The slab went down on the 27th of January, now the wall and roof frames are up! Stoked!

btw, I can’t get the gallery to work – so you’re stuck with the dull way it looks

I can’t wait until I get Xbox live and start killing ‘real’ people!

Is it so bad that someone enjoys killing people but can’t let a bee drown when they water the plants? I don’t know if it says anything about the human race, but I’m sure it says something about the people I deal with each day.

On that note; kill ya later

20081102–0817, originally uploaded by grean04.

I finally sent my Chinese photos to snapfish to get printed, along with my Kangaroo Island holiday photobook. The China holiday was in 2008 and KI in 2007!

I can’t think if it’s lazy or busy… we’ll go with busy.

I’m still trying to organise my first home buyer grant! They make it so f#cking hard!

I’ll post some photo’s soon.

11am the land has settled!!!! Over the moon right now, I’m a proud owner of my first piece of Real Estate!

*imagine the wavy lines*
[A week ago]
I just received a letter stating that my application for the First Home Owners Grant (FHOG), has been accepted; the problem is that now the land is finally about to settle, it is almost up to the 6 month cut-off date – past the contract date for me to get my FHOG.

I have to start putting together some information for an extension.

I just called Revenue SA about getting an extension, the mysterious lady inside my phone receiver said “you must get letters from the Council, Land Titles Office (LTO), and anywhere else explaining why there was a hold up, plus a timeline of when the hold up was – and when the Footings will be poured”.

WTF! A City Council will not give letters nor will the LTO why they were held up, I don’t even think these places have faces!

I’m currently working quite hard to get this information, I will post a copy when I get it.

fhog Letter - Here’s a copy of my letter I sent, I’ll scan the reply I got tomorrow.

At around 5:40am this morning we had a little visitor – a Possum has jumped into our laundry/toilet/lean-to and pissed and shitted all over the place. I went to golf at 6am and got back at around 8:45am I called the landlord and they said “I’ve already put the work-order in, I’ll send another one now”. I said “can you please make it a priority, it’s very unhygenic and…”, he butted in with “so are birds and chooks”. I virtually hung up on him, I was fuming! BUT WE DON’T HAVE ANY FUCKING BIRDS OR CHOOKS IN OUR LAUNDRY!

Please refer to Part 4, Division 3. Numbers:

• 57 – Landlord’s duty to keep proper records of rent
• 58 – Duty to give receipt for rent

Also refer to Part 4, Division 7. Numbers:

• 68 – Landlord’s obligation to repair

I will also write to seek a hearing from the tribunal, for the fuckers to get fined! I like the quote “If they fuck up, make them pay!”, that is my current attitude – I’ll explain more about this in the next day or so when I’ve finished writing it.

I realised I had a bit of extra weight that I needed to remove, so I decided to checkout the local equipment suppliers. I finally found somewhere that made you feel welcome it was WW in Mile End, SA. I bought a few small items (approx $200) for my boxing bag, ie. gloves, strapping, etc. Customer service was great (for now). Then I found a few other items that caught my eye, I told them I’ll be back to get them later.

It was approx a week until I went back and ordered a 4-way boxing stand ($699), the waiting time was “middle of next week” the salesperson said. I didn’t mind too much, I called them at the end of the following week as I was expecting a call. They had explained that “…it must have missed the truck!” (WTF!!! how can something so big miss a truck?)

I called them the following week and it wasn’t until the following monday when I received a phone call to say it was in. When I went to pick it up I bought a speed ball and a new nylon speed ball mount (approx $70). I spent the following Saturday morning putting it together (awful instructions! not entirely WW fault).

I popped back in a little later and bought some dumbbells ($130ish) for my partner (a personal trainer), and a kettlebell ($75ish) for myself. By now I was in full swing of the excercise movement, toning up and feeling great!

I still needed something more… “THAT’S IT! I need a heart rate monitor!”, I did my due-diligence and found Suunto would fit my activities. That weekend I popped down to WW and got a Suunto T3C watch – albeit NOT the one I called only minutes earlier and asked the staff if they had it in stock, to which they replied “of course we do” [STRIKE ONE!]($270 w/ 10% discount), about 2 weeks later I bought a Suunto GPS pod ($300) to measure the distances I was running and moving while at footy training, I was quoted $260 (full retail) by two of the part owners, after another 2 weeks of waiting for the GPS pod to come in, I still had to call them and ask if the item had arrived. In my lunch break I drove to Mile End WW and introduced myself, the salesperson asked me how I would like to pay the $300.00 – I said “eftpos… WHAT? $300? I was quoted $260!” I said shocked. He didn’t want to know, he said “it’s $300 do you want it or not?”, [STRIKE TWO!!] – I was furious – $40 isn’t much, but it’s the principle. I still took the item.

A number of weeks later the $130 dumbbells I purchased fell apart and hit one of my partners client on the head. She was devastated! I took them back to WW and explained what had happened, I saw one of the owners and he was very empathetic and explained he would get them replaced brand-new. My partner and I were very happy with this outcome. They explained it will be 2 weeks until they will be replaced, we didn’t care as long as they were safe again.

2 weeks later I called to see if they had been replaced, the salespeople knew nothing about it, they said they would find out and call me back. I called them the next day and spoke to the same dude, again he didn’t have any idea what I was talking about, but he said he would check – he put me on hold and said that it would be in the next day or so [STRIKE THREE!!! - YOU'RE OUT! NEXT BATTER].

A couple of days had past so instead of calling I drove into WW and found they were sitting behind the desk – in the same box as when I took them there. They had not been replaced they were REPAIRED, we accepted this [STRIKE ONE!].

About a week later they started coming loose and dangerous again, I checked them over and found it had been broken inside one of the caps that held them together, I temporarily fixed them, but they only lasted about a week.

Last Monday (15/06/2009) I took them back in to WW, two of the owners were there – I had been dealing with these guys from the start. I showed them what had happened, one of them picked it up and basically made me feel like a bloody lying criminal! [STRIKE TWO!!]. He said “they’ve been dropped haven’t they?”, I said “I can’t tell you that, they’re not mine”, he said “OF COURSE THEY HAVE, LOOK!”, I again said “I don’t know if they have”. He muttered something and walked away. Then they said “we’ll have to replace that cap”, I felt a little easier once they said that, then he said “it’ll be a couple of weeks”. Ohh sh*t I wonder how long really???? [STRIKE THREE!!! - YOU'RE OUT! TIME & GAME BITCHES]

In summary, for $130 of what it cost me, it has completely spoilt their business in my mind, I will gladly travel into Adelaide and purchase from Rebel or Amart next door to WW. I sincerely regret spending the $1700 odd dollars there, I’m only putting it down to an expensive lesson.