#2256 Tuesday 16th January

 It's 2pm and we've just been through a humdinger of a thunderstorm ..... so loud that I think it might have been right over the top of us.  The sky was clear though ..... so I don't think it could have been.

These days I get comments from Kaylia's carers about "What a delightful person she is."  I agree!  We seem to be in a 'sweet spot' with her medication and she's just relaxed and happy.

Later.....  It turns out that it was a serious storm and localised just east of us. There are reports of flooding in Mundaring.

It's now 5 days later and many areas are still without power from the effect of that storm.  Amazing stuff! 

#2255 Sunday 14th January

Phew it's hoootttt!  ..... and the forecast is that it's going to stay hot.

I'm having a battle with phones at the moment.  The 3G network has been discontinued and I made sure that I have a 4G phone.  But we weren't told that it had to be 4G voLTE..... not just 4G LTE.   So I can't make or receive voice calls.  It seems that the same handset can be either. In Australia, volte is programmed into the handsets... but not elsewhere.  So a handset that costs around $100 in China costs around $1400 in Australia because it has a tiny program change.  Sheesh! 

#2254 Saturday 13th January

It's sometimes intriguing to see what things Kaylia places value on.  This morning we went to the first of three op shops.....  she's allowed 10 dvds in each shop.  But in the first shop she found a cache of "high value"  dvds and wanted 14!  I said that she could have the 14..... but straight home.  In other words she could have 14 now......  or 30 later.  She chose the 14 now!  Go figure. 

#2253 Wednesday 10th of January

Current project......  removing the spa and filling that space with decking.  This will be space for a studio for David when he retires. 

Here you can see that the spa has been removed and the framing is nearly completed ready for the deck planks. 

#2252 Tuesday 9th January

We live in exciting and awe inspiring times...... on the one hand we can look at an image of the construction of a single cell in our body ........ 

......  and then we are shown images of galaxies so far distant that they were old when our universe began!  In other words it may be that before time (as we know it) began, another reality existed in which time was already old. 

It inspires awe. 

#2251 Friday 5th January

 Woo Hoo!  We have internet again!  The "internet doctor" visited yesterday and found that rats (or something) had chewed through the cable before it reached our house.  The connection was soon made and we're all very happy.  Kaylia especially!!  Her world was very bare without her YouTube music.  .... and for Naomi and I, the evenings were equally bare.

It's all good now.

#2250 Wednesday 3rd January 2024

. Our hair is being torn out! Kaylia struggles to understand why the Internet is broken. On Sunday 31st the Internet went down at home and despite numerous modem restarts and modem swaps, it is still down. I'm spending hours on the phone trying to get action..... no result yet. I'm writing this while sitting under a tree about a kilometre from home where the mobile signal is strong enough.

This is compounded by the 3G/4G issue. (I have a 4G phone but it only does LTE not voLTE..... so I have mobile data but no voice!) I have a new phone on the way but I have no voice signal till it comes.