Those Irritating Bob The Builders!

I would think that with the current increase of everything people would be a little more prudent with their money and all that. But it seems some people have loads of money to spend. Oh how I envy them. There's a couple of houses in the row I'm living in that are renovating their houses at the moment. And it's some pretty major renovations that are going on.

Now, while I don't really care what people do with the loads of money they have (I'd care if they gave some to me) but what really irks me is that here I am trying to spend a nice quiet Saturday afternoon at home and I hear construction work sounds causing a huge din that makes the neighbourhood sound like a war zone! I've no issues with them working and I know there's bound to be loud construction sounds when people work but on a Saturday afternoon? Come on already, give a guy a break.

I know some people consider Saturdays half working days but at least stop work at 1.00pm like everyone else and let some peace fall upon the neighborhood. I don't want to spend my whole Saturday hearing drills, hammers pounding, cement being mixed and all that throughout the day and I know these people are going to work till late evening. I've had loads of experience when my Neanderthal neighbour was renovating his house.

I had to put up with noise for close to 3 whole months even on Saturdays and Sundays! Just imagine trying to take a nice afternoon nap and you hear thunderous thumping of hammer drills being activated. I'm sure it's actually illegal to be working and disturbing the peace of a residential neighborhood on weekends but I'm not sure who or where to go to get a stop notices order so I can get them to at least not do work on weekends.

I wonder if I'm the only grouch in the neighborhood who's irritated by the sounds of construction work going on on a weekend? I suppose I got to put up with it for at least a few months but at least I can take some solace that the work is not going on right next to my house. I sympathize with their immediate neighbors, I can imagine the racket they're going to have to put up with.

She Blinded Me With Science ...

Do you remember back in your secondary school days during science lessons? I've always been intrigued by science. Well, I guess that would explain my science fiction tendencies and this desire I have to be a spaceman :D I always couldn't wait for science lessons to start, especially when we were required to go to the science lad.

I'd be the first in line and would gleefully rub my hands together looking like some mad scientist the moment I got in there. And I would always enjoy whatever the science teacher had in store for us to experiment with. In fact I think she knew I loved science that she was always calling on me to show the class the results of my experiments ... hehehe ...

The truth of the matter is, I loved being in the lab cos they had such cool looking science gadgets that I could mess around with and one of my favourites was the hot plates. I just loved heating up things on it. And no, I didn't blow up the science lab or anything. As much as I hated studying, I did love my science lessons.

But it really doesn't compare to some of the equipment they have in science labs these days. I've seen some in my sons school labs and now they actually have a programmable lab hot plate! Imagine the things I could have created back then if they did have such an item :D


Maybe I should go buy myself one of those amateur science kits and start experimenting with it or something. Who knows, maybe I could create a clone of myself just like what Calvin does and send my clone to work while I stay home and laze the day away ... LOL!

Space, The Final Frontier, Desktop Space That Is ...

I've always wanted one of those super cool and thin LCD flat panel monitors for myself. Right now, I have this huge bulky 17" monitor and they take up quite a bit of space on my table leaving me with hardly any real estate space to do anything else.

Besides it doesn't speak well for a macho and high tech spaceman like me to be owning a huge old fashioned bulky monitor, right? But then, those LCD flat panel monitors can be pretty steep in price. But they're so sleek, thin and lightweight that I could spend hours sitting at my desk and surfing the night away ... hehehe ...

Imagine the amount of real estate space I'd have on my desk. I could even get one of those computer monitor arm thingy's and mount the LCD flat panel monitor on it for even better space utilization. And I know that Ergoware.com offers a pretty wide range of mounting options, accessories and various finishes to chose from that would match almost all kinds of working environments.

In fact, it would make me feel so much more comfortable during my game, urrmm, work sessions ... hehehe ... Anyways, if you're looking for decent, affordable and reliable monitor arms, then go check them out. my favourite is the Ergo-Comfort flat panel monitor arm model :D