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would you like stitches with that?

so i gave eyepee a hand yesterday rebuilding his front end..... kingpins, wheel bearings, cv's - 600 bucks worth of parts.... basically everything except the diff

i discovered why everyone raves about this whole martack concept - getting the cv back together while trying to compress the inner circlip sucked in a big way.... which leads to my story

we tried hose clamps, we tried belting it, eventually we got it done using a cable tie - this then left us with the problem of having a super tight cable tie around the axle that needed to be removed..... eyepee told me to grab his leatherman and cut the cable tie while he held the axle - he mentioned "it's pretty sharp".... what he should have said is "DANGER! it's a freakin katana that'll slice you open if you just look at it wrong"

you can guess what happened next

i ended up with a mad slice in my left thumb and a slightly less mad slice in my left pointy finger..... if my mum was there she woulda made me get stitches in my thumb - it was nearly half a cm deep. when i was a kid if i cut myself with anything it was off to the doc for stitches - now that im older and dumber i don't see the point - plus, what kind of a weenie would i have looked bailing with parts everywhere to go get some stitches?

when i got home several hours later i had the joyous task of cleaning out the diff oil and random grease with dettol - you don't seem to be able to buy those butterfly clip things anymore so i had to use a combination of gauze and electrical tape (cos band aids wouldnt stick)

as of this afternoon i can bend my thumb (carefully) without splitting it open again.... and it didnt seem to hit any tendons or anything so i should be fully recovered in time for brass monkey.

i spent today watching movies trying not to move my thumb while eyepee still had to do the other side of his front axle - i think i had the better day :)

in other news... we have 40+ ppl signed up for brass monkey this year - logistics are going to be a challenge but with so many ppl it's set to be a HUGE weekend

there's a reason you're a bouncer and not a stock broker

i've had some disagreements with the security staff of the GPO before.... but i've never been ejected - until last nite.

yesterday was the annual ITfest - which is really just an excuse for the whole dept to indulge in some excessive drinking and forget about work for awhile.... was a good day with everyone well over .05 by mid afternoon.

long story short, we ended up at the gpo - i hate the gpo because it's filled with pretentious yuppie wankers, but that's probably why the skanks at work love it so much (and fight as much as you want you can't beat the influencing power of skanks)

anyway - one of the lads had a bit of a run-in with this particular bouncer fairly early in the evening.... the conversation was going pear shaped so i jumped in and promised to look after him and delicately dragged him back inside - no problems, everyone's having a good time and life is good.

as the night wore on the 8+ hours of heavy drinking started to take it's toll.... grahame decided to have a bit of a snooze on the table - this was interpreted by this same bouncer as a sign that he was wasted and needed to go home.... probably a fair call. but during the eviction process there seemed to be a communication breakdown - i intervened just as it got to the "DON'T #@$@!ING TOUCH ME MAN!" stage...... for people that are supposedly trained in this stuff, bouncers really suck at communicating with pissed people.

so anyway - i dragged grahame onto the footpath and calmed him down..... i then went to go inside and round up a few people to go somewhere else (where grahame promised to stay awake)...... at this point the same dumbass bouncer decided i was not allowed back in!!!!! i saved him from what was going to be an ugly altercation and now im banished too?!?!?!?

i tried pointing out the obvious stupidity of the situation to no avail - i then said that i didn't feel i'd been given a fair hearing and i'd like to speak to the guys boss for an independent review of my case.... for some reason this seemed to set off some roid rage and *i* ended up having one of those "DON'T $#@$@!ING TOUCH ME MAN!" conversations. my parting shot was "IVE BEEN THROWN OUT OF CLASSIER PLACES THAN THIS!"

so we wandered off to the elephant and had a few more beers there (where funnily enough none of us had any problems with the security staff) - i put grahame in a cab and caught up with a few people in the valley for some late night pizza.

gpo bouncers - YOU SUCK
gpo in general - YOU SUCK
influencing skanks who force me to spend time at the gpo - YOU SUCK

now i can understand soccer riots

we spent the last 30 minutes CAMPED in their half and couldn't get that stupid round ball in the net.....

and then it all comes down to one crap decision from a ref in the final minute.... im not a big soccer fan but even i wanna find the nearest italian and punch him in the face

dodgy foreign ref with a crap un-pronouncable name - YOU SUCK!

washing machines are teh sux0r

my 18month old simpson washing machine died yesterday.... it was in the middle of washing and it just turned itself off, never to turn on again. why????

and of course when it died it was full of water - it's like the egg in the milk bottle thing..... water goes in real easy, getting it out is a different story.

i pulled it to bits and waved a multimeter around in there and everything points to this magic computery looking box that controls the stupid lcd panel thing..... i rang a coupla repair guys who were too busy anyway and said it's most likely the ecu (wtf does a washing machine need an ecu?!?!).... which costs around 200 bucks.

so the washing machine i paid 200 bucks for at the auctions (cos it had a mad dent in the back of it) was gunna cost me another 200 bucks..... not to mention the massive pita of going to bludge someones washing machine or do the laundromat thing. so i said screw it and went down to see my indian mate at the local bi-rite. $650 later and i own a new "fuzzy logic" lg washing machine. it has much prettier lights and makes cool beeping sounds..... other than that all it does is wash clothes.

brass monkey III teaser

dibbzeh put together a bmIII teaser... the choice of soundtrack is a cracker.

right click > save as.... http://dopegoat.com/media/misc/BM3%20Teaser%201.wmv

21 ppl and 9 trucks rsvp'ed so far - with prolly another 5-6 slackers who just haven't clicked the damn button yet.

so im guessing we'll end up with around 25-30 people and 15 or so rigs..... there's even a handful of tacos in there.

angry got the bronco running again today
dibbzeh's got a new zorst
foodie's got new shackles
munga's got new t-case, shafts, and uni's
the mighty mq will have a new drivers seat and new front wheel cylinders
fatty will prolly have a new sub (maybe even one made for a vehicle, not for a pc)

adam f was talking up some kinda short film based on more than just wheeling footage - something along the lines of the blair monkey project maybe? we'll see how much footage he gets when he's plastered before it even gets dark

brass monkey III

i finally got the brass monkey III invites out last week - lot of people talking it up this year... will have to wait and see who actually rsvp's.

so far we have 15 rsvp's and quite a few new faces - set for an awesome weekend

mad props to eyepee for putting together the invite (which is included below).... and also to iron chef Dibbz for agreeing to do the catering again - with an expected 30-40 people the catering is gunna be a pretty major mission.

if you don't have a bmIII invite and you think you should, drop me a comment - if i don't reply it's cos you're not worthy :P

state of origin....

so i scored a box for the origin.... normally im not a big fan of boxes due to the corporate wankers they tend to attract - i was a little skeptical. but it turned out to be a pretty good night regardless.

billy j smith was the guest speaker before the game and hung around and watched the game with us - i had the honour of having billy next to me for about the first 20 minutes of the game.... it was like having my own personal commentator. he's a pretty cool guy and it was awesome to get his take on the game.

at half time i ended up next to mario fenech in the toilets - the goose was wearing a bright pink shirt. i hit him with a "what's doing with that pink shirt mario?" which i thought was hilarious at the time - fortunately he took it in good spirits.

i had planned to have a cruisy day today.... my phone started ringing at 8am and pretty much went consistently all day, everyone screams for more desk space for months and nobody cares, then suddenly we need to fitout space for 100+ ppl in < 2 weeks. once upon a time we were reactive to be innovative and lead the market etc, now we're just reactive to cover our own lack of planning and general disfunction.... *sigh*