the opiate of the masses.

i hope that is how you spell opate... it wasn't... fixed now.

the actual work done today was zero but i did post some more crap up to swap. what i'm after doesn't relate to my ragtop project but i never claimed to be well focused. i also bought another thing on e.bay, not directly used but it should be useful.

last night after typing the entry i did go out to the shed and have another go at the nut, still no joy, certainly not for my neighbours . tempted as i was i did resist using the dremel to grind back the tip of the offending bolt, though i did drill into it a little more, more than noisy enough. i do generally try quite hard to be considerate of the neighbours but it was before midnight on a saturday night. we never have parties anymore so they can deal with a little shed noise. i realized that if i had had the money to chase a factory wide 5 drum puller that sold a few months ago, there would be no hassle to this job at all. why is it that the really useful stuff comes up when you don't have the spare $ to go big.

on the point of drilling into the bolt for the easyout. i swear i need a drillpress so i can bolt the stuff i'm drilling down. regardless of where i centerpunch prior to drilling the f'n hole always ends up off center. i guess i'm just speciel. (note to self, try drilling pilot holes... )

on to tonight. TV really is the greatest killer of time, the internet consumes far far more of mine, but at least i generally learn something new every night if not multipule things. from the time i got home till 8 30 was spent winding down and doing normal family stuff but then my wife asked me to join her watching a DVD. it was entertaining but killed the entire evening as far as vw's were concerned. didn't learn a thing, made no progress etc. 2 hours of my life just gone, yes my lady was a little happier (though i'm sure i'll do something stupid or thoughtless by 9 am so she will be cranky at me again ) (edit i didn't make her a coffee the second she asked, as i was typing this... in the doghouse again). the only thing i can say for it was it wasn't comercial TV aka adds with a little entertainment inbetween to keep you watching.

i think that the 2 main things that have lead to my actually getting a little done in the last year were stopping smoking (which meant stopping what i was doing and going outside) and cuttting my TV watching back to an hour or two here and there while sitting here on the net. 

correction the main thing was deciding to stop making excuses and give it a go, the other two have just helped greatly TV more so than smoking. stopping that just meant there was a little more cash to play with.