[m i a o w] the cat

Previously, on “let’s watch all the mechanical things in my life go into spasm” there were at least four days of gorgeous weather. On every one of those days I had to work, or attend to other appointments - osteopath, car fixing, computer resuscitation etc. Now, on Sunday morning, with my laptop declared dead and my car waiting on a rebuilt carburettor and my old Palm IIIx showing no signs of life, I have nothing in particular to do and it is rainy and cold. It is the law of Murphy.

Thus, we have shelved our plans to go to Kongwak Market and then on to rummage through our shed at Loch for things we are missing. We’re just going straight to the shed. And probably, as we have no breakfast-like food, via Tooradin - where all the cafes are uniformly terrible. Which is why we go to the bakery, where they make excellent salad rolls, and coffee you can drink if you don’t think about it too much.

The laptop situation has crystallised. It’s the motherboard - pretty much the worst thing that could go wrong (besides losing everything on my hard drive - at least a hard drive is easily replaced!). Because it’s an IBM Thinkpad, a new motherboard, and the labour involved in installing it, would cost near enough to $1000AU. As I can buy another R40 Thinkpad for about $600 on Ebay, there’s little point in going down that path. I am forlorn.

A MacBook would be my ideal replacement, but I received an email from my mother last night saying ‘your sunscreen arrived, PLEASE DON’T send anymore stuff’ - which seems to indicate that she probably wouldn’t bring me one from the US, where they are substantially cheaper. And there is no way I can throw money at a new one - their start price is the same as a new Humber. Gah. Am thinking secondhand Toshiba via ebay. Sigh.

Car? Various things amiss with the Humber. The oil leaking from the diff, the carbie issue, air filter and oil filter, the door that wind whistles through (constantly reminding me of my idiocy). Oh, and I forgot to mention that the boot is stuck shut. I took my sister’s Humber Vogue for a short spin a few weekends back and remembered what it was like to drive a car with four solid doors. It was comforting. So here I am musing over what is best to do and watching a wet ostrich out the window.

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[…] state of our bread bin. A few days ago M went down to the Tooradin Bakery. A place I have mentioned before - they appear to do a roaring and regular trade. This is despite the fact that there are at least […]

[m i a o w] the cat » Blog Archive » I live in a bread desert. Help me, quick. typed this on Jun 16 08 at 6:48 pm

Don’t understand the comment “you can drink the coffee at the bakery if you don’t think about it” Could you supply more feedback and perhaps we can do something about it

Tooradin Bakery typed this on Sep 11 06 at 8:09 pm

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