Owww

Well our family grew by 6 today, Kylie,Ruby,fynn,Darcy, Jaidyn & Ma kylie all here for a week untill the new house is finished.
Hmmmm i wonder how i will go ??

Ah Crap

Its just one of those days. I made the mistake of buying a cheap paint roller cos i only wanted a little one & thats all they had, a cheap shit one.
So i go home unpack my cheapshit roller give it a good wipe to remove any loose fibres, then start appling polyurathane laquer to my table Within thirty seconds i discovered that even paint rollers can get mange.It was at the same moment of discovery  when the fucking handle snapped off . So now there is more fibres on top of the table than on the roller.I should point out that this is the second time i have done the top of said table, because last time at the moment of application we had a massive rain storm for a couple of seconds. Just enoug.h to knock loose some dust from the roof.
So much for a quick little job on the old table out on the verandah.
I still have the benches to do.................arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
Oh and my profile picture has been stolen lol

Buzzzzzzz

Well we finally got our BeeHive, now we have to wait a week for them to get oriented. Then i can start getting stung. I hope not,,,,,,,,they were very placid when we picked them up.
Now the person who helped us move them ( who shall remain nameless ) listened to all that was said about being calm & quiet around the little fellas, went straight into screaming & shouting & banging things on the back of the ute. But all is well so far. No pictures because the camera conked out & the whizzbang cheapie camcorder that i bought is more bang than whizz ( shite). Getting ready to lay the sandstone out the front, & playing a fair bit of music,OO OO OO and not smoking any more.

Another day another drop !

Actually did a few hours work on the Tahj Ma Pussy today, untill the rain started . Got all the frame up, now just trying to figure out how to get the mesh  & shade cloth up on my own.
And if my ears & eyes dont decieve me the Constabulary are back on their biyearly hunt for the DEMON WEED. Been hearing helicopters all day over the back of Mt Nardi & spotter planes buzzing high overhead.
Just for once i would like to see a pollice chopper spear into the ground ,mushing all onboard. Maybe then they will change their tack & use those resources & hundreds of  thousands of taxpayer dollars for something that is more benificial to the whole community, like catching real criminals.
On a lighter note Liam & Tanner are coming over this evening, so its all systems go for some frisbee,playstation, computer games & toys. Usually in that order.
So i might just  have a strong cup of tea & a good lie down before the action starts.
ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ.

Ohhh no rain

Hoo Hoo its stopped at last & the grass has grown so long the dog dissapears when he goes out the back.
Not much to write about  at the moment. i managed  stave off cabin fever & now its back to work. Its guuna be wonderful when this job is finished.
Got my new videocamera sorted. Outside in the light its a ripper, but unfortunately its shortcomings are only too evident in low light situations.The 2mp camera is rubbish & the video is as well. the upside is the controls are very ergononic & simple as. It took me a while but i got my camera glasses happening as soon as i learnt to click slower lol
Well thats it im blank !

Warm & moist

Now where was i ??? oh yeh. Its still raining & my $130.00pw scaffold makes a lovely waterfall. Managed to do a couple of hours on Friday, untill the liquid sunshine fell about my ears again. After last weeks shocking adventure i decided to up stumps as soon as the sun went. Which turned out to be fortuious, cos it pissed down as soon as i got in the car.
Saturday's fancy dress party was a hoot. When we arrived i had to carry a big box with lights/cables & a fog machine down a really steep winding driveway. Jeez for a moment i thought i would not be able to stop till i  hit the pool .
Im glad i didnt take my guitar because the three piece band ( big Music i think ) were bloody awesome. They did one of the best renditions of The Letter that i have heard in years. there was also a couple of performers. One did a ball balacing act plus fire twirling. It was quite mesmorising. Another guy did a tap/ trumpet old classic I got Rythm I got Music, which was great..
The party girl Lizzie & two of her girlfriends did a couple of numbers complete with big hair & costumes, which sent the crowd yahooing & hollerin.
I have to say some of the costumes were great & people were really getting into it (myself included).
Gawd the sixties were a good time, i personally tried to recreate the free love aspect.......... to no avail damnitall.
Got pulled over by the booze bus on the way home, a very close call for Shabayah lol, i think the copper looked  at the four ageing hippies in the car & thought bugger it way too much paperwork so at least we made it home safe.
Jeez  even made a profit on the evening. I took my usual bottle of JD, but decided to start with little glasses of champers that were being handed around & stuck with it, then one of the passengers in the car decided she should put $10.00 for petrol. So a full bottle of JD , ten bucks & one joint left at the end of the night is all good.
unfortunately i didnt take any pictures I just videotaped. So yous will have to wait for some images.

And the Rain Came Tumbling Down.

After reading over yesterdays post, i noticed it was much funnier when told first hand. I made it sound pathetic rather than funny. I guess the other four days i left out were the funny ones.
I went off to work as promised, in the substantial rain. Stuck it out for a couple of hours untill rain dripping off my hat shorted out my angle grinder & gave me a jolt. That was stumps for me lol .
So have spent the rest of today playing guitar & trying to get my boots, hat, gloves & all my workclothes a bit dry. So if nothing else i will have something warm & wet to put on in the morning.
my new HD camera arrived today. Ummmm seems to be fine but i have no sound. It could be because i have no memory card with it, & only 48meg of internal ram . Im led to believe there are more settings with card installed.
So we will see when my 8gig card arrives from Hong kong in about four days.
It came with 12 months warranty but that could be a real pain in the arse if it all goes pear shaped.
And thats the downside of cheap web purchases.

If you click on the picture it will take you to a youtube video i up loaded from my odour cologne ( phone) this morning.

Love drugs dogs & cockroaches.

This is a true story of two friends. One lives in Byron Bay & the other lives in Sydney. We will call the Byron one Jack & the Sydney one Jill. Now Jill often comes up to stay with Jack, who is as tight as a frogs arse & has two huge hounds. Because Jack is so tight he is renting all available space in his house out to backpackers to make some extra bucks.
And because Jack is so tight he only has a bar fridge to service himself two huge hounds & all the backpackers.
I should point out at this juncture Jack thinks housework is something foreign people do.
So Jill comes up for her Bi annual holiday, Jack greets her with hugs & kisses & much outpouring of love & affection. & proceedes to tell her how great it is to have her staying with him again & he is SO excited & happy to give up a $300.00 a week bed for her so she can stay as long as she wants, as long as its no more than three weeks.
Anyway Jill decides to do some shopping so there is something in the house that the dogs have'nt licked chewed slept or pissed on, or gone on to the cockroach supermarket.
That evening Jill cooks a lovely baked dinner for Jack, but Jacks not very hungry, it might have something to do with the case of beer, bottle of port, large bag of chips & the schooners of wine &  he is downing like his arse is on fire. After jill has finished dinner Jack grabs the plates, pots, pans, cuttlery & dumps them on the verandah floor where the dogs lick them all clean as clean. Much to Jills consternation.
The next day Jill decided it would be nice to visit her old aunt in Drismore for the evening. As she is leaving Jack wonders if Jill could score a bit of pot from some of her hippy friends. Money is mentioned only because Jack informs Jill he would never waste HIS money on pot but he really likes a smoke. So Jill leaves in a daze to spend time with her dear old aunt.
She arrives home the next morning to see Jack grinning like a monkey & breathlessly talking like a man who has lost his testicals ( really high voice ) Jillie ,Jillie, oh Jillie,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,i had a party last night,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, i ate pork chops, nuts,bananas, chips ,ice cream, drank a large bottle of cointreau, oh & found some pot in your makeup bag, i had just the best time, it was soo much fun, i wish you could have been here.
Now to say Jill is a bit miffed because Jack has consumed every last morsel of the $200.00 +  Jill spend on food & drink is an understatement ,What jack didnt finish the rats mice & cockroaches did.
And all the while Jack is still going on about how magnanimous he is by foregoing $900.00 in rent for his BESTEST friend in the world.
This is just a small portion of the week long ordeal Jill has suffered at the hands of her BESTEST friend in the whole wide world, who has many many phobias. Phone phobia, cant talk, need to let his brain cool down. Germ phobia, dont breath near me. Noise phobia, i can only stand my own noise. People phobia stay away from me unless your paying rent. Spending money phobia, Can we spend yours cos mine is dirty.
Jill is now on holidays somewhere else, where there is not so much love & its cheaper.
Funny that eh !

Spinning in the rain.

Ha its all done, in spite of the pissing down rain i assembled the scaffolding, all 4.6m of it.
Now i know a few of yous have done it before & its reel easy. But when your faced with 20 or thirty different lengh poles & assorted frames and a couple of big floor pieces for the first time ,,,well it was like looking at a jigsaw puzzle where all the pieces are the same colour & shape, ( being stoned didnt help lol ).
Anyhoo after an initial bit of faffing about  i got it done in two hours & as i was placing the very last floor piece on the top i noticed the assembly instructions on the side of the frame,,,,,,,,,,,,,,sigh.
Im guessing that my assembly was more efficient because i have a couple of pieces left over.
The only thing that will stop me working tomorrow is something of biblical proportions, you know like the water in the creek parting, or my fooffoof  giving up the ghost.
Do you think its dangerous working 5mtr up on top of a steel frame in the middle of thunder, lightning & rain with a power tool in my hands ???????????????????????????? NAH !!!

Rattling my personal hobby horse

What is it with this fucking site ? add a gadget it says, install a slideshow it says. Then makes up its own fucking mind about about whos pictures its going to show.
I just cant wait for the end of technology as we know it, i just dont need this shit in my life. sodding bodgy techno shit that only works untill its out of the packaging, then its obsolete. We are the stupid dumb fucks that keep on endlessly divesting ourselves of what little cash we have to have the latest phone/tv/satnav/ipod. And for what ? only to find out the Jones's next door have a newer one, which makes us feel like we are missing out. So the cycle begins again.
I for one have decided to make a stand & say fuck it, when my phone plan runs out the phone is in the bin. And that will apply to every piece of technology in my life form here on in. No more replacing  one item for something equally as unnecessary. the latest casualty in this sensless consumption of resources is my playstation 2. There is no longer any new games available. I for one refuse to fork out nearly $500.00 for a bloody game & i dont care if its wi fi compatible/ web ready. HDD or what ever.
The steel & scaffolding has just been delivered so im off in the pissing down rain to put it together. its nice to be working with something that will still be around in years to come.
IM OUTA HERE.

Drismore

Today was Grismore day. Lynda wanted to take us out for lunch, in spite of the heat( 38c).
So we trotted off to Drizzard to .....................ummmm somewhere for lunch. You  bewdy oysters ,calamari & JD's. It was a fantastic meal & drinks listenening to Lynda reagail us with stories of meeting two cousins up North,  Chad & dopy & other sundry whacky family members that live right up in the bush.
Then we stepped out into the HEAT,,,,,,,,,,,, arghhhhhhh. Ot enuf to boil a monkeys bum it was. Let me tells ya, its really hard to look cool when im sweating so hard it looks like i had a broken water pipe on me head. But the upshot is i have now organised the pipe & scaffold & delivery for the Tahj ma pussy.
So its all systems go for Thursday regardless of wind rain or snow.
Im still eagerly awaiting the arrival of me $250.00 HD camera. I could have done with it today cos there was a sky full of chemtrails.
( trying to make me dopyer than i already am ). I keep forgetting to take my videocamera sunglasses out for a spin. And we have just missed out on a huge storm that came barreling along untill it got to Nimbin & said, sod it lets go to the beach, turned right & buggered off...............Sigh.
PS: Tomorrow i have a great story of friendship & money .

Social

Well its been a couple of really social days thats for sure. Firstly my old mate Jeff came & stayed a few days. bought a house in Nimbin then left. The next day  John & Avinash dropped in on their way back home to North Queensland, They left & now our good friend Lynda has dropped in on her way up the coast.
Now to say Lynda is an out there sort of person, does not do her justice lol. She is the only person i know that would go to Don Lanes memorial service & get mistaken for a dead sixties pop singer
. Lynda was walking out onto a balcony & she could hear someone in the distance calling out Lynda cooee Lynda  ohhh Lynda . She was thinking to herself who the bloody hell would know me here ?. She turned around & saw Barry Makenzie & a couple of other tv stars from the early sixties, trotting up to her & asking about her life & singing career,,, Bazza had his photo taken with Lynda snigger.
Now i wouldnt be lying if i said Linda couldnt carry a tune in a bucket. So you can imagine her discomfort at being mistaken for for some long dead pop singer & the thought of being asked up on the stage to do one of her old numbers was more than she could bare. So she snuck off to the T.a.b which was closed & hid around the corner & called up her girlfriend to Google this dead pop singer to find out who she was ( Lynn Randel ) her hit was Chow Baby .
I wish i could have been there to witness one of those really majic uncomfortable  moments as Lynda scooted out of there as fast as her dead legs would carry her lol.
I can only imajine the consternation of old Bazza looking at a photo in weeks to come of this dead singer that was at Don Lanes memorial service. Well spooky.
On a lighter note, the fittings i have been vainly trying to get for several weeks arrived today. So its back to Stephie's to finish the Tahj ma pussy next week.
This bloody job has been hanging over my head like a big black block of concrete for about two months now.
hassling to get scaffolding without a permit ordering the steel & having a frigging conniption over these three sodding fitting has been a major pain in an otherwise pleasant job.
whoever said life in the country is laid back, was certainly not trying to do anything constuctive.
oh sodit i have lost my train of thought & interest.
Cyas

Dazin

Well after yesterdays fun time today has been spent wandering around from room to room & outside in a daze then in the mancave for some guitar & fiddling around with Jeff's effects peddles.
Plugged in my little stylaphone. Its a little electronic keyboard you play with a stylus,&amp  had a ball lol, driving Shabayah mad with my lead breaks at volume 11. Yeh i know your saying to yourself,who has a volume control that goes to 11. Well i do,.its amazing what you can do with a crayon. & it is louder i swear.
Jeff did a lot of snoozing, After i had finished playing, read making noise, he was  gearing up for the 6pm 900lkm drive home.
OO OO the other day i had an impulse buy. A Sanyo HD camcorder $245.00 on Deals Direct. My main worry is ya gets wot ya pays for. Oh & bought one of jeffs 50 inch Plasma tellys,  Its that big it will most likely blot out all the light in the lounge, the real theater experience, you know  you need a torch to find your chair. I just cant pass up a bargain.
My frog farm is going really well the taddies are getting bigger every day, but  few folks have mentioned that  i am creating a monster lol. Already when the rain starts the noise from two frogs out the front & a couple out the back is ummmm turn up the telly noticable. So im just trying to imagine about 500 of the buggers all doing their song at once. Oh & pooping all over the place.
Did you know that a frog poo looks to be about half the size of the frog & we got some whopper frogs. so when they are in full production i should have enough frog crap to build a small installation. Pictures will follow.
Just been sitting here listening to the Nimbin Blues Strain with Garry ( see link ) its been a great show so far. But now the Muay Thai is on........ sorry Gaz.
Guess what ? its raining again.
& the frogs are going for it,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,funny that.

Im not pissed I just cant stand up

Pheweww what a day today.
Our friend Jeff Chip arrived at 8.30am just in time for us to throw the door keys at him & leave for Drismore to drop the car off again for more new parts. Coffee first, then off to the movies to see Percy Jackson & the Lightning Thief. A bit of a kids movie but nevertheless great special effects & we were the only people in there, exept for the young couple behind us doin some HEAVY petting, i can almost remember being in my real early teens & getting hot & heavy in the back row.
I saw the poor young guy when they came out he looked like he had blue balls right up to his neck & his girlfriend, hmm i will be polite, looked like she had lost a fight with a windtunnel
Came out picked up the car $1,300.00 lighter. Jeez its just like a new one ( almost ) still needs a catalytic converter to stop it sounding like a bunch of marbles in a really big tin box, not a good sound for yer car.
While we were out Jeff has been looking at houses in Nimbin............and scored one, hoo hoo, should be moving in within a couple of weeks. Goodonya buddy.
Anyhoo we got home late this arvo, & of course the sun was over the yardarm, so drinks away.
Im so bloody out of condition boozewise, these days im not even good for one botle of JD without a bit of a snooze lol. Having a social afternoon helped things right along. We started off with a trip to the Bowling club to stock up. Jeff being Jeff has'nt even got the keys to his house yet but signed up & become a member of the club. Thats moving . so we get back home a few JD's a couple of spliffys  Gary lobbed up then Nick,  then dinner & i hate to say it.....a quick spinout for me.............Oh the shame of it.
Ohh  BIG NEWS Shabayah put the rubbish bins out. ( first time since Moses wore nappies ).
I cant complain though, she did cook a wonderful dinner & put up with us getting pissed & carriyng on.
I woke up & she went to bed.  Cant beat shiftwork on the homefront eh. As i m writing this Jeff is out like a light snoring away on the lounge chair.
Now here is a question for you.
What looks like an angel & sounds like a walrus ?
A woman sleeping !
I guess i will get a slap upside the head for that little comment.
CYAS

Blank

Hmm, today,.....................heat, rain,.......sleep,
cancelled due to lack of interest.

Cobblers

Jeez i hate that. just 1/4  hour typing away Only to hit one of rogue keys that jumped of the board last week & lose the lot,,,,,,,,,,,, bloody shit buggery ect ect ect ........................ Its ok  im calm again now & the glue on the ke  yss    i s      nea  rly d ry.
Now where was i ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,oh yeh today Steph came over & asked me to fix her mower. Then proceeded to regail me with tales of the 14ft Python residing in her roof & the eaqually large one roaming the garden.
So it was with much trepidation that i tooled up & set forth. Only to be driving up the long leafy driveway & come across & bloody 6ft Goanna. Needles to say, i picked up the lawn mower put it in the back of the car & came straight home.Now i know some on yous will be saying wot a pussie, but i have seen what a smaller Goanna can do to unwary peoples toes & chickens, & i also know that Pythons although fairy harmless most times can indeed get pretty stroppy especially when they think your there to steal whatever they consider to be food.
Now the mower which i risked life & limb to salvage, looks like something exploded with great force underneath it, blowing off  bits, springs, & other sundry small pieces of metal. You can still tell its a mower though, it has four wheels equially spaced around it all pointing in sort of the same direction. Its got a motor on top. I guess its the motor, all i can see is a large pile of grease/lawnclippings, some string & i think, a loaf of bread or part of the bag, it could have been full originally i dunno.Its also got a handle held together with i do believe a hairclip some string a a piece of wood.
Now according to the user of said machine, its always run perfectly with 100ft of string/ plastic feed bag/barbed wire & something that looks like entrails wrapped around the plate & blade.
You will notice i said blade, singular, the other one is a  stump.
I have just finished dismantling it with an angle grinder & as you can imagine dismantling anything with an angle grinder does not bode well with the restoration.
I think it used to be red or maybe thats just spatter & it smells like a too hot barbie.
Crikey i got an appetite.

Nimbin Radio

Phew yesterday was a big one to say the least. One thing i never do is drink at home by myself, but yesterday was an exeption. I was waiting for Garry to come and pick me up & playing my guitar & though to myself ...............self  you have worked hard, its hot so have a beer, which led to two then a couple of JD's then a few more JD's. Then Garry took me up tohis property which is almost on top of our local mountain Blue Knob.
He lives on a community called Websters Creek. What a spot, right up in the rainforest, & i came away with the leeches to prove it lol.
Then went back into the village to our local community radio station "Nim Fm 102.3" where Garry does two shows a week. One on Thursday evenings 8-12 midnight  ( Nimbin Blues Strain )
& saturday mornings 8 -10am ( PigPhatt & Bum Nuts ). It was a hoot chatting away & laughing. That was  untill Garry informed me i should get my own show ,cos i talk so much lol.
So now i thinking of doing just that,,,, get my own show together.
Hmm just have to think of a format & name now ??????????????.
If you have good broadband over on the right there is a  link to listen in on some great music & funny conversations.
Friday 12.oo noon is the hemp hour which is always a hoot

Phewww

What a day its been, bath the dog, mow the front lawn, get pissed go up to Gary's place get wasted, than go to he's radio show on Nim FM " the Nimbin Blues Strain".  8.00-12.00pm. Now im home a cup of tea & a fried egg & im ready to go again lol ............not quite.
But i have some good footage of the show which i will go through tommorow & try to splice some together.
thats it im outahere !

Not Digging

So much for finishing off the digging, today i have so many aches & pains all i have been able to do is lie around & wait for my body to stop complaining lol.
Ummm what did i say about the rain finishing, its bucketed down nearly all day today jeez.
I wonder if the washing will ever dry ?

Digging in the rain

What to do when its raining ?
As usual. Today seemed like year ten of not doing anything physical & starting to get cabin fever. suddenly a light bulb goes off in my head  I know strip off put on me hat & gloves & go & dig a big frigging hole in the garden.Its not technically a hole, more like cutting a flat spot on a hill in front of my shed.
When i started it was wonderful, pissing down, nice & cool, & of course i just get into it & the bloody sun comes out . Now im commited i have a big pile of dirt ( mud ) right in front of the shed.
Let me tell you, im halfway though & knackered, But back into it tomorrow to get it ready to pave. To top it off the rain has finshed so back to work on the tahj mapussy ( stephanie's cat enclosure ).
Its feast or famine !

bugger me again

Dont ask me why but my old youtube account (watthufuk) has been reinstated & my new one ( hippyinthuhills)  has dissapeared. Im not complaining though cos all my subscriptions & videos are still there HOO HOO

Bugger me

I just found out that my Youtube account has been suspended for i dont know what reason, thats a bit of a shit.
there does'nt seem to be any way of finding out what i did wrong, which peeves me no end,
And to top it off i cant use Jimspriggs for some reason.
i think its a bit rude when they give no reason. So there is every chance if i open another account  the same thing will happen
assholes.

Slideshow

Well as you can see i finally got the slideshow sorted through Picasa, after downloading another couple of terabites of software. Im really pleased cos they have been spreading all sorts of shite over our skies of late. I guess the powers that be think we are getting too much rain/sunshine/drought/wind , or not enough.
Last year i took photos of the evening sky  every day & think i will do it again for as long as the camera holds out.
Dunno how long that will be because when you turn it on it sounds like rusty door opening  & only works in auto mode, plus there is a blemish on the lens, ithought it was a UFO in every picture for a while. gawd im looking foreword to getting a nice new HD video camera.

WHAT THE FUCK

Decided this arvo i would like to have a slide show on my blog.
Its seems like a simple thing to do, so i go to add a gadget ( slideshow ) easy enough you say. Ok i have to have an account with fliker/google/photobucket/whatever . No prob i already have all these ( i thought )
first off photobucket go to log in & they have decided decided its been too long, so have to start another account no worries ,put my name in, oh oh cant use MY name cos its in use..YEH thats bloody me trying to use it. Send them an email explain my problem, they tell me to use another name wothufuk ???why cant i use mine ? no explanation to that  So i tried Barrack Obama, ha you guessed it, its in use,, funny that eh.
 Sod it I will use flicker or whatever. That go's well untill i start uploading, it gets to 17% and stops. No worries i will try again. Ha trouble is now my browser is frozen. ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH  stay fucking calm Alan,,,,,, OOMMMMMM.
Reboot confuser have a Bex and a good  liedown. Its bloody hard cleaning spittle off your laptop screen, ok i have had a cry & a cup of tea, start again,,,,,,,Hmmmm lets try picassa login, waiting, waiting, waiting,,,,,,, HOO HOO success im in,,,,, ok stay calm alan find your photos................yeh its all going well uploading uploading, uploading jeeeezzzzz, go & do the washing up, put out the garbage, come back,,, still uploading whatthufuck........decide sod it i will cancel the upload,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,the page reloads,,,,bugger me, all the pictures are there.
Okly Dokly back to blogger fill in necessary spaces & go to view blog, whaatttttttthhhuuufuuuckkkk, heaps of images only they are not mine, not even off my confuser ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.
So there will be no slideshow for the time being.
PS: did you know if you  bash your laptop keyboard hard enough all the keys jump off & fall on the floor .

Another day of head conniptions.

Sigh, another day of no power for most of the day while CUNTry energy replaced a couple of poles & stood ours upright again, & then a couple of frustrating hours trying to get 1 webcam,,, any webcam working on my desktop. I borrowed a webcam from Nick across the road, but of course he bought that one in japan & lost the installation disc.
So a half hour of muddling my way through a maze of japanese sites trying to find drivers for said camera, found drivers downloaded them only to find the puter couldnt even recognise the camera let alone the drivers.arghhhhh.
Im really loathe to spend money on a firewire card & or new camera untill i know its going to work.
You know sometimes i feel the universe is having a laugh at my expense. I mean i have a simple request, to get my webcams going again so i can play with my wireless camera's & so forth.
now im fairy cluey when it comes to personal confusers, but this old one of dads is going to make my brain explode. That old bugger is looking down pissing himself laughing at me now. Good on yer dad.
Just to add insult to injury i have not one but two DV camera's that will make awesome webcams, if i ever get something working
OH,,,,,,,, its raining again , fancy that !
PS: at least i had a bit of fun buzzing Shabayah with my helicopter, untill she threatened to swot it out of the sky.
Jeez she's got a short fuse when it comes to little helicopters, snigger.

JUST WHO ARE WE FIGHTING ???

The Stupid Propaganda of Umar Fizzlepants Just Dropped a Couple More IQ Points

Ok. This is just getting silly now.
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab leapt out of the ranks of anonymity on Christmas eve with a sparkling display of pyrotechnic undies. As it just so happened, his “diaper of doom” show gave all kinds of political cover for the White House authorized attempted assassination of a U.S. citizen, Anwar al-Awlaki. They had missed al-Awlaki but they did succeed in killing 23 children in their bombing of a targeted location.
All sorts of issues rose out of that ordeal; the killing 23 children by a Peace Prize recipient, the targeted assassination attempt of a U.S. citizen, why were we involved in Yemen in the first place.
All sorts of issues were rearing their ugly heads and the Obama White House was about to get in some serious discussions about dead kids and the constitution and all that jazz … when… they just happened to be all answered when Umar Fizzlepants lit up his “Depends of Death” undergarment on flight 253 to Detroit. What timing.
Well, again, Umar’s timing couldn’t be better; or worse, depending on your point of view. It would appear he is talking again and for some reason the White House is telling everyone about it giving a nice little “heads up” for the evil doers in Yemen.  Now what could possibly be the upside of that?

The White House was recently getting all kinds of heat from the right for the way they handled Umar’s arrest and subsequent indictments. Apparently they felt Umar should be waterboarded and renditioned to some black hole someplace where a deviant contractor could stick various implements up his ass till he confessed to shooting JFK. But the Obama administration and every one of their apologist websites reveled in the fact that they got all this “actionable intelligence” without torture. Of course, all that is based on the say-so of the FBI and the CIA and I trust what they say about as much as I trust Dick Cheney with a shotgun.
The other day the White House made a big show of reporting that Umar Fizzlepants was talking up a storm again giving us all kinds of information about all kinds of “evil” bad people.

Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the 23-year-old Nigerian who faces terrorism charges in the Christmas bombing, has been cooperating with the FBI for about a week, providing information about his contacts in Yemen and the al Qaeda affiliate that operates there.  CBS News

How nice. That puts all those arguments about how the Obama administration is handling this to rest, now doesn’t it? So what’s the problem you ask?

Lets just say if this is true (which it isn’t) what does the White House’s announcement do to the ongoing battle against al Qaeda in Yemen (which also isn’t true)? Well, it just lets all those targets in Yemen know that they have been compramised and that they now have to move, change their names, change their hang-outs where they “plot and plan”.  That’s what it does. When you have a valuable informant who is giving up valuable info on whatever criminal enterprize you happen to be targeting, the very last thing you want to do is to announce publicly that the informant has given them up along with their locations. The certain result of that would be that the targets scatter, go back undercover, and the “intel” you got from Umar Fizzlepants would be pretty much, useless.
That’s pretty obvious, right? Well some congressman thinks so.

In a letter to the president Thursday, Bond, the ranking Republican on the Senate Intelligence Committee, said that he was “deeply disturbed” by revelations in a Tuesday briefing that announced Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the flight 253 suspect, was co-operating with investigators and offering useful information.
“This information immediately hit the air waves globally and, no doubt, reached the ears of our enemies abroad,” Bond said, warning that the disclosure “has no doubt been helpful to his terrorist cohorts around the world.”  Raw Story

But I guess the White House figured that since they created the Umar Fizzlepants Show they were entitled to use him however they saw fit but I think they went to the well once too often with this one.
What they exposed is the fact that they don’t care about “tipping off” al Qaeda because al Qaeda in Yemen just simply doesn’t exist. There is no “intel” that Umar Fizzlepants is sharing with us; the CIA simply targets insurgent leaders of the rebellion in the north of Yemen and then adds their names to the “al Qaeda” list that Umar supposedly gave them. Then bingo-dingo, they can kill whomever is causing trouble for our puppet dictator on the tax-payers dime and everything is peachy.
You will never see this guy in court again (they are already talking about a deal to keep it from going to trial), you will never see the interview tapes (they will be burned just like the KSM torture/confession tapes), and you will never see a clear photo of him in custody. Why? Because the man they arrested, the man who was helped to get on that plane, was not Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab.  They just used that story because it was convenient and because it allowed them to tie a guy getting on a plane in Nigeria to Yemen, that’s all. Why else would they blur out his face in that famous shot of him being led off the plane?
Look, they created this guy to use for political gain right from the start and they have been glomming onto the Fizzlepants story to bleed it for every ounce of propaganda they could get from it.
Well, they went just a little too far this time. They reached right into Umar Fizzles pants and pulled out a bright shinny sparkling turd. Let’s see how the administration’s spin doctors are going to weasel themselves out of this one. They are on record for giving “al Qaeda in Yemen” a big heads up and a head-start as they run for cover. Now all the mythical “terrorists” in Yemen know Umar is talking so they had better run away. Let’s see how the Peace Prize winning Obama deals with that little tidbit of news.
Of course, that assumes that the MSM will pick up on this. Which they won’t.

Tadpoles & Rain.

Well has'nt today been full of riveting exitement.
Llets see i got up made my breakfast, read my doom & gloom news, wandered around, played with my little helicopter, wandered around. Couldnt play my guitar cos Shabayah was asleep... wandered  round, couldnt find enough water to play with my hovercraft. wandered around.
OOh the rain has stopped, go for a walk around the garden, got wet cos it started raining again Why does it only start raining when im right down the bottom of the garden.?
Went down the shed to fix my lawnmower. I cant believe i have such a big shed, yet right where i was standing there is a hole in the roof which was aimed directly over my bum crack. Its quite an unerving feeling being in the middle a big tin shed & having  an electric welder in one hand & cold water runing down yer crack. So i got wet again. Managed to fix the mower deck, so it was'nt a complete washout.
Went for another walk around outside to check on my frog farm &  got wet. 
I have a giant fishtank filled with rocks & some water & weeds & about 10000000000  tadpoles. Now because of all the rain the tank has started to fill up & i dont want my tadpoles to wash away so decided to drain some water out.
Got the hose put a filter over the end so's i dont loose any tadpoles, started sucking, ..........gark , cough, cough, cough, splutter, splutter.  Im sure i saw one come out of my nose, i guess it was the wrong size filter.
Hmmm i wonder if tadpoles &  pond weed are fit for human consumption ?. glad im not a vegiterian.

WHAT ?

WELL IM SHOUTING BECAUSE ITS RAINING SO HARD I CANT HEAR MYSELF TYPE.
CANT EVEN HERE MY 12STRING ITS THAT BLOODY LOUD.
I WISH MY AMP WAS WORKING THEN I COULD HEAR SOMETHING ELSE,
JEEZ.

Dongle

Ha HA me dongles working perfectly, now i just need more powerpoints sos i can run my old DVR camera cos it makes a great webcam, plus i need another dedicated webcam.
Why is it you can leave a piece of working modern technology sitting around, then when you go to use it kaput.
We had a great dvd player $22.00 new from ebay & it worked fine untill i left in in cupboard for a year or so.
I got it out ,plugged it in & not even the lights came on, In thu bin.
My little webcam sat in same cupboard for the same amount of time with the same result, in thu bin.
Woah hang on a sec, what is the common denominator here ? the bloody cupboard.
Hmmmm maybe that needs to go in the bin, pity its attached to the wall. Oh well put on thick enough coat of bog & paint& it will cover a multitude of sins.
( better wait till Shabayah goes to work )its less painfull for me that way he he he
Nothing like a good working dongle i can tells ya.

Hmmm

Just sitting here listening to the rain & fiddling with my layout.
Jeez it says her i can add a gadget, shit i got a shed full of gadgets, hmmmm now how can i add, say an electric drill, thats a good gadget, or what about a brushcutter thats a great gadget.
Crikey i need to get a life, anyone got a spare ?

Bloody, buggery, bumholes & sod it.

You know there seems to be very few mornings when i wake up without something blowing up, breaking down,getting bent, or just falling over & breaking.
This mornings head spinner was our new wireless router, abolute top of the line latest & greatest with a surge protector an all.
i get my cup of tea & toast, sit down, get ready to read emails & todays doom & gloom news at Rense.com.
Ahhh bugger no internet, no prob just reboot router.........ok calm , no worries reboot again,
waiting ,waiting, waiting,,,,, The light are flashing so much im about ready to have an epilectic fit.
By now im chocking on my toast, dribbling my tea ,hmmmm maybe im am having a fit ,or conniption or both at the same time.
The dog has scooted under the bed my laptop is covered in a combination of tea ,toast,spit & swearwords.
Ahhhhh ok Alan drop a bex take it easy,,,,,up till now i think i had forgotten to breath, im so pissed off i cant see straight.....calm...calm ,,,,,,,,,,,,FUCKING,,,,,,,,OMMMMM.
At this juncture i should point out its good to meditate, my personal favorite form of meditation is bashing something to death with a blunt object, im always so calm afterwords.
Everything is fixed, cleaned & washed & ready to start another day.....sigh !

Wireless dongle

Ok i know i only paid $7.95 including postage for my wireless dongle, which enables me to hook up my webcams to the desktop & broadcast to the web. thats if it worked. Well it does work in as much as it can see the router, & the router can see it but thats as far as it goes. nothing seems to work, no web pages no video, Ha & now my main webcam has ceased to function.
Im sure i didnt run over any chinamen this week,have'nt told any lies,didnt kill a christian, so whats the bloody go?. i have this sinking feeling in my gut that its going to be a new tower with new insides. i think its getting to me now, the eye has started twitching,im grinding my teeth, sweating profusly,,,,,,,,,,,,,jeez even the dog is hiding under the bed.
I pity the next arshole that knocks on the door or phones up ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.

Bee Keeping

Hmmm its been quite a while since i have blogged & seem to have plenty to say,,,,,untill i sit down at the keyboard.
With much trepidation we are about to become bee keepers. Im still not sure about this, but the fact is we go through so much honey feeding the lorakeets its cheaper for us to make our own.
I have just been reaading up on the joys of beekeeping, & have come to the realisation there seems to be of lot of stinging, swarming & going to monthly meets with other likeminded souls involved.
i was just checking on a couple of bee sites today & jeez they are a nerdy looking bunch. ( i will most prob be crucified for that statment )
Today i was just clearing up a downed tree & got bitten/stung more times in more places than i care to mention, & that was without bees. So to say im shitting myself is an understatment, (big brave me).
Oh crap now i have lost interest.