Saturday, August 18, 2007
pirates and lullabys.
uni is ultimately, sucky. well, thats a lie, i do enjoy it lots... just some of the weird (... "'i' before 'e' except after 'c' or if you're 'weird'"...) people monash gets to educate us students are a bit... uhhh... pathetic.
the horrendous overlapping of subject material is fairly poor too. i'm doing three IT subjects this semester, one of which, "decision support system fundamentals," should just be scrapped as it is a complete waste of time. i'm learning the exact same material in "project management" and ummm... the other one i do... "spreadsheet modeling and something or other" (ok... i looked it up... i was way off - it's called "computer models for decision making" - i really should learn the names of my subjects, at least before the start of my exams when i have to write them on the cover sheet.) as i was saying though, the faculty should really go over their course structure as it's a complete waste of my time going to two tutorials which cover exactly the same material. enough ranting how shit monash is...
now i'll rant about how shit my car is/was/is not.
for a while now my car has been making this horrible gross screeching sound at (one would think) almost randomly. it would screech sometimes when i turned it on, when it was cold outside, when it was warm outside, when the car was warm, when the car was cold, if i turned the heating on, when i turned the heating off, when i turned the air-con on, when i turned the air-con off, when i turned the steering wheel a little bit, when i had the wheel in full lock, when i took off, when i slowed down and also when i changed gears. fairly random one would think. i thought and i though how all these things could make a screeching noise. i knew it had to be something to do with the timing belt because of the noise it would make when i first turned the car on in the morning... but the connection between the air-con and the steering totally confused me. so i went to my mate who all of a sudden seems to know everything about cars, and he's like, "it has to be your timing belt" - this confused me a little because i still didn't understand how that could affect the steering and the heating/cooling systems. so jon asked me to think about the innards of my car and exactly what the timing belt was connected to. all of a sudden it clicked, and i felt like the biggest idiot ever for not working it out myself. the timing belt also runs around the power steering thingy and the air-con thingy. woo! so we went out to my car and tightened the belt a bit, and so far i haven't heard any screeching noises since. i'll keep y'all updated on the screeching.
i think last weekend was the most embarassing the screeching was, because jon and myself went up to the bunyip state forest (up around gembrook) to do take part in some 4x4 action. we went in my car, because at the current moment jons vehicle is not entirely whole. so we had one 4wd, which is a bit silly but i think jons intentions were to meet randoms up there and do some driving with them. and thats exactly what we did. we found a quaint little camping spot... which was nice and secluded, except for the 10 or so (i couldn't count... their numbers kept changing) drunken men that occupied half the camping site. im thinking to myself "great, drunkards... im going to be mutilated and raped during my sleep." but we went over and started talking to an insanely drunk (its about 4pm) guy called luke. that was the start of basically one of my best weekends in a while. these guys were hilarious. we played drinking games that night with them and i had a few too many, but i was alright... kinda... - i think i won the games though.
the next morning we went for a drive with two of them in their dual cab hilux. they were brothers from down frankston way i think. the hot brother rolled (his ugly brothers) hilux the day before which was pretty amusing. anyway, we drove around a bit, did a few cool little tracks and got to one which looked impossible to drive up, so we found the top of it eventually by going the long way around and went down it. we'd had words from some other 4wders that the track was fun, except for one bend, which was really sharp because there was a tree stump in the way. the jeep got through the bend no worries (well, i scraped my diffs on a tree root that was invisible from the way we came) but the hilux went a gay way, and got stuck. dickheads. so we drove down the rest of the track and back around the long way to the top, and tried to pull them out backwards. no luck. we radioed the guys back at camp and one of them came to try to pull them out. no luck once more. so we pushed them out forwards, making our own track through the bush and almost rolling the hilux again. ill post photos maybe when i get them off jon.
later on in the day, another of the guys got stuck whilst we were going down a track, so i yanked them out. (jeep for president)
then we found this awesome mud patch, which was the size of a football field, so we did doughnuts and cool stuff in the mud and got the car horrendously dirty. then the brothers' hilux' clutch burnt out in the middle of the mud patch. wost place ever to get stuck. i thought they'd just be stuck there forever, because i couldnt see the jeep pulling it out due to it was stuck in the middle of a massive mud patch. but it did. (jeep for president)
then we went home. and the next day i couldnt drive to work on account of i couldnt see out of any of my windows and i would have died. jon picked me up from the station and drove me home... only to find that my dad washed my car. i almost cried. i didnt even get a good photo of it muddy.
ok this blog is far too long.
Labels: 4WD, car, jeep, jose, sickness, uni