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October 8th, 2005

04:42 pm - I want a Philips Pronto....Pronto!! I thought it about time I reprogrammed my Onkyo Recievers "Learning" Remote Control (RC-480M) to include all the new stuff we have and replace the old stuff that was in it. It is a fantastic remote, but it appears to have run out of memory now and I haven't finished! It is meant to have 6 x 53 memories for full control of 6 different devices (well 5 including the actual Reciever). I put in the DVD Player, TV and Digital Set Top Box, XBOX, Optus Cable TV and can only put in about 8 of the VCR/DVD Recorder before it spits the dummy. Now this shouldn't happen as I fully cleared the unit and each of the 6 device modes. It says in the book that if one of the memories is full, use a different device mode, so they should be fully independent of each other with 53 memories in each mode. It appears to not really be the case. I have looked and looked and can't find any useful info about it. I wiped the unit and tried again, same thing. I suspect that one of the memory chips maybe stuffed inside the unit. I tried to pull it to bits, but gave up after 5 minutes as I couldn't get it open and didn't want to break anything. So now I think I need a new Universal Remote....of course I want the best (or almost the best!) so the Philips Pronto is the only real choice. It is expensive though and if anyone knows how I can obtain one via a huge discount, PLEASE LET ME KNOW!! There are two models the TSU7500 for the US market and the SBCRU990 for the UK market. I think the UK version is the one that would be best for Australia, but if I can get a great deal on the US version, that will do quite nicely. Current Mood: chipper

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04:20 pm - The Oscar report: Episode 2. He is such a funny little bugger! He will wander along looking at me or something else and keep walking and just slam into stuff, like walls and stuff! He will also be running around playing, the stop and look at something for a second, then just take off full pelt again only to be interupted by a wall or solid object because his direction changed when he stopped for that second. You can't help but to laugh and feel sorry for him at the same time. He has also figured out that HE CAN jump up onto the couch...well sometimes! Occasionally he will just hit the cushions, bounce off and land back on the floor. Today he tried to jump up into my arms (he was only about 1 meter short!)...only he almost did a backflip and landed upside down just looking up at us. He is doing the sit, stay, drop & "give me five" (Bek taught him that) stuff and his toilet training is getting better although he just lets it go occasionally. What really annoys is you open the door, say toilet and he wants nothing to do with it, then 5 minutes later, he's let it go on the floor or carpet/mats. Most often you open the door, say toilet and he'll go. He still is a very whiney biatch when you leave the room or go to the toilet or something and he can't get to you. He just yelps and whinges. He keeps biting his doodle too. He did it months ago and made it bleed, then it healed, now he has done it again and it takes ages to heal because he keeps licking it. Silly boy! I've also skittled his feet and tail a few times with the computer chair. It has wheels and Oscar will sleep between or very near the wheels. I can't get out unless I move the chair and occasionally I forget he is there and roll back or forward....I soon know I've done it as there is this all mighty YEEELLPPP! He is a constant source of entertainment. There is a few more pics up here Current Mood: giggly

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August 8th, 2005

01:12 pm - hmmm....they may have found the problem?? My nephew has been getting into trouble at school the past few months (mostly for fighting). He is 12 and has always had trouble with learning/reading and has a learning aid and special classes to help him catch up to the rest of the class. Anyway he may have Dyslexia! My sister had been doing some research on the net and it seems to point to Dyslexia. His teachers and school principal are getting fed up with him now and think that he is a lost cause. It is not that he doesn't want to learn, he wants to do computers and is doing quite well with them (he was burning mp3's to make music cd's WITHOUT any training or help...he just was trying things and wham, out comes a cd that he can play on his portable cd player!). I think his issue is that he just gets frustrated and agro and starts hitting other kids. Anyway, does anyone know much about Dyslexia, my sister wants to send him here but it is $2500 and I don't want her to pay some dude heaps of money THAT SHE DOESN'T HAVE. She got a more expensive quote from Melbourne, but Adelaide is 2 hours closer to her also. Current Mood: hopeful

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June 1st, 2005

06:32 pm - odd stuff today! Well got my yearly Casino statement (required by Australian Law to show how long you've played and how much won/lost)...turns out in the last year I have played a total of 13 minutes...6 minutes and won $2....7 minutes and lost $3....*crys* down $1!! 2nd thing...at 11:56pm on the 31/5/05 I got an email saying that i'd reached 80% of our monthly download limit...in 4 minutes it will be reset to ZERO!! A few weeks back I got a refund cheque from my phone company for $0.50!! That is just crazy! Current Mood: amused

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May 22nd, 2005

05:05 pm - The correct way to lose a wheel. OK, so here is the correct way to lose a wheel while racing in your V8 Supercar! http://www.big-boys.com/articles/cartire.html It happened at the GMC400 in Canberra 2001. Current Mood: amused

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March 19th, 2005

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March 10th, 2005

08:51 pm - I've been put in my place! I drive a "piece-of-shit family car", yells the "fooly sic" guy in the 3.8L V6 VT 'S' in the lane next to me! Driving home after doing some shopping tonight along FTG Road, with Bek in the car, minding my own business when a dude pulls up next to us at the lights. He has his arm out the windows signaling Bek to wind her window down, so she does. The guy then said something like "man-wate-til-eye-go-ome-n-git-my-VL-turbo-outta-da-garage-mate", "i-will-beet-u-mate-wid-only-four-pounds-of-boost!". We barly got a word out when the lights changed, so I casually took off, quite easily too I might add, trying to work out what the hell he had just said, both of us were scratching our heads and it took a few moments to decypher it. He was left at the lights with a reaction time of about 5 seconds, even the Camry in the next lane beat him by about 3 car lengths, "fooly sic reaction time mate!" We turn up Jells Road with him so far up my clacker, that my butt was itchy! I didn't exceed the limit at all so he casually pulls out and cruised past, then pulled in front. Out comes his arm again, so I pull along beside him for another "fooly sic" conversation that went something like "i've-got-ova-400-horsies,-i'll-leave-u-for-dead,-i-do-all-my-racing-in-Dandy-mate,-you-come-race-me-in-Dandy-mate,-dat-is-a-piece-of-shit-family-car-mate". My responses were something like "Is that right", "a-huh", "I See" and "what are you driving then, this is better than that". I then had to turn left so pulled in behind him, turned left and went on our merry way. Never before in my life have I experienced a dose of "fooly sic turbo mate dribble", it was quite amusing and we couldn't stop imatating and laughing at him for the rest of the trip home. Bek couldn't get over him driving a VT S pack and calling our car a "piece-of-shit family car". Don't think it occured to him that a "fooly sic VL turbo mate", is also a "piece-of-shit family car" and an old one at that! I too have over 400 horsies (didn't tell him that), the VL does weight a lot less though and I am sure it moves along quite well (if he actually had one of course!). Ohh, very funny stuff! PS for those that aren't aware, a VL Turbo is a 3Litre Turbo, 1987 version of my current car (2004 5.7Litre modified version!) Current Mood: amused

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February 23rd, 2005

07:56 pm I think the pot is OK, it has some battle damage, but it'll be fine. The house absolutly stinks though, so off goes the AC and the doors & windows get opened to try and air it out. Ohh man, you'd think that I would have learnt after the first attempt a few weeks back. Current Mood: annoyed

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07:41 pm - CCRRAAAAPPPPPPPPPPPPPP!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Stuffed the bloody eggs up again! Boiled 3 eggs....FOR AN HOUR! This time there was NO water left in the saucepan and the bottom is all burned, it may scrub off, WITH A LOT OF BLOODY SCRUBBING! So no more eggs for us...untill we buy more anyways. Current Mood: angry

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06:50 am - Pancakes 101 OK, so the little container of stuff that was left in the fridge, that I poured into a lowly heated frying pan WAS NOT the left over pancake mix that I was going to cook for breakfast for bekscilla yesterday morning! Turns out that Sweetend Condensed Milk does not a pancake make!! mattglenn had eaten the left over pancake mix the day before. Current Mood: embarrassed

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January 3rd, 2005

06:04 pm - The car is running sweet!! The car (Holden Commodore VYII SS LS1) has 242 kilowatts at the rear wheels (after a recent tune touchup) which is 324 hoursepower at the wheels!! This is around 325 kilowatts at the engine, which is 435 horsepower. It has over 500nm or torque which is about 370 ft-lb's too. It still didn't stop bekscilla from jumping into someone elses car on last weeks cruise...he had 375 kilowatts at the engine or 500 horsepower though!! Mine still sounds like a V8 and is an absolute pleasure to drive, I'd like a turbo or two or a supercharger, but that is only wishfull thinking as we have many other things to spend money on! I got into a little bit of shit at work about the exhaust and modifications, even though I have the original stuff in perfect condition in the garage ready to put back on when/if I return the car. It wasn't good enough for them though, they said put it back to factory defaults or else. They can say that as technically the car belongs to them on an Operating Lease. I didn't want to drive it stock so I changed the lease over to one fully in my name (Novated Lease) and they are happy again. It will cost slightly more, but still works out a pretty good deal.

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05:41 pm - The US and US!! Here is my "updated" US map thingy, still looks a little empty, but not bad for a Skhip from Oztraya!! ( Click Here to see ) Current Mood: happy

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December 12th, 2004

06:41 pm Congratulations to bekscilla for riding the excercise bike 724.3km!! It took about 37.36 hours, but a bloody good effort I think! YAY!! *mwah!* Current Mood: bouncy

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July 25th, 2004

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March 31st, 2004

07:40 pm - Oh yeah, the POS is gone! Took the bastard death trap rent-a-bomb back today, with a near full tank of fuel too! When I picked it up it had about a sniff of fuel in it, barely made it the 2 km to a decent servo, put $40 in! The suspension, brakes, accelerator, gearbox, panels, paint, interior, pretty much the whole car had something busted or missing or faulty in some way. We took it the 35 km and left it at my work last night, then I took the work 7000km old Commodore Station Wagon home for the night. Drove it back in the morning, picked up the POS, drove it about 500m from the vehicle compound to my office (took about 5 minutes to get the bastard started too - that is 5 minutes of my life i will NEVER get back!). Took the keys into the Student Admin office (where they hold the keys to the vehicles and the booking folder), looked through the folder and saw that the 2yo Toyota Corolla Accent was available for at least the next week. Soooo, being the shifty bugger that I am, wrote my own details in and booked the car to myself for just under a week! Got mattglenn to drive the Corolla (with his 'P' plates) to bekscilla's work, then she followed me (still with 'P' plates on) in the POS back to their company. Because it had a full tank he dropped $15 bucks off the price, so the POS cost me $40 all up...instead of the $196 it was going to cost for the 7 days. Now the only problem with the work Corolla is that if they figure out that it will be ALL private km, I'll probably have to pay $0.40c/km for every km I do...probably about $100 for the 5 days or so....still a bargain compared to the POS. Geee I want my new car!! Current Mood: happy

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07:06 pm - Bek's car update They look sooo happy together but got the call today, and the repair list goes on: new Head Gasket at least two new Valve Springs (two were broken) new Cam Belt new/reconditioned Radiator new/reconditioned Brake Master Cylinder Also required are 15" mags and new tyres (or use the tyres that come on the 2nd hand mags if they are OK). The reason: there is a blister on one of the tyres and you can feel it through the steering and it probably could burst at any time. We wanted to get some bigger mags and tyres anyway, it has factory 13" on it at present. Just would have been nice to do it in a few months time! It has got worse so we really should get it fixed soon. We should be able to get 4 x 15" mags and 60%+ tyres for less than $500. Hopefully all this will make the little thing last for a few more years until she steps up to a new or near new model. Current Mood: disappointed

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March 30th, 2004

08:22 pm - The biggest POS under the sun! Well, it turns out that bekscilla's car has caught a virus and spewed all over the place in Ballarat (about 2 hours (130km) away in country-ish Victoria). I am referring to the head gasket that we now have to get replaced in it. The poor little car got a little hot a few weeks back and is now demanding some attention. Gonna be in the shop for about 4 days and gonna cost about two gorillas!! We are also going to get the Brake Master Cylinder replaced/fixed also...this is probably faulty due to the brake fluid boiling a few more weeks back when we got the new exhaust put on - The shop thought they would do the right thing and adjust the handbrake for us, it didn't go any where near as well as they had planned! And we'll probably chuck in a new Cam Belt as well. Dunno when it had one last, but it is meant to have one every 80000km....it has done about 230000km! We got it at about 210000km, so who knows when it was changed, so while it is in bits, we'll do it. SO, the rent-a-bomb that I just hired, What a hunk of junk!! It's a 85 Toyota Corolla Seca auto. Every panel has at least one dent and the paint has flaked off the bonnet. I wish I had of looked at it BEFORE we paid them the money. You go in and do the deal, then they show you the car. Only got it for 2 and a half more trips to/from work via Bek's work and believe me I AM COUNTING THE TRIPS...the less I am in it the better....this is assuming that we get Bek's car back on Friday. Somehow I just knew that things were gonna get a little worse....I guess I should phone nd check on my new car in case they swap the LS1 VY II SS 6 Speed Manual for a 3 cyl Lada Niki Auto or somehting Current Mood: crappy

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March 23rd, 2004

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March 9th, 2004

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March 6th, 2004

08:22 pm - I am scared about my my new car....which I don't get until after the USA trip I don't think that it'll be able to have the same sound and power as the old (dead) one did. They (Holden) have changed the header/exhaust/oxygen sensors/catalytic converter layout and I think that maybe it isn't really worth changing it as it is much better than the old one, but not as good as the after market ones. It you replace the new original headers with an new aftermarket one that fits the car correctly, the O2 and cats will be in the same position, but the headers will only be slightly better, if at all! If you move the O2 sensors and put Tri-y headers (same as my old car) and replace the cats as well, it will be better, but because the O2 sensors have moved you will need to reprogram the computer to tell it the O2's have moved and to NOT retard the engine timing because it will be getting different readings from O2 sensors. The old car's exhaust made a massive difference to sound and performance once I replaced it ('cause it was CRAP to start with), but the new ones are already pretty good and they have actually have a slight note, so it probably isn't worth the money to replace it with a better one. The old was a 2.25" dual into single half way along, the new is dual 2.25" all the way through. The old one had NO V8 noise (until modified), but the new one has a slight V8 note. I'll have to wait and see, but I keep thinking i'll be dissapointed! Of cause it can be made better than the old one, but the same "bang for buck" won't be there....it'll just cost more, but I don't wanna spend more! It's all tooo hard! Current Mood: worried

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