Sunday

Sunday began with coffee and crumpets (toasted with butter and golden syrup) 

Followed by church at Tarragindi uniting. It's now part of a thing called "southside uniting Church".  We chose this because Phoebe used to attend years ago.   Saw a few old friends I knew. Saw Don R.  Derek was doing the live stream.  Phoebe caught up with people she hadn't seen in years. 

The rest of the day was consumed fixing the window mechanism on Phoebe's car. This necessitated not one but two trips to bunnings to buy tools.  Phoebe reclined keeping an eye on things and playing solitaire.

The day concluded sitting round the fire in the front yard eating steak and drinking wine and the final [sinful 🤣] act - ice cream in the form of mini boysenberry choctops. 

Dualas Window

Phoebe's Nissan Daulis Drivers Window is no longer winding up and down. 

I assumed the [mechanical] wire had broken the way it used to on both the Ute and the Vito so I had a look on line and purchased that part of the mechanism. 

Watched a YouTube video. 

Began to dismantle. 

Pried the cover off the handle using a flat blade at the bottom. 

per the video the top screw is posi and the bottom is Torx. In my case the bottom screw had been gronched by a previous fixer.   Two trip to bunnings to buy torx.  The second set I could hammer it in. 

The connectors have a little tit. To remove the connector,  use a small flat blade to push the lug back toward the body of the connector. 

By Good luck the window had gotten stuck at the position it needs to be to unscrew the glass from the mechanism. 

next unscrew the plate. 

Then one bolt that holds the door opener. Slide it and move it.  Behind it is a bolt that connects to the top of one of the slides. To the right is the other bolt. 

Remove 3 screws (self tappers) that hold the motor in place. 

Motor

The three slots in it motor should link with three lugs in it mechanism but they were sheered off.

Old and new side by side

One of the pop rivits still had the steel shaft making it difficult to drill. 

Cut away with the dremmel and then ripped it out with pliers from the other side. 

Phoebe kept a eye on things just to make sure.....

Dog Dinner

400g pet mince

Cup rice

Cup mixed frozen veggies 

WRS#4

Winter Racing Series #4

4:20 Alarm

4:35 in car

4:53 walking

5:05 @shed

7:00:40 Start

8:15 @Breakfast

I was 3 seat. 

It was a great race. 

The boat sat up and my focus on exercise is paying off as I was able to keep going 100% the whole way. 

A still from a video from Sarah as we passed Toowong.  During the race i was concerned they would catch us.  Good motivation. Reminds me that I'm externally motivated. 

Dinner with the Kids

Only Chris and Dan tonight with Phoebe and myself. 

Steak cooked on the BBQ. Phoebe made baked veggies and her apple crumble.

Park Run Volunteer

First go at volunteering. I was the "funnel manager" which essentially meant conveying numbers between the time keeper and the hander outerer of numbers to keep them in sync.

The other part of the role was to tackle people who did not comply with the rules of the funnel. For example they attempt to leave without taking their token. In such cases, I tackle them and drag their sorry ass back in and walk them past the token man.

Happy Birthday Phoebe