New art

Today I had a Cibo breakfast again.

At my lunch spot next to the church they replaced the old art with new art. I think it looks nice. I think the owner of the lunch place behind it was bitching at it. I think he's stupid.

ICs

There was a small line-up at Cibo this morning. I don't like that because my milk gets warm while I wait...

I took this photo at Victoria Square. Quite a nice building that I hadn't really noticed before.

On my way home I stopped by Dick Smith where I bought a few Integrated Circuits (ICs). The guy there told me Dick Smith is stopping sales of electronic components. They're clearing out already. Sad. Especially because Dick Smith started his chain of shops with idea of providing electronic components to ordinary people for hobby use. They don't sell much these though. If you hear a kid say his hobby is electronics, these days that means he owns a play station...

I designed this small circuit but I'm not sure if it will work. The idea is that if IC1's (=D flip flop) Q goes high, transistor T2 will conduct for a small amount of time until the complete voltage from Q stands over C1 which shuts down T1. When Q goes 'low', C1 would discharge.

Would this work? Feedback welcome.

Mmmmmmmmmilk

I got breakfast at Cibo this morning. All the staff was wearing T-shirts with the word 'Cibo' replaced by "Love'. All because Valentines day is coming up.

My breakfast was nice. A toasted ham/cheese croissant and a packet of milk. It's hard picking which of those I like the best.

Finally it was cool enough to have lunch outside again. I sat next to the church. As it is slowly cooling down, today it was only 34C, funnily enough tomorrow is going to be 43C and Saturday 40C and then the rest of the week it will be 26-25C. Strange.

I worked late today. I felt like I didn't get much done. Nicole picked me up around 19:30.

The reverend

Todays fine selection of custom plates starts with "Bella".

Someone has a plate saying "03". Could this be their 3rd car?

This one was funny. Near chinatown there's a church building for sale. Obviously the reverend was there. Mind the sticker on the window.

And closing todays line-up is "Plum". The car was red. Very red, it could've been Dutch.

We went bed-shopping again. I bloody hate it already. Where in The Netherlands it was easy finding a nice and affordable bed and matching mattresses, it's a complete hell here in Australia. They use stupid sizes. They for example have a King-size bed, which happens to be what we want. But we would like 2 seperate mattresses, right? So you would think that they sell mattresses half the size of King-size. NO, they sell King-single-size mattresses which are 17cm shorter and about 10cm wider. Un-fucking-believable no?

This is Nicole btw, inside a bed shop. Or should I say bad shop?

Then we went to a place where they make mattresses. The factory is actually behind the shop to cut out the "middleman" which is supposed to make the mattresses cheaper. The cheapest of the ones that are supposed to be good was still bloody expensive! I like how they ripped off their logo from Indiana Jones though...

As evening fell we went to Cibo's for a drinkie. I had a nice cappuccino and Nicole had a nice cold cola.