No travel for you

 What rhymes with unravel....untravel.  The doc was not happy with what he found when he took  a look  inside.  So now he is writing a letter that says no travel for six weeks.  These are the ultimate nophasement moments. Don't give up your health insurance. I have my own room with ensuite and room service.  I was supposed to get that for the next four weeks. 

Another piece removed

 I have made it into my own room now, it is about 10:00pm. The dining/kitchen has closed so I was given a sandwich and it disappeared in seconds. It seems that if you are removing an appendix on the right side then you make holes in the left side and work thru those. There are still tap holes in my arms just in case. I certainly don't feel the problem now but there is still lots of medicine in my system. 

Emergency

 I have  been to this Geelong hospital before to get a prostate out. This time the talk is about appendix. Now I am supposed to be flying out of here tomorrow and frankly I am sick of hospitals but this is the best place to be. So far only tests and painkillers.

20+ Yar Problem

 Subscriptions are like the ever growing money tree to companies that have them.  Microsoft has been switching everything it can to a subscription model and gaming was the start of that push. At that time our teenagers did not have credit cards so the $100 a year payment was made on our card.  Here we are 25 yar later still paying it and the total is well over $2000. The problem was that the Microsoft account access was lost.  The credit card has expired at least 7 or 8 times in that period but some companies like Microsoft have software that can ask banks for the updated details and then continue to merrily take your money. We tried a few things every now and then however this time we went to the ANZ to block the card payment. They investigated and got me the original email contact where we could then revive the account and finally login to cancel the subscription.  Now I just have to work on the other subscriptions.

Juicy Reds

 If your interest was purely in getting the most oil out of the olives then maybe waiting as long as possible until they are as plump as a Plucker Duck and dark red will give the best return.  I got up close to the last of the olives for this year as the branches came tumbling down. Yes the tree missed out on a trim last year but this time around it has been cut back into a neat ball.  Not your traditional hollowed glass shape but accessible enough for us and it did not cost $500.  You could try salvaging the olives and there might be 2 kilos worth but the birds will finish them off and we are out of time anyway.

Official Winter beach day

 I got the Grandies going with a birthday cake session. Now it seems that if they were not helping then the cake would not have turned out so well. Ho Hum!  The afternoon was all beach action but with some stirred up water they did not go fully in but there was a lot of splashing about.  With steady sunshine and no breeze the afternoon seemed hotter the longer we stayed. Nana got a big roast going after all the exertions but even so there was plenty of room for the birthday cake and Winter ice cream.  Nana's present was one of those internet attached photo frames.  These frames would work better if they were wired.

 

Sun Ride

 Yesterday was a rainy ride in the morning and a sunny walk in the afternoon.  We have gotten the bikes out again to much better conditions this morning and the grandies were better at the riding as well.  Absolute calm and acoustics to go with it as we rode the same track as yesterday. This time it was smooth going and Kaia was speeding along to everyone's amazement. There were less dogs and people so no holding back.  We finished the morning with a cake bake session. Estelle arrived just in time for some pancake snacks. Good timing.