JZ180 - My Life

Dash(ing) Update

2007-09-04T12:29:00.001+10:00

Hey i liked the play on words there. Did a ruff drawing of what i want the centre console to look like. Here is it.

The 2 black switch in the top left hand corner controller the drive and passenger windows. The 6 red rectangles are rocker switches that will control power to.

ECU
THERMALS
START BUTTON POWER
EBC - Electronic Boost Controller
HEADLIGHTS
WINDSCREEN WIPER

The big round switch is the kill switch for cutting power from the battery to the car. The Silver Switch next to the kill switch controlls the headlight motors, allowing me to move them up and down however I want. The blue and green round items are lights, one for oil pressure and one for the alternator. The red button is the push button start, obviously it starts the car :)

Then the 2 big black items right at the bottom contain the fuses and power for the switches. It might change from this depending on how much room it all takes up, but will also try and mount the relays on there also. :) Will keep you posted.

Laters

Keeping Up to Date

2007-09-03T19:45:00.000+10:00

Well its been a little while since I last posted and Ive been nice and busy since starting my new job. All I can say is that god I dont have to train it anymore, lol. It was definitely a killer.

Ive started playing baseball again, havent played a game just yet, but had 2 training sessions. Had a hit for the first time in over a year on Sunday just gone, and I wasnt as bad as I thought i was going to be. Had some decent line drives.

Done some work on Suzys exa over the weekend, which included changing the alternators over cause the old one was not working, and also resprayed the front bar, so its looking better. Just to get a roady for it now. Hopefully have one shortly otherwise we wont be able to register it.

Had my mate Chad down a few weekends ago after he was doing a shoot in Burleigh and he took some pics of my car. Here is one:

I hope to have a body kit and also have it painted shortly. Will get chad back down when that is done, so I can get another background picture hehe.

I have decided I want to redo my dash in the car, because it houses all the electronics of the car and at the moment its a cluster fuck, so going to be re-wiring it over the next few weekends. Will take pictures along the way. I will post a few pictures here, but all of them on my myspace once done. Here is a pic of the dash at the moment.

I will post pictures during and when finished.

Thanks

Simon

Oops I forgot to Update hehe

2007-08-23T11:16:00.000+10:00

Hey well its my 4th day at my new job and its already the second time that Ive been left alone to look after the helpdesk. Its really good and cant wait to get in here in the mornings. The days is flying by, because there is always something to do. So no more msn, no more nissanexa.com, its just work work work work :)

I inquired about a new car last night, just on the Holden website. Its a used car, but its a dual cab, 4wd ute. Just waiting to hear back from them about the tow ratings for it. Have to make sure it can pull my car and trailer. Its 21990. So will have to see if I can afford to pay it off. This means Ill get rid of Rona the Corona. She has been a good girl to me, but its time for something new.

Will post pictures up when I get the chance. That is if I can be bothered lol.

Its sooooo good not to have to catch the train anymore. Get to sleep in and Im home before I usually catch the train. So glad I got this job. Im going to do everything to make sure that I keep it. Im looking in the finishing my CCNA, which will give me a huge edge at this company. Ive already completed half the readings and tests for it, just another 2 books to go. Which is like another 30 mini exams and 2 major exams and 1 ultra mega hard dont want to fail cause it costs too much to re-due exam lol. But Ill get there.

Well talk to you later.
Simon

First Day @ PIS

2007-08-20T15:24:00.000+10:00

Hey everyone

Well today is my first day at PIS (Professional Investment Services). Doing IT support.

The morning has been great :) Learning about the company and computer setup. Has been really good. Well will make a final post tonight to let you know how the rest of the day goes,

Bye
Simon

First Fire

2007-08-14T23:13:00.000+10:00

Well today I went to my first Fire - Im a Rural Fire Fighter with Guanba Rural Fire Brigade. Anyone that lives in Qld would of heard about the Fires on Mt Tamborine. Well I went out to help today with mop up, which is mainly checking the boundries and putting out any smoking embers.

Was a good day, and great learning experience. Here are some pictures that I took of the day.

Signature Made For Websites

2007-08-10T11:14:00.000+10:00

New signature to use on some forums :)

Also will be doing some work on Suzys exa this weekend.

Going to be pulling the motor out the car will be getting the following:

Motor - rebuilt(rings, bearings, seals, honing, etc), with new water and oil pumps, timing belt.
Engine mounts replaced
Turbo

going to be turboing the motor. :D

Should be fun

I think its called NEGLECT?

2007-07-19T14:45:00.000+10:00

Now I cant be sure that I spelt NEGLECT correctly. But in reality I dont think it matters cause no one reads this anyway hahaha. I think this has become more a place where I can write down whats in my head and has happened in my life so maybe some day in the future when everything turns to shit (if it does) I can look back and pin point the exact moment it all started. hehe

So since my last update which is almost a month ago I had some fun, spend lots of money and not had any regrets in doing so.

Where to start. Ive been to the track drifting twice now. Both times having my time cut short on track due to issues with the car. First time wheel nuts, second time split wastegate pipe. Here is are 2 pics from my first time out. Notice my shitting paint job

Now you know how in things you do in your life you build it up to be such a greatly awesome (yes i did mean that) event that usually when it happens it doesn't live up to those expectations. Well let me tell you, being on track sliding in a car that I have personally built from scratch was better and more fun than I could have ever hoped. Kinda like the same feeling when I first jumped out of a plane.

It was soooooo good i almost didn't want to come in to pits when i had to change tyres. The next event I went to was a night event on a Friday night. This was fun cause i was drifting again, but then also shit because every man and his dog was there lol. Here is on pic that was taken on that night. As you can see the paint is REALLY REALLY bad. lol

HOT ISN'T IT :P

Well now there is about a months break until the next drift day so there are going to be some lil changed to the car, mainly where the exhaust is going to run, because after getting it up on the hoist the other weekend its battered and scratched to the shit house mainly because of where it is and because of trailers. I'm also going to look into getting my own trailer made or purchase one, because the last 2 times i've borrowed a trailer I had 2 different problems.

Problem 1 on first trailer: Because the trailer didn't tilt the exhaust got stuck in 2 places and cause not only for a clamp to break but also for me to get stuck on the trailer and make it a shit to get on.

Problem2 on second trailer: It was too skinny causing me to FUCK up my front rims. So now they have nice scratch marks around the entire rims. :( Not happy.

So i need to get a trailer to is perfect for my needs. Unfortunately a trailer = $4000g max so its time to get some sort of sponsorship for that and that is how we move onto the next thing I would like to talk about.

SPONSORSHIP

Suzy was at work at BCF (temporary as she finishes her law degree) and a customer comes up to the counter to purchase something (Boating, Camping or Fishing stuff i presume) and he was wearing a Pedders jumper and the following conversation followed.

Suzy: (Noticing the Pedders jumper) Oh you work for Pedders

Pedders Fella: Well kinda I own Pedders

Suzy: Oh true, that will be $1045.65 please

Pedders Owner: (Opens wallet with about 6g worth of $100s in it) Here you are

Suzy: (This is why I love her) My boyfriend just finished building his car for drifting after a year.

Pedders Owner: Cool

Suzy: Yeah, he has been trying to get sponsorship with different companies to help cover certain costs, but the problem is most places dont even have the decency to even write back.

Pedders Owner: Well get him to send a proposal into me and Ill definitely get back to him.

Suzy: Will do, bye.

So as you can see that is why I love Suzy, she is always looking after me. So now I have to update my proposal with new pictures and also pictures of me sliding the car.

Well I better leave it at that considering this update is fairly long, but hope that brings you up to date with whats been happening.

Laters

Sooooooooo close I can smell the burnt rubber

2007-06-26T14:09:00.000+10:00

OMG its soooo close, tomorrow is the day.

Since my last update, Ive replaced the water pump, timing belt, spark plugs, bolted in the cage, refitted the interior, bled the brakes.

Now...my lil hickup, after the shit time i had with the brake company getting the hydraulic handbrake fitted its still wrong. They hooked up the lines the wrong way, now you are probably thinking, just swap the lines over. Not that simple, they are different threads, so thanks to some quick thinking I call my mate Brad, who im hoping will be my knight in shinning armour to see if he has this special tool that will allow me to make up my own replacement line. Lucky for me he does :D So tonight I will be getting that from him and fixing up there fuck up.

Also just received a call from Suzy, the truck that I was suppose to be using to tow my car is broken and therefore cant be used :( Now im gonna have to try and find something else which isnt looking too good.

Will keep you updated.

Thanks

Simon

Water Works Factory - NOT QUITE

2007-06-19T11:46:00.000+10:00

Well..... got my car back together YAY. Then OH NO there is a leak, a big one

After some investigation and help from my mate Petey, we figure its the water pump. I die a little inside. I start have thoughts of taking it to a mechanic to get them to swap it over, only to realise they would charge me and arm and leg to do it.

So after some research online and more talking to Petey I know how to do it. I start on Sunday morning around 10ish and have it finished at about 12.30. Not a bad effort, unfortunately I didnt have a replacement item yet as it was the weekend so will have to wait until the weekend coming to refit it all and test it again (bites nails).

So as you know Im on a little budget to get rid of some debts and I start thinking how much the new parts are going to cost me. I also decided to change the timing belt while I was doing the water pump cause it needs to come off anyway to get to the water pump. So I organise for my mum to call up toyota to get a pricing on parts on Monday, so for the rest of Sunday I chill and do nothing.

Talking to a mate online later that night and I find out that he actually works for Toyota as a mechanic and wants the part numbers and he will find out the costs he can get the parts at and call me on Monday at 12.

Monday morning my mum calls up Toyota and the parts are priced as followed:

Water Pump - 208

Timing Belt - 87

12pm rolls around and I get a call from Cameron (my mate that works at Toyota) and here are his prices:

Water Pump - 110

Timing Belt - 50

Spark plugs - 2.50 each (got him to prices these as I need them also)

Hahah so you can expect which price Im going with. So he should be bringing them down this weekend with him so I can fit them and get the car going finally, fingers crossed.

Here is a pic of me when working on the car this weekend. Kinda looks like the car is bleeding.

(Its Toyota red radiator coolant)

10 months and going strong

2007-06-13T12:46:00.000+10:00

Well today is Suzy and mine 10 month anniversary. We both agree that it definitely doesnt feel that long. It has been great :) Hope for many many more anniversary's to come.

Well a little update on everything in my world. Last couple of days have been good, apart from the cold that I currently have. Which is almost gone. Yay. So my wheel studs are being picked up today and I will be pushing to get them installed tonight so I can start the car again, woo.

Work has been good, so have the train trips up, mmmm sleep and the train rides home with my Train buddies, they make the time fly by, which is good. Played ultimate frisbee again with them on Sunday, was tops, its a really good game to play and lets you run around for a couple of hours. We are playing again this Saturday at 3, then having a BBQ at Craigs place, which should be good.

I get my reading glasses tomorrow, will be interesting to see how quickly I get used to wearing them. But will definitely be good for my eyes.

OMG Chad went camping over the long weekend and got some of the BEST photos I have seen yet. Check out his gallery at http://www.flickr.com/photos/chadsolomon/ Also check out this funny picture.

Paris Hilton - Jail Music Clip

2007-06-11T16:09:00.001+10:00

Funny video I found on Youtube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k66epna2Sss

TURBO FITTED

2007-06-08T19:52:00.000+10:00

Well it definitely wasnt expected, but I was sure as hell not going to say NO to getting it back.

Had the day off work today, cause as per my last post I didnt want a repeat performance at work. So i slept in, watched Blades of Glory (not as good as I expected) and then decided I will pull of my oil drain in preperation for my turbo turning up next week some time. So Ive been working on it for all of about 5min and I hear a car pull up out the front and a sliding door open, my first thought was *its a delivery van* (thoughts will be contained between ** from now on so remember). I drop what Im doing, look out the window and sure enough. A white delivery van, I open the garage door and he is walking down my driveway holding a Garrett box.

I just for joy and know my turbo has come back WoooHooo. So the rest of the day was spent, getting oil drain and fittings and getting everything ready to refit the turbo. 5pm rolls around the I get home with everything I need.

2hrs, 7cuts and 2 fucked hose clamps later the turbo is back on. Havent started the car as its in the garage and very loud and there might be some oil still sitting in the exhaust so dont want white smoke in the garage.

Will have to wait until Wednesday because Ive got the back of the car jacked up cause Im replacing the rear wheel studs, which I pick up on Thursday.

Well Im excited, Im going to Suzys to sleep and hopefully get rid of this cold.

Until next time, laters

PS. Will have a pic up tomorrow of my engine bay.

Got a Cold? I do.

2007-06-07T22:51:00.000+10:00

I went through a box of 100 tissue within 8 hours today. I mean wtf is that? My nose just wouldnt stop running. I had that much snot leave my body I can believe Ive got more left in me. My nose is that stuffed up its not funny. I most likely going to have tomorrow off from work because I dont feel up to working another full day constantly holding a tissue to my nose.

Got some good news today about my turbo. It is coming home, should be here in the next few days so with the Queens birthday public holiday it should be back mid to end of next week. Which has made me happy in the pants. :)

Spoke to Coffee (awesome welder) tonight about my cage and he is going to make the trip to my house to check out what I need done and to give me a price.

So hopefully Ill have pictures up on me sliding shortly :)

Until next time, laters

Not quite $ signs in my eyes

2007-06-05T14:24:00.000+10:00

So as you can see from my previous post I was look at glasses. I found out those frames were going to cost $515. :O Which is wayyyy to much, so lucky me my girlfriend Suzy (will use Suzy from now on so remember) has a pair of PUMA glasses that I will be using.

They have a red frame with silver arms and actually look decent on my face, so all I have to outlay is the cost of the len's. Just have to wait and see how much that is :S haha

Well I started working on a budget yesterday arvo and have already implemented it today. Want to get most of my debts sorted which are my 2 credit cards. Have set to pay off $500 a month on both. One will be paid within 5months and the other 11months, So its not to bad and it still leaves me with $125 per week to save/spend. This is even after Ive paided, rent, phone bill car loan.

So Im starting to sort out my life, I hope, just have to wait and see how that goes.

Well until next time, laters.

Making a Spectacle of it all.

2007-06-01T10:49:00.000+10:00

Good morning everyone (Chad).

Well I had an eye appointment last night, I knew it was going bad as soon as I couldnt read past the second line of the letters chart lol. So now Im joining that "special" group of people that wear glasses. Im gonna run with the fact that they will make me look smarter :P I need all the help I can get.

So anyway, havent picked any yet, cause still trying to find ones that will fit my big head lol.

Here is a pair that I like:

They seem to fit alright and dont look too bad either. Am going back tomorrow check them out again.

Well thats my lil update for now, laters

TURBO Issues

2007-05-29T13:43:00.000+10:00

Well, this story started about 2 weeks ago now. It was the 12th May and I was getting my car ready for its first event on Sunday the 13th. Had it outside and was checking the brakes etc.

Start the car to move it and white smoke poors out the exhaust. Im thinking fuck what is that. I look at my mate Petey who has been there throughout the whole build and his face doesnt give me confidence. We do a few checks over the car and realise its the turbo that is screwed. I call the person that I bought it off and he told me to check a few things, everything still points to screwed oil seal on turbo.

About 5pm I decide, I wont be going tomorrow and that I would need to pull the turbo off as I have organised with the person I bought it off to have him pick it up on Sunday night. So Sunday rolls around and I pull the turbo off within 20min. It sits there waiting till the afternoon where it will be picked up. Halfway through the day a mate is walking past and I start talking to him about the turbo. I got get it to show him the oil in the rear housing. As i put it down for him to look at I notice there is a crack in the weld on the rear housing between housing and exhaust flange. Im even more pissed. I put it back inside and wait aruond for it to be picked up. It gets picked up and now I have to wait.

WAIT.... WAIT.... WAIT... week later its at Garrett, the makers of the turbo. Anyway, 2weeks later, still no solid information, Im getting really pissed now. Im continually everyday asking the guy I got the turbo from whats going on and get the same answer, will just have to wait for them to go through there process. Guess I can count myself lucky, have heard stories of peoples turbos taking up to 3 months to process.

So yesterday I ask for more information, he said he would try and find out more, he gets back to me fairly quick and tells me they have done some testing and the results are that some of the bolts on the housing were lose, I find this hard to believe cause I remember hurting my hands from doing them up that tight. Im will be interested to see what they say caused the crack in the housing.

Well the guy said he would keep pushing to get it replaced so Ill just have to wait some more.Will keep you guys, well Chad, my loyal reader up to date on what is happening.

/End rant :)

Pirates Of The Caribbean

2007-05-25T22:02:00.000+10:00

Well went and saw the movie last night with Suzy, started off with me spending $100 on a Ben Sherman jumper, tops jumper it is :D I really like it hahaha

Then went to buy tickets, but the place was full of emo's seriously. Was crazy. HaHaHa, need to kick them in the heads lol.

Bought some pop corn, large coke and ice cream. Came with a free tattoo, which I put on Suzys leg tonight :) She is my lil pirate, woo.

Well I really enjoyed the movie, was awesome, funny at times when it was definitely appropriate and serious when it was also needed, just perfect.

Well thats all I have to say :) Night

Nothing? Is that possible.

2007-05-24T14:43:00.000+10:00

Well life over the last day and bit has been a big nothing.

In saying that obviously stuff has happened, its not like Ive locked myself in a room and sat doing nothing staring at a wall. Which if I think about it would be almost better than what I have done.

Work, home, formatted computer, sleep, work.....

Yup I formatted my computer and went back to Windows - Ubuntu pissed me off :D Funny thing was there wasnt any drivers to support my NIC - network interface card (network card) *how i get on the internet* just incase some people didnt understand. So if I was Joe Blog and didnt know what to do, I would be stuck without the internet and probably scrivel up and die? But lucky for me my parents have a computer, so used there computer to download the right drivers and I was set.

Had donuts the other night, they were good :) Freshly made at 10.30 at night. Thank you Bernies on the Gold Coast highway, never a let down. Except for that one time when they told us they removed donuts from the menu, stupid arse's. Shame we know the owners and called them and now the employee's are fired :)

Well until next time, stay cool

oh and P.S. Go Queensland - Good win last night.

Hospital Visit

2007-05-21T13:18:00.000+10:00

Well had the normal start to the morning with my 6.40 wakeup to my usual 7.20 train, but instead of getting off at South Brisbane at 8.26 for my usual 4min walk to work, I kept going North and eventually getting off at Brunswick Street. Now obviously I did this on purpose, it wasnt because I fell asleep and missed 3 stops :P

I had a scheduled hospital visit, now you must be wondering why? Well if anyone is actually readying my blog they would be asking why, but would have a fair idea why cause I dont think anyone that doesnt know has visited my blog haha

Just over 15months ago, I had an accident where I thought I would pick a fight with a fireball. The fireball won... DUH :P They actually showed me the pictures from when I first went into hospital. I must remember to get a copy of them when I go back next time, its pretty freaky.

So anyway I was in there for a checkup and it all went well, they want me to continue to wear the pressure bandage on my left arm. Which sucks, but Ill try my hardest to do it this time. :)

So that was my exciting morning, Oh I forgot to mention I used to work at the hospital also, shortly after getting out I got a job there doing IT support, was good :)

Well anyway onto better things, Suzys friend Pooky owns horses and she is going to teach me how to ride :) So that should be fun. Also Im going to look into a gym membership. Ever since my accident my metabolism has gone on a perminant holiday, so Im getting soft around the edges. Enough time has past so I figured it was time to get back to how I was.

Well until next time, laters skaters

AE63 Rebuild - AMAZING

2007-05-19T18:59:00.001+10:00

http://www.mat.fi/project1984toyotacelicaturbo.htm

Absolutely awesome restore of a classic. So much attention to details. One day I dream I could build a car half as good as that.

UBUNTU

2007-05-19T17:51:00.000+10:00

Well, here is my bitch, winge for today. On the train home on Friday I noticed a young man in front of me running a Linux based OS (operating system) called ubuntu, I had used this program previously when I was working at Emmanuel College (story for another time) and we were wanting a clean system on the old pcs we were giving away.

Well anyway, that night I downloaded the newest version of this OS, its free, so nothing illegal :P hehe, So today, being Saturday I decided to attempt to install it to an external hdd I had sitting around. The installation seemed to go alright with it working well, apart from the sound drivers which needed updating. After messing around with the new system I went to load back into Windows on my computers internal HDD, and guess what happened.... IT DIDNT LOAD. Somehow ubuntu loaded files onto my internal hdd during the installation and wasnt allowing windows to boot. I went through the process of trying to boot into safe mode, but it wasnt even letting me get that far. Now Im thinking, shit, my last backup wasnt for at least 3 months :S and didnt want to lose any data in regards to the progress of my car.

Sitting here thinking wtf should I do, drawing nothing but a blank. I decide to load back into ubuntu on the external hdd to chat to a few mates about how i could attack this situation. No more than 5min later noticed I could still see my internal hdd and actually access the files.

This made me happy :D I decided Id go for a clean install just for fun :P So i copy all my data onto the external hdd and it seems to be going fairly well. I start looking for my Windows XP Pro CD, nothing, cant find it anywhere... then it dawns on me. I sent it to my sister is
cairns to use cause she fucked up her computer and the only copy was in the format of an ISO file on my hdd.... Now I know I could have easily burnt it off onto a cd and then loaded windows, but I took this as an opportunity to use a linux based system as my main OS. I havent used linux very much at all before so I thought it would be good for me.

So i loaded up ubunto, copied back my data and now we are going strong :) Sitting here with my feet up on my desk, listen to music and watching my girlfriends Ghost knife swimming around its tank :) Life is good once again.

I think tonight we are going out to timezone, so that should hopefully be better than last night.

Until next time. :

PS. Someone comment me dammit hehe

Test Blog

2007-05-19T16:33:00.000+10:00

Well i set up so I can email my blog entries in and this is me testing
it, if this works, Ill be able to update more often when things pop into
my head.

Coming up on my blog, me mess around with Ubuntu and the mess it made with my computer :)

stay tuned

Boring Night much?

2007-05-19T10:33:00.000+10:00

After another fun day at work and my boring train trip home where my leg fell asleep multiple times and my lift being 20min late I head out with Suzy and her friend Pooky to celerbrate her birthday. We also met up with Pooky's brother Alan who's birthday it was also. There only a day apart but different years lol.

I might as well let you know now, Im not very into going out. Just not my thing, so the night was looking to be very bright for me. We rock up to Alto's in Broadbeach, it seems like an alright place, with the usual old bitch dancing to the music trying to recapture her youth, but in turn making a total fool of herself.

Alans friends introduce themselves and they seem like alright people. Unfortunately there isnt anywhere to sit down due to the lack of seats, so I go for a hunt for seats and find 3 so Suzy, Pooky and me can sit. I walk back with the seats to be told by them all that they arent sitting there anymore. They head towards the bar and just stand there. YAY sooo much fun... plz note the mass amounts of sarcasim. I push to sit down and eventually get everyone to move towards a table, after a small arguement with the security they let us sit there and we ask for a menu.

zuzy orders this garlic bread pisza thing and a pasta with like meat and feta, it was hot. It was support to be for Suzy and Pooky, but as soon as Pooky had one piece of meet she said she felt like she was going to spew, so I gave some to Suzy on a plate and ate the rest. :)

After a little while and messing around i find out they are going clubbing, I let Suzy know that Im not going and eventually I leave them to go clubbing and I go home.. This is a highlight cause i get to drive Pookys mustang, its hot. :) Well I go home and chill, eventually around 1.30 Suzy calls and asks me to pick her and Pooky up.

Well i cruise back out pick them up and go back to Suzys. We spend the next 2 hours playing Scene IT which is fun, althought i come last. But win on the fact we finished the game with a tie breaker and I ended up with the worst drivers licence picture. That was only due to the fact I renewed my licence the day after I got out of hospital from setting myself on fire. But that story is for another time.

Well until then, laters.

Another day, another wasted 24hrs?

2007-05-18T08:52:00.000+10:00

Well I thought I better start by explaining the name of this blog. Its not as bad as it sounds, its more of a feeling of no achieving anything yesterday. Thats not to say that I didnt do "STUFF" but the "STUFF" that I did do, wasnt leading up to anything or completing any goals.

The usual morning wake at 6.40, in the shower and out ready to leave by 7.00. Now because I live on the Gold Coast and my work is in Brisbane I get to catch the unreliable public transport call the train. Lucky for me I can sleep anywhere so I get another 1hrs sleep on the way up.

After my brisk walk to work (only 3 blocks) I arrive and for some reason I always look up. It might have something to do with the massive Space Needle sitting out the back of where I work or the fact Im having a little moment with God asking today goes quickly? Who knows, but there isnt enough time to stand around and stare into the sky. In through the warehouse, past the training salon, past reception and up the marble (yes its actually marble) staircase to the heart of where I work. For a headoffice there isnt that many people. 3 accountants, 2 payroll, 1 stockman (not really sure whats his offical name is, but he makes sure all the stores have what they need) 2 IT staff thats all that is upstairs. Downstairs we'll talk about later.

So there I am sitting at my desk, usually on msn or www.secretdrift.com.au wasting time until something exciting happens. One good thing that did happen, was the fact I started my blog, so hopefully that will keep my days full and exciting?

I have to share a story with you about a job I had to do yesterday but first I have to explain who I work for. I work for Stefan at Stefan Hair Fashion looking after the IT related problems for the headoffice and also the 47 Stores around Queensland and soon to be 1 in Sydney. So anyway onto the job I did yesterday. I get a email 2 days before hand from the Myer's Centre salon saying we need a new keyboard. I figured it wasnt working anymore, so yesterday I grab a new keyboard, and scam a lift with Chris (warehouse bitch) who is going to JoJo's which is in the same area. Get to the salon and the keyboard has melted keys. Im not joking, the keys on the board were melted so much they were stuck down. I find out that they were cleaning it with a HAIRDRYER.... ok I know Im not the smartest apple in the tree (u can probably tell by all the spelling mistakes in this blog) but there is 1 thing I know and thats not to use a hairdryer to clean plastic.. I hold back my laughter as I change it over and leave.

Well this blog for today is getting really long, Ill summaries the rest.

Left the salon, went to JoJo's and got a free mocca :) it was nice, then left and half way back to work realised i left the keyboard at JoJo's. Called them and they threw it away for me. Back at office, nothing really happens for the rest of the day. Finish work, catch train, usually on train I sit with a ground of people I met and we play Billionaire, recently they have been getting over it, and just sitting around and talking. We organised via email during the day to sit in the front carriage of the train so we could all meet and chat. They get on at Central and Roma (i think) and I get on at Sout Brisbane. Today when i get on I reliase they arent on the carriage they said they would be, I walk to the next, still nothing. I just off at the next station, run down another carriage and get back on, still nothing. Im like :( maybe they didnt get on at all.

Through my smarts, I make a phone call to my loverly girlfriend Suzy and she gets me the phone number of one of my billionaire buddies. I send the number a msg and get a reply not long after, they are in the next carriage. Unfortunately its really really busy and I dont want to push past people. I was until we get to Loganlea and do another dash off the train and back on again. I find my friends and sigh and relax. The rest of the trip was good, just chating and messing around (sorry about the billions of rubber bands I had).

I was excited for the night time cause I knew my good mate Petey was going to be coming around so we can work on my car. (Will post pictures at the end) 7.30 rolls around I msg him, nothing, 8.00 I msg again, he replies saying he wont be long. 8.30 comes and so does 9. Suzy calls me and says she is picking me up. I msg Petey and tell him not to worry, I dont even get a reply :(

Well after I get picked up its a simple case of getting ready for bed, putting on a movie and falling asleep thinking, I wonder what tomorrow (today) will be like. Hopefully a little better.

Here are the pics of my car.

I have a shit, and I mean a SHIT load more from the entire build. I will make a gallery so you can see them all if you wish.

Until tomorrow - or later :P

First Time Blogger, Long Time Reader

2007-05-17T13:47:00.000+10:00

Good Afternoon

Well after much concideration, and not wanting to have to spend any money and being sick of using myspace I decided to sign up for my own blog. I mainly want to use this to share my pictures, videos and random drible about my days, weeks, years and moments that have affected me and also the people that make my life the great one it is.

First shout out must go to Chad (www.chadsolomon.com.au) who supplied me with the link to this site. He is a top bloke that Ive know since we started studying together at TAFE. Dont get me started on TAFE haha, thats for another time. Chad has only recently gotten into photography and as you can see from his photos he pretty f'n good.

Obviously my blog site is a little bare at the moment, but in between working (if I actually do any work) and travelling on the train to and from work (1hr each way) Ill update it as much as possible.

Thanks

Simon