Saturday
9th April 2005Finally, at last, we got confirmation yesterday that the finance had been approved for the purchase of the house, and so there is nothing left that can prevent the house purchase. In Australia, the sellers cannot pull out at this stage, and the moving date cannot be changed. It's much better than the British situation where anyone can pull out or change the date at any time.
It's been a hot 37°C today, and we ran the risk of having
another Saturday like last weekend, where we stay in the house with the curtains
drawn, huddled around one air-conditioner and trying to keep ourselves amused.
Instead, we braved the hot Gully wind and blazing sun to take Thomas down to
his grandparents so that Ann and I could go and meet up with Kyle, Heather and
Anna to watch a footie game. Sturt was beaten by Eagles, but we had a great
time sitting on the grassy hill only 3 metres from the action, drinking ice-cold
beer and nattering. Well, Ann and Heather did the nattering, Kyle and I did
the beer drinking and 
Anna
got very excited as it was the first time that she had been to the footie.
Due to the high temperature, the game paused every 10-15 minutes for a water
break. This meant that instead of a game of 4 quarters, it was eighths. In between
the 2nd and 3rd eighths and the 6th and 7th
eighths, the pitch was opened up to the crowd, where people either go onto the
pitch for a bit of a kick-around with their own ball, or go and stand next to
the team and listen to their coach scream at them. At the first time, I went
with Kyle and Anna onto the pitch, showed that I have no ball control at all,
and was shown up by a three-year old.
Comment
on this entry
Unfortunately, my home server failed last night. I first thought
that it was a hacker trying to get in, as I got some strange messages asking
me to format my C drive. After several hours of investigation, it turned out to be
a disk error. Unfortunately, I decided to run the built-in tool to repair the disk,
but this made it worse, because it deleted the files that were damaged - and
this happened to be the WMI database that is critical for a server.
So, Ann and I can't get to email, can't update the blog (I'm doing this through
a different method that is very slow and complex), and some other things
don't work like some of the video downloads. <span="blogtext"
Comment
on this entry
I have spent several hours trying to repair my server,
but everything has failed. It seems like everything I try gets me nowhere.
I managed to arrange it so that incoming email to Ann and me gets queued on
a server on the Internet, so at least we won't be loosing emails. We still can't send emails - we will have to register a Hotmail account or something.
Comment
on this entry
Ann's interview went very well today, we are both feeling
confident about the likelyhood of this one.
I also found out that I have been shortlisted for a permanent position
within the University that I applied for earlier. So, there is a possibility that
everything in our lives will be changing soon - two new jobs and a new house!
Sorry for these entries being short, with my server being broken it's hard work. I have backups of all our data and the email system, but I have been working to
try and fix the server without needing to recover from a backup (which is destructive and hard work to get going again).
Please bear with us if
you are trying to contact us, lots of our communication is dependent on that server!
Comment
on this entry
At last! I have fixed the computer that is acting as my home web, file, print, database, Windows updates, router and mail server. Unfortunately I lost the videos, but as I have the original on tape, I can re-create the computer files.
Ann has still not heard about this new job yet - but it's probably too soon as the manager who this secretary is being hired for is on holiday.
Comment
on this entry
One week until we get the keys! Woohoo! Unfortunately we will be offline for 5 to 20 days from the day that we move in, because it takes that long for my Internet connection to be installed. During that time email will queue in an external email account that we can get to through normal dial-up, but it will be one mailbox for both of us. So for you blog addicts, it will be a tedious wait for my updates to be posted. For those of you who don't like the blog, it will save you from having to read it for a while (so why are you reading this?)
Comment
on this entry
[Homepage] [Blog] [Slideshows] [Links] [Migration] [Search] [LogoTest]