Man, been a while since I’ve updated this sucker. There will be a ton of information, so here we go.
Where to start, well maybe the FTO is a good choice. Its currently in my local mechanics garage after she overheated for a second time whilst after some heavy driving. (I was driving it hard, so all blames lies on me if its something I did) The first time it overheated was on the Saturday before Christmas and needed to be towed. At that point I found out it was the heater hose which had cracked and was leaking all my coolant out the bottom of the car, dripping onto the exhaust and causing an awful smoke to come from underneath the car. The second time I was driving it sedately after a period of thrashing it through traffic and another small hose has cracked near the engine and was spraying onto the intake manifold. Was out of water, filled it up and drove to the garage and thats where it is now as I stated at the beginning of this paragraph. My awesome mechanic is going to replace every single hose in the engine bay, and I agree that this is a good plan as it seems with the heat that its just burning through the old original hoses damn quickly.
It should be fine, like the last time it overheated. I’m just scared that I may have damaged it as when I noticed the temp gauge it was in the 120’s, the far end of the scale. :\
Went to Melbourne for about 5 days just after Christmas, returned just before the new year. Saw the cricket, went shopping etc, and I’m now the proud owner of a new Wireless card and a yuppie Bluetooth headset. I need it for driving. The cricket was boring as hell though, I mean, I remember it being roughly 130 from 390 balls at one point, for the first 3 or 4 hours the run rate was less than one an over. I mean COME ON. HIT SOMETHING. Anything, hit the umpire with the stumps or something, anything. Thank god we’re members of the MCG as I could go back in the cool and get awesome food, and being in the shade was great too. (I still got burnt, gg skin)
As for the work front, I have more on Monday and Tuesday, at CSU again. The work is sporadic but I welcome any. I also have some possible work with another department within CSU so I’m trying to get onto that but so far have had no response from the number I was given. I will make some more inquiries soon. Nothing big I think, just tech support for a few weeks. I’m intrigued as to know what the payrolls look like in that place, I mean everyone seems to be a casual for some reason.
The reason I’m so happy to have work at the moment as well is that the moveout plans are still going ahead, I just need a small job to fill in the gaps in the bills etc. I’ve found some very nice places though actually, quite expensive but I would rather live on noodles and water in a nice place than takeout pizza in a slum. 
I’ve also changed my favourite album ever in the last few weeks, to Audioslaves self titled album. That is absolutely awesome beyond belief. I’ve never thought before that every track was so so good. In other good music related talk, Daft Punk are ridiculously good live, they remix all their songs and they all come out great on different beats.
I’ve also been reading a new book I got for Christmas, Richard Hammond’s recollection of his Jetcar crash, and he went through a LOT more than he showed on TV. He was almost certainly in recovery during season 9, and even in season 10 he doesn’t look his full self when you see some of the pictures within the book. His mental state was so disturbed that they organised for a team of ex special forces men to get him and his family to Scotland away from the press as their presence could overwhelm him and he could regress. He couldn’t remember what had happened 3 seconds ago most times after the accident and they were afraid he would lose his eye it was that badly damaged. A good read.
I’ve ordered 6 new shirts too, all from Snorgtees, which has some actually hilarious designs for once. No more SplitReason for me after these guys. Hope the arrive soon, and then I have to organise the import tax or whatever it is when you import goods from other countries. I had never heard of it before though so I have no idea.
Seen a few movies lately too, those being Shoot Em Up, I Am Legend, StarDust, the awesomely named Don’t Be A Menace To South Central While Drinking Your Juice In The Hood, and Death At A Funeral. Overall the best out of this lot is Shoot Em Up by a long margin, with I Am Legend coming in second. Shoot Em Up is just what you want from an action film, that is, pointless hilariously cheesy action with one liners and a gritty chisel jawed hero kicking the crap out of the bad guys with reckless abandon. This movie would go awesome with booze.
I Am Legend would be a 10 from me if the ending and CGI had been better. Definitely worth seeing for the city of New York being completely deserted though. Don’t Be A Menace is a hilarious old black parody movie from ‘96 which I first saw with a mate in high school. I grabbed it just to laugh at all the things we laughed at so long ago. Its still funny. Stardust and Death At A Funeral are both okay, but not fantastic. Worth seeing if nothing else is around. StarDust actually bored me somewhat in places, and so did Death At A Funeral.
On the movies coming out soon front, the thing that absolutely dominates my calendar is Cloverfield. HELL YES MONSTER MOVIE. I’ve always loved giant monster movies and this shall be no exception.It has already been confirmed that you see the monster close up at least a couple of times so its not going to be like LOST with mysterious balls of gas and crap like that.Lets go a destroyed New York!
Well, I think thats about everything thats been happening of late, or at least the super short version. I hope to keep this more up to date from now on though.
Funny though, my local mechanic did the blue slip for me and after doing a couple of small adjustments like giving the underbody a wash took it in to the RTA for its inspection. It had no mechanical problems, but was failed on the first attempt because of… bet you can’t guess… the brake pedal cover. I took a picture of it today after I heard about this hilarious knockback. Click to see a larger pic. Basically down the bottom right there of the rubber you can see its worn through in a tiny hole where it naturally wears as you change your foot from brake to throttle. Even my mechanic was pissed off because it just wasted HIS time more than anything. Great mechanic though, gonna stay with him until he retires.
