BA Falcon Ute Oil Change

We had some leftover oil and decided to do a oil change in the ute.

Supercheap auto to get the oil filer and a second trip to buy the removal tool.

Oil 10W30
Oil Volume = 6.5L Although I can't easily find a reference.
Oil Filter = Ryco Z9

Got a bit of Dan and dad time together.  Dan helped very competently.
First step was to find and remove the oil drain bolt.

We then drained it into a plastic container.

Note just drove the ute onto a couple of wooden blocks so there was enough room (just) to work.

A trip to Supercheap to buy the oil filter then back again to get the "socket"

A Christmas present from Henry

Package received.
Carefully examined.
'present from Henry Thomson'
Cut open.
Placed under the tree.
Lights on for complete experience.
Retrieved from tree.
Opened.
Inspected.
Consumed.
And that's that....

Backing Up

I have data spread over various hard drives and occasionally one fails.

I think what I would like is two USB external drives in some kind of soft raid configuration such that if I write to one then the data ends up on the other.  I would like the copying process to not slow down the computer so it needs to only happen when the computer is not busy. 

Most of the time neither hard drive would be plugged in so maybe this is not so feasible.  Maybe I just want to plug the two drives in and have one mirrored to the other.

Hmm

OK so I have two drives.  One has data and the other is blank.
I will try SyncbackSE Turns out my licence which was purchased in 2006 is not valid and I am offerred an upgrade.  Lets try evaluation first.

Family Bike Ride

We had a traditional family bike ride.

The timing was approximately
10:15 Depart Oxley
10:45 Arr Archibald St
11:15 Depart Archibald St
12:00 Arr Newfarm park
12:14 Finished climbing trees
12:30 Lunch, Fizbee, Soccer.
  1:50 Depart Newfarm Park
  2:10 Waiting under the cliffs near the new pub.
  2:50 Arr Archibald St
  3:30 Depart Archibald
   
It was very hot and afterwards Marcus came with me and jemma and Dan went with Megan and after a bit of confusion we managed to make it to the konings for a swim.

Post Christmas Bike Maintenance

The last few mornings Chris has been going bike riding with some of the guys from Toowong.

He posted "Hit 82km[/h]s, down one of the hills. Very scary.

Chris came over with his bike to do some maintenance.  The first problem was that during today's ride he had heard a click for each rotation of the pedals.  The non cog side of the pedals is removed using a 10mm Allen key. The pedal crank had an indication that it was a left hand thread and we struggled a bit trying to undo it the wrong way.  Eventually ignored the makings and tried to undo it normally and off it came.  Rotating the bearings with our fingers confirmed that the non chain side indeed was running rough.

Off to 99 bikes at Indooroopilly. Behind the counter is Kai.  We buy 4 tubes and 1 for Dan's BMX. I get diddled and end up paying for the lot.  For the bearing we need to go two doors down to the bike mechanic.  He kindly pulls the bearing and pus a new one in and presses it home.  On the way out we meet Dave Carter who was riding with Chris.

Dan took the tube and put it in very quickly and competently.

Post Christmas Dogs

In keeping with the Christmas spirit

Dogs