caught out

By Slink
18:55 - July 25, 2010

well it would seem that the acts of laziness around the virtual office have been caught out by the boss, so here goes my excuse;

read back a few posts ago and you will learn of the events of january past. in the weeks following a bit of revisiting was undertaken by myself, and a few changes made to my way of business resulted to reflect required changes. basically reading back, the majority of my splurges read like a whos who of tramps and crushes that never worked out, or resulted with negative tangents. the following learnings i will impart on thee…

#1. when plans A,B,C,D and E fail, there is always a plan X

I havent always wanted to be an engineer, in fact it went; millitary pilot, loadmaster, communications op, then engineer. Dreams often fail, and plans can and should change.

#2. Your only in too deep when the’re filling in the hole

I should have got out of the mess of a “relationship” i was in last year much earlier. I knew it wasnt right for me, and well running with the concept that i was in too deep to get out just made it messier when i wanted out. point is if it doesnt fit, do something about it.

#3.  plaster will only hide the cracks, not remove them

nothing is ever the same when its been tarred, sometimes its better to get new gib.

#4. Mum is always right.

Dad once told me that the secret to a happy life is just accept that the woman is always right. my experiance has shown me that most females around my age with out kids consider themselves “tropie wives” and make crap decisions and dont add anything useful to the argument. mums on the other hand are more realistic and have simpler more achivable wants. the only bit that gets interesting is to decide which mum i should listen to, my girlfriend, or my mum.

#5. sometimes the only way to save face is to shut your mouth in the first place

upon looking at my public declarations, and the eventual kicking in the teeth, i have decided that some stuff should stay within my head. thats right, i have learnt the value of shutting my mouth/fingers…bet its hard to belive, but yes it is possible.

#6. speaking your mind should be a last ditch effort.

apparently refering to a work mate as being “a man hating girl loving ditch” is’nt acceptable by todays standards.

#7. when it goes down the poohole, dont be afraid to change everything.

new job, new living arrangments, new mrs, new car, new happier slink.

but enough for now,

regards,

New Slink (kinda like white stig is to black stig)

oh and p.s. i have an interveiw in 3 weeks for an engineering job, any advice? might be something in it for you if your advice lands me the job and expendable income attached

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Update from the south

By Slink
19:40 - May 22, 2010

Greetings, firstly, congrats to bren and kirsty, secondly, nothings really changed here since my last input…
kids are still great, job is still epic, study is, well still there. life is pretty sweet. really getting into the whole domestic bliss thing now, even brought a new fridge freezer for some reason… heading toward exams in 4 or so weeks, might even study for them if i can dig my way out of the mountain of assignments being thrown down, anyone want to swap a shovel for the teaspoon it feels like im using? starting to look at jobs and houses this week to, trying to put some form of post study plan in place for november, both scary and exciting i guess.

so thats me, ill leave you with this legend;

slink

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Moving on

By Slink
20:46 - March 31, 2010

wow cant belive how quickly things move when you keep your nuts firmly to the grind stone, i sit here 5/8ths of an engineering diploma completed, gearing up for two weeks off. well if you consider “off” to include 4 or more assignments and moving flats then yup, two weeks off. fyi, you all missed the wedding last week, guess i forgot to mail your invites…but two months in things are still good with my puma friend, and im moving in to avoid paying for the flat i havent been back two for more than one hour a week. turns out i moved to a party flat anyway and whilst i cant prove it im sure others have been living in my room…more fuel to the move out fire. oh and in other big news, i am no longer enslaved to countdown, following a complete outburst in which i told the boss to stick it cause i aint taking their crap no more…pulling a few favours from work contacts, and two hours later i had a job with Quality Bakers on the delivery trucks…and for $4.30 an hour more than Countdown…WIN. so yeah more awesome times on the move for the slink…almost as awesome as this;

slink…out.

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cougar hunting

By Slink
18:58 - January 24, 2010

well, i see my last post was way back before xmas…my god have things change since then! if you remember way back to jan/feb last year i was rather anxious to get back to christchurch to be with sarah. that would have been 1 year on the 5th of feb this year. emphasis on the “would have”. for you see all good things must come to and end, and all lies that illude to a good thing will eventually be found out.

in november sarah left her job, supposedly due to a missunderstanding that blew out of proportion. since then i have payed the majority of her rent to help her get through, upon the understanding that she would do the housework and look for a job, any job.

my mum came down for a holiday last forghtnite,  and this is where the fun began…me working two jobs was never home, and hence had no idea of sarahs daily routine. mum reports; “she dont get up till bowt 12pm, at which point she sits on facebook til your return.” so as you would i enquired as to how her job search was going and got told there was nothing going. three days later at countdown my boss asked me why i had wasted their time in looking over sarahs applications. at this point i found out that the week i lost my overtime in november, sarah had been offered three 45hr positions in the company and had abusivly told my boss the stick it, your crummy supermarket is below my abilitys. funny thing is with no qualifications, its about the best she could hope for.

and so i came to bring this up at home to be told that she dont need to work cause thats all im good for. when i told her to get a job by the end of the week or get out of my house, i was told it was over, she was leaving. win! or so i thought, cause she didnt have anywhere to go and somehow convinced the other two flatmates to remove me from the flat in favour of sarah. so now not only am i single again im in a new flat at an undisclosable location.

i say undisclosable location due to the fact her oldman and brother attempted to assult me when i came to remove my bed. if todd hadent been there id have been done over good, in fact its only the fact i was rather threatenly pulling for a shovel in the boot of my car that i got them to back off.so yeah, i now reside as free agent with a guy i know from countdown. things are looking up without a spounge anywhere to be seen.

anyway, must fly, a mate and i are off cougar hunting, and i dont mean the big cat

slink, out.

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working on it…

By Slink
08:17 - December 22, 2009

well well well, how the hell are we all? ive finally found a computer again…mine was buried under a pile nissan spares…more on that soon. first of all course has finished for me almost a month ago now, my two other flatmates left three weeks ago for summer…really dont want them back cause im loving naked sundays…the woolworths i was with has rebranded as a countdown too.

problem. before exams i was promised 42hrs min a week by countdown…this lasted 2 weeks before the arrogant assholes went and stopped all overtime. guess who only has 9hrs a week on his contract? anyways i got a second job as a car groomer for u save car and truck rental…with enough hrs to pay the rent and not rely on supermarket wage.

…you all remember sammy? my salmon corona? yep well at the magical 400k mark she carked it dropping all her oil across the driveway in a rather spectacularly annoying fashion…got 5hundy 4 her and brought 3 nissan laurel c33′s. (the one that looks like a maxima cept has no dood pillar, that and has an RD28…(inline six diesel)) one im driving, one im scraping, and one im rebuilding…photos to follow…

anyway must cruise…all the best of the season from the slink and mrs slink, love to all your families and a big merry xmas to all.

slink out

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adjusting to nothingness

By Slink
11:40 - November 18, 2009

its a weird sensation when you reach the end. not having to leave bed at 6am, not having to shotgun a litre of demon on the 6km drive to cpit, not having to remember the couple of kilos of textbooks and that little silver powerhouse of information that normally live on your back. nope, its done… well almost done for this year and so after three more mental slog matches this week, i go back to the mundane life of a grocery 2IC for woolwor…i mean countdown, or whatever you call a store thats halfway between both at the moment. should be good tho, loosing two flatmates on the 2nd til early march, so got the place to myself and my gorgeous girlfriend . i must admit tho this week seems rather depressing, guess im just not used to sitting round acting dumb…

Holla!
slink

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bachelor of procrastination majoring in facebook?

By Slink
10:33 - October 29, 2009

you guessed it, its exam time again and well that time of the year where students try anything to avoid study…my title comes from a group floating round facebook at the moment…says it all really, also explains my need for two computers, one for “work” and one for facebook watching. any way 4 weeks too go for this year…

…oh btw heres slinks product endorsment of the month; POWERSHOP, easily the cheapest most geeky way to by power…especially if you love stats, in which case you’ll enter your meter reading everyday like me and become the power police condemning your flatmates for showering last night…but seriously, i brought 1500KW/h last month for $220…meridian would have charged me $360 for the same amount…so keep an eye on www.powershop.co.nz for when they roll out into your neck of the woods…seroius savings!

caio for now,
El_Slinko

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Brovorce

By Slink
18:39 - October 25, 2009

god, it feels like so long ago that i last posted, yet at the same time it seems like wipe out is on tv every 2 days, not the actual 7days. there is an anomaly within the student community, that means you can “teleport” after a certain consumtion point…i have been apparently “teleporting” except instead of consuming the amber i’ve been consuming a better drink…life. almost a month ago i moved out of ilam apartments. following what could only be described as the end of the bromance between todd and myself. why? well the offer we had on the flat in shirley fell through at which point i opted to accept the offer made by another friend which meant i wouldnt have to live with my dog of an ex anymore. i took it. better still i invited todd to my flat warming, he wanted her to come, niether of them came. ive never been happyer to be honest, living with sarah, not worrying bout whos house we stay at tonight, or tommorrow night, i have a garage, my new man cave if you will, everything is mint. i mean sure i lost a mate for now but he will come around, mel has cost him 6 of his mates now, even though we not gone, we just holding our distance and hoping she gets runover or dog flu or sumthing…

anyways, how have we all been? ive got exams in 3 weeks, halfway to being an IPENZ accredited engineering technichan, and already eying up the next step where i get a Bachelor of engineering technology within the next 3 yrs.

sarah is great, 10months together almost and no sign of the end! go me…anyway im delaying my show part of show and tell, here are pics of my new place…

ok moon man that was easy!

slink out.

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the second comming…(of slink)

By Slink
12:58 - September 9, 2009

ahoy!…how would ya all be then eh?

(this is my word up, was going to call it return of the slink, but i think i used that already…)

well its september down here in my southern outpost. rather summery i guess, not that we have had a winter yet, but yup spring is here… anyways…7 months with the same wonderful girl, still in the same job, still at cpit and loving every miniute of it.

in saying that though i have discovered my niche…soil and water engineering. why get paid to design structures, when i can be the killjoy condemning them before theyre built on the grounds of soil inadequcy…

last week saw the funeral of my grandad, and also a whirlwind trip up to wellington to carry my share of the box on behalf of his grandchildren…

moving out of ilam next month, either to a house todd and i have a conditional contract on, or a rental with my other mate andrew…watch this space…

…anyway i must finish my timber structure drawing so ciao for now

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four eyes

By Slink
18:30 - July 1, 2009

a funny thing happens when you start to age. some parts of you improve, while others disintegrate. unfortunatly for slinky, this past weeks events are a tale of the later. as i type, i sit here trying to adjust my eyes to my new glasses, a rather weird sensation to be brief. mind you i dont know why i waited this long to get them. everything is clear again, like crystal! so damn my astigmatation, and hello 3rd and 4th eyes!

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