{"id":215,"date":"2007-02-20T17:49:57","date_gmt":"2007-02-20T17:49:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/?p=215"},"modified":"2007-02-20T17:49:57","modified_gmt":"2007-02-20T17:49:57","slug":"tuesday-already","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/life-on-hold\/tuesday-already\/","title":{"rendered":"Shrove Tuesday… already!"},"content":{"rendered":"

And no obvious comments please about all being perfect tossers! However I have just enjoyed my pancakes!<\/p>\n

I’m afraid no photos this time, although Olivia has been over a couple of times, but in fractious mode. (Poor thing!) However she is putting on weight rapidly and now weighs 10lbs!<\/p>\n

Most of my weekend was spent building a newer, faster computer for Felicity – it isn’t the hardware building that takes the time, it is loading the software, and the updating it all. No ‘bleeding edge’ stuff here – I’m still using Windows 2000 – but my disk is an original, so there were several hundred megabytes of service packs to get, then the set up and migration of the data from the old computer. Funny to think that downloading all those upgrades can be done relatively quickly now, thanks to broadband connections. It was only 6 years ago that I was downloading a 24 megabyte file over a dial up connection which then went via a satellite link and it took nearly 8 hours! The satellite link itself had less bandwidth than my broadband connection today! I think I had a connection speed of about 26Kb\/s, 100 times slower than my broadband connection!<\/p>\n

Still, Felicity’s computer is now complete. I then repeated process (which took another day) on the old one and gave it to Vicki to replace her very old and slow one. It is so slow that there is visible lag between moving the mouse and the the movement of the mouse pointer!<\/p>\n

This week is a visitor week. Yesterday I received some financial advice about my pension arrangements and general finances. He is totally independant, so no hard sell, and he left me reassured that my financial arrangements are fairly sound.<\/p>\n

This morning I had a visit from an old childhood friend, Gill whom, along with David (who has been mentioned in the past) I have known since I was five years old! Tomorrow my sister, niece and nephew are visiting, and on Thursday Elspeth from Leukaemia Care is visiting for a couple of days. She is arriving in the evening as I have the appointment at Guy’s on Thursday morning.<\/p>\n

I was reading John’s Blog<\/a> earlier – he remarked that he hadn’t mentioned his health for a while (although he has made several other interesting observations about health issues in general) and I am in a similar situation – nothing to report. However I did have my first shave for about six or seven weeks at the weekend!<\/p>\n

So on that note…. a rousing chorus please of “Onwards and Upwards”!<\/p>\n

(Hmm – I feel the need for another pancake…)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

And no obvious comments please about all being perfect tossers! However I have just enjoyed my pancakes! I’m afraid no photos this time, although Olivia has been over a couple of times, but in fractious mode. (Poor thing!) However she is putting on weight rapidly and now weighs 10lbs! Most of my weekend was spent […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-on-hold"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}