Birthday Dolphin Day

 Debbie is used to 4 day birthdays but we have had to cancel most stuff due to this dumb bug I have. But we are trying to make sure I don't extend it to anyone else or to myself, before we nick off to Townsville next week.  We cancelled two outings with friends here and also a family gathering on Sunday but it is still a bit of fun here. We have had four deliveries via different doors into our place today. All have a flower theme and a bottle of grog. Miss Lilly Pilly is a high quality florist that I used for the yellow roses yesterday and she has shown up again with another delivery.  Debbie has spent 6 hours working the Pure Bookkeeping message today but we finally broke away from it to do a short walk on the beach.  If you run your own business then mere birthdays don't stop you working. The conditions were good and she retrieved a nice shaped wooden flotsam for garden usage. I needed a rest at the top, on one of the cliff benches and who should join the party but a pod of dolphins.  Trying to catch dolphins in a photo 200 metres out, good luck.  

skin care

flower in a box

gather your own garden ornaments

Just Passing - Happy Dolphin Day ( I think there were 64 dolphins)

No anti biotic for you

 I am onto these doctors now. Previously at the slightest hint of a green phlegmy cough you would get some anti-biotic and hey presto the problem would be gone in days. But it seems these days not so easy.  Because I had a long weekend in the way and then tried a telehealth phone consultation that did not connect, it was eight days into a cold/flu episode before I got thru to the doc.  I described the whole thing and was told to soldier on as I was thru the worst of it anyway.  The enphasis is now on the annual flu injection as the main prevention. Previous over subscription of anti-biotics is lessening its effect and allowing certain bugs to stiffen resistance. So we have to go back to hot lemon drinks with honey or buy flavoured Hypol mixture like the pre anti-biotic days.  The doc said another week and you will be fine and I will put this phone call down to medicare. Thanks!

Docking Station

 I have been putting off on getting a new computer.  There are numerous issues that I am putting up with but todays was a break through.  There have been a few annoying problems like the screens flickering and turning off, the machine going into sleep mode despite it being set to three hours and most things taking longer. A diagnostic message got to the heart of it 'The power supply is degraded and can no longer supply enough power'.  Now that is a sutble problem that explains all those issues.  My laptop is constantly at 100% power and always plugged in, yet the ticker was now saying 49% and was still dropping.  I have put in an order for a new power supply and come up with another workaround which is to use two old power supplies and hey presto my battery is charging again.  I would have had to undock until the new supply arrived but this way all the peripherals are still engaged, hopefully for long enough, as the input is now being shared.  

Amazon Phishing

Got an automated call from Amazon saying that an authorisation for the purchase of a new iphone was OK and would be happening soon, if this is not your purchase then press 1 to speak to our representative. This is where I hung up.  This scam was reported in the UK with variations. If you wait on the line you will get thru to a fraudster.  They will always ask for details to compare with their transaction which of course never existed. They say sorry for the mistake can you answer a few questions. The more answers they get the deeper they go. Some people have even given over remote access to their computer, in order to fix the 'Security Glitch" at your end that started this whole problem.  Never give out information unless you start the transaction.

Clear Air

 Rain would not let me get outside yesterday however we at least walked around the block this morning.  That was about as far as I was going to get but I did get some deep breaths going which felt better than the indoor heat and stuffiness you can get. I stopped to get a photo of the Orchid yard. Those flowers are really spreading themselves now. We need to be careful about washing on the line as it could easily interfere with their progress. 

25000

 I have been cooped up trying not to get wet rained on and wind blown on.  Asher could not have picked a wetter start to her van usage than this weekend. But then again, if the first long weekend available is wet then that's Winter for you. In the meantime I could not visit to see their set up but I have been doing a few stamps and the 25,000th one in the database ticked over today, all held in 30 volumes. That particular one is nothing fancy, a Precis butterfly.  I have tried one of these sets previously and am missing one, so I gave it another try and again I am missing just one. It will turn up eventually.

Nine Tomorrows

Asimov has put a collection of his short stories together in this volume. I got it at the Clunes book festival. Tom Cruise was in a film where he was an officer in the pre-cognition department. I can't remember exactly but he arrested people before they committed crimes, as they had a Multivac that predicted criminal behaviour. Now I know where that idea came from, as Asimov was describing it in the 1950s.  The stories are varied enough. There is also a whodunnit framed around a scientist who had invented the transporter room, as in Star Trek beam me up Scotty. He was murdered before he could present his theory and it wasn't a fururistic maid either.