I’ve spent the last couple of days (Mon & Tues) in the Brisbane office being bored out of my mind. *Yawn* Nothing interesting to report.
I finally got around to getting some stuff done around the house.
I built a shelf for Bec. I bought some pine wood and brackets from Bunnings Warehouse and installed it on the wall in the laundry. Now all her washing liquid and fabric softeners and junk are up high out of the reach of the kids and off the chest freezer. That’ll make it much easier to get the freezer lid open but also makes the place look a lot tidier. I also bought the parts to make a shelf above the computers in the lounge room at some stage.
I bought a couple of new doorknobs. One for Blake’s room and one for Sienna’s. They were about $17 but today I saw similar ones for $7 at Crazy Clark’s.. D’oh! Blake needs to be able to lock his door to prevent Sienna getting in there when he needs his privacy. Sienna’s door has a keyed lock on it which I want to replace with another doorknob which can be unlocked with a knife/screwdriver in case she somehow locks herself in there. I don’t think we have a key. I originally bought two doorknobs the same, with push-button locks on the inside but found out you cannot push the button in and shut the door to lock it when you go out as the button pops back out again when the door shuts. So I swapped it for another one with a turnable lock and will put the pushbutton one on Sienna’s door this weekend.
I also bought a sliding door lock and put it on the kitchen sliding door. Sienna is getting too damned clever and can open any locks we try to put on it which she can reach. Bec also tried tying a bit of material belt from the door handle and tied it around the fan switch which sticks out from the wall, but Sienna figured how to take that off. She also put a wooden stake (mmmmm steak) in the door track to stop Sienna opening it, but she still figured out how to pull that out of the way. Argh! So, now there’s a bolt which goes up into the track at the top of the door and she certainly won’t be able to reach that one! She has, in the past, figured out how to get a key for the front screen door and put it in the keyhole, turn the key and pull down on the handle all while standing on top of her toy car or table for height. Yesterday she climbed up onto the kitchen bench in order to tip rice and gravox all over the table and floor. We’ve already gone through a whole jar of coffee and sugar which was spread around the lounge room and the lounge suite. There’s so many things we have to keep putting higher and higher out of her reach!
I also grabbed a plastic shelf to stick on the tiles in the bathroom so Bec can put her shampoo, conditioner and soap, etc on it to get them out of the way. I really hate those little tidy-shelves which hang around the shower pipe. They inevitably tip over and drop all their contents on the floor (or your foot first) and only fit two bottles in them and nothing else. This shelf is much better.
Today I went to the local shopping centre for lunch. I got some fish and chips then had a look around some of the shops. Did you know there’s a CSI:Miami board game out now? Why would anyone want to buy that? tsk
I also found a neat little mp3 player. It’s 24mm x 24mm x 24mm and apparently works quite well. It’s called the MobiBlu 1500.
AUDIO PLAYBACK FUNCTIONS
. Format Supported: MP3, WMA
. Decoding Range: MP3: 8Kbps – 320Kbps, WMA: 32Kbps – 192Kbps
. FM Radio: Yes, Internal
. Enhanced Sound: 5 Presets EQ, 1 User EQAUDIO RECORDING FUNCTIONS
. Voice Recording: N/A
. Direct Encoding: N/A
. FM Radio Recording: Yes, Low 48Kbps, Medium 96Kbps, High 128KbpsDISPLAY FUNCTIONS
. Display: Single-colour OLED, Multi-line display
. Display Info: ID3 TAG (Track info. Song Title and Artist)
. Display Adjustment: Contrast, Backlight timer, Scroll speed
. Other Features: Clock/Watch, Battery level, Timer, Play modes
. Language Supported: English, Korean
