I managed to play netball on Sunday, even though I was totally stuffed. We really missed Chris and Dave, who were injured. There is no tennis tonight as we have a bye. I got the keys to the tennis club on Friday, so I can start looking after the place now.
I started to look at Windows XP today. It has some cool features, like keeping all your windows for a specific application together on the taskbar, and stacking them if you have too many. The biggest problem I have with it is that I can’t run Groupwise, my email/calendar program. Of course, maybe it is time I broke with Groupwise and started using something else. to be honest, that has been the one thing that has most kept me from going to Linux full time. I suppose it would be ironic if Windows XP was the thing that pushed me over the edge to Linux. 🙂
Sunday was a busy day. We had the Janssen family around for an Aussie BBQ” lunch for Naoko’s sake. There was about 30 people around there, but I had to skip out about 2:45 for music practice etc.
Thursday was a great game of volleyball, and then I headed straight on from there to the Tennis Club comittee meeting where I was made a member of the committee as the Maintenance officer. I have a bit of work to do, not least to stop the Treasurer from doing all the work. I’m a bit hamstrung at the moment until I can get a key though.
This gets a special entry.. Graham lost his twin brother last Thursday night in a terrible car accident. Bill was driving home near Yarrawonga, and swerved to avoid a tree branch blown down in the storm. He lost it in the gravel and hit a tree. Bill, if you can read this, We’ll miss you. I’m glad you had the chance to spend dome time with Jen and Graham last week.
There is also talk of setting up Antioch at our local parish of Mitcham, so we might be getting involved in that as well. Probably not on a hugely committeed basis, though, as the meetings tend to be on Sunday nights which clash with Volleyball. It is heading towards 11pm and I need a shower before I hit the hay, so I’m out of here..
Just got back from Tennis, we had a bit of an up and down night. Overall we lost by 4, which was fairly close. My personal score was +9. At the same time I think I’ve decided to join the Tennis Club Committee as the maintenance person. I hate it when people whinge about things but don’t do anything and there have been a few times when I have wanted to have a whinge about how things are at the club, so it is time to put up or shut up. Committee meetings are Thursday nights (3rd Thur of the month) which is a bit of a pain because of Volleyball, but I’ll manage somehow.
I’ve been spending a bit of time building up another machine to put in the lounge room. I was thinking of using it to play CD’s and DVD’s, but I am having trouble justifying $150 for another Video card that will do TV out and $150 for another DVD drive when I can buy a real DVD player for $350. If nothing else it will be good to have a machine in the lounge to look up the TV guide. If only I had some friends who wanted to come around, I now have threee machines that will play Unreal Tournament. Also our Exchange teacher has arrived from Japan. It turns out I had guessed correctly and she is the English teacher, so language is no problem at all. I’ve never travelled, so I thought I should at least find out a bit about Japan. I did find this site which had some interesting information, but it was also interesting to do some comparisons with home. Japan is about the size of my home state of Victoria, but it has a population of about 125 million people. There are only about 19 million people in the whole of Australia. It almost makes me feel claustrophobic, just thinking about all those people. I’m also pondering the idea of putting up a site about sound to store al those little factiods that I keep needing and as an excuse to do a bit of research and find stuff out. Link soon.
Another busy week. The musical is over and hopefully things will settle down a little. I don’t seem to have been home for more than a couple of hours at a time for weeks. There are some big changes going on at work with our parent company ceasing trading, (We will be moved elsewhere, coz we make a profit!) PC Magazine Australia, who is currently one of our largest clients, is also undergoing some change in the direction of thier magazine, which we will hopefully get some input in. anyway, time to go..
Tennis last night was a bit of a disapointment. We went down over all by 7 after going into the last 2 sets 4 games up. I finished the night +1 while Bernie was -5 after losing the first two sets in tie-breakers.