Another not so exciting day in the life of me.
Got up, caught the train in today because there was no afternoon training for Kendo today thanks to the hall being set up for exams starting on Monday.
Got in to uni as usual, and had a brief chat with Imtiaz about his upgrade seminar. He seemed a bit nervous, which was understandable but he was going to be ok. Had a small check of my emails etc before going to his upgrade seminar. The seminar was ok, he was indeed too nervous and he went very quickly. Stumbled on many of his sentences, repeated himself too much, skipped words and in some places, didn't really explain what he meant and what was on the projection from his power point presentation. However, that said, he did well enough that you could understand what was being looked and how. Of course, that is my perspective and since the work is quite familiar to me, for those that it isn't familiar to, they might not have followed as well. He received some rather simple questions in my opinion, and for most part managed to get around answering them though probably not the best answers he could have given I think. I really think he needed more practice in presenting, and also managing his thoughts. I hope that for Chemeca and IDS later on in the year, he will have time to practice more, since it does give a very bad impression if he presents like that on the international level.....
I popped over to the EMU to change the resin samples over, so now two of the schedules are in 100% resin. I am hoping that the S4 set won't harden up over the weekend, though I guess I can just switch it to fresh 100% resin tomorrow if I find that it is starting to cure.... S1 and S2 are the last ones to go since S3 made it into 100% Spurrs today.
After that, I had a brief chat with my brother and he told me about Boston Scientific being in a lot of trouble. It appears they got caught faking data from their testing on a product, and because of that, the FDA (Food & Drug Administration in the US) now require them to re-validate and demonstrate that all of their products pass the required data from scratch, otherwise their products will be withdrawn from sale and use as it would lose their FDA license.... so he suspects that they might not be hiring anyone anytime soon until that huge mess is cleared up.
As part of my job hunting drive, I sent off my resume to Niro Inc today, a part of the GEA family that do drying, spray drying, crystallisation, evaporation and some other processes. Niro is actually one of the bigger players in the market for spray dryers, so perhaps they may have some interest in me somewhere... but it is in the USA.
I got home and quickly took the car out to get a pink slip done for car registration for the 2008-2009 period. My usual mechanic here was unable to do it... very busy it would seem quite full. Lucky for me, in my area, there is a 'industrial' strip of road and on it is several places that do car repairs/smash repairs etc. The second one that I have been to before was also too busy to do it for me straight away, so onto the next one. I drove past another because they were on a busy part of the road and without any space to park, it would have been a pain with afternoon 'school hours' traffic coming in. The one I ended up going to was just a little down the road, and was quiet. Pulled in without hassles. They checked over, did the lights testing, blinkers, suspension, wheel turning, and then took my car for a spin to check the brakes. Everything seemed to be in order, and proceeded to process my pink safety slip online. I got the slip, and it was ok until I got home and read it.... It said failed/now passed...... WTF? Apparently they claimed that my rear license plate light was faulty and now it was fixed..... huh?! They didn't do anything at all... I guess in the long run, it doesn't matter since it was still passed, but stil.... The invoice said it cost $31.10, but they only asked for $30 cash... so, I saved $1.10?....
I got home and went to my car insurer website, which the company is AAMI. I've been with them for quite a while and have a maximum no-claim bonus for life now, their site was pretty easy to use, and paid my compulsory third party green slip with ease. Then onto the RTA. The RTA website hadn't received the details from AAMI yet so I had to wait about five minutes before the RTA was notified online that they had been paid for my green slip, a few clicks, credit card details and voila, all done. I just now have to go out to the car sometime, peel off the old one, and stick on the new registration sticker and my car is road worthy for another 12 months.
And that has been pretty much it for today. I played some DDO, got my monk to level four, nothing really special yet, the next chain of enhancements kick in at level six so it seems. My internet connection is being a bit bodge today so I was getting dropped out quite a bit..... Call of Duty 4 released a v1.6 patch the other day with new maps, and I have been playing some of the new maps. I don't really like them that well. I mean, they are nicely designed, but it's just chaos in terms of gunfire everywhere as it is with a FPS.... but just a different kind of disorganised gunfire chaos.
I also had a brief read of the book I mentioned, the one I went to the book launch for last night. It is very comprehensive. But, I am disappointed and saddened that the history of the smaller and lesser clubs, as usual, were left on the wayside. The history of the book actually seems to end at 2004 really, with very little to be said about the last four years except for the issues related to VSU. In my personal interest, Archery was mentioned in one paragraph, when the first club, called The Company of Bowmen was formed in 1963, they held a club championships in 1965, and it folded that year..... Sad... And then, it was mentioned again in one line, that in 2003, there was an Archery Club and it competed in NSW Archery Association competitions. Man, that really bites, we competed in EAUG's, EAC's, Archery Australia competitions too!..... Tsk tsk, the minorities always get left out. I mean, Kendo wasn't even mentioned even though they existed in 2004..... Quite tragic really. Still, a interesting book for history, and some photographs and old maps of the university as time went on. I learned that St Paul's College is actually the oldest college at Sydney Uni, and that Physics used to be taught in a building right next to the main quad, unlike where the current physics building is, next to St Paul's College. I do enjoy a bit of good history if it isn't too dry. LOL
Got up, caught the train in today because there was no afternoon training for Kendo today thanks to the hall being set up for exams starting on Monday.
Got in to uni as usual, and had a brief chat with Imtiaz about his upgrade seminar. He seemed a bit nervous, which was understandable but he was going to be ok. Had a small check of my emails etc before going to his upgrade seminar. The seminar was ok, he was indeed too nervous and he went very quickly. Stumbled on many of his sentences, repeated himself too much, skipped words and in some places, didn't really explain what he meant and what was on the projection from his power point presentation. However, that said, he did well enough that you could understand what was being looked and how. Of course, that is my perspective and since the work is quite familiar to me, for those that it isn't familiar to, they might not have followed as well. He received some rather simple questions in my opinion, and for most part managed to get around answering them though probably not the best answers he could have given I think. I really think he needed more practice in presenting, and also managing his thoughts. I hope that for Chemeca and IDS later on in the year, he will have time to practice more, since it does give a very bad impression if he presents like that on the international level.....
I popped over to the EMU to change the resin samples over, so now two of the schedules are in 100% resin. I am hoping that the S4 set won't harden up over the weekend, though I guess I can just switch it to fresh 100% resin tomorrow if I find that it is starting to cure.... S1 and S2 are the last ones to go since S3 made it into 100% Spurrs today.
After that, I had a brief chat with my brother and he told me about Boston Scientific being in a lot of trouble. It appears they got caught faking data from their testing on a product, and because of that, the FDA (Food & Drug Administration in the US) now require them to re-validate and demonstrate that all of their products pass the required data from scratch, otherwise their products will be withdrawn from sale and use as it would lose their FDA license.... so he suspects that they might not be hiring anyone anytime soon until that huge mess is cleared up.
As part of my job hunting drive, I sent off my resume to Niro Inc today, a part of the GEA family that do drying, spray drying, crystallisation, evaporation and some other processes. Niro is actually one of the bigger players in the market for spray dryers, so perhaps they may have some interest in me somewhere... but it is in the USA.
I got home and quickly took the car out to get a pink slip done for car registration for the 2008-2009 period. My usual mechanic here was unable to do it... very busy it would seem quite full. Lucky for me, in my area, there is a 'industrial' strip of road and on it is several places that do car repairs/smash repairs etc. The second one that I have been to before was also too busy to do it for me straight away, so onto the next one. I drove past another because they were on a busy part of the road and without any space to park, it would have been a pain with afternoon 'school hours' traffic coming in. The one I ended up going to was just a little down the road, and was quiet. Pulled in without hassles. They checked over, did the lights testing, blinkers, suspension, wheel turning, and then took my car for a spin to check the brakes. Everything seemed to be in order, and proceeded to process my pink safety slip online. I got the slip, and it was ok until I got home and read it.... It said failed/now passed...... WTF? Apparently they claimed that my rear license plate light was faulty and now it was fixed..... huh?! They didn't do anything at all... I guess in the long run, it doesn't matter since it was still passed, but stil.... The invoice said it cost $31.10, but they only asked for $30 cash... so, I saved $1.10?....
I got home and went to my car insurer website, which the company is AAMI. I've been with them for quite a while and have a maximum no-claim bonus for life now, their site was pretty easy to use, and paid my compulsory third party green slip with ease. Then onto the RTA. The RTA website hadn't received the details from AAMI yet so I had to wait about five minutes before the RTA was notified online that they had been paid for my green slip, a few clicks, credit card details and voila, all done. I just now have to go out to the car sometime, peel off the old one, and stick on the new registration sticker and my car is road worthy for another 12 months.
And that has been pretty much it for today. I played some DDO, got my monk to level four, nothing really special yet, the next chain of enhancements kick in at level six so it seems. My internet connection is being a bit bodge today so I was getting dropped out quite a bit..... Call of Duty 4 released a v1.6 patch the other day with new maps, and I have been playing some of the new maps. I don't really like them that well. I mean, they are nicely designed, but it's just chaos in terms of gunfire everywhere as it is with a FPS.... but just a different kind of disorganised gunfire chaos.
I also had a brief read of the book I mentioned, the one I went to the book launch for last night. It is very comprehensive. But, I am disappointed and saddened that the history of the smaller and lesser clubs, as usual, were left on the wayside. The history of the book actually seems to end at 2004 really, with very little to be said about the last four years except for the issues related to VSU. In my personal interest, Archery was mentioned in one paragraph, when the first club, called The Company of Bowmen was formed in 1963, they held a club championships in 1965, and it folded that year..... Sad... And then, it was mentioned again in one line, that in 2003, there was an Archery Club and it competed in NSW Archery Association competitions. Man, that really bites, we competed in EAUG's, EAC's, Archery Australia competitions too!..... Tsk tsk, the minorities always get left out. I mean, Kendo wasn't even mentioned even though they existed in 2004..... Quite tragic really. Still, a interesting book for history, and some photographs and old maps of the university as time went on. I learned that St Paul's College is actually the oldest college at Sydney Uni, and that Physics used to be taught in a building right next to the main quad, unlike where the current physics building is, next to St Paul's College. I do enjoy a bit of good history if it isn't too dry. LOL
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