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So a lot has happened since last i blogged.  We moved to Brisbane at the start of August and I’m now back to the 100km commute to get to work.  Thankfully this time it’s almost all highway driving and I have company in the car most of the time too.

When we were looking for a house we found the one that we are in with the owner looking for “a family that wants to stay for a long term in the house”.  That was exactly what we were looking to do.  We wanted a place we could set up base in for at least a few years so that we could save some money, with a view to buying the next place we live in.

Unfortunately that doesnt look like it’s going to be the case.  The recent market/financial troubles have caused the owner to re-evaluate their position and they have decided that they are reluctantly going to sell this house.  We figure that this is the house they have chosen out of their portfolio as it has just finished being refurbished/renovated and they feel that they have the best chance of return on it.

This makes things particularly frustrating for us as we have to put up with the realestate bringing potential buyers through to see the house.  So far we’ve had a small group of potential buyers come thorugh last saturday, and we have another coming through thursday afternoon.

This is the first time that something like this has happened to us during our entire renting history and it has come at, what can only be described as, the worst possible time.  We can’t really afford another move at the end of our lease and with Stacey currently trying to nurse a fractured ankle it leaves most of the work to me.  I’m barely coping with everything that is going on at the moment and this added stress is not something that either of us are enjoying.

We’ve even half heartedly started looking towards buying a place of our own, but with our current lack of savings (yeah moving up here was expensive) we dont feel that we are in a position financially to do that.

but I’m going to be screwing with the layout of this site over the coming days/weeks as i need a new theme and this time i want one of my own creation….

and if that isn’t the understatement of the day I don’t know what is.

I’ve been in a bit of a dark spot for a while with a lack of motivation for many things and lots has happened since my last post. The bubba that I was marvelling about feeling in my last post is now 9 months old!! Imogen is almost walking younger then her older sister was even crawling. It has been very special being responsible for another little life in this world. But it has also been exceptionally challenging dealing with the changes to our little family.

I know that I could be coping better, and that I still have a long way to go until I am happy with myself and how I am interacting with everyone around me. I lack patience and am quick to anger at the moment. I’m sure it’s due to lack of sleep and I should attempt to address that, but I need my own time and most of the time the only way i can get it is to stay up after everyone else is in bed. I need to find an outlet as none of my traditional ones seem to work any more. But enough of that darkness….

Work has gotten challenging again recently with my changed responsiblities. I’m still trying to wrap my head around everything that is involved in my new responsibilities and I am sure that as the challenges unfold I will have many things to say about what is happening.

Any way, thats enough of an “I’m still alive” post for now. Hopefully it wont be a year before the next one that I put out.

I still haven’t heard the heart beat…. damn my leaving for work before the end of the appointment… but tonight I got to feel the first movement :)

Operation of the clutch pedal moves the release lever, which pushes the release bearing and the centre of the diaphragm towards the transaxle.  When the diaphragm deflects, the pressure is relieved from the driven plate, and the clutch disengages.

A spring between the clutch pedal and the pedal bracket keeps the clutch pedal loaded against the stopper bolt.

My Internode ADSL has finally been provisioned and is up and running. Had a small drama getting it all sorted out, but thankfully the dice went my way.

I submitted the churn application on Dec 20th, wanting to move away from Westnet after I reached the conclusion that the plan changes they were implemented were detrimental to me and my usage habits. On the 21st I got an email about my order being in the system, apparently this is the email that comes through when the request is submitted to Telstra wholesale. The email indicates 3-5 business days from submission should see the churn completed.

On the 27th of December I got another of these emails. The 29th was 5 days from the original email and I called Internode to see what was happening. Apparently there had been some error at Telstra’s end and the application had been rejected and had to be resubmitted, hence the second email. Unfortunately for me the 3rd of Jan was given as the estimated date of churn.

This would push me into another month with Westnet and require me to pay another months access fees. It would also push me out of the period they were waiving the early termination charges and add that charge to my account as well. As there was no way we could speed Tesltra up with all the public holidays and stuff I had only 1 option.

I cancelled my Westnet account and had them set the cancellation date as the 1st of Jan so that I would still get the fee waived and not be charged the additional month access. This is bad because it could have seen my Westnet codes removed from my line before the churn happened. If that had happened it would have caused the churn to fail and I would have had to start the application again as a new connection which is more expensive and more delay.

Happily, this didn’t happen and I am now online through Internode.