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Life on my Bicycle

Life on my Bicycle

Monday, Feb 9, 2004

@ Adrian Tritschler

I think my bicycle has ears — or something. Half way to work this morning I met a girl walking along, pushing her bike. It was a scruffy old town bike, one of the pedals had sheered off at the crank, so she was walking home. I mentioned that there was an old-style bike shop in Oakleigh, the kind of place where the owner was likely to have a box of old pedals and could make a cheap repair.
Garage door remote control, part 8

Garage door remote control, part 8

Tuesday, Jan 4, 2000

@ Adrian Tritschler

I’m still trying to get a working remote control for the garage door. Peter, the Kay & Burton maintenance manager, left a message for me at home while I was at work, giving the code “3,6,7,8” which he got from Jeff, another tenant downstairs from me. I called around 12 pm and eventually spoke to Peter, where he relayed the message. I pointed out that Jeff has a different garage to me, something that Peter was not aware of!
Rent day

Rent day

Saturday, Dec 25, 1999

@ Adrian Tritschler

Paid Kay & Burton $694 rent from home, receipt number #786997.
Garage door remote control, part 7

Garage door remote control, part 7

Friday, Dec 24, 1999

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Still trying to get a working remote control for the garage, at 3 pm I attempted to call Kay and Burton to find that they’ve shut down for Christmas. I guess it’s no action till next year.
Garage door remote control, part 6

Garage door remote control, part 6

Thursday, Dec 23, 1999

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I took the new garage door remote control back in to Kay & Burton and recited the whole story again. Spoke to Peter, the maintenance manager, who contacted the Body Corporate and got me a different code (1,2,3, 10,11,12 on, 4-9 off). When I got home this doesn’t work either, nor does the reverse of it, or the reverse of 1,7,9. I climbed over the fence and took the cover off the receiver and it appears to be set to 1, 2, 3, 10, 11, 12 on, but nothing happens when I set the transmitter to those numbers.
Garage door remote control, part 5

Garage door remote control, part 5

Wednesday, Dec 22, 1999

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I called in at Kay & Burton to pick up the replacement garage door remote control this morning then, discovered when I get to work and go to put the battery in it that no one has bothered to set the combination! Call Peter, the maintenance manager … again. He expresses dismay at the continued stuff-ups and isn’t sure what the combination is since people have been fiddling with the old remote.
Garage door remote control, part 4

Garage door remote control, part 4

Tuesday, Dec 21, 1999

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I got to Kay & Burton at 8:30 am to pick up the new garage remote control that was to be dropped off yesterday … surprise surprise, it wasn’t there. After much ringing around it turns out that the locksmith didn’t bring it over yesterday as promised because, “It is only a small item and it wasn’t convenient for him to come here.” I’m promised that it will be here today and available tomorrow morning.
Garage door remote control, part 3

Garage door remote control, part 3

Friday, Dec 17, 1999

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First thing in the morning I attempted to phone Peter at Kay & Burton again since he didn’t call back on Wednesday, the receptionist won’t take a message but gives me his mobile number. I then called Peter, he will call me back. At approximately 2 pm Peter calls back; “Damian” has the garage remote control and will be bringing it from Campbellfield to Kay & Burton and I should be able to pick it up tomorrow, but to call first.
Garage door remote control, part 2

Garage door remote control, part 2

Tuesday, Dec 7, 1999

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Called in at at 9 am to Kay & Burton to drop off the broken garage remote control along with a problem report stating that it doesn’t work, that a new battery didn’t help, and that since the side gate has been broken – and reported – since January I can’t get into the garage. The girl on the desk reads this then asks me to try a new battery! I point to the line stating “A new battery didn’t help” and she promises to get the maintenance manager to look at it.
Garage door remote failed

Garage door remote failed

Monday, Dec 6, 1999

@ Adrian Tritschler

After a couple of weeks of requiring two or three taps on the button I got home today to find that the remote control for the garage has stopped working entirely. I went out and bought a new battery but still no difference.
Yay, partial repairs

Yay, partial repairs

Saturday, Sep 25, 1999

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Absolutely bloody amazing, I got home this afternoon to find that the Body Corporate or real estate managers had actually got around to replacing the light bulbs in the hallway of the flats. It only took four months to fix after I first reported it! Pity that absolutely everything else I’ve reported as broken has been ignored.
No repairs today

No repairs today

Tuesday, Aug 24, 1999

@ Adrian Tritschler

Surprise, surprise, the maintenance people who said yesterday that they’d be here today didn’t turn up. Nor did they ring, leave any message, or attempt to arrange any other date to look at the place. So much for their message from Tuesday.
Repairs tomorrow… probably

Repairs tomorrow… probably

Monday, Aug 23, 1999

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Got home from the day out to find a message on the answering machine promising that the maintenance company would be around at 10:00 am tomorrow to check out the damaged loungeroom ceiling. I missed the company name though. I called back and they wanted me to be there, but I explained that it was ok for them to come round with the agent’s key, so long as they called me first.

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…The Owner

There’s not much more I can add to who I am.

…The Site

Vanity site? Technology experiment? Learning tool? Blog? Journal? Diary? Photo album? I could tell you, but then I’d have to kill you…

I experiment. I play. I write and I take pictures. Some of the site is organised around topics, other parts are organized by date, then there’s always the cross-references between them.

Its all been here a fairly long time. Like the papers on my desk, or the books on the bedside table, the pile just grew… and it all grew without much plan or structure. I try not to break URLs, so historical oddities abound.

Long ago it started as a learning experiment with a few static HTML pages, then I added a bit of server-side includes and some very ugly PHP. A hand-built journal/blog on top of that PHP, then a few experiments in moving to various static publishing systems. I’ve never wanted a database-based blogging engine, so over the years I’ve tried PHP, nanoblogger, emacs-muse, silkpage and docbook before settling on Emacs Org mode for writing and jekyll for publishing. But the itch remained… I never really liked jekyll and the ruby underneath always seemed so much black magic. So now the latest incarnation is Org mode and hugo.

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