Leevi

New car

Thursday, 19. November 2009, 13:03:53

Bought a new car yesterday, Nissan Almera.

Used little bit more money than I planned, I was looking for something cheaper (older), but this one looked like a nice deal, so I gutted my savings account and bought it.

It's noisier than my old Galant was, but it has a better fuel economy, so yay for that. Galant used 7-8 litres/100 km, Almera should use only 6-7 litres/100 km.

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Bah!

Sunday, 15. November 2009, 05:46:16

snow, car, ice, accident ...

05:20 - Drove my car in ditch

I slowed down and corrected the steering a bit and suddenly car is pushing towards the ditch on the right side of the road, managed to steer away from that ditch, but ended up in the left sides ditch

Not really much damage to car, left headlight and bumper were the only things that took damage, + the paint job on the left side I suppose. Still had to leave it there, need something to pull it off.

Car just passed the vehicle inspection on last friday and I filled the tank when I left, so pretty annoying.

Conky

Wednesday, 4. November 2009, 18:41:03

linux, conky, Ubuntu

This is how my Conky setup looks like. No idea where I snatched the original .conkyrc file, but it looked nice so I copied it and made some minor adjustments to it. Wallpaper is from Interfacelift

Still using Ubuntu 8.10, never got around upgrading to 9.04 and now the 9.10 is out. Apparently you cannot upgrade 8.10 directly to 9.10, so I think I'll make a clean 9.10 install in few days, clean installations always work better.

What a great place I live in /s

Monday, 26. October 2009, 15:49:25

slum, police

I was away for a weekend and when I came back home, there was only 15 Celsius inside. Heating doesn't work right, radiators are all cold. Winter is already here, so it would be nice if it would be fixed soon, before it gets really cold.

Sometimes I think that this place is a slum. Like last week some wasted kid knocked on my door and tried to get inside. Took him awhile to understand that he was in a wrong place. He left, but 5-10 minutes later I start hearing loud bashing from the floor below me. I put my shoes on and handcuffs* in my pocket and went to see what was happening

The wasted kid was bashing the door down with a little cabin door. I called the police and the kid tries run away, he didn't get very far:

You can't really recognize the guy from the picture (thanks to his dirty hippie hair and bad image quality), so I suppose it's alright to put this up here. He didn't smell of alcohol, but he was really wasted and he was "seeing colors", talking odd things and asking the same things every few minutes, he was definitely high on something.

Police had a busy Friday evening, it was about 18:30 when I called them and they arrived an hour later

Long wait, but this wasn't a priority case, perp was already cuffed and just waiting for pick up.

Funny thing btw, someone tried to bash the same door down with a bicycle stand less than a year ago...

*real handcuffs, not some pink furry handcuffs - and they are for work, not for fun!