#1006 Saturday 4 October

It's been another day at  the office ..... while Kaylia sleeps in and then has a day of swimming.  Now .... evening ..... she is having a great time and I doubt that she will be going to bed anytime soon!  I think it's going to be a long night!

#1005 Friday 3 October

Up at 4am to go to the airport..... the aircon still isn't much chop and the room was slightly above comfortable last night.  It was cooler outside.

Once again there was no departure gate allocated for my flight.  I thought of writing a bit of feedback to the airport again ..... but the feedback booth had no paper or pens .... just rubbish on the counter!

Our favourite place .... Garuda Lounge .... appears to be in place again.  When the new terminal was opened, the lounge wasn't replaced .... a year later it is there ..... but sorry .... not open!

What a grumpy blog!  It'll be good to get home.









Home again
Kaylia (with Naomi and Kerrie) has been to the Royal Show.  She has been to the show before.... but it was very unsuccessfully because of the anxiety attacks.  She couldn't really enjoy it. 
And this time?  She had no anxiety ..... and she loved it! 
She had a ball .... literally!  There was a ride where she is inside an inflated ball (about 2m diameter) that was then floated in a large pool.  She LOVED it .... and she was very sneaky .... when the ride finished and she got out of the ball ..... she managed to sneak into the pool for a swim!!

Now we're home and she's in the bath.

#1004 Thursday 2 October

This time tomorrow I'll be eating breakfast at 10,000m .... on the home run ... Yay!  These trips are hard work.

This is the new kitchen sink ..... b&%^$ expensive but it was the only sink that would fit the hole.  It has a guarantee so we will be watching it closely.  The guys were working till 6:30 last night trying to seal the drain so it wouldn't leak inside the cupboard.

Now I'm waiting for two sets of guys to arrive .... the aircon man to hopefully fix the a/c properly   ( .... it was another hot night) .... and it must be fixed for the guests arriving on Saturday.

..... and waiting for the pest man to attend to the termite nest I found yesterday.



11:30 at Hardys .... I couldn't stand the waiting for people to arrive on Bali time ... so I retreated!  The aircon still isn't working so we now wait for the man to come back again.   ..... and waiting for the pest man too. .... waiting .... waiting

At Hardys I got some more DVDs for Kaylia .... she likes "Simpsons" at the moment .... so I rip them to MP4 and put them on her iPad.

12:30 Back at the villa.  The a/c man has been ..... the result is as I expected ..... when the guys replaced the a/c unit a month ago, they had put in a smaller capacity unit!  So this one is working ... but it just can't cool the room.  They are taking the old one to use parts to increase the capacity of the new one.  A bit dodgy but .... hey .... this is Bali!

#1003 Wednesday 1 October

After a night with no aircon I got my external client work done for the week ....  and then started on my next task .... the second pool tank cover.

This my "outside workshop ".... the rusted yellow thing is the steel cover that has to be replaced.

The guys come this afternoon to fit the new sink in the kitchen  .... it requires the granite bench top to be trimmed .... it's a small job but I don't have the tool for it .... nor the time to go and get one.  Ce la vie.



At 3pm, the kitchen guys are still coming .... Bali time.  The cover is finished and the guy from Wasser pumps has been to check the two old pumps.... one is scrap and the other is fixable.  The airconditioner man has not been yet ... grrr!

While searching round for plumbing isolating taps, I found a termite nest .... so the termite man has been called.  His previous work was guaranteed and he struck me as a reliable contractor so ......

A few simple house plumbing modifications are planned for next trip .... changes that will make it easier to maintain the pumps.

4pm .... the kitchen man is hard at work but still no A/cond .... wait! I hear a motorbike. Yes ... it's all happening now.   Earlier today I had a talk with Ketut (via Putu) about unsafe work habits .... he had taken the guard off the angle-grinder .... very dangerous!  Now I watch the kitchen man doing exactly the same thing!!

So much work is involved in keeping this place up to scratch for guests.

#1002 Tuesday 30 September

You'll possibly recall me talking of a new diet change that we had decided to try?  .... I mentioned it about a month ago.  It involves trying to reduce the amount of free glutamates in our food intake .... trying  to eat unprocessed food as far as practical.  As you can imagine this change is not something that can happen overnight .... we've been working toward the goal .... I'd guess we might be about 50 - 60% of the way.

The interesting thing is that I'm noticing small changes in Kaylia.   I feel as though the anxiety episodes have diminished .... and she seems to be more alert and aware.  She seems to be taking more notice of things we're saying.  At this stage it's pure hope .... just a feeling that something good is developing.

I was impressed by the theory surrounding this change.  If it doesn't work as hoped then it can't harm us .... and if it produces positive results, it will be great!

The weekend away was a great success.... it bodes well for the two weeks we will spend there at Christmas.

I'm now at the villa again... it's a quick trip to get some more maintenance done ..... the tasks are:

Replace the kitchen sink 

Construct the second of the two pool tank covers

Arrange a better maintence checklist with Putu

Evening

I'm at Hardys for tea and shopping ..... after a frustrating day.

I'd gone to Mitra10 .... through bad traffic .... got what I thought was the right sink and went home in worse traffic .... only to find that the sinless wrong!  Back I went to try again.

After getting to sleep around 2am this morning, I'm had it ... and the bedroom a/cond is kaput!!

#1001 Sunday 28 September

 Brrrr!  We've just come back from the beach .... freezing wind blowing..... rain every now and then.  A good time.   I'd forgotten how hard it is to walk along a beach.







After recovery time we headed for the National Park .... Kaylia has been there many times with Lara and Chris .... and she knew where to go.  As soon as we had parked the car she was off to this ..... ????? whatever it is.







Next it was off to the koalas.

.... and then Kaylia took us to the kiosk for an icecream.