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Well I fitted it today,leave tomorrow for the Pilbara and some nice warm weather.

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Had a new bloke start at work today. So the service side of things you have to be pretty switched on. The past few blokes to come and go from my service team were absolute potatoes. The new bloke from first impressions talks the talk and comes across as really knowing his stuff. Obviously we chatted to both find out what we are about, but this bloke is a good dude and has the appropriate sense of humour for the stupid stuff the apprentice and i joke about. I had to laugh when he asked if its a decent mob to work for. I said yeah, not bad, ive been there for almost 14 years. He made a double take and asked how old am i? He didnt initially beleive im 33. But most people dont, im a baby face. And i also had to laugh, work arent going to buy the new guy a new car off the bat, the old express van they put him in was mine many moons ago, and its a bit temprimental. Work do plan on getting rid of that van. But twice it wouldnt start. I had to teach the few tricks to make the starter motor enguage. And since the last major accident the van was in (long after id upgraded to utes) the passengers window wont roll down without the glass falling off the mechanism. It really is a baptism of fire with that van in a new job.

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id quit on the first day if i was handed one of those vans, in fact hand me any van and i leave

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I’d call it Claude-Jean.

“This is my damn van Claude-Jean.”

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Vans are awesome to work out of, but yes, the only safety feature of an L300 is the driver. But the new bloke took the job on the premise that the van is a temporary thing. His previous job he had to supply his own vehicle. That alone would be a deal breaker for myself. But, he was suitably impressed with the setup work has me in. Yeah the service body is smaller then the cavorn in a van, but its a good setup for what we do. So fuel card, servicing, all the car expences paid, private use. Its not a bad deal.

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Following the drama in the Victorian State Government.

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Picked my kid up from school and went for a feed at the bowlo for the first time since things all got shut down. Yeah prices for food are up $2 to $3, but now its table service, and beers are cheaper. So its a win

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After 2 days of driving from Perth, 10 hours alone just today, finally arrived in Tom Price. Will check out Karajini Park tomorrow.

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Cleaning the sink bowls with chlorine bleach solution.

They come up so nicely. It’s my activity to mentally, symbolically purge a lot of annoying everyday stuff.

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Never heard of the place.

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I made these at work today. They came up better than I had envisaged.

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Google it, and if you come to WA check it out, pretty speccy.
So were the 2 lovely French female backpackers in their bathers having a swim.

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I did and am surprised to see such a place exists in the middle of nowhere.

Are you sure they were French and not from one of their former colonies?

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I took my express on the freeway the other day, it was maxed out at 100kph with the doors flapping in their jambs like dumbo ears, I thought I was going to die.

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At any freeway speeds when i had an L300 the mirrors would start to fold in. But since i had the van, i moved into a ranger, and since december ive been in a new triton with a sweet service body on the back. Not as much space in the back as a van, but the finer things in life are nice. A crumple zone, abs brakes, airbags, dsc, just the anti death things you dont get in a tin can.

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2 things today. 1st is basic. But the cafe that does baked beans on toast has re opened, and they havent forgotten how i like it. And getting fire wood on my way home and starting the fire pit. Im out of tree trimmings, so i have to now cave and buy fire wood. But $12 for 15kgs, yeah i could probably find cheaper, but iga is down the street, so i dont mind. And ive worked out the way to make the small pit retain more heat and burn the bigger slow burn stuff off and output more heat. My mates didnt beleive me untill i proved a bbq plate on top does the trick.

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”Only” $800 per tonne,I whinge at $75metre which is probably $120 tonne

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I pay for the convenience. Plus when i had my pile of trees, out of courtesy to my neighbors, id have to get home from work then straight on the chainsaw at a reasonable hour to cut things up. After work i like to vegitate for a while before i have to actually do anything. Although i will say, after so much use its had, my cheap chainsaw now cold starts 2nd pull. And ive found a chain i like.

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I was over the phone tech support for my mum. She had the nbn installed and all her claims was it doesnt work. She doesnt live local to me. Anyhow, 29 days no interweb. She also couldnt connect to her printer. So i asked is her wireless router plugged in? She said the installer said she didnt need it. Thats correct, however she wasnt told to connect her devices to the new wireless modem. To make my life easier i just said plug the black wireless router into the new modem. Yep, all her stuff connected and now has interwebs. So there was a gross lack of communication between the nbn people and my non technical old person mother. But hey, she understood my explination. Now i just have to make the time to re jiggle the phone line stuff to make her land line phones work at the phone points in her place. Thats not rocket surgury. But seemingly too hard for installers.

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Just bought a new 2020 January build Ford Fiesta ST, Compliance March 2020 :dance

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Good one!

What colour?

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Home made blintzes, filled with sugar-whisked soft cheese.

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I resigned at the end of 2019.

Got paid my LSL but I felt it was short.

Asked for them to review their figures - totally ignored.

Forgot about it - thought it was only a few hundred dollars due to a mismatch of a few months for when they thought I started and when I actually started.

Work called me back to do a few extra days.

Tried to screw me with that pay as well - pretended I didn't get my time sheets in by the cut off etc.

Got the union involved - mentioned the LSL issue as an aside.

They asked me to send them through the details.

The union said the difference was in the thousands in my favour not hundreds.

Asked the job for a 'please explain', ignored again.

Union stepped in, asked for a 'please explain' by XX date or they will start legal proceedings.

Got an email from the ex work today - $5100 coming my way by the end of the FY.

Yep - you bet that made me feel good today :)

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White. Never had a white car before but I think it will look good with dark window tint and the rear diffuser with black surrounds pops against the white paint.

Also the red ST badge in red looks great against white. Will take some pics but I need to find a day to train down to Wollongong to pick up. Only white Fiesta ST in NSW presently available....

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I’ve got to get a car from Greta to Sydney this week... We definitely need a logistics subforum.

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CB, XPT to Maitland, Rover coaches to Greta or are you a Public transport snob.
or is that Greta near Wang ?

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Not a snob, it may yet go that way. Would prefer not to trailer as this complicates the job, adds costs greater than the CountryLink fare.

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Complicates the job, especially if you have to tow over Harpers Hill. Not so bad from West to East, that's a big hill the other way.

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It took a while but think he has it figured out now! :lol

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He’s got you worked out. :lol

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He was very contented, took a fair bit to wake him up. :lol

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Congrats asagaai on your new car. https://www.fordforums.com.au/images/icons/icon14.gif

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Thanks.

I was going to just buy a second hand $10,000 fuel efficient car for travelling to Sydney, and to save points and my licence. Thought about a Corolla Hybrid for fuel but the CVT transmission and gutless power and the lack of character-just could not be that sensible.

Not sure it is wise but could not resist buying a tiny car that has a top speed of some 234 kmph and goes round tight corners on 3 wheels, built in Cologne Germany, designed by Ford in Belgium.

My wife just shakes her head at me and says at my stage of life I should get a "nice" car:hammer

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Yeah, that's the trouble, those cars usually do lack power for open road overtaking, and are dead boring to go with it.

I've read that the Ford Fiesta ST is a very good package, they go like the clappers and have great roadholding too. Fuel economy would have to be pretty good, at steady cruising speed on the open road.

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Wheres the fun in that!!

If you are going to be stuck in a car that much, might as well be in something that makes it somewhat enjoyable!

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Went to pie face towards the end of my work day, i was hungry. Yeah theyre consistant, maybe not the greatest, but you know what you're paying for. Seen something new. So i got the lamb sausage roll. I will say, it was pretty decent. So a nice arvo surprise.

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$5300, the original couple hundred I thought was missing was also found to be oweing to me after all.

And no sense of remorse or apology from my old job.

Oh well, nice end of FY bonus I wasn't expecting.



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I dont have much time for unions generally but I am glad they came through for you!

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I was the same. I work as a chalkie and for the first 10 years teaching primary I was advised to join 'because I'm a male'.

Got to high school, saw how evil and vindictive entitled young adults can become if you rub them the wrong way and joined right away.

Fast forward another 8 years and a few false allegations that got sorted quick smart once the union got involved as well as a dodgy prior partial redudancy as well as this 'accident' the monthly fees were money well spent.

Plus the fees are tax deductible. I'm all for fighting your own battles but I would have been out of pocket tens of thousands as well as out of a job without them.

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off topic but many years ago had an industrial accident, got offered a payout, thought stuff that I deserve more, then looked at lawyer fee..... dang.
Id gone back to the same place, (I actually enjoyed working there) and union rep walks in, he & I continued our verbal diarrhoea at each other. Suddenly light went on...
'you have a lawyer in our outfit?'
' course we do.
;whats he charge?'
nothing, if your a member'
'faaark whats membership? sign me up.' cost $90.

2 weeks later, we went to court, won an extra $30K and 2 hours after that I resigned from union and got $75. back. call that a win. still hate unions

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Poor old guy on a bicycle got hit by a car at about lunch today out the front of our place. Always seems to be an accident due to people not knowing road rules like giving way etc. Driver turned right and side swiped him.

He was very shaken but apparently kept asking about his bike, Ambos asked if I could look after it and I was happy to. Pulled it into the shed and had a look over it. He obviously loved it, but there were a few bits that had seen better days.

So I spent my study day repairing his bike. Panel beating skills came to the fore that I didn't even know I had. Straightened it all out for the old guy and gave it a hand polish to boot. Looks really nice and it has that old time period look that it would have had before the accident. The only thing I couldn't repair was the hand sewn leather handle bar covers that match the seat leather.

Now just have to hope the old guy can come pick it up soon.

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if police were involved, have a little chat to them or else ambos they would know what hospital, deliver it to him.

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Very insular I know, but having my sale funds transferred from my house into savings made me feel good.

Sure I'm nowhere near where I expected be (39, divorced, daughter I (bizarrely) can't see etc) but I'll focus on the positives to use in future.

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Funnily enough, an ambulance was at the scene faster than I was! All I had to do was go from the back of the shed to the front gate. Apparently the ambulance was on its way to something else and was literally seconds away from this accident.

I sent the guy/ambulance with my business card and called the hospital he was sent to and gave my address etc. If I don't hear something tomorrow I'll do some more chasing.

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After lying underneath the new place I'm building for the last 2 days, finally got the new diesel heater up and running. Works a treat.
Something that is so easy in a normal RV installation was a nightmare to do for a cabin.

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Received an email from my Ex this arvo. (has to under Court orders)

Apparently my Daughter going really well at school and enjoying sport.

Better than nothing I guess and whilst upsetting, it's good to hear at the same time.

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My morning coffee, with my newly arrived matching red grinds bin.

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The day went downhill from there :doh :frazzled

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Late last night I rescued a semi-immobilised flying fox. Lying in the gutter, with a massive powerful owl waiting on a fence nearby to shred it for supper.

Called WIRES, first place they referred me to (a - cough, cough - small animal specialist hospital) cheerfully told me they’d kill it for free, but couldn’t keep it in for supervision overnight and volunteer collection in the morning. Err... I thought that answer wasn’t exactly what the charter of WIRES was about.

Another phone call, got the rescue up on their open jobs list, finder willing to deliver. 15 minutes later, a call to me. Wildlife carer innoculated against Lyssavirus, close by, could I drop the little tacker off please.

Job done, they felt its injuries were quite survivable and should be released without too much mucking about.

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Since the refurb of one tenancy i work in, there were 3 pendant lights that werent level, every time id walk past they'd stick out to me like a dogs dick. Now i didnt install them and my client didnt understand why it annoyed me so much. Took them down last week to be painted and put them up today. Now theyre all even hight and level. Much better. All it took was about 3 minutes of minor adjustments and stepping back to eye them up. Its not hard doing decorative work right.

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Just finished reading Flea's book, Acid for the Children - really enjoyed that one.
Hope to see him continue writing his life story