The SWAMP! - Volume One

**06-14-06, 03:55 PM**

I came on this forum because I am starving and I haven't been able to go to lunch yet so I thought this would be one of the last places I would read about food.....but no.....I hear about cajun chicken and excellent bistro food....

Excuse me while I lay in a fetal position under my desk....

**Steve Williamson** · **06-15-06, 08:39 PM**

Wow, what a nightmare moving can be

Buyers decided they needed more time to complete as one of them is over in the states, so we extened two weeks. Found out that thesolicitors for the land we were waiting to settle on decided to charge us default interest at over $1000 per week

Moving day came and a large truck turned up, the removalists said it was big enough as we only had 45 cubic metres to move, turned out it was 65 cubic and they needed another truck.

Moved into rental house and rang our telecoms company to swap over broadband. 3-5 days they said. 7 days later with only a CDMA modem for internet and they couldn't install ADSL at the premises as the exchange was full and the other spare was not broadband enabled. Nearly freaked as I need always on internet for my work.

Found out the best I could get is ISDN, better than nothing and nearly useable so they agreed to waive costs for installation. Just 7 more days for a technician.

Finally got ISDN installed yesterday and the internet account set up, only problem, the internet account wanted 72 hours for verification, rang telecoms and gave them my cc details to rush it through, then had to ring tech support every hour to get them to reset the account as it was on a placeholder account until this morning.

Now sat here typing away whilst downloading an 28Mb file that windows states will take over 1 hour to download.

Anyway, glad to be back on the forums, will talk more now. At least the plans for the house have been approved by the body corporate and building can commence later this month

See you around

**Sonnie** · **06-16-06, 01:55 AM**

Glad to see ya back around Steve... and thankfully you have that out of the way. Now you gotta do it again huh... when the house gets finished. Gee... what ya gonna do for home theater in the meantime? You something connected up at the rental house?

**Steve Williamson** · **06-16-06, 02:15 AM**

Knocked something together, can't stand listening to TV speakers anymore

At least we managed to keep most houselhold items in their boxes, so we don't have to pack all the little bits up again, and it gives me chance to buy more DVD's as I can't find my old ones

**Sonnie** · **06-16-06, 02:38 AM**

Hey that's pretty good for a rental setup.

**Steve Williamson** · **06-18-06, 06:00 AM**

Only problem is that I am sat at my desk stuffed up with flu thinj=king (sorry sneezed) thinking those seats look more comfortable than my desk chair, so this is the last post of the night and I'm off to watch a movie with plenty of lemsip.

**Sonnie** · **06-18-06, 02:24 PM**

Eccckkk... hope ya get to feeling better real soon Steve. I did some bush hogging yesterday afternoon so I got the stuffy's myself, but from all that dust and junk... thankfully no flu bug.

**Fincave** · **06-19-06, 10:32 AM**

Hello all! Finally have some time off from work. One week starting today and nothing better to do than watch football, listen to music and maybe watch a movie or two, absolute bliss! Just have to watch myself as normally when I have time off I end up buying a new toy or something.

**Sonnie** · **06-19-06, 11:02 AM**

Time off or not... I can't stop buying toys.

I must though. I think this HD player is gonna be my last for at least a year.

Hope you enjoy your blissful time!

**Sonnie** · **06-20-06, 11:41 PM**

What are those threads called where you use make a comment and the next person that post has to use a word from the previous post... or something like that?

**JCD** · **06-21-06, 12:29 AM**

Is there anything worse than a cold in summertime?

Spoiler

Must have caught something on my way back from Austin.

On the bright side, I have abs of steel from all the coughing and sneezing I've been doing.

Well, time for some liquid death (NyQuil) and a night of sleep.

JCD

**Sonnie** · **06-21-06, 01:31 AM**

Hope ya get to feelin' better Jacen... sounds like you might have really been partying on that trip.... hmmm.

**Sonnie** · **06-22-06, 08:14 AM**

You guys be thinkin' about me today and tomorrow. My 16 year old daughter Chelsea, her girlfriend Cami, and myself are headed for Valdosta, Georgia to Wild Adventures. It's a mini Six Flags of sorts.

Supposedly we will have high speed Internet in the room, Holiday Inn Express in Lake City, Ga. It will probably be late tonight before I'm able to get online though. We are headed straight for the park and will check-in late most likely.

So... not sure if this is two days of fun.... or two days of misery.

The beach would have been much more relaxing.

**JCD** · **06-22-06, 02:03 PM**

Oh lordy, lordy, lordy.. if they are like the 16 yr old girls I've known, you're in for a roller coaster ride without even going to the park!

Your a brave man Sonnie.

JCD

**Sonnie** · **06-22-06, 04:46 PM**

Yeah... they are now hollering, "Let's go daddy, let's go!" All of the sudden I have two daughters now... crazy girls. They are pretty good ones though... I'll giv'em that much.

See you guys late tonight. Room Internet service is fairly good.

**Sonnie** · **06-22-06, 09:03 PM**

Well... that last ride, Blackfoot Falls, did us in for the evening. When I sat down next to a kid that I could ring out a 5 gallon bucket full of water off him (he was completely drinched)... I knew then we were gonna get WET! Uh... immersed, baptized if you will, totally soaked. It did feel so good I made another round... didn't even have to move for the second ride, and the girls road it 5 times... lol. Can you say water logged? Our shoes are in the dryer now... clunkity clunk they go... but it's the only shoes we got other than sandals and those don't do so well walking 10 miles in a day.

It's been fun thus far... the kid has really come out of me today. I'm surprised I don't have something out of place on my body. Some of those rides need chiropractors at the exits... at least I'm thinkin' that's what you'd need... don't go to them myself but my mom and dad seem to love them if nothing else but for a partial massage. Personally I'd rather pay for a full blown massage therapist.

Tomorrow will be a full day of it. I'll be toast by tomorrow evening.

**Steve Williamson** · **06-27-06, 09:11 PM**

Sonnie, how did the weekend go? Have you recovered yet?

Forums looking good with the new injection of blood into it.

**Sonnie** · **06-27-06, 10:37 PM**

Thanks Steve! I do believe we are moving forward rather well... especially considering we've only been up for about 9 weeks.

Yeah... recovery wasn't all that bad actually. The last day ended earlier than I expected it would. They were give out before I was... lol. We made it back to the room by about 7pm or so. The drive back was long, but not too bad. I crashed myself Saturday afternoon for a few hours. I'd say all in all it was a good trip. Two boys probably would have been much worse.

**Sonnie** · **07-01-06, 11:28 PM**

Just got done with some good ole bbq chicken on the charcoal grill along with some sweet corn cooked with in the shuck on the grill. Delicious!

**Steve Williamson** · **07-02-06, 02:54 AM**

Great, I just got one of my teeth pulled and can't eat solids for a day or two.

Luckily, its not a holiday over here.

**Sonnie** · **07-02-06, 03:00 AM**

ooh... that could be painful for me. I don't know though... a day or so might not be too bad. Sure wouldn't work for corn on the cob huh?

That was probably the extent of our cooking for he holidays. We might throw something on the grill Tuesday or we may go over to some friends and hang out for a while, but nothing big planned. I'm not much of a holiday celebrator anyway... call me the scrooge I suppose... lol.

**JCD** · **07-03-06, 01:23 PM**

Just got back from a weekend on Lake Oroville. My brother in law just bought a summer house and a patio boat for going on the water. The boat is perfect for what I'd want -- inexpensive, canopy to keep out of the sun, small motor so you don't run out of gas quick, spill beer on it? who cares.

Had a great time.. didn't catch spit though. I just can't seem to get the hang of lake fishing. Give me a creek and a fly rod and I'm good to go.

JCD

**Sonnie** · **07-03-06, 03:56 PM**

You are back early aren't you? I figured you'd have off til Wednesday anyway. Sounds like you cut your trip short.

You can come to our pond and catch some 7-8lb bass! Pretty nice size shellcracker and bream too... they are gettin' there. If you start drivin' now you'll probably be here by dark thrity.... tomorrow night. heehee

**JCD** · **07-03-06, 04:04 PM**

Quote:

Sonnie wrote:

You are back early aren't you? I figured you'd have off til Wednesday anyway. Sounds like you cut your trip short.

Unfortunately, had to work today..

Quote:

Sonnie wrote:

You can come to our pond and catch some 7-8lb bass! Pretty nice size shellcracker and bream too... they are gettin' there. If you start drivin' now you'll probably be here by dark thrity.... tomorrow night. heehee

I'll be there.. sometime. As they say, the worst day of fishin' is better than the best day of workin'..

JCD

**Sonnie** · **07-03-06, 04:30 PM**

Don't feel so lonely... I'm at the office myself and we've had a rather busy day too. My partner closed his office today... I'm sure he would have been busy too.

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