side of the road but going the wrong way id say about 5ks.

I got him in the car phoned the mobile number on the tag and turned around and took him back.
They wouldn't let me leave until i took some money for petrol and gave me $30.00 dollars.

[MITCHAY]

I went into a meeting today expecting a **** storm but left pleasantly surprised that it was nothing.

I had been doing training a lot of this week but then I finally had someone come to me with a real problem to debug due to our support packs which are either a nightmare or tame.

I haven't had to debug SAP payroll functions for a long time and to say it can be a head **** is an understatement but was able to work it out within the hour which carried me through to knock off time

[.:4:.]

Dunno why im nice to my brother. But i bought him plates for his car. He chose the plates,I bought the car, and the plates. But, he was adiment about 1 thing. So, old school white on black, just like my car. My plates are my grandpas. Well, got it done, white on black with the alphabetical and numerical combination correct. Its for an au falcon ute, its future name is the boomobile.

[Citroënbender]

How good is Sydney’s weather today? It’s sunny, dry, a stiff breeze, not too warm. Basically, Launceston weather.

I reckon 18-footers would be making good progress on the harbour.

[Citroënbender]

And it definitely was a great dry, sunny day to be doing stuff. Laundry, tick. Ceiling patch undercoated, tick. Car washed - 3/4 tick.

Commiserations to all who were stuck indoors, in Sydney today.

Replaced this pesky item that should be changed every 60000Km's but hasn't been


I now have 0 blow by and have almost made my Provent catch can redundant

[marty351]

Almost looks like a toy of some kind.

Explanation pls.

PCV Connector, turns out every 30000km's is the actual service life of this part

Once you delete the EGR and stop the oil entering the induction process you no longer have to worry about swirl flaps and intake manifolds being removed every 60K to eliminate white smoke issues and engine lights.

Mercedes charge a fortune to do basic upkeep on these things and they are actually easier to work on than a B series

Sorted the garden shed out after procrastinating for a few years , sealed it up and put floor boards down .

This made the wife feel good today

[Tonz]

if thats vinyl floor panel, I'll give you 12 months then it will start going every which way including loose.

[mad2]

Originally Posted by Tonz

if thats vinyl floor panel, I'll give you 12 months then it will start going every which way including loose.

there's a pic there????

Don't see how it's glued down....

[Tonz]

I would be deleting the photo with Australia Post boxes....unless you work for them, then I guess your bring mail home for 'safe keeping "

[Citroënbender]

Around here it’s the equivalent of milk crates; de facto common property.

[jaydee]

Put the flannelette sheets on last night, kept warm and slept for 8 hours.
Getting down to 10 at night in Perth now, I hate the cold.

Originally Posted by Tonz

I would be deleting the photo with Australia Post boxes....unless you work for them, then I guess your bring mail home for 'safe keeping "

Australia Post deliver to me every week, their Contractors don't seem to have an issue and one of them is even a member on here !

And i post plenty of pic's around the internet from inside my garage where most of the boxes are stored and no one has tried to arrest me yet !!

I have even tried to give them away to postal contractors, i have over 2 x Dozen from when i worked at Newscorp but thank you for your fake concern


Not sure about your 'Safe keeping remark" ?

Not really sure what you are implying...

Living a great life without a care in the world


Looking forward to the cruise on Sunday...