June 29, 2007 | Category: Life, Work

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I’ve started my new job and have been working there for almost two months now. At my last job I didn’t need to pack a lunch as I could pop home to eat. Not so anymore. I must take a pack lunch.

Since I’ve started I’ve been on a steady diet of French cheese, crisps, chocolate and hot chocolate. Yeh lots of chocolate and I think my waist line is paying for it >_<

I’m trying to make amends, iterative amends, don’t want to go crazy you know.

I spend an hour traveling to work too in the morning due to the traffic. I didn’t have to before, although when I was doing jury service I didn’t mind traveling on the train. It meant I could read the newspaper and listen to music and I’d also get to run through part of town. That was kinda fun. But waiting for the train to turn up was very stressful.

I upgraded the sound in my car too. I thought I may as well enjoy the ride. I upgraded to a snazzy cd mp3 one. With line outs, means I can add some very big speakers in the boot if I wanted to later on.

I found some speakers I liked then checked on google to see if I could buy them cheaper and I did, lots cheaper. Very worth doing so, with google product search. I did fit them in myself, I did have some issues such as not being able to get the rear left speaker out due to insufficient access to the screws. Also the front left speaker terminals started touching the metal of the door on two occasions which just stopped all speakers from working. I taped the terminals up and its working.

All the speakers are JBL GTO series. I bought a huge amp too. But when I installed the new speakers and heard them. They were very freaking loud. The thought of installing the amp instilled fear into me. I don’t want them any louder!

The speakers give nice bass tones and I clicked the switch to make the tweeters +3dB. Which means they give a lot of tingly snare noise too. It sounds very hip. Having so many mp3s on a disk is very kewl too. I can also plug in my iPod, but I have not tried this yet. It does keep me entertained when I’m driving at 5mph stuck in traffic I feel quite relaxed : )