The Old Tin Shed

Ok. now you all know how much I hate shifting house. More specifically how much I hate shifting furniture down and up stairs.  Well today we went to go help one of my partners friends.  Due to the fact she is under 25 I rented the removal truck in my name with the intention of only driving it.  Ha Ha Ha the laugh is on me. We arrive at her place to find a Huge modular couch, An incredibly heavy front load washer fridge and solid timber bedroom suite, including tall boy.  Now you could probably imagine how unhappy I was to see all this furniture.  What made it worse is it was all on the second floor with stairs that make the Himalayan, mountains look like a bowling green.  To top it off the monsoon is here, humidity is high and the Suns scorching. So much for only 2 hours.  We loaded the truck and took it to the place she was going to move in.  She got there and proceeded to burst into tears, saying she didn't want to live there.  She h...

As mentioned a couple posts back my partner purchased a Renault Scenic.  To be honest a great car, neat tidy and gets up and goes.  One big issue with the car is the audio system in it just sucked.  About 3 weeks after getting the car, I fitted a new head unit for it.  I didn't solder the connections primarily because I knew at some point in the new future that new speakers amplifier etc would be added to the car.  So I used the exisitng wiring and hooked up the 4 exisitng speakers... To say the sound output was pathetic doesn't cut it.  These 5.25 inch splits in the front and 5.25 inch two ways in the back were hopeless. The stereo had way to much power for them.  They were a small magnet paper cone variety that car manufactures thought were a good idea.  Anyway after several months my partner orderd some new 5.25 splits for the front,  Up specked the speaker cables ran them to the front doors, created solder joints for all the power light...