Today I mostly .....

Neil Chowney · Post by **Neil Chowney** » Mon May 03, 2010 6:40 pm

today I hoovered out my garage......

... and rebuilt a pristine RHD steering box

excossack · Post by **excossack** » Mon May 03, 2010 7:04 pm

Today, I sanded and varninshed a new internal door, took my sister on a Motorway lesson after she passed her test a few months ago. Helped a neighbour cut up a tree she dug out and helpded her plant a new bushy tree palmy looking thing.

Then cooked tea, then went for a walk to the local slip way and now I'm on the couch watching the snooker.

Zelandeth · Post by **Zelandeth** » Mon May 03, 2010 7:50 pm

...Watched the snooker, recompiled the drivers for my graphics tablet, considered buying a new yellow cartridge for my printer...put it off again for another month or so. Oh...and watched the snooker.

excossack · Post by **excossack** » Mon May 03, 2010 8:14 pm

Sometimes its cheaper to sell the printer on and buy a new one with the new cartridges than to buy the ink!

excossack · Post by **excossack** » Mon May 03, 2010 8:30 pm

What are their names? Sunday and Roast?

Zelandeth · Post by **Zelandeth** » Mon May 03, 2010 8:48 pm

Cartridges for this thing are £10-15 generally on Amazon - however they last for ages (this is really a business inkjet to be honest, rated duty cycle is 3500 pages per month...). Bought the thing in June last year, and it's been bugging me since about December that the yellow cartridge is low...but what it considers to be low is about 30%...and there's still a good 15% in there. Once it hits ten...I'll probably order one - albeit the XL version rather than the tiny starter ones it came with...ten months ago!

excossack · Post by **excossack** » Mon May 03, 2010 9:03 pm

Posh birds then?

Neil Chowney · Post by **Neil Chowney** » Mon May 03, 2010 9:08 pm

strange name for two plastic chairs........

Zelandeth · Post by **Zelandeth** » Mon May 03, 2010 10:48 pm

Yep, I've seen them for some of their bigger kit, one of the plotters at work has one.

The ink delivery system on this seems to be sort of a half-way-house between that, and the small cartridges in most of HP's domestic stuff with the built in heads. The XL version of the black one is actually physically larger than these - hence the extra space to the right of the one in there.

To be honest, if the starter cartridges have lasted as well as they have though - once they're replaced by the XL versions, I doubt that I'll be panicking about the running costs just too much! ...Well, except for when they all run out at once anyway!

excossack · Post by **excossack** » Tue May 04, 2010 3:49 pm

cleaned out the gutters for the roof. The gutters were full of mud and moss

Engine oil change on the Land Rumbler.
Touched up some chipped paint on the boat
Sanded and varnished the other side of the internal door
Went food shopping
Back to work tomorrow

Alejoint · Post by **Alejoint** » Wed May 05, 2010 2:45 pm

Moved my TVs, DVD players, DVD collection and all computer-related stuff to the new pad, and got a few allergies in the process...

You wouldn't believe how much dust makes its way into the older apartment...

Zelandeth · Post by **Zelandeth** » Wed May 05, 2010 11:39 pm

Today I mostly muttered and cursed about the cost of car insurance - specifically for the Cappuccino...How on earth can something so small be so expensive to insure!?!

Still...Got it down to around £350 in the end (having started at nearly a grand...)...could do better, however my no claims are stuck on the 107...and Direct Line aren't interested in giving me an even vaguely sensible quote for it - even with them matching the no claims because it's a second car under my name...

Blarg...Will fight with that conundrum further tomorrow. Sleep is necessary now!

excossack · Post by **excossack** » Thu May 06, 2010 7:00 am

if you use a cask site such as www.quidco.co.uk you can cash back on various things, and one is car insurance, So if you dont mind waiting for the cash you may save even more!

excossack · Post by **excossack** » Sat May 08, 2010 5:32 pm

Today i fixed my mums washing machine and helped a mate strip his kitchen ready for the work needed to replace/rewire/replaster it.
Found 2 dead mice!

and tonight im out for a meal with friends to celebrate being another year old on the 10th!

Zelandeth · Post by **Zelandeth** » Sat May 08, 2010 9:09 pm

Took the Cappuccino for its MOT (8:45 in the morning...blarg!).

Result was about the second best I could have hoped for. While it was a fail, it was a fail on only one thing - and in the grand scheme of things, a pretty trivial one!

Nearside front spring not correctly seated. Looks like someone changed the damper a couple of years back and never seated it properly - must have been missed at the last MOT as nobody's been in there since, and it's not been lowered (spring's still tight with the wheel off).

Given the horrific amount of welding it needed last year, and that I'd not had a chance to give the brakes a going over yet...and hadn't even touched anything in the engine bay (aside from giving it a quick clean and zapping the distributor with WD-40 when it refused to start when wet!...Oh, and replacing the radiator cap because the seals had turned to powder, meaning that every time it cooled it was sucking air in rather than water from the expansion tank...Not good when you have a water leak!), I really can't complain at that result!

Was the first time I've had a chance to drive the car more than half a mile or so - fantastic fun!

...Plus it was lovely and sunny, so I drove to the test with the roof off. You know you would have done too!

...Still however trying to get my hair untangled!