Originally Posted 17/10/06
Well I can’t kick the Compaq monitor, that went in the bin when it stopped working – I can however kick the Mitsubishi 93SB 19″ but it’s pointless coz it goes back for warranty repairs tomorrow – so at the mo I’m using an LG 17″ scary thing that goes ZAP every now n again but hey it keeps me on me toes.
What else do I wanna kick? Oh the seller of one Powerbook G3 laptop here are the specs. Powerbook G3 333 (Lombard) 128 Meg ram 15″ screen DVD-ROM. What do I get when it turns up from the eBay seller? Powerbook G3 400 (Lombard) 192 Meg ram 14″ screen CD-ROM & a partially dead keyboard and this boofhead has got a rating in the 1,000’s be buggered if I know how seein as it took a week to get here when it should’ve taken 3 days tops and he’s as fast at answering emails as I am at running the mile and trust me if ya saw me run you’d know what I meant.
Anyway I’m off to make coffee before I DO actually kick summut.
Carl
A Good Score on Two Counts!
Originally Posted 11/11/06
First off, Wales givin’ Canada a floggin’ in the rugby. I do have to pay the canucks though, we did do ’em 61 – 3 the last time we played em (in Canada), although this time however they managed to sneek two try’s in to make the score more respectable 61 – 26 at the Mil’ Stadium (LONG LIVE THE ARMS PARK). The second good score was a printer.
Now I can see y’all goin like ‘huh?’ I scored a 24 pin dot matrix Panasonic – what a time saver for knockin’ up tattoo stencils, no more cramps and goin square eyed, just find the line art on the PC and print it – poific stencil, and while it’s printing I’m making sure the machine is runnin’ smooth. \’ve already sorted a few out for me (might as well get some good use out of it) and Daryl’s s’posed to be comin’ back on Thursday for some more work so the time it’ll save is gunna be fab (ooh sixties talk).
Adios all
Carl’,’
Where He Gets ‘Em From Is Beyond Me
Originally Posted 13/7/07
The ‘ol man occasionally sends me the odd joke, this one had me chuckling no end. It’s prob an oldy but I like it.
A new priest at his first mass was so nervous he could hardly speak. After mass he asked the monsignor how he had done. The monsignor replied, “When I am worried about getting nervous at the pulpit, I put a glass of vodka next to the water glass. If I start to get nervous, I take a sip. So the next Sunday he took the monsignor’s advice. At the beginning of the sermon, he got nervous and took a drink, after which he proceeded to talk up a storm.
Upon his return to his office after the mass, he found the following note on the door:
1. Sip the vodka, don’t gulp.
2. There are 10 commandments, not 12.
3. There are 12 disciples, not 10.
4. Jesus was consecrated, not constipated.
5. Jacob wagered his donkey, he did not bet his ass.
6. We do not refer to Jesus Christ as the late J.C.
7. The Father, Son, and Holy Ghost are not referred to as Daddy-o, Laddy-o and the spook.
8. David slew Goliath , he didn’t kick the shit out of him.
9. When David was hit by a rock and was knocked off his donkey, don’t say he was ‘stoned off his ass.
10. We do not refer to the cross as the “Big T.”
11. When Jesus broke the bread at the last supper he said, “take this and eat it for this is my body.” He did not say “Eat me.”
12. The Virgin Mary is not called “Mary with the Cherry.”
13. The recommended grace before a meal is not: “Rub-A-Dub-Dub thanks for the grub, Yeah God.”
14. And just to remind you – next Sunday there will be a taffy-pulling contest at St. Peter’s not a peter-pulling contest at St. Taffy’s.
Adios
Carl
RIP Billy Thorpe
Originally Posted 28/2/07
Sad news, the passing of one of rocks greatest. Billy died from a massive heart attack today 28th Feb. Another great for that rock n roll band in Heaven.
Fudgin’ Routers
It looks like it’s time for a new router, the grief this ones given me over the last few days with this site has been nothing short of immense!!
Anyhoo – it appears to be working again (touch wood) and hopefully it’ll stay working. Apart from that, what else have I been doin? In short, SOD ALL. Been sortin’ through about 11,000 flash designs (tattoo flash), scrappin’ the trash and keepin’ the good stuff – I spose I’ll end up with between 9,500 to 10,000 different designs by the time I’m finished. Just sittin’ ‘ere listenin’ to Casting Crowns so I might sod off n relax.
Adios
Carl
Well There’s A Few More
Originally Posted 12/1/07
Added a few more photos to the gallery, one’s I’d found hiding in a folder on the ‘F’ drive. Anyway, what happened today? Well I managed to finish Dylan’s bike and started to weld up the few rust spots on the Rodeo. . . Personally I shouldn’t attempt to weld car steel, I tend to make the holes bigger but I spose I gotta learn, I did manage to get some nice welds on the windscreen pillar from where I ripped the aerial off – I bloody hate them aerials. What else – oh cleaned me shed and got a fright when ‘er indoors was feedin’ the birds in the aviaries – she’s like ooh expletive the birds got out (rainbow lorikeets) so I jog out to have a look n all it was, was three natives hangin round the aviary, all ours were counted for BUT about arf hour later she says one of the Kakariki got out which it had the bugger. Took like an hour of coaxing to get the sod back in the aviary but he won’t leave coz the hen was still in there. we ended up partitioning the aviary and left the door open and he flew in, dozy sod.
Apart from that, we’ve got a touch of rain here and it’s cooler which is good and on that note I’m off to play the HexBox
Adios
Carl
And About Bloody Time Too Two
Originally Posted 9/9/06
Well the sites finally finished, the eGallery is all sorted (well close enough to) and I’ve caught up with the news from a squillion years back. What have I been doing of late? Well seeing as it’s been bloody hot that last few days, sod all – I hate the friggin heat and we’re only just in spring grrrrrrrr s’posed to be bloody hotter tomorrow to. That’s the whine out the way so what else. Sold CBIS, and boy has the stress level plummeted, umm done a few tatts, painted Dylan’s PeeWee 50 – the boy’s a natch, have to get him on a 125 GP road racer next umm what else oh bought some more tools (a bench drill and bench grinder) oh and I’ve been playing Fable and Brothers In Arms on the HexBox.
For those that are interested in what I currently look like, seeing as the pic of me in the gallery is a few years old here is one taken in May this year – and on that note I’ll catchya’s all later.
Carl
Soul Survivor, Soul Reviver or Marry Me!
Originally Posted 1/8/06
Yes, I know it’s a rather twisted topic for my first update in ages – but hey twisted is as twisted does 😛 (I’ll explain further on down).
It’s been a fairly crappy few months, what with servers being shut down and the owners not passing this teeny bit of info on so I get clients calling me complaining they can’t reach they’re website so in the upshot I lose a client who was paying me 2.5k (approx) a year for updates and maintenance of his site GRRRRRRRRRRRRR.
OK – 2.5k a year is sod all in the grand scheme of things but add that to other income and it all adds up and I ain’t rich by any stretch of the imagination so if any of you ladies sussed out my pic and thought ‘yummy’ is he rich? (BWAHAHAHAHAHA – yeh right as if on both counts) – ya outta luck!
What else has ‘appened? Well it appears I’m up for a tranny in the Sonata – 12 hundred bux 🙁 ummm my PC went bang which meant a new mobo, cpu and ram – it’s been bloody hot, Christmas loses all meaning when it’s like 120 degrees 🙁 about the only decent thing to happen (weather wise) is we’ve had some rain lately so the grass has taken on a greenish tinge, not that awful brown that seems to be everywhere.
Oh the subject of this rambling – is because I’m sitting here here listening to ‘Yes’ and if you know, you know 😉
Dogs and Electricity – Do They Mix?
Originally Posted 19/6/05
Apparently not!
Here I am happily(?) working away in my little home office when next I hear a yelp, then everything goes off. Now, I knew exactly what happened so I ran outside to see my 9 mth old dog (his pic as a pup is in the gallery) running around in circles in the backyard, the hair on his back standing up and a rather shocked groan look on his face.
Turns out the dozy bugger decided to chew his way through a mains line and copped 240 volts on the tongue 🙂 I shouldn’t laugh but it’ll (I hope) teach him to knock off the chewing of everything and anything – and I MEAN ANYTHING! He’s a cross German Shepherd – Malamute so I would have thought he’d be a bit brighter, not literally sparking up :-P. Trying to calm him down was fun, although only 9 mths he’s a monster of a dog and he ain’t stopped growin’ – oh well, all I can say is yaye for circuit breakers.
Cheers
Carl
Ouch!
Originally Posted 16/4/05
Bloody old age, one minute you’re chasing 18 so you can get into the pubs and the next you’re wondering why you’re yawning at 5pm. I’ll tell you why, it’s called “BLUR.
Now if you haven’t twigged yet, blur is the time as it zooms by and you don’t even notice it until it’s too late. Ok I’m still a spring chicken, just a piddling 48 years old but what happened to the last 25+? My youngest will be 23 this year, number 2 will 25 and the eldest 28 or is it 29 eeek – damn failing memory 😛 It only seems like yesterday they were arguing over who owned what Barbie (they’re all girls by the way :-)), or hiding boyfriends from their Tad.
Now it’s time to watch the grand-kids grow up, the 2 boys now play rugby league (their mothers wouldn’t let ’em play the game they play in Heaven the buggers ;-)) 2 of the grand-daughters are in kindy and the third has just discovered that if she pulls on the phone cord it falls off the desk, or putting food caked hands on the TV gets her Tad-cu a touch cheesed off because he’s gotta to wipe it clean. One of these days I’ll leave it till it builds up and drives everyone else nuts. I spose that’ll teach me for bein a picky sod 🙂 Anyway, I’m away – my elbow and shoulder is givin’ me gyp, probably from many years of shifting gears in a truck and then 10 years of sittin’ at a desk.