And I am the reason why I hate doing CS.
There are a bunch of on-forward shippers who allocate a tracking number even before they have received the item from the supplier. You can tell when it has been physically sent because the first tracking message you get after the number is allocated, is the message when it is received by an Australia Post outlet. Until that time it still hasnât left the vendor
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The store said they shipped it Tuesday but nothing has changed.
Maybe I am just getting bloody impatient haha.
Try having something sent over a suburb away in QLD only for it to end up at Melbourne airport, and no less than 3 separate calls to get it back to you 3 weeks later.
CouriersâŚplease.
I donât need more grey hairs, so will just have to chillax haha.
Now I just want to sleep the day away.
Or better yet get your new phone sim card sent from Victoria, to Perth then Disappear in Brisbane to get to SA.
I am not joking either, I couldnât believe it. Aramex at itâs finest. 
Been looking at job postings too and gosh I feel like I am screwed.
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There is heaps of jobs available but depends what you have your sights set on. Labour shortage at Victoria abattoirs for last couple years only running at 60% capacity because of labour, not supply/demand.
Heaps of Mining jobs fly in fly out (fifo), $3k per week driving dump trucks or whatever floats your boat they train you on the job, feed you, accommodate you, fly you in, fly you out. Exact is the better company to work for their likely go Olympic Dam as they are on the expand phase now big time. Maybe the underground city gold mine in WA. Massive and only getting bigger. If you can hack diesel and dirt youâll fit right in.
I do more graphic design stuff. Maybe I need a new career.
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Doesnât hurt to broaden your scope. I did. I was working in the now non existent automotive industry in Australia.
Glad I did. Decided to give farming a crack and I did not know the front of a sheep to the back but you soon learn. Interesting learning new things for me.
Just my outlook on things anyway. Hope it helps you move forward in life cheers 
bought my games off the steam sale. they do not fill the void.
Thinking I should learn how to use a soldering iron haha.
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Dead easy if you use liquid flux.
Youâll be soldering wires like a champ in no time and itâs a very handy skill to have in this hobby. 75% of the mods and repairs I do involve soldering. 
Handy when I do stuff for 3d printing.
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Maybe time to start a soldering how to thread? 
I use flux cored wire and flux paste purely because most of my soldering is not on clean things like blasters and is on old shitty machinery that is older than me.
Thatâs an idea, Maiphut 
questions about soldering technique seem to come up pretty regularly.
I like using Bakers liquid flux⌠if the wiring allows I dunk the bare end in a shallow tray of the stuff or use a really fine modelling brush to apply.
As youâd know, solder flows beautifully with it and providing your ironâs not Chernobyl hot it speeds the process up so youâre not putting too much heat into the components.
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TIL the ring thing on the buffer tube is called a castle nut.
A big job, a long time comingâŚsanding and re-coating the deck.
When i bought the place, the back deck was in need of doing, but time got away from me for awhileâŚand the deck got worse.
The uglier it got, the more i found other things to do.
Decided to tackle it, then it rained every couple of days, for months on endâŚ
It needed a full strip, so i got professionals in, for the first time.
I havenât done it before, and didnt wanna screw it up.
Good thing to, they used a $15k , 5000w belt floor sander, smaller orbital sanders, and a large finishing belt sander. A single belt sander hire from bunnings wouldnât have done itâŚ
Sanded bareâŚ
âBaseâ rolled on.
Combination of Sikkens Cetol deck oil, thinner to make it flow into the timber easily, and accelerant to dry and harden quickly. 3 hrs later, they gave it a 2nd light sanding, to smooth it all overâŚ
They applied a 2nd coat of just oil this arvo, no photos of that yet, coming back 2morrow to apply the 3rd coat. This stuff stinks to high heaven setting, oil based.
Sun shade sails are up, but the deck still gets nuked in the sunâŚ
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Actually, just found the photo of the 2nd coat.
Setting sun, on wet oil, gets it poppingâŚ
I put a deposit down, on some outdoor furniture, on sale , early Dec last year.
They have held off delivering it.
Its taken that long, for the rain to stop, and wait on the tradiesâŚ
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How the hell yaâll doing?
I havenât been up to much at all, still fixing up the old hiace 
Everything is still in the shipping container, will be moving out to Gayndah over the next couple of months as my partnerâs parents have property there.
Moneys tight so everything is slow going.
Every time I spend a day on the van it takes a bloody week for my joints to recover 
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