Bound to have happened

I've left it for another few weeks again ... nothing new. I had fully intended to post but procrastinating was easier, always seems to be something better to do. Not that I don't have any excises I wouldn't like to use, like my internet was capped or I was in the middle of building my computer ... but that was last week.

Brand spanking new

Old Computer Fan

So what have I been doing for the past week then? Well playing games on my new computer that's what. Why do you suppose my first blog was called When I'm not playing games? I sort of played less games because my computer got outdated ... after 8 or 9 years which is actually pretty good lifetime. Still use it to play some stuff but can't play any of the newer stuff because can't run directx 10 or 11 ... something round that. Capacity wise it can but just only after a certain graphics card can you run the newer directx. I even got games because with the numbers I thought I could run them ... just missing the right graphics driver. It was pretty up there for its time, not the most expensive but pretty darn good. 

This time it cost quite a bit. Guess the price of parts went up while I wasn't keeping updated. Was also a lot harder to put it together than last time. Not saying last time I didn't have any problems. Burnt through 2 USB sticks before I figured out I had put the usb power in the 10 volt slot instead of the 5 volt ... duh. This time I returned and swapped parts thinking it was something wrong with part compatibility but instead it was a stupid mistake of not putting in the power for the motherboard ... the second power plug!?! How should I have known I had to plug power in the motherboard at 2 different points?!? Also the CPU this time didn't come with a fan/heat sink because it was just that high qua that I had to get one separately. Beast of a heat sink fan combo. In the end it worked and that's all that it really matters. Also it looks so pretty :D. Still not the best but think for price and power it should hopefully last me for some time. Also it has pretty pretty lights ... I'm not going to geek out and list the components but if you want to know just ask me. 

Anyways post wise I will be posting hopefully about volunteer work which I had promised ... also something maybe about camp that was on last week ... maybe one more thing that I thought I remembered but can't put my finger on it.

Wasn't sick this Monday so went swimming and brunch with the other guys so here's some pictures just because I want to post these somewhere.

Trying to post photos

Caramel pipette!!!

Car Adventure

I've talked about driving before and how I don't really enjoy it. One of those reasons is petrol. I mean paying for it isn't great but is a required thing. It's moreso finding one to stop by to get petrol. The way I usually do it is if it's really cheap I'll fill up if I'm half empty. If it's price is okay I'll fill it around the eighth mark. And if it's expensive I'll wait until my empty light has flashed for about half hour ... Yes I know risky right ... The thing is it has to be convenient at the time to get petrol, which hardly ever felt that way. Probably why I've had to get a can of petrol once.  Well I soon learnt about why I shouldn't really do that again. By the way before these short trips my petrol light had already flashed once ... right just a flash, no need to worry right?

Monday morning I had a doctors appointment. This was for a update and a CT scan I got the previous Friday for my elbow (yes I don't update my blog enough). Let's just say the only interesting thing is I felt was that there was like 3 doctors there to give me just a CT scan. The last time I only got 1. Felt like a lab rat. Anyhow I was sort of sick anyways so two birds with one stone. There was really one route to drive to the docs and that was up Station Street ... in the morning. It wasn't just the traffic. Box Hill's been booming and there's like heaps of apartment building which end in temporary road blocks. Obviously I would have avoided it if possible but it wasn't. I live decent close to the place so any other route would take me ages out of my way. However might have considered it if I knew a 30 second driving section would take me 10 minutes instead. The right turn on Station Street was actually considered the fastest part of the trip because traffic was moving so slow that they stopped to let me turn in. So the light flashed again ... didn't stay on ... it's okay.

Apparently my CT scan wasn't great news but it wasn't terrible either. They advised I get a dynamic CT scan. Great sounds awesome. I've mentioned I like to try new things right? Well my doc hadn't heard much about this sort of CT scan before so must be something unique to some degree. Well I thought why not get it out of the way. Booked the appointment in 10 minutes time and quickly left. Had considered getting fuel but no time. This time the light turned on and stayed on. Okay concerning. But no time. So back down station street. Slight block but better than the other way. Then the turn onto Thames Street. Another building site ... was regretting booking the CT scan so close. However this time it wasn't as long. The place where I get my scan has 5 underground levels of carpark. The parking level for those getting scans was on the bottom floor ...

Scan was interesting. Got to move during it because it was a dynamic CT scan. However I had to be in a weird angle and still had to keep my head out of the way. Took a bit longer getting it right. Also the doctor came out to discuss my "injury". Because I had to move he needed to know where it hurt. It doesn't actually hurt but it grind and tweaks sometimes so always hard explaining this. Anyways I couldn't actually get my elbow to act up at the time so couldn't get it exact. What was disappointing was at the end they didn't print it out for me. Guess too many slides. Last still CT scan was already 5 slides. Anyways time to leave ... and here's where the problem happened. I couldn't get my car started. Well I managed to get fuel into it but it stuttered and shut. This happened over and over again. At times it sounded different but it still didn't work. I managed to reverse my car around a metre in like 2 minutes. As I had no reception I didn't even consider calling for help. I just tried time and time again, trying different things. After 5 minutes I finally managed to get my engine sounding right. Every moment was tense, especially climbing up the carpark. There was 2 boom gates I had to stop by which didn't help. The closest petrol station was all on a uphill way ... Well it didn't stall once after getting it working so that was a relief. Always thought I had more time to fill up but all these short quick trips didn't give me many options. Petrol stations always seemed to be on the other side of the road. Right turn in and out is a pain. Weird thing was didn't realize petrol price was actually quite low at the time ... Guess my filling up rule got trumped by convenience.

After that I went straight home this time with no road blocks ... but a few minutes later I was out again to get KFC. I mention it because this whole morning I took so many little trips here and there I didn't actually leave Box Hill ... Think it was all within a 1 kilometre block. The fun of driving ... next time I might just walk it.

Thought I'd Google map it and it came to 8.6km drive. Link is here just so you can see where I drove to.

Car Filler

Driving isn't something that I usually enjoy. I'm a over thinker so driving already not fun thinking of all these other tonnes of metal moving around you at high speed, and just one wrong turn ... Anyways there's other reasons I don't enjoy driving. Working out directions to the location, looking for parking space, and paying for petrol are probably my biggest gripes. 


Thing is I've been finding myself enjoy driving other cars which I've never done since getting my full license. The holiday in Gold Coast I needed to drive as I was one of the few people on full license. The other two drivers really wanted to drive the Swift so I was stuck driving the Almera. I say stuck but once I started I fell in love driving it. It could have also been the company I had while driving that made me love the drive. Even got to the point I was reluctant to give up the drivers seat after driving all day. The Almera ended up being named Tyler, party boy Tyler. Since being back I've driven a Liberty which had quite a kick. Had turbo which you can feel during acceleration. Also drove another car which I forgot what type it was. What I know about is it was front wheel drive and could feel it when going down a dirt road. When breaking I could feel the back wheel slipping behind me.

Maybe I'm just bored of driving the same car, or maybe my cars falling apart so not enjoy driving it as much. Probably be great to get a new car, however I don't have enough saved for a car. I have said cars just need to be able to get from A to B. Anything else is luxury but I guess its alright to get something that includes luxury. Guess I'll keep using my Accord until it dies then upgrade. Time to save.