What made you feel good today?

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Originally Posted by asagaai

Interesting.

We have Kites or Falcons that glide over the cliff at our rear garden, below which is a Lake.

Discussed with my wife where they live- and wondered if they lived on the cliff face. She told me two days ago that she saw them nest high up on a big industrial building at Lee Rowans in Warners Bay. She then says that is probably because all the local birds where we live go batcrazy whenever the Kites/Falcons sit on a casuarina tree on the cliffs edge on our back garden- I mean there is a joint attack by magpies, minors, cockatoos -like a full on squadron of different bird types swooping and going crazy.

Then she says - do you know how they have sex- I saw a female Kite sitting on the edge of Lee Rowans building, male Kite comes flying up to her and while still flying like a helicopter inserts into her for 3-5 seconds and then deed is done - so quick - and off the male flies.

And I thought without saying anything- well you are a lucky woman

Another thing i find interesting about these apex preditors is, unlike say a magpie who wants to peck you to death, they come in with their big feet with claws to get you. As seen in the video of the window washer hiding in the basket 21 floors up swinging his squeegy stick to protect himself. Judging the video, it wasnt evem the big mother bird. I know it has had offspring. Years ago before i had seen smaller falcons in the area i used to do the lightning protection inspections and the big falcon would follow and sort of swoop, but keep atleast 3 metres distance. It was just making sure i wasnt going near its nest. Still a bit confronting though. Even at a small enough distance, you can hear the wings beating. I cant see how other birds even bother annoying these apex preditors. Theyre fast and they take down other birds in flight like a rifle to a clay pigeon. All claws and the beak is to finish the job.

[Mr Brooksy]

Took my Grandfather to the Perth army museum on Saturday. He's the last living digger from the Mandurah area that served in Korea apparently. It was great to have 4 generations see some history in the museum and hear some stories from Pop that the museum visit jogged.

Oh and an army Cadet thanked Pop for his service, which was great.

[DFB FGXR6]

Originally Posted by Mr Brooksy

Took my Grandfather to the Perth army museum on Saturday. He's the last living digger from the Mandurah area that served in Korea apparently. It was great to have 4 generations see some history in the museum and hear some stories from Pop that the museum visit jogged.

Oh and an army Cadet thanked Pop for his service, which was great.

Thanks for sharing, grandparents are to be cherished and you are very lucky to have those experiences. I wish I had got more time with all of my Grandparents during my adult life, I miss them everyday.

[DFB FGXR6]

One of the greatest and simplest pleasures in life for me is a perfectly toasted piece of bread with butter and Vegemite! Comfort food, good for the soul.

Last night my trusty Breville toaster decided it would no longer play it's part in this pleasure. Bugger! That didn't make me feel good.

Bought a new one today, and all is well with the world again. That made me feel good!

It's the simple things.............

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Originally Posted by DFB FGXR6

One of the greatest and simplest pleasures in life for me is a perfectly toasted piece of bread with butter and Vegemite! Comfort food, good for the soul.

Last night my trusty Breville toaster decided it would no longer play it's part in this pleasure. Bugger! That didn't make me feel good.

Bought a new one today, and all is well with the world again. That made me feel good!

It's the simple things.............

Interestingly enough, it was only last week when an Estonian client of mine was extremely excited to tell me of his new favourite thing, vegemite. Then he proceeded to tell me of his weak vegemite game. For 13 years at school the 1 constant was a vegimite sandwich. So to me, you dont always need butter or margarine, i dont need it spread thin, and yes i know it goes well with cheese. So i enlightened him on a few things. The vegemite scroll is one of those things that blew his mind. Personally its not my thing, im pretty simple, but you can do vegemite and bashed avo. There are many things you can do with the stuff. Sao's, all sorts of stuff. If you pronounce the mite in vegemite like how Americans pronounce the mite in yosemite, it sounds fancy and no cafe worker knows what the hell you are asking for untill you spell it out. I even know a burger joint that has a burger with vegemite mayo. They go pretty hard to be honest.

[five 7]

Originally Posted by DFB FGXR6

One of the greatest and simplest pleasures in life for me is a perfectly toasted piece of bread with butter and Vegemite! Comfort food, good for the soul.

Last night my trusty Breville toaster decided it would no longer play it's part in this pleasure. Bugger! That didn't make me feel good.

Bought a new one today, and all is well with the world again. That made me feel good!

It's the simple things.............

Partial to a soft boiled egg and Marmite on buttered toast plus salt pepper, makes a easy lunch....

[Lunch]

About a year ago I decided I was going to try to replace the lego I had as a kid but stupidly sold when I was about 20, not an easy prospect given the cost and rarity of vintage lego these days.
For the 3 days I spent working on the brother-in-law’s cinema room, he gave me some old lego that his boss had stored at their work and was about to be thrown out, which was a surprise because I didn’t know anything about it and wasn’t expecting anything for the work.

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With no instructions, I sorted through it looking for unique pieces I could use to reference and others to cross reference at bricklink.com ( all lego parts have a part number ) to match up with sets, then use the set numbers to complete the inventory lists, then to brickinstructions.com for the online instructions.

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I had to add about 15-20 pieces from my own stuff to finish off a few of the sets but all in all they were surprisingly complete considering some are 30+ years old, after finding all the sets I could, this is all that’s left

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Im pretty happy that I was able to get that many together considering my initial opinion was that it was just a few tubs of random stuff.

Breakfast beers with the boys.

Now it's bed time .

[Citroënbender]

Finally remembered the name of an author whom I’d been trying to remember for a number of years. I could remember her main genre but not the titles.

Elizabeth Wurtzel, most well known for Prozac Nation.

Was supposed to build this when not sleeping lol maybe next swing ?

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Now kfc is not something i get often at all. My apprentice has never heard me say i want dirty bird for lunch. But i had a hankering for greasy bird today so i threw that out there. My apprentice is a kiwi. So after he made sure i was serious he let out a chur. Between us we bought seemingly half the store. It was a heavy greasy lunch, but i dont do that very often and it was good. Also the apprentices storys of the new 'toy' he bought last night werent bad. Summery of that is its got a mod plate as its been engine swapped, its got a supercharger, its manual, and my thoughts are mad car, but its a magnet for power poles. And he reset the economy on the dash and it currently reads 29L per hundred for not fanging it yet. So no wonder his project car is up for sale, his words were, im never going to be able to afford to finish it.

Breakfast beers and a 7 day break

[Citroënbender]

All comers now repelled, finally can take an hour off to nap.

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My current apprentice is a real car nut. Well, he actually modifies stuff. Anyrate he has never driven a diesel, my ranger work car is by no means fast, but he noticed how in traffic i get off the clutch to crawl as quickly as you do in a petrol car exept i dont touch the accelerator. Ill often shift into second when traffic is accelerating at a snails pace. So after i explained the hill holder, i threw down that i can hill start clutch only. So chosen hill was in the city where margaret st comes up to clarence st. So after the no way from a 2.2 from the apprentice, sure enough, it did it easy. So then before we parked i threw the keys at him and said park it, shift into 2nd or 3rd, no accelerator. So he did that, and the whole time was saying its so weird. Granted my ute is slow, his toy is an engine swapped supercharged ute making bonkers power, both manuals. He was surprised i wasnt lying when i say the ranger is slow but stupid easy to drive. He better hold up his end of the bargin and let me take his ute for a rip.

[Citroënbender]

Friday.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wLGciG2a1I8

Looking for NEW property in a part of Qld i never considered before .

[FairmontGS]

Knocking off @ 3:00pm

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Originally Posted by FairmontGS

Knocking off @ 3:00pm

I got out at 1. The downside was the 5am start. However, it is lovely weather to be chilling on my deck with some cold beers.

[Tonz]

i dont have to work, retirement is good

Dinner :p

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Well over the past couple of days i broke the golden rule. I did electrical work on my own house. So as an electrician i am a bit ashamed of myself. Anyrate, the work i did yesterday i tested, but due to the weather, testing ran into today, but i hit the nail on the head with the settings.
So the issue i was butting heads with with the bloke who rents my granny flat was the light in my laundry. The door to my laundry is external on my house so we share my laundry. The globe went out years ago. I do my washing during the day so not an issue to me. He does his at night. I didnt like the fitting as it fills up with dead bugs. Hence me never changing the globe. Added to that, the light gets left on. On friday i rejiggled the wiring and put in an LED downlight. Bug problem solved. But, that doesnt solve the leaving the light on issue thats a pet hate of mine. So yesterday i installed a motion sensor and set the daylight settings to only sense in low light. Not complete darkness. I left the switch as an over ride off. Well, as per bcs's you cannot have an over ride on switch anymore. So after it last sences motion it stays on for only 30 seconds. I set it like that. During the day if you turn the switch off and back on again, it will sence untill 30 seconds after last motion detected then remain off until it gets dark enough. So im happy with the results. My pet hate is now gone and no more insects dying trying to have sex with a light globe. And 2 years of complaining at me got sorted with a combined 30 minutes of my time and $0 in materials.

[Citroënbender]

No override on permitted? What’s their reasoning?

I bought last year and fitted a three way Clipsal toggle that goes in a standard gang plate, it’s inscribed ON-OFF-SENSOR and installed per the HPM three wire sensor’s instructions.

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Originally Posted by Citroënbender

No override on permitted? What’s their reasoning?

I bought last year and fitted a three way Clipsal toggle that goes in a standard gang plate, it’s inscribed ON-OFF-SENSOR and installed per the HPM three wire sensor’s instructions.

On off auto switches are ok for some reason. Over ride on isnt. Im guessing its to do with people being eco terrorists and leaving lights on. And just because tue building codes say no, that doesnt make it not possible to still manufacture and buy parts like say fuse wire and porcelin fuse holders. I dont give a crap about bringing my house up to code. Everything works. My hot water unit is set hotter then 60 degrees for example. My light switches arent at between 900mm to 1100mm to accomodate for disabled persons with limited movement. Theyre at 1300mm which is normal person height. But either way, the over ride off still addresses my pet hate of leaving the laundry light on. So bca's aside, im happy with the solution.

[roKWiz]

Public holiday last weekend when I was in Victoria and now another one today while in NSW.

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Being the random who does the random act of kindness. I heard a metalic bang. Did nothing. Not my car hold. After some time heard some doings transpiring and whilst i only speak english, it was clear enough that wife was yelling at husband. So i yelled over the fence and offered up my chainsaw. The answer was a yeah but nah. The nah was because the lady didnt trust her husband with my chain dog. Now the tree that dropped a limb on their shed also also extends over my house. So i did the social justace of cutting up the limb, and did the favour of knocking out a few of their dead stumps and stuff. Didnt accept any payment. It was to my benifit anyways. The neighbors did say they have made multiple complaints about the derelict house with the jungle of a backyard yet nothing has been done. And they said once the council made them clean up. That was my 1 time complaint. So fact, at the time im my child was young. Speculation just to make things happen, snakes. It worked good.

[roKWiz]

Originally Posted by .:4:.

Being the random who does the random act of kindness. I heard a metalic bang. Did nothing. Not my car hold. After some time heard some doings transpiring and whilst i only speak english, it was clear enough that wife was yelling at husband. So i yelled over the fence and offered up my chainsaw. The answer was a yeah but nah. The nah was because the lady didnt trust her husband with my chain dog. Now the tree that dropped a limb on their shed also also extends over my house. So i did the social justace of cutting up the limb, and did the favour of knocking out a few of their dead stumps and stuff. Didnt accept any payment. It was to my benifit anyways. The neighbors did say they have made multiple complaints about the derelict house with the jungle of a backyard yet nothing has been done. And they said once the council made them clean up. That was my 1 time complaint. So fact, at the time im my child was young. Speculation just to make things happen, snakes. It worked good.

I got a nice job lined up for you to trim a huge river red overhanging my front boundary. I've asked council several times to no avail.

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Originally Posted by roKWiz

I got a nice job lined up for you to trim a huge river red overhanging my front boundary. I've asked council several times to no avail.

Claim the tree is full of venomous snakes and you have young children. Council has to do something. My cheapest possible bunnings chainsaw wasnt happy going 2 tanks straight flat stick so it crapped out. Its payed for itself multiple times over. It may live again once cooled down, but either way, its made me happy and also people around me for getting **** done with it. So happy days

[Syndrome]

The four days of the 45th CST finished yesterday. What an awesome event.

[Citroënbender]

Not a patch on Lunch’s marked-down Caramilk but at $1.14, ohh yesss.

Living life...