Its update time...
... or well, sort of, if I had anything decent to write about. Most of the stuff is in Vicki's journal, and I'm suffering from IKBA so won't retype a months worth.
Had to do a head gasket on the old mans car. Once we'd got the head off the timing chain guides were totally shagged so had to have the whole front of the engine off. If you have every had a "recon" engine in your car from the "London Engine & Gearbox Company" check their work. Bunch of tossers. The recon was a replacement that had obviously done a good few miles before it was transplanted.
This took ages, including me shearing the head off the breaker bar undoing the crank pully bolt its is stupidly tight (150lb feet + 135 deg angle tightened!) I wouldnt have minded if it was with a length if scaffold pole on the end but it was just me and the 2 foot bar.
After a couple of teething problems he's now back on the road.
Got to change the hoses that go onto my radiator on my car as they are getting a little solid and starting to de-laminate inside I think. Should only take me an hour to do them. Also could do with blasting the crud out of the heater matrix.
Easter was fairly quiet. Weather wasnt brilliant but got out on the saturday for a while.
I worked late the thursday before good friday. Was 10pm when I got home and was in for 9.30 on the friday migrating exchange to replacement kit the hard way as the new domain simply refused to talk to the old one. This was a week after I rebooted the old mail server as it hadnt been touched for 9 months and the fucker had eaten its files off its OS partition. Still not quite sure what was up with it, but thankfully it hadnt eaten the main priv.edb file.
I was late at work for that the thursday night and in by 7am on the friday. Thankfully I have some time off in lieu as I am somewhat lacking in annual leave at work now. I think I have one or two days spare to last me until april next year.
Another thing getting on my tits is the price of petrol. Its got stupid again. Something about a nuclear dispute with Iran. How the fuck does a nuclear dispute put crude oil up that far???!!!!??? Costs me a nats bollock under 55 quid to fill up and it will be gone in a week. Thankfully I wont have that many more liverpool runs to do, so makes my mileage a little more sensible, although with trips away I'm sure it will soon rack up.
I'm off for a quick snack as I hit the hut at lunch time. Maybe a cold beer or two then some sleep.
Huggles etc to those that want.
Had to do a head gasket on the old mans car. Once we'd got the head off the timing chain guides were totally shagged so had to have the whole front of the engine off. If you have every had a "recon" engine in your car from the "London Engine & Gearbox Company" check their work. Bunch of tossers. The recon was a replacement that had obviously done a good few miles before it was transplanted.
This took ages, including me shearing the head off the breaker bar undoing the crank pully bolt its is stupidly tight (150lb feet + 135 deg angle tightened!) I wouldnt have minded if it was with a length if scaffold pole on the end but it was just me and the 2 foot bar.
After a couple of teething problems he's now back on the road.
Got to change the hoses that go onto my radiator on my car as they are getting a little solid and starting to de-laminate inside I think. Should only take me an hour to do them. Also could do with blasting the crud out of the heater matrix.
Easter was fairly quiet. Weather wasnt brilliant but got out on the saturday for a while.
I worked late the thursday before good friday. Was 10pm when I got home and was in for 9.30 on the friday migrating exchange to replacement kit the hard way as the new domain simply refused to talk to the old one. This was a week after I rebooted the old mail server as it hadnt been touched for 9 months and the fucker had eaten its files off its OS partition. Still not quite sure what was up with it, but thankfully it hadnt eaten the main priv.edb file.
I was late at work for that the thursday night and in by 7am on the friday. Thankfully I have some time off in lieu as I am somewhat lacking in annual leave at work now. I think I have one or two days spare to last me until april next year.
Another thing getting on my tits is the price of petrol. Its got stupid again. Something about a nuclear dispute with Iran. How the fuck does a nuclear dispute put crude oil up that far???!!!!??? Costs me a nats bollock under 55 quid to fill up and it will be gone in a week. Thankfully I wont have that many more liverpool runs to do, so makes my mileage a little more sensible, although with trips away I'm sure it will soon rack up.
I'm off for a quick snack as I hit the hut at lunch time. Maybe a cold beer or two then some sleep.
Huggles etc to those that want.