h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

So how was your weekend?

We did some chores around the property and went to town for a birthday party, spent most of the day still trying to lock down our identities and protect them from identity theft after all our tax records dissappeared

Talked to a young guy who is coming up on Saturday to show us a system he came up with where a sprinker system goes up on our roof and the gutters are blocked then water is pumped in and the gutters overflow giving you a curtain of water all the way around the house in the event of a bush fire sounds brilliant if it works.

That sounds like it ought to be a simple and yet effective safety measure. Very costly?

Our week-end was busy enough ... Saturday, some sanding and painting of a cabinet, and then a dinner and dance that night. A live band, playing all 50's tunes. Sunday was the rest of the painting, some grocery shopping and laundry time, but mostly staying in and away from a howling blizzard.

Sounds like the perfect weekend to me now just add a glass of port a fire... preferably in a fireplace and without attending fireman..... a good book and maybe some chocolate covered macadamias and I'd be happy...... not sure what the cost is yet will wait until he has had some tea cake and coffee on the back verandah before finding that out

Not quite a "bribe", ... just being neighborly, eh?

By the way, there really is no need to start a whole new conversation each time you are on-line. If this thread, or an earlier one has slipped down your conversations, just look at my space. It will probably be visible in the second block, "Message Centre".

*pokes this thread with a nasty and pointy stick, just to see if it's still allive ...*

pokes right back and says how rude I was just about to say something nice to youy have chnaged my mind now

can you tell I haven't had yet

The end of the world could apporach, and STILL I do nothing until that first measure of .

How's stuff with you this 'morning', Lady H?

*replaces pokey-stick with , , and ... all breakfast'y stuff ...*

Ah and raisin toast have arrived curtesy of hubby we are off out to the balconey before I head to work the sun is just coming up and the birds are just starting have a lovely day nic

My day is nearly done, but it sounds that yours is off to a very lovely beginning. I wish you a wondrous and fun one, good Lady.

Thanks for the yummy breakfast and as to the rest of my day it was wonderful work was good, the drive there and back was beautiful, had an entire afternoon to myself and now TJ and Caitlyn are here watching a movie and just hanging out tomorrow Tom and the kids will be home and my mum and dad are driving up for a visit looks like a good weekend is on the way. We even missed the kangaroo on the way home which I am glad about on two counts I hate killing the wild life and boy does it make a mess of the car when you hit a kanga at 110. so whats planed for your weekend

It sounds a lovely week-end ahead for you all then. I don;t yet know what mine will be ... A little more snow shovelling, domestic chores, perhaps an opportunity to try to get a wireless network working in our house. Mostly I'll see what happens AS it happens.

Good luck with the wireless network we have one and for the past two months I have not been able to get my laptop to work on it I am hoping that while my dad is here he can get it up and running He has to be the only 67 year old that I know who knows more about computers than Bill Gates

Nope, the wireless option isn't going to work. Not without throwing a lot more money at it that I wish to. I don't mind the $69 router, but to put in another $50 for an antennae that I can position where I need it? That's too much. I have already wired a few locations in the house, so that must do.

Ya see, I built a computer room/offic in our basement last year. From there, to anywhere other than 2 bedrooms, a "line-of-sight" for wireless connection will see the heating duct, the cold-air return ducting, ... simply a lot of tin that is all part of our heating and air-conditioning. Just dumb, bad luck there ...

I don't know what our problem is it started when we went off satelite and onto fibre optic cable ADSL...it shouldn't make any difference as far as my limited understanding goes

Last time I was at dad and mum's he was showing us his latest box of tricks he cals it BT2 (box of tricks number two) he has it all wired up in his shed and then from upstairs in their sitting room they have a huge flat screen tv where with a click of a mouse he can check his email, while recording a DVD, call up his music library switch on the aircons blah blah blah it drives mum round the bend she says all I want to do is watch tv and I end up turning every appliance in the house on instead

Iam trying out my new calling card do you think this looks like a world war I flying ace if you squint H

Some gadget-s do got a bit far, eh? My missus just rolls her eyes when I try to explain just why we absolutely MUST have Gizmo-Gadget-SupremeXP !!!

I think your calling card is quite . I do suggest that you still put it in the square brackets at Lil's though, ... it's kinda a form-thing.

Whoops. I just saw that you already did use the brackets. Don't mind me, ... I'm getting old.

old is okay I here all the best people are doing it