Watching Friday night footy

Left the lounge for 30 secs and when I came back my heated throw rug was missing!



Pixie is 13 and can't jump that sort of height anymore.

Here she has reverted to Plan B

Beef Curry Puffs - Follow-up

Cooked some of them tonight in the Philips air fryer along with Birds Eye Golden Crunch chips and server with Trident Sweet Chilli sauce - very nice.

A Kodak moment!

23 years ago I created a folder on my desktop PC and named it Camera Photos, and under that another folder named 1999. I had just purchased my first digital camera and needed somewhere to store the photos. The camera was a Agfa ePhoto 1680 and cost quite a lot of money!

We now have lots of folders.

Bunnings gas bottle exchange

Exchanged two gas bottles today.

 

The larger 8.5kg bottle.

Everything was cold today

Cold day, cold wind, cold rain, cold everything :-(

Stayed indoors for most of the day which worked out all right because I continued from yesterday doing network stuff in particular reconfiguring network storage.

NBN HFC cable connection in my downstairs study feeds the NTU and the Telstra Smart Modem 2 hangs off that. In front of that is a 2GB Seagate Expansion Drive.

More to come on this...

WOW... what a day!

Workshop temp.

Disney+ has been cancelled.

I signed up for Disney+ around this time last year.

Beef Curry Puffs

Strolling past the freezers came across this!

Tossed two of them into the trolley.

Sunny days do the mowing - follow-up

 All Done!

Got out there 11.58am (still morning) and did everything, both trimming and mowing.

Weather was cold but fine and the sun was out!

Cheers

Very cold morning

Slow to post this because we were off out early this morning and the photos are not good.

Inside coop temp +1.0°

Page formatting practise session

As everyday Australians struggle to pay their bills and see their house prices drop, one type of company is riding record profits.

Sunny days do the mowing

Grass needs mowing and with the miserable winter weather not able to get out - until now.

Finally some sunny days ahead to get the mowing done - yay.

Batman LE - Sneak preview

The bat is propped up against some white cardboard.. looks OK.

COVID winter booster jab

Had my 1st booster in Dec 2021 (over 7 months ago Crikey) and since then was thinking to give the winter jab a miss but with another surge of COVID (Chinavirus) cases decided to book in with local GP last week and had my winter jab today. Still have to get flu jab (will I?) and Zoster.

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Chook shed heater

With the really cold weather Speckles is spending nights in the entry foyer.

Batman LE - Part 16

From the last session we are ready to spray the back panel.

Another busy day and only just got out here to the workshop, it'a about 3.45pm

Batman LE - Part 15

With the battery cavity cut out here we will make a retainer to hold the battery with some MDF strips.

Bandsaw 8 repairs

Wanted to use the 8" band saw to cut some MDF strips for the Batman (LE) job and came across a couple of problems.

The Fence

The fence clamp will not slide onto the table and I figure everything has swelled due to the weather.

Batman LE - Part 14

Here we are getting ready to wire the lighting

Batman LE -Part 13

Continuing on with the back panel we are prepping to cut out the battery recess hole.

Batman LE - Part 12

From the last session we made some errors when transferring the outline onto the MF blank so now we have to do some more trimming.

Winter jab is booked.

Booked in with local GP next Monday for my winter jab.

Started by doing the usual thing and went to the Vic Gov website; on this occasion that was a mistake!

Got sent all over the place and finally was offered two sites (can't be right) Ringwood and Dandenong  with no available bookings (can't be right).

Ended up phoning local GP which I should have done in the first place.

Batman LE - Part 11

 From the last session I screwed the LED panel onto the (now) flat black front panel and just realised something - bugger!

Before installing the LED strip lights I should have used the LED panel as a template to mark the outline on a 3mm MDF blank for the back panel.

Miserable weather today

 

To cold for spending time in the workshop today so here I am on the desktop doing some blogging, like this post.

Batman LE part 10

The only thing we managed to do today was spray the front panel and the name plate.

The weak sun came out about four-o-clock so dashed out to prep for spray painting.

Batman LE - Part 9

From the last session the LED strip ended up about 100mm short of the end.

I have RGB strip off cuts so used one to extend the strip. In the video you can see the sticky tape holding down the join for soldering the strip ends.

Batman LE - Part 8

 After sitting crouched over a scroll saw in the last session looking forward to something more interesting, installing the LED strip lights!

Removing the template paper, I've remarked so many times that laying down masking tape the sticking the template on makes it so much easier to remove when we get to this stage.

Batman LE - Part 7

 Nearly finished cutting out the HERBERT letters and we have a problem!

About to cut the last letter but back down the track we had to stop cutting the B letter as the middle part of the right segment was about to break off - bugger!

Batman LE - Part 6

For this session we are back to the name plate.

Prepping to drill pilot holes in every segment of each letter.

Batman LE - Part 5B

 

Here is the nameplate with cutting template stuck on ready for cutting out on the scroll saw.

Batman LE - Part 5A

In this session we will prepare the name plate for cutting out on the scroll saw.

This is a A3 bat that requires a A3 printer to print the templates. Fortunately I have a Canon A3 printer downstairs in my study. Too lazy to go downstairs to to collect the template printout I managed to squeeze the thing onto A4 paper to print out here on the balcony Canon A4 printer.

Batman LE - Part 4

This is where we downed tools  two days abo  to cut in the last session because I couldn't go any further. How come?

Batman LE - Part 3

From the last session we are going to cut out the name plate window.