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i got friday off yay....time to get things sorted out already lol....extra long weekend for me :D

I have every second weekend off fri till sun...but every second weekend i've gotta work which sucks...Do a 7 day fortnight 12 hour days

Work is currently offering a total of 12 hours of overtime during the week (so 4 12 hour days/week) and 8 hours each weekend day. If systems are up and running on the weekends, I can work up 72 hours/week (including lunch), most of which I take of course :domokun:

lol dave this is sau not facebook lol......sounds like a rockin weekend mate

i honestly cant tell the difference between the 2 a lot of times.

sometimes you click open the wasteland and its like an episode of days of our lives... just with more swearing and trolling.

may aswell weigh in and say I work 12 hours a week

Yeah work is super slow atm and I am only working around 12 hours a week .... and am only getting paid around $1,200 a week for the privilege - nice on the the lifestyle, not so nice on the toys budget :domokun:

Look what turned up in the post for me today :domokun:

Sorry about the fail IPhone pics, but you get the idea. Will take some better pics of it as a car and transformed when it is a nice sunny day and I get the decent camera out.

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Yeah but I might have foregone working for 3 years while I did a degree (can ANY of you imagine not working/earning money for 3 years?), then moved to Darwin for 15 months straight out of Uni to get some practical experience .... and I have to do some more study and examinations to get even better qualifications soon :domokun:

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