The alarms are off and staying quiet for the next few weeks, I've got my first holiday project to chew through (now that I have all the pieces) and how good were 80's cartoons?
TAKE SOME TIME OUT
I ended the show today feeling like someone had driven a spike through my head. Not from the content, just a possible lack of sleep and maybe even a passing virus that's given me a decent headache through the week (no not Covid). But coffee, breakfast and a couple of painkillers and I'm writing this at home feeling better and just waiting for the official 'I'm on holidays and it's time to relax' mode to kick in which probably won't happen til Monday, give or take.
But isn't it amazing how much you have to do before you can walk out of work
and punch the air in triumph, now that your break is starting? So many emails,
set up your out of office, have a plan for when the three weeks fly by and
you're back on air in no time at all, chat to the guy filling in and making
sure he's across everything, podcasts, the last weekly report for a while, a
couple of promos explaining where you are over your time off.
I'd like to
say the sleep in tomorrow is going to be one of the biggest after the week
that was but no, it's Jackson's birthday tomorrow. The crew of in laws staying
the night tonight will put an end to that dream state early enough but it's
all for him and he needs a big day after all he's been through (not going into
detail here but it's a fair bit) so I can't complain (too loudly).
Sleep in...eh...Monday. Bring that on.
(Also a quick shout out to a friend of a friend who passed on something very
complimentary today: 'Tell Al he's gone in reverse, looking better now doing
breakfast. Usually people look rougher after a few months..'
I don't feel
like I look better with all this lack of sleep but thank you, I'll take it!)
HOW DOES IT SOUND
Ever since I picked up the Slowbaru back in late March, I've been keen to replace the 2005 entertainment system in it for something a little more modern. Especially when it decided it didn't like the CD that was in it at one stage and promptly ate it, refusing the spit out what was left and therefore not letting me play anything else.
And since Autobarn were having a 20 percent off sale, I figured today was the perfect day to go and buy not only a head unit with USB capability but the correct wiring harness to make installation a very simple job (yes once upon a time I would have broken out the soldering iron and spent a good hour or two splicing wires in the absolute rats nest that lays deep in the centre console but now I'm at that stage where I'd spend a little more to make it easier.)
The problem is, I didn't read up on installation too well. I figured all I
needed was the unit and a wire plug. Well that was half of it. Turns out I
needed another wire plug to go into my first wire plug so it looks
like: head unit + wire plug that connects to head unit + wire plug that
connects to that wire plug but then connects to the Subaru factory wiring.
Right, okay then.
Oh and then they pointed out I would also need a facia
kit because I was replacing a factory unit and this would not only keep it in
place, it would also make it look 'sexy'. Really? It's an in car entertainment
system, how sexy is this thing supposed to be?
This is everything yeah? I'm not going to suddenly require a specialist tool to soothe the spirit of my car enough to install this thing? (Actually I've done a couple of units in my time, this shouldn't take very long at all..)
THE BEST SATURDAY MORNINGS
80's day again = 80's talk topic. And today we focussed on the greatest 80's cartoons of all time. There's simply not enough space on Blogger.com to pay tribute to them all but a few from my list of favs:
-M.A.S.K Crusaders
-Bravestarr
-G.I Joe
-Transformers
-Tranzor Z
-He Man
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I could go on but I've got a house to clean, a stereo to install and a holiday to enjoy. Time to relax and I hope you get a chance for a break soon as well!
Chat soon
-Almigo
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