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i was gunna have tomorrow off to prep for brass monkey but it got canned.

i coulda spent the weekend sorting out my shiat but instead i spent it writing business cases for the same guy who is now forcing my attendance tomorrow

so some fiddly stuff is just not gunna get done….. which will no doubt come back to bite me on the weekend

i don’t care if the world is on fire - im not working on friday

it’s currently raining in woodenbong with more forecast before the weekend - should be nice and sloppy…. gunna be MAD FUN!

angry’s looking sketchy as he has some crazy indian food poisoning….. he was always gunna struggle with trying to get his engine back in on thursday but in between spewing every few hours i’ll be surprised if he makes it at all

had a few scratchings…. which i expected - what i didnt expect was some of the usual crew to drop out. no munga, no foodie, possibly no angry. still ended up with a total of 38 people so it’ll be a big weekend regardless.

some amusing photo’s coming outta the bm3 mailing list today - for some crap reason they only load in small size, and i can’t move them around properly…. wordpress sucks - i shoulda left my blog on blogspot…. *sigh*

saturday night was wallabies vs springboks @ suncorp…. scored a box with the whole sitdown dinner beforehand - normally i loathe the sitdown dinner as i get stuck next to some clown who feels the need to tell me about every time they\’ve flown with my current employer…. yay - never heard those stories before. sat nite worked well as i sandwiched myself between co-workers.

we belted the absolute snot outta the dirty cheating boks

my plans of not drinking much and driving home were shot by half time - got caught up in the moment….. ended up at the paddo till around 3am. vaguely remember sending text messages to ppl in the early hours.

caught up with cres, mantix and carlos the jackal this evening - been ages….. was good to shoot the proverbial and catchup on whats going

vendor drinks again tomorrow nite - the harder i try and avoid beer the more it seeks me out

currently running the numbers on renting out the casa de ipswich and moving into cathedral place - it\’s over the road from work and with what im paying for fuel and parking, etc i\’ll pretty much break even - and get another 1.5+ hours a day back (most importantly an extra 45+ minutes of sleeping time)

only problem is my collection of cars and associated crap - renting garage space is stupidly over priced considering you can buy an industrial unit with space for 4 cars @ brendale for around 130k….. so many decisions, so little money :/

i had pics for awhile…. then i upgraded to php5 - pics go bye bye…. *sigh*

why did i go to php5 you ask? a damn good question - i had ideas of using a wiki for bm3 stuff (and of course it needed php5)….. turns out wiki’s suck

we have html, xml, 400 other semi standard bloody languages and yet these wiki clowns decided they needed their own markup language…. WHY!??!?!?! another classic example of open sauce shooting itself in the ass

so the wiki is nuked - and at some point i’ll go back to php4

easy like saturday morning

comments are still weird - no auth required and no popup, still trying to find the options in wordpress

 and the thing that’s driving me NUTS is that stupid link on the right hand side “Pages”… i can’t find where to remove the damn thing

havent even got to trying to get my pics back yet 

right now it’s time for 4wdtv

so i migrated my blog over here - it broke a lot of stuff which im in the process of fixing….

stupid dreamhost control panel - i couldnt get it to default www to this blog url…. which is why the technically adept amongst you would have noticed an ugly auto redirect when you hit the root domain…. it works and i don’t care - so don’t bother commenting on it

lost my pics along the way - which dibbzeh assures me are still there, just need to edit each post and fix the html

ive setup a gallery here and cos i have truckloads of space i can go nuts with pic hosting - stay tuned.

working on the mail dist list stuff so i can have a brass monkey spam list

more news as it happens

so i gave eyepee a hand yesterday rebuilding his front end….. kingpins, wheel bearings, cv’s - 600 bucks worth of parts…. basically everything except the diff

i discovered why everyone raves about this whole martack concept - getting the cv back together while trying to compress the inner circlip sucked in a big way…. which leads to my story

we tried hose clamps, we tried belting it, eventually we got it done using a cable tie - this then left us with the problem of having a super tight cable tie around the axle that needed to be removed….. eyepee told me to grab his leatherman and cut the cable tie while he held the axle - he mentioned “it’s pretty sharp”…. what he should have said is “DANGER! it’s a freakin katana that’ll slice you open if you just look at it wrong”

you can guess what happened next

i ended up with a mad slice in my left thumb and a slightly less mad slice in my left pointy finger….. if my mum was there she woulda made me get stitches in my thumb - it was nearly half a cm deep. when i was a kid if i cut myself with anything it was off to the doc for stitches - now that im older and dumber i don’t see the point - plus, what kind of a weenie would i have looked bailing with parts everywhere to go get some stitches?

when i got home several hours later i had the joyous task of cleaning out the diff oil and random grease with dettol - you don’t seem to be able to buy those butterfly clip things anymore so i had to use a combination of gauze and electrical tape (cos band aids wouldnt stick)

as of this afternoon i can bend my thumb (carefully) without splitting it open again…. and it didnt seem to hit any tendons or anything so i should be fully recovered in time for brass monkey.

i spent today watching movies trying not to move my thumb while eyepee still had to do the other side of his front axle - i think i had the better day

in other news… we have 40+ ppl signed up for brass monkey this year - logistics are going to be a challenge but with so many ppl it’s set to be a HUGE weekend

i’ve had some disagreements with the security staff of the GPO before…. but i’ve never been ejected - until last nite.

yesterday was the annual ITfest - which is really just an excuse for the whole dept to indulge in some excessive drinking and forget about work for awhile…. was a good day with everyone well over .05 by mid afternoon.

long story short, we ended up at the gpo - i hate the gpo because it’s filled with pretentious yuppie wankers, but that’s probably why the skanks at work love it so much (and fight as much as you want you can’t beat the influencing power of skanks)

anyway - one of the lads had a bit of a run-in with this particular bouncer fairly early in the evening…. the conversation was going pear shaped so i jumped in and promised to look after him and delicately dragged him back inside - no problems, everyone’s having a good time and life is good.

as the night wore on the 8+ hours of heavy drinking started to take it’s toll…. grahame decided to have a bit of a snooze on the table - this was interpreted by this same bouncer as a sign that he was wasted and needed to go home…. probably a fair call. but during the eviction process there seemed to be a communication breakdown - i intervened just as it got to the “DON’T #@$@!ING TOUCH ME MAN!” stage…… for people that are supposedly trained in this stuff, bouncers really suck at communicating with pissed people.

so anyway - i dragged grahame onto the footpath and calmed him down….. i then went to go inside and round up a few people to go somewhere else (where grahame promised to stay awake)…… at this point the same dumbass bouncer decided i was not allowed back in!!!!! i saved him from what was going to be an ugly altercation and now im banished too?!?!?!?

i tried pointing out the obvious stupidity of the situation to no avail - i then said that i didn’t feel i’d been given a fair hearing and i’d like to speak to the guys boss for an independent review of my case…. for some reason this seemed to set off some roid rage and *i* ended up having one of those “DON’T $#@$@!ING TOUCH ME MAN!” conversations. my parting shot was “IVE BEEN THROWN OUT OF CLASSIER PLACES THAN THIS!”

so we wandered off to the elephant and had a few more beers there (where funnily enough none of us had any problems with the security staff) - i put grahame in a cab and caught up with a few people in the valley for some late night pizza.

gpo bouncers - YOU SUCK
gpo in general - YOU SUCK
influencing skanks who force me to spend time at the gpo - YOU SUCK