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| Organisation |
| 2012-05-19 14:02:20 |
Quite honestly, I have been rather disorganised lately due to my home office being in turmoil. This has given me the chance to have a think about how I am going to rectify things when I have a flash new office to work out of. My plan is to set one night aside per week to devote to updating sites and building new traffic. This means setting aside time to post updates to my several blogs and also to place comments on other blogs - maybe even find a forum or two - place sites into some online directories - nothing spectacular, just time set aside to get all the 'daily grind' work done. There is a lot of 'footslogging' involved in maintenance of websites whether they be blogs or info/trading sites - it isn't really possible to leave a static site in the vague hope that traffic will arrive without any background work being done..
Time will tell whether my plan will come to fruition, but I certainly have solid intentions to devote at least the one night a week to keeping on top of my...
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| Progress at last.. |
| 2012-05-13 18:17:43 |
I was getting concerned that I would have little to show for this weekend after I got so little done in terms of renovating my home office yesterday. However, today I managed to get out of the way, one of those tasks that has been bugging me a bit. The reason I was hesitating over this job is I was not sure how it was going to turn out, but as it happens it turned out quite well.
My wife had picked out a light for the office, but there is an ugly hole in the ceiling which used to be the loft access. I had fashioned a wooden square to cover the hole, and had to get this and the light fitted whilst extending the wiring to fit.
It was a relatively quick job, but has taken me a psychological leap forward as this was one of the 'big' jobs that still remains, and because of the complex nature of the wiring and the wooden cover for the hole, one that was becoming a bit of a psychological block. As you can see from the picture, the painting has also been done, so there is little to stop me f...
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| Latest... |
| 2012-05-13 18:17:22 |
Not having my home office finished is affecting quite a bit of my work - I have not started preparing my accounts for my tax return, and I am not really on top of things. My day job is still giving me a lot of pressure, but I am enjoying the new role I have at work, and am confident that the excessive pressure will be off fairly soon, and normality will resume.
I am looking forward to getting the office finished at home, I have a new light fitting to get done and some woodwork to rub down, then I will be in a position to get the skirting board back in. After that, it's a trip to Ikea to kit the place out! However I managed to spend the entire day today being Daddy and managed little more than rubbing a little of the woodwork down as far as office renovation goes - well, there's always tomorrow!...
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| Spray tanning |
| 2012-05-13 18:16:49 |
After what must have been the UK's wettest April in living history, warm weather returned to our shores today. A blazing sun means that there is no need for spray tanning this weekend, in fact I think I may have picked up a bit of a tan playing football today.
Hopefully, this burst of good weather is not just a flash in the pan otherwise I think artificial tanning might be the only type of tanning we will see for the next few months.
The weather prompted me to mow the lawn for the first time this year (I'm ashamed to say), the grass was really quite long, and getting it down to manageable length is just the first of many garden-based tasks I need to do to prepare the garden for the coming Summer....
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| Rivets |
| 2012-05-08 06:01:49 |
My 'day-job' is getting increasingly busy (worked a 15 hour day on Friday!) as we are beginning a manufacturing process from scratch.
This has meant having to source all the screws, washers and rivets as well as all other manufacturing components before starting the process.
Time is of the essence as we have orders to fulfil, but things would go so much smoother if we had all the components ready at hand, as it is, we are spending as much time sourcing parts as we are on the manufacturing process itself.
Currently, we seem to have most of the small parts, but it is becoming increasingly tricky to keep stock of parts as they are being used. Hopefully when we have the first batch out of the way, it will all calm down a bit......
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| Online GRE prep |
| 2012-04-24 11:40:34 |
The Graduate Record Exam is one of those computer-based tests that you can take at test centres in various locations. It is a requirement for many US graduate schools as well as in other English-speaking countries. It is intended as a general indication of academic ability and has six different sections assessing separate skills.These types of tests are often supported by training software that simulates the test, and there are some online gre prep websites that can assist in training to succeed at the test too....
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| Pajamas for women |
| 2012-04-24 11:31:23 |
It was our anniversary last weekend and although I don't usually buy a gift for our anniversary, I did see these lovely pajamas for women on which you can have a nick-name printed.I was too late to get them delivered in time for the weekend, but would still consider them for a birthday or Christmas present a little later on in the year.Of course, you would have to make sure that the intended recipient actually likes their nick-name before you submit it to the printers or you could be making an expensive mistake!...
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| Rolling along |
| 2012-04-23 08:59:44 |
I am getting really busy now... just been away for the weekend, and got stuck into the painting of my home office as soon as we got back - first coat pretty much done - looks like it's gonna need a few more coats yet!I have been buying broken laptops again...! Just put one together, but if I account for all the parts I used at 'eBay prices', I need to get at least £60 back to make it worthwhile - as it happens most of the parts I used to get this one going don't really owe me anything (they are mostly leftovers from other repairs), so maybe I would still make a bit of profit if I sold this one... Anyway, I guess I HAVE to sell it so I will just have to get whatever I can for it.I reiterate that unles you can renovate laptops on a wholesale scale, it is probably not worth the effort...Ther...
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| DBX |
| 2012-04-16 19:32:03 |
I have been on the lookout for a new speaker management system for a reasonable-sized PA set up. We had a relatively cheap one which was not very intuitive for the inexperienced user such as myself. I had heard about the dbx DriveRack PA, and was very interested to learn that there is now a DriveRack PA plus.This featured packed beast offers easy set-up using in built 'wizards' which sounds (excuse the pun) like great idea to me. Not only that, but the kit looks really great too......
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| Bean Bag Chairs |
| 2012-04-16 19:15:39 |
I have been looking for furniture and fittings for my soon-to-be newly decorated home office when I came across these bean bag chairs. I was briefly tempted before accepting that there was not really enough room for 'chilling out' in the limited space that we have.However I am sure it will not be long before I need to redecorate the bedroom of my young daughter - Now if these are available in pink, I think we have found the perfect piece of furniture......
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