Odds and ends

I’ve been to the airport twice in two days now. Yesterday we saw the Scientist’s mum off to Sri Lanka until next month at the international terminal. Today I picked up a friend from the domestic terminal. I find it interesting how rarely I’ve been to the domestic terminal in seventeen years here. I’m fairly certain that today aside, I’ve only been there when I’ve been flying. Also interesting is that I’ve never departed from the international terminal. We once did arrive back in Australia when returning from almost a year in Canada.

I was feeling pretty sore today after a rather overzealous exercise routine yesterday. It was the sort of exercise that sets me up for injury. Today I opted to go out for a walk in the afternoon. But I procrastinated so long I thought it would be dark before I got myself moving, which might have meant I didn’t exercise at all today. But I did get my feet moving in front of each other and started walking around 4:30, leaving about half an hour before sunset. I found it was quite chilly from strong winds as I began my meanderings but it was much calmer once I moved onto main roads where there is no wind tunnel effect happening.

I recently cleared out my 16gb mp3 player and added all the music I could think of, which has amounted to over 1300 songs from 50+ albums. I took this out with me as I walked today and had the music on shuffle, which provided a nice mix of songs while a walked. It’s always good to hear songs that I normally wouldn’t purposely play. Some of the fun was working out who was singing and/or which album the song was from.

I ended up abandoning my personal photo challenge project last month. I just couldn’t keep up the pace in the end and I lost momentum. I prepared quite a few photos to upload to Flickr and added tags, titles and other details to the photos. I pressed upload and promptly closed the program out before anything was actually uploaded So all the details were lost. Strangely I wasn’t as upset as I might expect to be at this mistake. I’d spent well over an hour on preparations for uploads and it was rather late at night. Maybe I was just too tired to be bothered about it. Unfortunately, I haven’t felt motivated to start over again since then. And now I have even more photos to add to the mix.

My computer finally gasped its last breath a couple weeks ago. There had been issues occurring for several months and we couldn’t work out the reasons. It was still mostly functional but often would reboot itself during the startup process. And occasionally I’d get a blue screen. More recently, the blue screen became a constant with every start up and we knew the end was near. One day, it just refused to start up so my system had an operation to replace the motherboard, and associated components that were incompatible with the new one. The Scientist went straight to work on it after completing a grueling day of his paid work. And I am very thankful for his effort as I have an almost new system now. And it wasn’t quite as expensive as we might have expected.

I still haven’t posted about our concert experience from late April but will finish it up soon and post it. It’s been mostly complete for a while but I wanted to add a couple things and just haven’t. I’d probably have given up on it except that I have already spent heaps of time on writing and editing it.

I think there were other odds and ends but I have forgotten. I have a post on family that I want to write in the next day or so with some happy news and some not so happy news but I want that to be separate.