Reflections of parents of not-so-young-kids-anymore
With the benefit of hindsight now and that the two of us were doggoned tired by the time we landed, we’re glad that we didn’t try to pull of the stunt of driving the about 350km between Perth and Pemberton
One normally associates budget airlines with all sorts of things that have to give – whether it is inflight service, baggage handling and costs, and general comfort level. What we weren’t expecting though is that of all the flights to
Our last gadget purchase for our trip to Western Australia – and not a moment too soon too! I’ve been keeping an eye on 360 cameras for some months now, but held back picking one up on account that while
Time and tides wait for no man. A lime butterfly flew into our balcony and I quickly called H and P to sit quietly to observe its egg-laying behavior. I always thought it would pause on a citrus leaf for
And the machine I decided on was the Thermomix TM5. Not quite the best machine of the three I was considering whether by function or price, but it was the one which would be least painful to fix if anything
The thing about having plants in a house like ours is that they are often the last to receive attention as they don’t complain, cry or soil themselves. They can get thirsty and diseased too like us but they suffer
And quite literally too, because the X1 Carbon broke down just 5 days after delivery. After loading up the notebook with the office productivity tools, Microsoft Office, Photoshop, a Linux distro on VirtualBox, the machine strolled along nicely for all
One nice thing about being a Minton resident is in the residents’ social network we’ve built up over the last three years. While not all residents are on the Facebook group yet – many I guess either do not know
And of early impressions of the new X1 Carbon 5th Generation (X1C5): At 1.13kg, this is almost the lightest full-fledge laptop I’ve owned. I reckon the SP3/keyboard is even lighter still by about 100g though one might also argue that
The X1 Carbon finally arrived yesterday – about 18 days from the point of order. And to get to the conclusion first before anything else: Marvelous machine, horrendous after sales support. The longer version will take a couple of posts.
It’s been almost two months since the last post on our upcoming June trip. Most of the key itinerary has already been laid out in February, though we did make one large change to what we’d do on the first
It’s sometimes amusing to hear the camera division salespersons of large household electronic appliance stores pitch why one should buy cameras from them – even when they’re routinely sold at standard retail prices. They’d say their camera packages include all
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