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Well well well…. you may all remember the reason that we moved a month ago was the rent was going up to a price that we felt was unreasonable for the property that we lived in. The rent increase for us was to be only $23 per week and we balked at that.

Well it looks like we were not alone. When the property first went on the market it was at $70p/w more than we were paying and after 2 weeks it came down to only $60p/w more than we were paying… now another 2 weeks later is has come down again to $50p/w more than we were paying and still no tenant. Now the house has been empty for a month they are nearly at the point of losing more money for this year than they would have got if they left the rent as it. More so as if it takes another open inspection and say at least a week after that before someone moves in and starts paying rent that is taking the property to being empty to nearly 6 weeks.

So there is hope for those in the rental market that a tiny property that is over valued by a greedy landlord is nothing more than that and if you are looking you can take your time to find something that is what you want.

I’ll let you know if it gets any cheaper.

P.S I tagged this funny cause to me it damned well is as we enjoy the use of the dishwasher and the central heating in our NEW house that is twice the size.

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The only difference now is I am married of course, so I am not allowed to ask for kisses from other people.

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I don’t think this will give an accurate
temp

I finally managed to have a little spare time over the weekend so go to indulge myself in one of my strange little habits… Weather Chasing

Yes I drove for 300k’s just to see some snow, take some photos and drive back again. Yep, I am that strange. However it the spirit of nerdom I have the following… geotagged photos (link to flickr set), a kml trace (showing the route home only, I have a proper track file from the R2H but haven’t converted the raw nema data yet and given that apart from a bit of the city the rest of the trip is the same anyway what does it matter) and I will in the next day or so try and compress some of the video that I made of the actual drive (Video is up on youtube… keep reading below). The video being a complete capture of the trip at 10fps at 320×240. The only reason they are this small is that the portable hd I use is only 60gig and so I can fit four hours of video like this comfortably. One day I will get around to increasing it to a 320gig version of the WD Passport then I can get higher res capture.

I also managed to send a geotagged twitter (via twibble) on the way home as well (only because Vodafone don’t have coverage at the top of the mountain). So I think the all round trip to the snow was a technological experience.

Oh yeah and I used the R2H with an FM transmitter for all the music along the way as well. So that was my weekend…. 2 gps’s a car and some snow…. all round lots of fun.

I like this photo just about the most of all the ones I got today

This was taken coming through a bit of the road called the Black Spur.

Both of the following videos are just the bit between Healesville, through the Black Spur, Marysville and upto the top of Lake Mountain. There are a couple of stops to take photos as well. The drive through Melbourne is all a bit boring really!)

Video 1 – Up to the Top of the Mountain.

Video 2 Down the Mountain

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almost as much as as getting a cat to chase a laser pointer. (and if you have not tried it, it can not be understated just how amusing it is)

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Oh No…. I am out of time… …. sorry couldn’t help myself.

perhaps this is the reason   To much oregano.

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This covers Facebook… watch, enjoy. (and yes it came via a real life friend in facebook!)

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I like this add for a Lenovo thin note book, which I do think really shows up the Apple Air. My Asus R2h only really becomes useful when I plug in the keyboard, the mouse, the power, the dvd drive and the external HD which makes it a lot less portable that is for sure.

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Ah the joys of house moving continue….  up to the wait 5 hours for someone to turn the phone on… (wow was that fun… well at least I was at work and my beloved had that tiresome task).  But the move continues forward.  Once again we have been graced with more moving letters… this one in beautiful engrish deserves to be shared…

All the typo’s misspellings and bad grammar are the original authors… ( and for once not mine)

Dear occupant:

Attention you may move out from your recent place soon, give a clean and
wonderful house to the new occupant or back to your agent is very necessary.
Do you find you have no idea to clean the carpet?

Do you find it is difficult to clean your greasy kitchen?

Do you find you can not turn your bathroom sparkling?

Do you find you even don’t have time to waste on your house cleaning?

Do you worry about you can not get your entire bond back from your agent?

If you have any problem which I mentioned above, please do not hesitate to
contact us on **********. What are we providing is the best service and the
reasonable price.

There are the referenced prices below:

Carpet clean:

From $40(25M*M) plus $1/I M*M

House clean:
One room house: $120(1 bedroom, I bathroom, I kitchen)

Plus $20/room, $30/barthroom

If the condition is extremely awful, the price should be discussible.

Call us you can get a free evaluation service then you can decide you accept
the service or not. Tax invoice available.

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This video footage is coming out on this kids 21st that is for sure….

This is what happens when you are a little to greedy with the old fashion Claw game…..

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New advert for the Subaru WRX STI. Ok so the car is butt ugly and I really do prefer the older version. And really want I want is a diesel forester xt with a low range option but you can’t always get what you want. (Hmm could be a song in that….). Well at least the diesel forester isn’t going to be in Australia for a few years at least.

I love the sub on this add however…

“Do not attempt. Really. Do not tho this.Stunts performed at sanctioned events. Specially equipped rally vehicle.”

and

“Professional driver. Closed course. Obey all traffic laws, always drive safely and wear your seat belt.”

Both of these are like “no shit sherlock”! Of course your average 22 year old male subaru driver is going to say “Hey wait a minute, the small type said not to do this, so i will now drive at the speed limit and never put the car into sports mode and set the diff to slide out mode.”

anway enjoy.

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