Month: June 2008

“So nuff said there, apart from me being very curious about Carmi’s Thematic Photos that he’s looking to start up. Somehow, I’m not seeing a picture of Yet Another Focus Box as a sexy photo though :-)”

If I can make a Yaris sexy, you can do the same with a Focus 🙂 I’ll post more Yaris photos this week. Anything can be done if you frame it just so.

And the Euro-spec Focus is a pretty neat car. Really. I’d kill to have it here in Canada. Instead, we’re stuck with the same one they’ve been selling since 1999.

Heh heh heh – my last car was one of those called a “Hairdresser’s Car”. I get the feeling if a car is in any way special, then other people will try a bit of gentle mickey taking.

I’m starting to feel a little worn down again. I reckon I’m like a lantern. I can burn bright and hot but when the fuel runs out, I’m in trouble. Think I may need a week off soon to recharge. The tiredness tends to manifest itself in my legs, which have lots of muscle but that muscle can also be tough to get moving if I don’t have the energy to power them.

There’s a few things around here that are showing the effects of wear and tear. The car was one of them and the swapping for a newer, bigger, more powerful (and more CO2 producing, more gas guzzling, more awkward to manoeuvre!) one has dominated my Blog over the past week or so. So nuff said there, apart from me being very curious about Carmi’s Thematic Photos that he’s looking to start up. Somehow, I’m not seeing a picture of Yet Another Focus Box as a sexy photo though 🙂

There’s various things around the house that are suffering from wear and tear. My windows could do with repainting (or replacing for double glazing) because the paint is wearing off. I’m half sure that the wearing paint is due to outside influence, which is another reason why I don’t want TaxDodging NotTooHonest IrishGuy to do them.

Had to replace the graphics card in my PC last night due to wear and tear. Something’s happened to it that means it idles around 75 degrees C and goes up to a scorching 105-110 degrees C when I’m in games. So when I fire up Warcraft, after a few minutes the card gets to temperature and the picture starts flickering as it dials back how fast it’s going. I could live with that but on Wednesday, the problem progressed to the machine going through a shutdown every half hour or so. Kinda distracting 🙂

So I have the older graphics card back in there now, after a bit of the contortionist act. There’s not much room between desk and back of sofa where my PC lives and I didn’t want to bring it all the way out which means more contortions to sort the cables out. So a card swap and apparently problem fixed without spending money – which is always good 🙂

Back to the cricket now and James Anderson is making his case for Man of the Match already 🙂 He carded his highest batting score so far for England earlier and has taken all 5 of the New Zealand wickets to fall so far.

Labels do nothing but divide us as cars 😉

I’ve found out an Awful Truth about my new car … Let’s start by quoting a definition from Urban Dictionary :

	dagenham dustbin
	A British Ford car. Dagenham, in the county of Essex, east of London, is the best known Ford factory in the UK. Indeed it is the supposed powerhouse of the whole culture known (in the UK at least) as “Essex”, a working class culture characterised as having more money than taste. Dagenham dustbins are the cars assumed to be built there there.

Let’s just say Dagenham Dustbin is a derogatory term used to put people down who own Fords.

So how does this relate to my new buggy, outside of it being a Ford ? This is from the Service History book and is how I learned The Awful Truth :

Yes – my new car Is … A Dagenham Dustbin.

Lol – I’m impressed with it so far anyway. I don’t feel as “connected” to it as much as I did with the Puma but so far, everything I’ve asked it to do so far has been accomplished with effortless ease. I’ll have to wait about 10 days until the real handling test comes (the drive up to my mum’s and dad’s) but it’s taken the roundabouts here without noticing them, plus it’s nicely smoothed out all the ruts and bumps in the surface of Avonmouth Bridge that got your teeth shaking in the Puma.

Little more on Damien Flynn – he played in the New Zealand vs Northampton game that’s just finished. He only saw 12 balls over 2 innings but he got out there to face them.

Good on ‘im 🙂

It’s not so bad in bumper-bumper traffic – if the pedals are set up well … My mum’s Mazda is a bit awkward there, it puts my right foot in an uncomfortable position.

Most of the time in traffic, I can be lazy and just use one or two gears – it’s fine unless I’m stuck for ages, then it starts aggravating the soreness I tend to get from having leg muscles that are bigger than average 🙂

The leg muscles let me Run Real Fast when I get the chance, so I can handle a little cramp occasionally in return 🙂

PS I reckon the Astra nearly melted its clutch once … We were stuck on the motorway for about 4 hours doing about 1 mile. Clutch pedal started feeling a little strange after a while …

Congratulations on your new car! It sounds quite wonderful….Six Gears??? I haven’t driven a “Shift” car in so very many years…..I would think it would be exhausting in Bumper to Bumper Traffic….lol!
I always found it sad to say goodbye to a wonderful trusted car….I drive things for many many years. My car that I have now is almost 20 years old…And it works GREAT! Rides beautufully, etc. I hope you have much luck with this new toy….May it serve you even better than The Puma!