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Nice collection.

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I have a weakness for 12v Jaycar stuff, but have found the Chinese junk creeping in lately.

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Jaycar is probably my favourite place for 12v car stuff. Yeah the quality of a lot of stuff is questionable, but you go in for 1 thing, get that and usually something else. Like when the imobilizer crapped out in my 1st car. I bridged the relays to make the car run so i could atleast go buy a new imobilizer/central locking kit. Walked out also with an auto up kit for the electric windows. That was actually a pretty decent thing. Lock the car with the remote and the windows went up. If you wanted them to stay down, you just locked it with the key instead. Yeah i know more modern cars have seemingly useless features like that, but my 1st car was a 97 model and the ac didnt work. But the window regulators did so it was 4x80 aircon.
The 1 thing my kid pointed out and said dad lets get that... Well, an instant no. It was a $1400 3d printer. His argument was he uses CAD at school. My dad response was cardboard aided design doesnt work with computers.

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After a day and half of effort (yesterday was about 12 hours) the garage and garden shed at my rental are essentially empty. I've left the XR8 and the Sea Doo there so that they're not in the way when the furniture gets delivered to the new place. The new garden shed (3.7m x 2.2m) is chockers, but will do until I can get the new shed built in the new year. Garage is also starting to fill up.

Tomoz is about getting small stuff out of the way of the big stuff which the removalists will move for me on Tuesday, which will be the first night in the new house.

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Re-hung some curtains today. They’d destroyed one of those tacky oversized 1970s style wooden rod-and-rings by virtue of substantial weight and demented folks yanking on them.

I bought light commercial grade track and bracketry last week, it arrived way faster than expected. So today was the hanging. Did my calcs, was gutted when they “looked” too close to the floor despite being within 5mm of target.

Thinking tomorrow I’d have to drill out the spaghetti, chemset the holes, drill new ones 20mm higher and re-hang when I observed the track still visible above the curtain top. Messy. So… A quick check and I realised I could use the bottom band of the pleating tape for hooks instead of the middle, this will pick it up almost 25mm AND hide the tracking. Win-win.

If only I could claim it to be good planning! :doh

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Shot up the shop today. I park in the side street, its easier. So i drove in, turned around and an older bloke in an 80s isuzu npr truck was pulling into the street. When cars are parked on both sides, the street isnt wide enough to have 2 cars pass. So i did what you do, pulled over in the space left for a driveway and waved old mate on. This almost turned into a mexican standoff of waving on. Yeah i won. But i had my window down and old mate pulls up beside me and says to me its rare to find a gentleman on the roads, let alone 2. What a great person to have a random encounter with.

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Funny when that happens on a one lane bridge without give way signs. Good onya.

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Sitting on a wall in the backyard, listening to Peron’s tree frogs as a balmy breeze wafts over me. Just wonderful.

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We had more rain today.


...CB you'd better check the growth on your block, it's rained here twice this week now :lol

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I know, I know.

Do you want to mow it as a Christmas present for me? :lol

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Hah! I've got a lot of lawn here, and mowing it will never make it into this thread :lol

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would you guys buy ride on mowers and start a thread?

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Knowing this forum, it would quickly become a mower measuring contest. :lol It's either that or how much a mower can be modified. :afro

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What made Gaso feel good was mowing someone elses lawn today.

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I found my keys still dangling from the bottom of an open padlock that was just hooked over a part of my trailer. Somehow I made it 100km home at 100km/hr without either the keys coming out of the lock or the padlock falling off the trailer. Someone must have been watching over me today!

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Doing the truck relay shuffle today.
Had a lovely free long country train ride back.
Reach into my pocket to hand over the fare and the condutor says you're right mate, Merry Christmas.

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Id been giving my kid challenges all day today. Most took him a long time. But anyhow. We were going out for dinner with my mum. So i set the, well what i thought would be a difficult challenge. My mum is a health nut. So challenge for my kid was cheesy bacon fries as a table entree. We were just at my local. I treat my kid as a little brother, unless he puts a foot out of line. Worst challange ever. My kid says 'grandma, can we get the cheesy bacon fries as an entree?'. And my mum says yes darling. She likes the chips at my local. So sort of a win as they do go well. But i need to work out better challenges for the boy. He is very competitive, which makes things a bit more fun..

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Good suggestion, something nice to think about at the end of a difficult day. I could definitely go some chips with extra rubbish on top. Melted stringy cheese or even poutine using vegetable gravy.

@leesa - you may not have encountered “captive keying” but it’s pretty handy for situations like yours. Most $30-up padlocks can be configured this way by a locksmith.

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As good as the cheese and bacon chips are. It was a failed challange from me. Normally, my mum orders a salad for the table or something booring. She normally orders herself a meal that i, or most do not find appetizing. Most notably the portobello burger. And thats just a bunch of vego stuff but no buns, just giant mushrooms as buns. I thought it was a sure fire way for the kid to fail. My mum hates anything cooked in oil, with salt, or anything that tastes any good. She is lactose intolerant, as am i, so i thought that would be the massive no. So yes a sly attempt to stich my kid up on the challenge, but i failed. Wasn't expecting the instant approval.
But in the same way i throw down on my kid, he throws down on me.
Funnily enough, today i was on the phone to the kid and he was doing something on his computer. He says to me guess what number he put in? I said 1000. He got excited and asked how do i know him that well? Well, it was a guess, but i was correct. But dad style, i cannot admit to making a guess, so my dad answer was technically he is half of me.

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Being home for Christmas...


Playing with the grandkids on Boxing day, 'm looking forward to that :)

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Twelve days leave!

I never take leave, but I NEEDED it this year.

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Finished re-padding and covering the last two headrests in my project Territory. Interior completion gets closer by the day.

And the lot owner with the leak did a DIY repair with a sharkbite joiner and apparently it’s all fixed.

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I took a punt today. My gas bottle for me bbq has been long empty, and its out of date. Ive been running off the well and truley out of date gas bottle from my brothers rusted out and subsequently disposed of. But the bottle has gas. But as we all know, theres nothing worse then running out of gas mid bbq. The bottle my brother gifted is still ok, has gas. But just incase, i took the punt and got my one filled. By punt i mean it was out of date so there was a chance they would say no.
I dont do the swap and goes. Its cheaper to stand around for 10 minutes or so.
So a decade or so ago, when i lived elsewher, the cheapest place for a 9kg refill would do it for $18. Then they bumped it to $19. In the time since, ive payed the convenience tax from the local. But as it wasnt for convenience, i went to the servo that i wouldnt buy watered down petrol from. But they have elgas tanks. $20 for a 9kg refill. Im sure theres places out there cheaper for bbq juice, but i do know theres places a lot more expensive. Once the one on the bbq runs out and i swap it out, ill try to get that bottle refilled. Dual redundancy.
Cant really complain, no one listens anyways.

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Wouldn’t waste time getting one filled now,go to the swap n go pick up an in date bottle and pay (usually) less than getting your own old time bomb refilled

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Waking up to another different view.
30 acre house sit for 3 weeks, looking after 2 lovely doggies, couple of horses, a mad parrot and the largest TV I have ever seen.

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Truck Models and Disney's Frozen toys for Christmas :)

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I’m fairly sure this is one of the Forum members. Had a chuckle at it this morning.

https://www.gumtree.com.au/s-ad/pake...ing/1259028594

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Lamb chilli and garlic snags, and porterhouse steak..
Picked my brother up, went to the butchers then to my mums for a bbq that she orginised but forgot about. And theres always the preceeding argument about who gets the meat. Mum always buys overpriced and **** steaks, and weird snags, they taste like turd wrapped in burnt hair.
My brothers local butchers are great, and other then meat, the other thing they know how to do is sting you with their prices. But, its the sort of thing where you are salty from the time you pay till the time you eat. It was something in the realm of $50 for 3 porterhouse steaks, 3 rashers of bacon and 6 snags. But man was it worth it. When it comes to bbqing, you dont argue with me, im cooking. So did the snags on the flat plate to leave behind all the lovely snag grease. Then onto the plate goes baby potatoes, diced bacon and minced garlic. That fries in, and absorbs the snag grease to be an excellent side. The steaks are done on the grill to medium or slightly to medium rare. Nothing more then a bit of salt and pepper. No need to do anything major to a quality steak.
And the way i guage a good steak is if i find myself reaching for the seeded mustard. No need for that.

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wagyu steak, cooked on the hibachi, king prawns and all the other healthy ****.
the wagyu is $108 kg, was 8 - 9 MB. Preferred the 6 - 7 MB, the 8 - 9 is hard to eat a lot.

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Just returned home from a few days away, staying with my sister in her new apartment in Melbourne. So nice to see how happy she is to finally have the keys to something she has worked so hard for.

Was great to get away from it all, the first time I have been out of my town in over 14 months.

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I got to have a drive of my XR6, XR8 and Mustang today. A rare occasion when work, weather and logistics get in the way.

The XR8 was feeling extra stout this morning too. :car

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After another stinking hot day working in the sun the sound of that made me feel a bit better about today:good

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…Watching an SUV run an orange light, then turn left from a “right turn only” lane.

In front of a marked police car. :yelrotflm

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Hopefully buying 45 acres in Tassie.

Live in a Caravan for a bit until house built.

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Every day lately ive had my little mate come around and perch's on my deck. Ever since the bushfires, theres been way more native birds. I refuse to feed it or go anywhere near it. I know mother birds disown juniors in such circumstances. But its a good looking junior kookaburra. Its not good for a laugh, but if it sees something it will duck away and come back to chill.
I do like native wildlife. And whilst its probably not the most appropriate place, being in suburbia, i dont mind the kookaburras having a laugh when the sun comes up, and the rosellas and rainbow lorekeets being noisy when the sun goes down.

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I've actually ticked off a few things on my to do list in quick succession. Far more than I did last year.

Though I had to abort pulling apart my laptop to clean out the dust because there was a clip that looked brittle due to me not noticing it and trying to pry it apart and my luck was I rounded the head on the last ****en screw too that caused that problem :doh

But I was happy I managed to put it back together and it still works. I won't attempt again until I get a new computer :lol

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Picked up a guitar for the first time in a couple of years, maybe longer. It was almost still in tune, inside the case! Corrosion has been busy, though. :sadcry

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Dunno if its just my sense of humour or im a bad child. So a while back i got my kid a usb stick, and changed the name on it to paul. So thats not terrible.
Today, i took my kid out to dinner, and knowing he has the memory of an inatimate object, i had bought him another usb stick for the game he wanted. And i named it also. So my mum was there and she is very religious.
But i gave hints. I said its a people name, and if a person called bill's name is william, then whats the proper name of a person called dick?
My kid didnt get it, he may be 11, but i think he is doing pretty well to not do swear words.
My mum gave me the eyes of death. But she got it right. Yep, my kids new usb is called richard. My kid didnt get why i laughed, but my mums initial reaction, it was almost like she was going to get in the car to go up the shop specifically to buy a wooden spoon then break it over my ****.
The next usb i buy my kid im going to call it Stanley. My mum was fine with that. She knew fully well what i meant. As an apprentice, the typical threat from an aussie tradesman was along the lines of would you like a ride in an ambulance? One english bloke, his threat was asking if you want to meet his mate Stanley. He was from the soccor hooligan days. You dont need to be a rocket surgeon to work out what that means.

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I did something worse for a mate’s son, they dropped in briefly as he was en route to their end-of-weekend custody handover with the lad’s mother. Sent him on his way with a little ziplock bag of holographic glitter flakes that you add to custom car paint. Apparently the kid duly opened the bag at his mum’s house and the stuff got spread around nicely.

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Put a deposit down on a Mustang GT :)

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Yesterday 5/1/21 i went out with a mate of mine for lunch whom i have known for 42 years.
As we are talking i notice a few tables from us an old lady maybe 85 years old her Wallet (purse) had fallen out of her handbag was behind her chair on the ground.

My mate said what are you looking at and i told him to turn around and look on the ground. I gave it about ten minutes then walked over to her table and said "hi did you drop this out of your hand bag"?

I handed her the Wallet and she said a "big thank you" and went back to my table.

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Mowed my back lawn today. The front still looks houso; unwashed cars, a scrap metal pile and eight inch grass, but the back is country club smooth.

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Watching the people of the Divided States of America start to fight back against the corrupt system.

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Was out getting take away and a lady and 2 kids in front orders, and for whatever reason she didnt have enough for one of the meals.

They walked out (I was actually waiting for the staff to just give it to her, but where do you draw the line?) and I said I would pay for it, and got my 12 year old to hand it to them.

Who knows the back ground, but I couldnt just stand there.

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And fight they did. And guess what ? That clown still lost....

And he can't deal with it.....

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Yep, Donald will be ducking for cover after today :yelrotflm

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Should be in the sad thread, a woman lost here life because of this craziness.:tdown

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Four people now including the woman, nothing to feel good about at all......

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The postal service. The Mrs dropped her phone on Sunday while on holidays and killed the screen (not cracked but nonetheless equally dead). So upon returning I ordered a replacement from Melbourne at 6:30 Tuesday evening. Knowing the usual, glacial pace of post hereabouts, I figured it would be a Monday next week job. However, at 9:42 this morning a van rolled into the driveway and within due course she was glued to it once more and I could abscond, unnoticed to yonder shed.. :lol