WauloK’s BangRocks Blog

Thanks for the proof, Google. You know me better than anyone!

Did I say “anyone” ?

That’s it for the weekend. Didn’t do a whole lot. Was going to go out this morning but it rained for the first time in ages. Lucky I got my clothes off the line last night instead of leaving them out overnight as I usually do.
Spent a lot of today updating my profiles on MySpace, RSVP & Adult Matchmaker.  Didn’t really find any prospectives, but may as well have something worth reading in my profile for a change.
See how well you know me. There’s a new quiz in my MySpace profile for my friends to try out. See if you can rank higher than anyone else!

I finally got WordPress installed on my Geocaching blog, so if you haven’t been there in a while, you may want to head on over and check it out. I did a quick look for a theme for it but the one I am using looks quite good anyway.

We got up and did the swimming thing this morning. Then I washed the tiled floors in the bathrooms, hallway and kitchen so all looking good and so much grit gone!

Mum is in hospital at the moment. I will have to ring her again this afternoon some time.

I had a surprise this week when I received an email from my sister. We don’t keep in contact much. She was replying to the email I sent with a photo of Sienna and I in the local newspaper a few weeks ago. I replied and she replied back. My cousin found me on MySpace too, so we can keep in touch that way since I keep losing his email address.

Not a lot planned for this weekend. The Ipswich Show is on this weekend but due to some bad planning I don’t have much liquid cash left and show rides, etc don’t tend to take credit cards. Oh well.. we shall have a nice time anyway.

Yesterday while at work I had to fix (attempt to fix) a laptop at a bank branch. While there they were looking for people to get quotes on home contents insurance and car insurance. Since my contents insurance renewal period is coming up I went in and had mine done. It will be a bit cheaper so I will compare with my current cover which is with RACQ. Since I got a free quote they also threw in a $20 Coles-Myer gift voucher, a bag like those green ones you get at Coles but black with the bank’s logo on it (which bank? Hmm dunno ) and a plastic car, house and drink bottle. I gave most of them to Sienna (except for the voucher. That’s a present for Jason!). She loved them “Tank you daddy for my surprise presents!!!” So damn cute you could dunk her in your coffee.

I’ve actually been mucking around with making tunes with Reaper (for a change). I put together a quick demo just while learning how things work. It stuffs up after the first 35 seconds or so (I only composed about 50 seconds anyway) as I didn’t finish it off nor set it up to keep going properly. It was getting late and I’m still learning, so that’s my excuse. If you really are interested in listening to the thing, check out the Testing1.mp3 file. I did another less well-written tune but it’s not even worth uploading. Just something to practice with.

Anyhoo. I best get back to researching RSVP for babes. Gotta be one there somewhere for me, right?

PS : Happy Birthday again, Stace! *HUGS*

Welcome to the new Red Dwarf geocaching blog.

Bear with me until I get a decent template. In the meantime this standard one will have to do.

Last Monday night I took Lil Dwarfette and we headed off to find some caches.

We drove to a nearby park and jumped out of the car and followed the arrow on my Garmin eTrex GPSr. At one point we walked past a guy and his kid who must have been about 1.5yo or so. Lil Dwarfette waved and said HI and the kid did the same. As we passed the kid started following us and his dad turned around and said “Hey! Where are you going???”. I laughed and Lil Dwarfette and I kept on walking as the guy picked his son up and pointed him in the right direction. It wasn’t too long before we found the cache hidden cleverly. It was almost camouflaged but I spotted it. Lil Dwarfette grabbed a party blower out of the cache and we signed it. Sorry.. we didn’t have anything to put in it as I had not done any Geocaching in such a long time I forgot about bringing things along. We headed back to the car while Lil Dwarfette enthusiastically blew her party blower as hard as she could at any passers by. Unfortunately, this resulted in breaking the blower.

We drove on and headed over the ferry to Moggill. We drove to the cemetery and started looking for the next cache. I introduced Lil Dwarfette to the concept of cemeteries but I don’t think she quite understood. I told her there were people under the ground and she wanted to see them. I also had to tell her to put back the flowers she had discovered in a vase nearby hehe. I searched around and the GPSr was having a weird day where I’d follow it until I was about 2 metres away from where it said the cache would be. I put the GPSr into my pocket and looked around for a bit. I didn’t find anything so took it back out again and it’d find the satellites again and tell me I was 36 metres away from it in another direction. *Sigh* I walked off to find it again and got closer to the cache. Next, I used some deduction to figure where it would likely be and soon found what I was looking for. Lil Dwarfette found a rubber bracelet thing in there and was very pleased. I dropped off a nice silver pen and signed the logbook and jumped back in the car.

This time, we headed down some streets near the shopping centre close by but could not find the cache. Eventually I worked out we were on the WRONG SIDE OF THE RIVER!!! This is no easy issue to resolve as we have to drive for about 45 minutes to get to the direct opposite side. We stopped in for some petrol for the car and some chips for us and got to the new site. We followed the GPSr and passed by a kids park full of swings and slides and things (and three boys about 3yo or so with their dad). Lil Dwarfette soon had the boys following her around to play with her. Particularly one boy dressed in a spiderman outfit. They slid down dirt hills made for BMX bikes and got quite dirty, but had great fun. After a while I decided we’d had enough and she reluctantly agreed. We drove off to find the next cache and found it down a bit of a concreted bike pathway. (That is, the pathway was concreted.. not the bikes). I found the film cannister sized cache and opened it.. then soon realised I had left my pen in the car. Microcaches do not have enough room in them for writing implements so I walked back to the car. It was only about 5 mins walk away but still annoying as I had to wait for bikes to ride past before I could get the cache out again. I signed the cache and left a $1 coin to make up for the cache earlier which I didn’t drop something off in. We jumped back in the car and headed off for the next cache. Unfortunately, I forgot to write down a special clue which was in this microcache, to go with other microcaches in the set. D’oh! Hopefully someone on the Geocaching.com website can help me out. We found the other two microcaches and got the clues from them.

We found one other lunch-box sized cache and Lil Dwarfette scored a pink balloon and was thrilled to bits, so it was a good day out for all concerned. I certainly got some exercise I normally would not have and got out and about in fresh air.

Caches found on this trip:

Pan Pac by Crew 153 (GCZE64)

Pioneers by wingaap (GCR98F)

The 7 Dwarfs - Doc by Steve & Family (GC10BX4)

The 7 Dwarfs - Dopey by Steve & Family (GC10BX8)

The 7 Dwarfs - Sleepy by NastySteve (GC10BXA)

The 7 Dwarfs - Happy by Steve & Family (GC10BXD)

Also, Just do it, ya dolt! (About the Macintosh OK button)

Has anyone come across this issue? I thought perhaps it was to do with the Windows Search Deskbar program.  If I right-click on the iTunes icon in the System Tray, the Taskbar menu pops up underneath it at the same time and gets the focus of the mouse pointer unless I move the pointer to the far right 10 pixels or so out of it’s reach.  I can fix it by clicking elsewhere and trying a few more times, but often the Taskbar menu won’t go away until I click on something in the list.

A TOPLESS car wash in Brisbane has been cleared for operation after authorities found no laws or water restrictions were being broken.

Strip club entrepreneur Warren Armstrong has set up Bubbles ‘n’ Babes at Albion in the city’s inner north.

The business offers a $55 car wash by a topless woman, and a $100 wash by a totally nude female attendant – which includes an X-rated show.

And I washed my car at the Laserwash this morning