A New Beginning.

No, Star Wars fans, I’m not blogging about the movie (wait, that’s A New Hope, isn’t it? Same-same).

Today, I resigned from my job at Southside Electronics. Tomorrow I begin my new job as Manager at Panelcorp, a smash repair shop in Blacktown.
This is a great new start for me, as it’s a traineeship, so I will end up with a qualification in Business Management behind me when I come out of it.
It also means that my financial worries are over too, and I can finally pay off debts and what not. I don’t like debts.

So if you’re in need of any repairs done to your car, come see me at Panelcorp – 46 Tattersall Road, Blacktown

Christmas is coming up (”Duh!” I hear you say), and I’ve not done any of my Christmas shopping yet. I have, however, bought my mum a birthday present, which I should have done a while ago, considering it’s her birthday today.
I know what Jess has bought me for Christmas though.. last night she bought me 2 Platinum tickets to the Friday night show of Top Gear Live in Sydney. Cheerin’. Didn’t get to go last year, but this year I was certain I’d be going, no matter how I got those tickets.

Now that my life is back on track, I’ll be getting this blog back on track too. Expect more updates from now on.

An update on the radio situation

So I received an e-mail regarding the situation of After Dark.

Basically, there’s a 1 month suspension in place due to the previously mentioned complaint. However, there’s a bunch of conditions placed on the show, etc etc.

Anyway, it’ll be back in 3 weeks.

PS: Anyone with some full-time work for me in Sydney, please e-mail me.
Thx.

Blowing the dust off this blog

Alright, so it’s been a while since I’ve posted here. Believe me though, I have some very good excuses reasons for this.

First off, I’ve been trying to get Acute Networks expanded and moving into other areas. More on this will be revealed soon enough.
Secondly, I’ve not had much time at all to do.. well, anything really. I’ve just been so busy with so many things lately, that I’ve barely had time to use the interwebs.
And of course, third, I’ve been looking for more work. My days at work now have been cut down from 5 to 3 days per week; a wage that I can’t live on. So recently, the time that I have been spending on the intertubes has been spent looking for work.

So that is basically everything up until now.
More recently though, I got a phone call yesterday from one of the head honchos at 2CCR, informing me that my show, After Dark, had been suspended indefinitely due to a complaint received over a song choice. Reason? Because this song had the word “motherfucker” in it.
Now, Mr. Head Honcho didn’t give two shits himself, but he had to be consistent in decisions made, and thus the show is suspended.
If I wish to continue with it, I have to write up a dispute, etc by this afternoon. I’m not going to bother. If they’re going to make those decisions about music played after midnight, then there’s some issues there that need to be addressed.

I may return to the station at some point with a new program, but until then I am off air until further notice.

If you wish to express your disgust at this decision, feel free to e-mail mail@2ccrfm.com.

I’ll keep this blog updated on the situation though.

One last thing, too. My other domain, for those that know it (corolla92.com) is now unused. It will redirect to Ben-Childs.com from today.

Ciao.

I was going to call this post something really immature, but I won’t

So it’s been a while since my last update, but for that, there is good reason.
I have been so busy as of late, that the thought to make an update here just didn’t even cross my mind.

Last Wednesday, I noticed a few of the buttons on my aluminium Apple keyboard decided they’d had it, and would now refuse to work.
These keys included the right Shift, the up key, and the Numpad’s 6. Quite handy if you’re filling in forms so you can switch banks, etc.
So anyways, I took it to Next Byte at Castle Hill to get it replaced. They told me it’d be a few business days and they’d call me to sort it out once it’d been assessed. Nothing yet, so that’s something I have to get onto soon.

My rego is also expiring on the 17th. Rego money was all spent on moving, so I’ve gotta figure out another way of paying for it.
Been thinking about selling the car lately though, however, the only thing I’d replace it for would be a Nissan Stagea. Don’t ask why, I just want one.
The reason I don’t do this though, is that I still have another 11 months on a restricted license, so i have to stick with an NA for now.

In radio news, I was meant to be organising and presenting a special programme on 2CCR this Saturday with Natasha King. However, the whole subject base of the programme has collapsed, so there is really no show left to do.
It was decided tonight that the show is to be shit-canned. Fine by me.

Also on the subject of radio, my show After Dark may be moving to a new and improved timeslot on Tuesdays. Keep an ear to the ground for more news on that as it comes available.

Oh yeah, and I have finally got internets!

That is all, minions.

I’m wasting away slowly..

..from lack of interwebs. Who knew that it was possible?
Yes, the lack of a connection to the world makes it hard to stay at home. With only free-to-air TV, there’s usually nothing on. Usually, that’d mean I’d make my way to the computer for some entertainment, but it seems there is none of that on here either with no internet connection.
No doubt, you’re asking “How are you writing this post then?”. Answer to that is that a friend of mine has been kind enough to bring around her USB 3G modem. LEGEND!

I will update you on my condition as it progresses.

In closing, don’t forget to tune into 2CCR 90.5 FM tonight from 12am to hear After Dark – the best radio show in the universe.

The finishing touches

So we’re pretty much settled into the new place now, with a few things left to buy/do.

This morning we had an electrician come at the ungodly hour of 8:45am. I’m on holiday for God’s sake. I don’t need to be awake at that time of the morning.
It needed to be done though. He was here on order of the real estate agent, because I kicked up a stink about a broken phone plug in the master bedroom. It not being fixed would have meant no internets for us when the NDSL comes on.

Speaking of the NDSL (or Naked DSL for those who subscribe to the terms used by the TV ads), my buddy Karl who works for Westnet (which is, from what I understand of it, WA’s rebranded iiNet) has been helping me out with times and ETAs, etc on the installation. His latest ETA was 7 – 10 days, so I’ll be stoked if that’s the case, because I sit here writing this blog post via my iPhone, tethered to my MacBook. It’s speedy, but not speedy enough, quite frankly.

I’ve decided that my car is now going to be used solely as a weekend warrior. As in, does not get driven to work during the week.
Normally, me being me, I wouldn’t have decided on this, but it is significantly cheaper to catch the train to and from work. Who doesn’t like a bit of extra cash in their wallet every week?
Secondly, the train takes pretty much the same amount of time to get to and from work as it does for me to drive.
I think my reasoning is clear.

When life couldn’t get stressful enough..

..we’re told we have to move. Fan-fucking-tastic.

That was about a month and a half ago. We’re now moving on Saturday, and the stress is unbelievable.
Getting things connected is the fun part (IE: Electricity, Internets, Water). Making sure everything is going to be on and working when we move in is such a run-around.

The pain in the arse about it all though, is most definitely the Internet. Naked ADSL2+ takes 20 days to connect. 20 days of being cut off from the world. Awesome. Looks like the tethering with the iPhone will come in handy, but it means I have to cut back. 1GB of data through that isn’t going to get me my usual fix of music, movies and software.

If anyone has any idea of a way to make them get their arses into gear, please contact me or leave a comment. The least time without a connection, the better.
The ISP is iiNet if it matters.

The blog lives on..

That’s right, the blog is back and on a more suitable domain name.

I did start a blog over at corolla92.com (my other domain) sometime last year. It sort of faded away due to a number of reasons, but I recently purchased this domain name to make sure the same thing doesn’t happen again.

To those who will be reading this, thank you and enjoy.