What made you feel good today?

[slowsnake]

And that made you feel good today
You're nuts!.....

Cheers Billy

[slowsnake]

Reading MITCHAY's post just now.....classic



Cheers Billy.

[DFB FGXR6]

Originally Posted by slowsnake

And that made you feel good today
You're nuts!.....

Cheers Billy

Just having a bit laugh, not much to laugh about lately.

[slowsnake]

Originally Posted by DFB FGXR6

Just having a bit laugh, not much to laugh about lately.

I agree, some things on the forum are funny to me, even at 2:30 am!
I'm very lucky in Perth, plus have great neighbours, never an issue here and thats a good feeling, makes me feel good everyday!


Cheers Billy

[Citroënbender]

Playing the “long game” vs “I want it NOW” has found me the exact NOS lock kit I wanted/needed for the DD. They’ve been getting so bad I open from one door and lock from the other (no remote).

Eventually, after several months of intermittent searching, tracked down a listing on a European Fleabay page - no freight to Australia. Sent a polite message with a flattering (40-foot ) picture of my car to validate. The response? “No problem”.

[jaydee]

Just scored $350.97 in Lotto today from Monday night.
Taking my son to lunch later in the week for pork ribs and cider.

[.:4:.]

So i hadnt run my rc car since early last week as i actually had meaningful stuff to do for a change. But since then i upgraded the axles from the stock plastic ones to steel ones. So obviously theyre heavier, i was a tad surprised at how significantly heavier they are. But what really surprised me was how noticable the performance improved. So i had no doubts the brushless motor couldnt handle the added rotating mass as its overpowered for the gearing as it is. So, ive got the limited suspension adjustments adjusted to where i like it, axles dont affect the weight of the chassis per say, total weight yes, but not what the suspension sees. So more weight down low has lowered the centre of gravity making it corner better. So it still wheelies on comand, but with the plastic axles and less weight over the front, to launch it and keep the front wheels down to take advantage of 4x4, you'd really have to ease on the power. With the extra weight over the front, you dont have to ease in as slowly launching it and can ramp in the power earlier, so improving acceleration. The major surprise to me was braking. So stock with 100% braking force it was touchy. Backed the brake force to 70% on stock axles it was good. Steel axles, 70% brakes it was way to touchy. My logic was greater rotating mass would make braking worse, but i guess its due to lower centre of gravity. So backed the brakes off to 60% and they're still a bit touchy but managable. So might back it off further. Also the new axles are cvd's as opposed to the stock ones being universal joints. So a better design with less moving parts, so less to potentially break.
So my initial thoughts of reliability with the sacrifice of performance were dead wrong. And situations like that im more then happy to be wrong.

[slowsnake]

Originally Posted by .:4:.

So i hadnt run my rc car since early last week as i actually had meaningful stuff to do for a change. But since then i upgraded the axles from the stock plastic ones to steel ones. So obviously theyre heavier, i was a tad surprised at how significantly heavier they are. But what really surprised me was how noticable the performance improved. So i had no doubts the brushless motor couldnt handle the added rotating mass as its overpowered for the gearing as it is. So, ive got the limited suspension adjustments adjusted to where i like it, axles dont affect the weight of the chassis per say, total weight yes, but not what the suspension sees. So more weight down low has lowered the centre of gravity making it corner better. So it still wheelies on comand, but with the plastic axles and less weight over the front, to launch it and keep the front wheels down to take advantage of 4x4, you'd really have to ease on the power. With the extra weight over the front, you dont have to ease in as slowly launching it and can ramp in the power earlier, so improving acceleration. The major surprise to me was braking. So stock with 100% braking force it was touchy. Backed the brake force to 70% on stock axles it was good. Steel axles, 70% brakes it was way to touchy. My logic was greater rotating mass would make braking worse, but i guess its due to lower centre of gravity. So backed the brakes off to 60% and they're still a bit touchy but managable. So might back it off further. Also the new axles are cvd's as opposed to the stock ones being universal joints. So a better design with less moving parts, so less to potentially break.
So my initial thoughts of reliability with the sacrifice of performance were dead wrong. And situations like that im more then happy to be wrong.

You are the most easy to please and make yourself feel good on this thread!
But it takes half an hour to tell us!..lol,


Cheers Billy

[.:4:.]

Originally Posted by slowsnake

You are the most easy to please and make yourself feel good on this thread!
But it takes half an hour to tell us!..lol,


Cheers Billy

Sort of, but its more one of those to hold off insanity kind of things. I haven't been able to work due to current circumstances for a long while now. A hobby, well, that came after car/home/yard maintenance. Once all thats done, its not a daily or weekly thing, hence nothing to do. The rc car stuff, i can do that without breaking any 'rules'. And any minor improvement, well, beats the crap out of watching daytime TV.

[slowsnake]

Originally Posted by .:4:.

Sort of, but its more one of those to hold off insanity kind of things. I haven't been able to work due to current circumstances for a long while now. A hobby, well, that came after car/home/yard maintenance. Once all thats done, its not a daily or weekly thing, hence nothing to do. The rc car stuff, i can do that without breaking any 'rules'. And any minor improvement, well, beats the crap out of watching daytime TV.

I rest my case!....lol.


Cheers Billy

[roKWiz]

Seeing all the beautiful wattles out on this afternoons commuter, taking the forest back road.

[slowsnake]

Big winds here in Perth, went to bed early just tired, woke at 2am to the sound of wind and my 2 wheely bins rolling down the driveway then crashing over, not enough weight in em I suppose.

Got up and put the billy on, went outside in galeforce like wind and rain and moved bins on road against gutter!
Looked up and down street and 3 of my 8 neighbours same as me, so thought I'm here, cold and wet so may as well do other 6 bins too.
No rubbish spilled, just too light for wind, full bins stayed put!
Dident tell em what I did, but Samantha next door mentioned how useless the garbo was, for leaving her bins in the road!..lol..I just shutup


Cheers Billy

[sneaky]

being told that surgery is a real option to get me away from a CPAP machine for the rest of my life, yewww

I'm almost 40 and not overweight, I was told recently that CPAP was the only solution for me to get sleep and keep my HC licence.

saw a sleep specialist today and after he took the time to actually look at me as a person instead of a walking wallet to bleed for years to come he said surgery was the go.

It took about 2 seconds to say my tonsils were grade 4 (huge) and getting them taken out should solve my issues.. off to the ENT in the coming months.

My GP didn't even look at me, he sent me straight to a company to conduct a sleep test and magically they said I need a CPAP and for only $20 a week for 3 years they could sell me one... I wasn't offered any other solutions, diet, exercise, sleep positions.

I had asked for a referral to an ENT and today's appointment with the specialist was to get papers signed to keep my licence.. to date everyone has just suggested I give up my HC to skip the hassle.

A new GP could be on the shopping list soon, he has also made a dodgy call or two with my parents recently

[slowsnake]

Originally Posted by sneaky

being told that surgery is a real option to get me away from a CPAP machine for the rest of my life, yewww

I'm almost 40 and not overweight, I was told recently that CPAP was the only solution for me to get sleep and keep my HC licence.

saw a sleep specialist today and after he took the time to actually look at me as a person instead of a walking wallet to bleed for years to come he said surgery was the go.

It took about 2 seconds to say my tonsils were grade 4 (huge) and getting them taken out should solve my issues.. off to the ENT in the coming months.

My GP didn't even look at me, he sent me straight to a company to conduct a sleep test and magically they said I need a CPAP and for only $20 a week for 3 years they could sell me one... I wasn't offered any other solutions, diet, exercise, sleep positions.

I had asked for a referral to an ENT and today's appointment with the specialist was to get papers signed to keep my licence.. to date everyone has just suggested I give up my HC to skip the hassle.

A new GP could be on the shopping list soon, he has also made a dodgy call or two with my parents recently

Good luck with your licence and income and lifestyle, I had 7 GP'S in one regional practice in WA, the 7th was the best, they were sent there as part of there assessment to practice in Australia?

Like mechanics, there's one on every corner, it's a hassle but you will find the right one


Cheers Billy

[Tonz]

It was arranged that I do the sleep apnea test. so reluctantly did so, had two glasses of wine had myself all plugged in and the flamin thing they put on your finger was the most painful all night. Sleep like a log The wife had been talking about separate beds.

That was 3 months ago, I have slept soundly quietly ever since, in fact Ive been prodded at night to make sure I am still breathing. NO MORE SNORING.
no one can explain it but the snoring decided to find someone else to annoy, but its transferred to the dam dog, fair go she will be in the laundry room very soon.

[HIPO]

Originally Posted by Tonz

It was arranged that I do the sleep apnea test. so reluctantly did so, had two glasses of wine had myself all plugged in and the flamin thing they put on your finger was the most painful all night. Sleep like a log The wife had been talking about separate beds.

That was 3 months ago, I have slept soundly quietly ever since, in fact Ive been prodded at night to make sure I am still breathing. NO MORE SNORING.
no one can explain it but the snoring decided to find someone else to annoy, but its transferred to the dam dog, fair go she will be in the laundry room very soon.

Be careful doing those tests, re impacting your drivers licence.

[sneaky]

Originally Posted by HIPO

Be careful doing those tests, re impacting your drivers licence.

yep, I found this out the painful way.

Had to get paperwork signed yesterday after the specialist looked at my sleep reports from the CPAP machine.

he is confident that once the tonsils come out then I should be ok.

see him again for a sleep test 3 months after surgery and he thinks he will be able to say i'm good with no more annual reviews required.

[slowsnake]

Getting up very early and sat and watched my cat sleep while I had first coffee!
It's very relaxing, lol.


Cheers Billy

[T3rminator]

God telling the planned protestors this afternoon in melb to stay the **** home

[roKWiz]

Originally Posted by T3rminator

God telling the planned protestors this afternoon in melb to stay the **** home

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Beauty, waiting for that front to settle the back fill of a half built wall.

[DFB FGXR6]

Saving $150.56 on my Ranger's insurance renewal.

Gotta love (not) the dance insurance companies play. Lure you in with a good price, increase slightly the next year before going in for the kill in year three. Happens like clockwork. With four cars to insure, this gets old changing insurers so often.

[slowsnake]

Off to my first appointment at oncologist to determine what chemo I need and duration, they said expect to be here for 4 hrs?
I said are you paying the parking ticket?..

$4:80c per hour!....yikes, lol, hahaha, but its all good, mustn't grumble


Cheers Billy

[GasoLane]

Originally Posted by slowsnake

Off to my first appointment at oncologist to determine what chemo I need and duration, they said expect to be here for 4 hrs?
I said are you paying the parking ticket?..

$4:80c per hour!....yikes, lol, hahaha, but its all good, mustn't grumble


Cheers Billy

The hospitals I've been to in Syd can issue patients passes for free parking

[zilo]

Originally Posted by slowsnake

Off to my first appointment at oncologist to determine what chemo I need and duration, they said expect to be here for 4 hrs?
I said are you paying the parking ticket?..

$4:80c per hour!....yikes, lol, hahaha, but its all good, mustn't grumble


Cheers Billy

mate if I was on chemo i would be tearing parking tickets up and maxxing out my credit card...but thats just me....

[MITCHAY]

I had been dealing with this issue where the error message I was getting didn't make any ****en sense.

I thought for sure it was the right username coming through and all the table entries were correct in SAP.

We turned on all this tracing and there was nothing there. So I ended up going back to my dev VM and coding some real low level tracing. The service account was what I thought it was so was like WTF?

And after all that I thought I wonder if it were case sensitive. I asked the security team to convert it to upper case as a last roll of the dice and BAM!

Problem solved thank ****

[slowsnake]

I have absolutely no idea what your last post meant MITCHAY, but it obviously made your day!....cool....



Cheers Billy

[slowsnake]

My Cat and the Crow!

My unit is in a row of 8, all inline and facing the road, all of the units are connected, each pair has a double driveway and double 2 car carport.
This morning at 7am I go to get morning paper by car, its a daily ritual, I also take cat biscuits outside and put them next to my front left wheel but 50cm distant.

So I start my car and pull out and can see cat come back to biscuits, we have a resident crow in our street and any biscuits left I just throw in driveway, the crow plods around picking em up.

But, I get back from shop, dident take my phone today, bummer, I pull up to back in from road and my cat lifts its head to look, and no bullsh.t the crow is a metre behind the cat pacing back and forth waiting for the cat to finish so he can get leftovers, lol, my bloody cat was totally oblivious to the crow, its his nemesis, but he's to smart for him, and it was a once in a lifetime photo opportunity lost to posterity!...

And it made me feel better than good, it was a cracker seeing this crow pacing behind my cat!


Cheers Billy

[T3rminator]

Seeing my nephew and niece enjoying being kids again. They live in the states where things are a bit more free now. Getting lots of photos from them on group camps and stuff really makes my day.

Originally Posted by MITCHAY

I had been dealing with this issue where the error message I was getting didn't make any ****en sense.

I thought for sure it was the right username coming through and all the table entries were correct in SAP..........

Issue command "DELETE from <tablename>" and make everyone happy

[Rallye Sport]

After a couple of stormy weekends its sunshine and 20 degrees here today.

Couldn't decide which car to cruise up the coast so I've taken them both out

[Hippy]

Made my day , when i woke up ..