6th March 2002, 17:34
Blurgh, for some reason I’m feeling appauling this afternoon. Well, early
evening. Blurgh.
Anyway, so, what’s to report? Well, the ‘zed is back on the road – did I say
that already? Let’s check. No, right, well, I got the evil little sod back on
the road – did about 50 miles before something else went wrong – the exhaust
came off….again.
Anyway, so, we think we’ve tracked it down to the exhaust being in slightly
the wrong orientation, so hopefully that’s sorted. I’ve also had a few bouts of
water in the petrol, which isn’t exactly what I’d like to have, but it’s at
least fairly easy to cure.
Drained the last few microdrops out of the tank and a large chunk of it was
water…..which explains the running problems, but doesn’t really answer how it
got there – I’ve now tried the original MZ tank lid and the Burwin replacement
and they both seem to leak. Anyway, so, I’ll be adding a bit more to the MZ
pages soon, maybe even get around to writing about some of the experiences….
Hrm, I really don’t feel very well. Headachey, eyestrainey….
Anyway, so, we’ve had some car related issues – the mog’s heater has expired
in a major way, so that’s waiting until next week when she’ll go down for a new
heater, and the golfs water pump has died. Not entirely suprising, I’ve been
aware that it’s been “a bit knackered” since shortly after I bought the car, but
never replaced it on the basis that it still worked. But the bearing’s now given
up – so she’s off the road too…
Anyway, so here’s a couple of pictures of the mog: Rebecca, picture 1 & Rebecca, picture 2. Looking good eh?
:-)
Blurgh.
Definately unwell, lack of sleep that is, I think. Maybe. Had to get up early
to go and see the bank – regolith now
has a bank account – and an overdraft…..also been hastling estate agents,
which is not that much fun. Actually it’s tedious.
Ah well, if it’s not sorted out by the end of the week we’ll start looking
elsewhere…which is annoying. You’ll all have noticed that I’ve still not got
around to doing the transfer of the files from the iPAQ, this is mostly because
I’m lazy.
So, you’ll have to wait.
Mmm.
Blurgh.
I’d just like to share with everyone something I’ve discovered over the past
few days; KOffice sucks. It’s complete crap. I mean, a DTP/Word processing
package that can’t even print for god’s sake. It’s just ridiculous.
Gah.
Anyway, so I’ll be doing lots of stuff on Xara X (windows software, *spit*),
and probably go back to using OvPro for our stuff, on the basis that it works
extremely well. It’s a bit sad really having to use a what, 5 year old machine
for doing DTP because it’s better than anything else we’ve got.
So, we’ve got nearly all of a studio. We’ve paid for all of a studio, bar a
building.
Blurgh.
I think I’ll stop now…oh, news: got to take my bike test on the 18th, and
the Bikes MOT on the 19th.
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Kate E