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  1. Zombie Among Us

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    Watching the movie The Day The Earth Stood Still. I think it’s a remake, so I’ll carlify that I’m watching the 2008 version. Honestly pretty terrifying... I love it!
     
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  3. Iain Aschendale

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    enjoying a nother hour of internet time before i go on a self-imposed two week internet ban. I need to un plug and rest a bit. I believe doing this sans internet is the better way to go (save for a half and hour a day to check e-mails that can not wait)

    Self-Awareness has demanded that I un-plug and rest for a few weeks. Life has become a out of control steam engine driving by my worst half (the negative me) and his partner in crime -The chaos.

    No need go into specifies of my personal life here. I don’t think you want to read about that, anyway. Then again, maybe you do. But let’s assume you don’t.

    Basically I need time to reset myself, to unplug and rest my mental monkey mind. And to get back to the nuts and bolts approach to life, to refocus and view life as it is and where I want to take it. I need to return to the nuts and bolts of the core of my being: Family, Writing, Progressive body weight calisthenics and reading.

    I plan on writing and documenting it all. The challenges and the outcomes, what I achieved or failed to do, unexpected gifts or negatives I find on the way. Maybe, if you’re lucky (or unlucky depending on how you view it) a photo or two.

    No time to get into the details of the matter here and now, time is tight and I have much to do. I will explain all the details in future stories. But I can give a rundown —

    Two weeks-no internet (kind of)
    I will allow myself a small window each day (half and hour) to check E-mails, Tax stuff ect…)

    • No you tube (Those Seth Godin interviews can wait)
    • No Medium (this one may be the hardest)
    • No on-line writers groups
    • No news
    • No Social Media
    • No amazon
    • No writers Market
    • No “Let me just check this quickly…”
    • no cheating and checking the sites on my phone
    • No clicking here clicking there clicking everywhere
    • No easy dopamine fix
    • Very limited Netflix (Maybe a late night movie AFTER my writings)
    • No Nothing… (for twenty three and a half hours a day)
    Two weeks where, beside my job and spending time with family, I will write on my novel and in short stories, I will write flash fiction and Medium Stories. I will write until the sun goes down and when when I frown, I will write until I drop and then I will write about that. I will write about my goals and loves and my hates. I will write in a dingy cold basement because I want to write in solitude and in truth.

    In another world I would do this from cabin deep in the woods where I would write by candle light and eat only what I can catch (which would be easy cause — no meat) where I would not talk to another human but have plenty to say to my animal friends. No- I must write in between mind-numbing work, Active five year old’s, driving, traffic, sleep and all those little time drains that life seems so fond of.

    There’s more-so much more I want to say but first I need to strip away all non-essentials in my life and just Fing write and think about… everything. I am sure anyone reading this has, at some point, felt the same — Right?

    So I am off. I have three hours of free internet usage to burn before I pull that switch.

    and you what the best part is….

    I’ll write about it all, in two weeks. See you all April 1st.
     
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    I still reckon I would be happy living in an Amish community without electricity. :)
     
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    nah, mine's more like a comedy or one of those boring movies on Hallmark Channel, we're on the guy in the background just standing there. Watching
     
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    April 1st you say? Don`t trust it it`s a trap! For real though good luck to you on your sabbatical may it be productive.

    Ah Lancaster, haven`t been up in that area for a long while. Don`t actually miss it, still smile seeing it pop up in the video though.

    John Wayne Mall Cop!

    Second long night in a row working the art center last night thought about getting up getting an Irish Breakfast, and then going to church...ended up going back to sleep, eating cookies, and watching an episode of The Magicians. Taking today as a day of rest a bit I guess, not quite used to my new routine yet. Gotta pace myself take time, it isn`t Spring quite yet. Should do a little cleaning, set up for the week, and get some reading done today.
     
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    Waiting for my veggie curry wot he's cooking (I'm such a slouch in the kitchen these days). Then we're watching Doom Patrol. Woop.
     
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    I feel for you man ! My whole work life never involved such things until the government (back in the late 90s) went crazy go nuts university about workplace safety and everyone had to do an expensive safety course.

    Apparently common sense had to be taught by a professional. It seemed to me the presenter thought he was imparting wisdom, yet failed to see ( or was trained to ignore) how bored and pissed off we all were for having to be forced to pay for something we already knew.
     
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    Kickass?
     
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    Same. Though I'd like to do it alone. Living off the grid, so to speak, in the bush somewhere's, minimalistically, still with net access to the world, but spending most of my time in nature.

    As I kid I lived in a tiny village surrounded by millions of acres of untouched north queensland bushland. Peaceful and awe inspiring heaven compared to suburbia.
    Decades later, lived in me sedan throughout 2017 on my last year of (housing industry) work, thus experiencing minimalism, which inspires me to the goal of living alone in the bush.
     
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    Heading into Lonnie again this morning...bloody 3 times in less than a week.
    Picking up mower, repairs $100.

    Did oil change on ute yesterday with new sexy aluminium trolley jack. Bought this one due to light weight and excellent built quality...and the super sexy single roller wheel.
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    My current repair trolley jack is far too heavy for grass and dirt, would be excellent on a concrete surface, and it was overkill on weight capacity (prolly could lift a bus).

    Also while servicing ute, degreased and oiled drive system on me treadlee.
    Haven't exercised for nearly a week due to fatigue. Change of routine seeing as I instantly went from 16 to 34km rides. Will not push hard. Will work up to that as I still wanna ride every 2nd day, maybe 2 days rest for a while though.

    Also serviced drive shaft of wheelbarrow. Derusted and greased shaft, and replaced severely fucked up and rusted non stainless steel unsealed bearings. The Contessa, who thinks she's always right, chose to always leave wheelbarrow outside. I knew this would fuck up the bearings but have decided, after increased knowledge of narcissism, to no longer respectfully point out her dumbassery. She can pay for it and I'll calmly do the repairs.

    Also while in town, grabbing 4 more barrow bearings and a set of stainless steel or galvo bolts etc for the axle mount.

    Ha, how greed obsessed are many companies nowadays. The barrow is fairly new, overall quality for price was pretty good, but what the manufacturer has done is use extremely cheap and nasty bearings -
    1 - not stainless steel; 2 - unsealed; 3 - the outer and inner dimensions are either imperial or 1mm different from standard sizes, thus you can't replace the crap bearings with quality stainless steel sealed ones (which would last for years).

    I have three choices...
    - replace complete wheel ( wide tyre version) with $80 one ( that runs standard sized bearings), half the price of the barrow, or
    - keep buying shitty bearings and replace them twice a year, only $5 each, or
    - get someone to hone out plastic bearing housing to fit quality bearings.
    Currently sticking with option 2.

    I'd already told the hardware shop about their crap product...response, an emotionless "Oh".

    KFC for breakie, my usual, large chips and popcorn. If the weather is cool on the way back, hitting the village for a coffee, and going for a jolly good thrash through The Sidling, as I'd just has some major front end work done and with new oil and oil conditioner this time, I wanna see how Babe runs.
     
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    Reminiscing about work place safety. 2 stories.

    1. When it was first introduced, folks with little common sense trained folks who struggled to think for themselves to go around to job sites checking to see if tradies had their expensive safety cards, and that we were working according to the new guidelines created.

    One such bloke told me I can't use a double adapter at the end of my household 10amp rated extension cord to run my beatbox and HD mixing drill for me plaster mud.

    He said I have to run a 15amp industry rated cord, and a safety cut-off powerboard.
    I said the beatbox and drill doesn't even come close to 10 amps, and the temp power box for worksites always run safety cut-off technology, and there's no difference to a 4 plug powerboard and a double adapter.

    He was adamant, and I said he's entitled to his opinion and I won't be following his advice. He then said it's not advice, it's part of the new safety rules and I could be fined. I said, ok, I won't be obeying these rules, I'll do what I've always done, use common sense and take full responsibility for my decisions and actions, and the government has no say in those elements.

    2. The dingbats also started off with saying everyone on residential housing job sites have to wear safety hats. Then they modified this ruling due to sheetrock plasters have to use their heads to hold ceiling sheets up while securing them.

    Other tradies also pointed out how stupid it is to wear them inside. thus they changed the ruling to everyone has to wear them outside only (even if there's no tradies working on the roofs) and can take them off inside.

    Then the roofies asked what were they going to get struck by when on the roof, including many of them suffered from heat exhaustion during the warmer months, as the hats trapped the heat, so the dingbats changed the ruling again, that roofers don't need to wear them, but still need to wear them when they alight from the roof.

    In my small circle of builders we worked for I never saw one safety hat on residential sites, story 2 was relayed to me by blokes who witnessed these things and knew of the meetings held by these idiots as they set out to formulate safer work environments.

    The common understanding among the tradies was it was another means for the government to make money, to convince the public they were useful and cared about the citizens they were meant to be representing.
     
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    Late night tea with that Lost guy.

    He's not lost anymore, btw, he managed to find his way to my apartmen with no troubles at all!
     
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    Lost Guy? Is that what happens when one of the Lost Boys grows up? :D

    Enjoy your tea.

    Been a day of rest haven't really done much other than excerise and get some small groceries. Should be getting around to do a little here in a bit. It's good to have rest days to it.
     
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    Absent minded professor mode again. ( looks up at image...apt.)

    I was at the bearing shop grabbing 4 more barrow bearings.The old one I brought in was slightly different from the ones he had in stock. New ones, inner diameter 0.4mm wider, but the axle was loose in the originals anyways.

    I looked at the new ones and remembered buying 2 of them many moons ago, as I remarked on the better quality and design of them. I was then dumbfounded as to where those 2 I bought were, because I realised in the shop that the old one I bought in was the original bearings that came with the barrow.

    Took me a couple of minutes to figure out the previous 2 I bought weren't lost in the tool shed somewheres, I just bloody put them on the barrow on sunday, fuuuuuuuuuuuuu, that's why I could bring the rusted original into the shop.

    Fucking hilarious when this mental glitch happens.
     
  19. Iain Aschendale

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    Well, I mean, there's still drugs and sex and rock and roll.

    I just filed my taxes! Like an adult, or a citizen, or something.
     
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    Working at home for the day, clocking in here close to ten forty. Actually sat down here almost to nine but got distracted by other things for an hour. Then there was the bit before that where I just fiddled on my phone for a bit after getting around. Left a tab for the show I was watching last night up too, the just one more episode temptation is ringing in my ears. Maybe if I fix a quick lunch in a bit I`ll do that. Need to clean up the kitchen today, along with finding some missing car keys, set up a voice mail and see what's up with the radiator. Also, have a handful of job applications to do, and need to make sure I`m prepared for an interview tomorrow. Need to prepare for a job coaching meeting on hump day to could do that tomorrow or have everything ready for the week right at the jump. Want to catch up on WF today a bit, clean up my MOOC stuff, do some coding exercises, and other routine things. Springs coming on the cusp need to start making a plan for the growing season, I mean we have one but need to work on it more write everything out in an order, logistical crap. Also, need to pick a new book from my to be read...sectoin....of the room and do some general life planning.

    Did fuck all yesterday but it`s almost Spring gotta do a little bit of hustle. It`s Monday let`s start this week off right.

    Let`s just jump into it.
     
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    Having to choose between watching Gilmore Girls in atrocious quality with very loud sound, or very good quality with dial up speed downloading. Hmm. :superthink:
     
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    No middle ground there?
     
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    Nope, none. I ended up watching the atrocious quality version and twitching all the way through from the messed up images and snipped bits of dialogue.
    It should be noted here that I don't excel in patience.
     
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