badlyDrawnToy

I’ve spent the last 18 months with all my worldly goods locked away in storage in Bondi, and now I must purge/sell/give-away some of my stuff before shipping the essentials back to the U.K.

I’m arriving on 10th November, and will probably do that e-bay thing, but in case anyone is interested, heres a list of things I’m saying good-bye to:

• 1 x wicker chair
• 1 x small square coffee table - can’t even remember what it looks like, think it’s a beech veneer IKEA one - Free to anyone that wants it
• 1 x surfboard - no it’s not a mini-mal. It’s a 7′4″ gun, I think. What do I know about surfboards? All I know is, I couldn’t stand up on it! Good condition.
• 1 x small foldaway square coffee table - Free to anyone that wants it
• 1 x queen size futon - good thick mattress, wooden base. Good condition (i.e. didn’t see much action)
• 1 x pine chest of bedroom drawers - 3 wide drawers plus 2 sock drawers. stained to a dark-wood colour. A bit like the pic below, but darker.

If anyone is interested in any of the above, get in touch by email at write2howie @ gmail.com (without the spaces). Make me an offer!

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Last week my big sister turned 40! Typically, Michelle didn’t celebrate quietly , and hosted a Blondes and Bling party. I’m only a few years away from 40 myself. I hope I still know how to party like my sister does.

Only a few photos to show as I’m still organising a replacement for my Nikon that was stolen. Still there’s some funny ones. Check them out.

And more can be seen over at Mich’s photo gallery.

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So, I finally got my MacBook back the other day. It took two weeks to repair the flickering screen. Not too bad, though I had to get a friend to organise to drop off and collect as the store is no longer open at weekends.

The engineer phoned me to tell me that he replaced the heatsink and run in for 24 hours without a shutdown. The thing is, I never had a problem with it shutting down.. only with a flickering screen on start up. He told me this was fixed too.

Booted up the MacBook on Saturday. The screen started flickering. Un-bloody-believable. Admittedly, it’s not as bad as when I took it in, but this is how it started out the first time.

So I phoned the store, and after several calls to the manager ascertained that after they replaced the heatsink, they did see the screen flickering. They fixed it by resetting the memory (PRAM). doh! As if I hadn’t done that twenty times. As if AppleCare (phone support) hadn’t asked me to do this 20 times before agreeing that it needed repairing. As if the Apple store that had it for a week didn’t do this 20 times before telling me it needed a new logicboard! Two weeks they had, and all they did was reset the memory.

So no, I need to send it back (60 mile round trip to the store and back) so they can look into it again.

Apparently, my consumer rights are pretty thin. If I didn’t have a problem in the first few weeks, then I am deemed to have accepted the goods. So, I can’t demand a refund/replacement; only a repair. That said, they are required to repair the machine within a reasonable amount of time and they’ve wasted two weeks so far. The nightmare continues.

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