Heading into a nice long weekend here. Our Monday is Labour Day and it's
first public holiday for some months as we emerge from Winter and enjoy some Spring weather and warming temps.

I'm helping my wife paint another bedroom and will end up doing chores
outside.

It's hear birthday middle of next week but the kids and others are coming
over tomorrow for an early birthday lunch etc.

Then we hit the painting duties and I expect the rest may be a bit of a blur.

The box that will be Agency BBS Linux is still in the lounge and the teen daughter keeps wanting to use it for Disney+ etc.. sigh :)

I'll get there.

May watch some of the USA debate today, not sure. I'm working from home today but taking a break to play BBS :)

Hope you're going well in your corner of the globe.

Can't recall if I mentioned Roxette have a new tune out. I know they are like so 90's but I always liked them. The lead vocalist (Marie) died a year or so ago with cancer, this is a posthumous release of a single with her vocals in
it etc. Kinda has a double meaning now - the new song..

https://youtu.be/fFidYtllRW0

This has been a year when I've noticed death more. My wife's mum passed a few months ago so we were obviously wrapped up in all of that. She's still hit
with waves of sadness and tears that come from nowhere at times. We ride the rapids together. Holding someone sometimes seems too little... but it's all I can do.

A guy at work who I have worked with indirectly for over 10 years has
resigned after a long career as he battles cancer. All of that happened quickly. Then one of our admin staff - a lovely lady in her early 30s was diagnosed with breast cancer... she's off now doing chemotherapy and has come in a couple of times, looking upbeat but clearly tired etc... I think she
faces surgery soon...

I got wind that a old broadcaster mate I've known since the 80s had lost his wife to the same sort of cancer about 3 weeks ago... and bugger me when I
went to look up her online obit I instead found an obit for another former radio colleague I'd long lost touch with who had also passed in recent
days... this one I think was just old age... still.

So yeah, I share all this not to be morbid but I guess from the realization that this stuff is always happening around us all and yet it's weird how at times the vortex of it all touches down in your own world. Kinda like you
buy a car then see it always when you are out driving but if you had not
bought that model you would never have noticed it etc.

Oh and my oldest step-daughter is waiting on some tests she's just had to undergo to check for cervical cancer....poor thing she's freaked and rightly so. We'll support as/when required but for now it's a waiting game.

Bus Travel

I started taking the bus into work recently. The car parking I use it hotly contested and more so now a nearby car park that looks after 300+ cars has closed for a resurfacing etc. for some weeks to come. So I thought take the bus.

It's been an interesting experience. Mostly the same time to get to work and people are generally friendly. On the radio there was an ad playing to
address folks mental health. The message was, a good way of combating depression was to think of 10 things each day to be thankful for.

I thought that's good advice and I agree it works :)

That's it for me for now.

Best, Paul

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Thus spake Avon:

Heading into a nice long weekend here. Our Monday is Labour Day and it's first public holiday for some months as we emerge from Winter and enjoy some
Spring weather and warming temps.

And here I am hoping for some cooler temps to hang around for longer than a day...

I'm helping my wife paint another bedroom and will end up doing chores outside.

I've got a list a mile long myself, retiling my kitchen, getting the plants ready for winter, finishing a half dozen other projects.

Oh and my oldest step-daughter is waiting on some tests she's just had to undergo to check for cervical cancer....poor thing she's freaked and rightly
so. We'll support as/when required but for now it's a waiting game.

I feel for you. My wife just got confirmation of Kidney cancer today. Now we're going over surgery schedules, dietary changes..... It's rough.


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On 22 Oct 2020 at 09:20p, Charles Pierson pondered and said...

I feel for you. My wife just got confirmation of Kidney cancer today.
Now we're going over surgery schedules, dietary changes..... It's rough.

Sending good vibes from over to you both also....

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Heading into a nice long weekend here. Our Monday is Labour Day and it's first public holiday for some months as we emerge from Winter and enjoy some Spring weather and warming temps.

Avon, thanks for sharing so much with the community. I know you don't have to do that, and its cool hearing whats been going on in your life and knowing
the head of our beloved fsx. Thanks for always taking the time to share...
hope the bus comuting goes well, and my thoughts are with you and your wife through whats already been a hard year.

Thanks for all you do for BBSing. Cheers.



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RE: Re: Long Weekend
BY: Avon(21:1/101)

Oh and my oldest step-daughter is waiting on some tests she's just had
to
undergo to check for cervical cancer....poor thing she's freaked and
rightly
so. We'll support as/when required but for now it's a waiting game.

Oh I hope she's ok. It would be very scary.

Hope you have fun painting.

I've been building a new computer, I got tired of just scraping in the minimum specs with the "refurbished" "ex-lease" "what i could justify" PCs :) So I hit up AfterPay and ordered parts. Just waiting on the RAM now. I had hoped it would arrive today (Friday) but unless it comes with the letters, looks like I'll have to wait until at least Monday.

It's a Ryzen 5 with 6 cores and 12 threads (I forget which model exactly) 1TB Msomething SSD (You know the little pc board ssds not the one shaped like a laptop hard drive), and a Radeon RX570 with 8Gb of ram on it, pluss waiting on the 16Gb of DDR4 ram.

I'm pretty excited, it's the first time I've built a computer in years, first time one new to me as well in years.

Well, have a nice long weekend. Hope you get a few breaks between painting :)

Andrew


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On 10-23-20 12:07, Avon wrote to All <=-

Heading into a nice long weekend here. Our Monday is Labour Day and
it's first public holiday for some months as we emerge from Winter and enjoy some Spring weather and warming temps.

Long weekend here too, with today being the public holiday. Soon it will be the horse racing holiday.

I'm helping my wife paint another bedroom and will end up doing chores outside.

You never seem to truly have time off. ;)

But we will be involved in a lot of house related stuff next year, as our build gets under way. Land is secured, but waiting on the title, before we can settle. Later this year will be sorting finance for the house itself (we're paying for the land outrighht). I'm dreading the actual move, but looking forward to when it's all over. Lots of fun planning too - networking, radio, even the home gym. :)

May watch some of the USA debate today, not sure. I'm working from home today but taking a break to play BBS :)

I avoided it, didn't want to risk brain rot. ;)

Hope you're going well in your corner of the globe.

Mostly. Recovering from a sore Achilles, and dome something to my right shoulder, but still capable of 90% top speed in this state. :)

Can't recall if I mentioned Roxette have a new tune out. I know they
are like so 90's but I always liked them. The lead vocalist (Marie)
died a year or so ago with cancer, this is a posthumous release of a single with her vocals in it etc. Kinda has a double meaning now - the
new song..

https://youtu.be/fFidYtllRW0

Must check that out. I quite like Roxette.

This has been a year when I've noticed death more. My wife's mum passed
a few months ago so we were obviously wrapped up in all of that. She's still hit with waves of sadness and tears that come from nowhere at
times. We ride the rapids together. Holding someone sometimes seems too little... but it's all I can do.

I can understand. I lost a very close friend just under a year ago, and lost a partner 15 years ago. In some ways, losing someone close never really leaves you.


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On 10-22-20 21:20, Charles Pierson wrote to Avon <=-

I feel for you. My wife just got confirmation of Kidney cancer today.
Now we're going over surgery schedules, dietary changes..... It's
rough.

Sorry to hear that, hope they're able to cure it. Best wishes.


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On 23 Oct 2020 at 03:04p, Apam pondered and said...

so. We'll support as/when required but for now it's a waiting game.

Oh I hope she's ok. It would be very scary.

I expect we'll know more in the next 7-10 days, just waiting on results etc.

Hope you have fun painting.

My arms hurt - nuff said :)

I'm pretty excited, it's the first time I've built a computer in years, first time one new to me as well in years.

The specs sound amazing. I hope you have a lot of fun with the gear and in building it too :)

It's been a few years now since I last built a new machine. I daydream about
a newer system with better specs but what I have now (Intel i3 with 12 gig
ram a SSD and 1TB HDD) does the trick for the most part. A new wide screen monitor would be rather nice though :)

Well, have a nice long weekend. Hope you get a few breaks between
painting :)

Thanks, lawns tomorrow while the weather lasts, and probably some more final touch ups tomorrow also. Then Monday to crash and wonder why the body aches
so much. Good times :)

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RE: Re: Long Weekend
BY: Avon(21:1/101)

The specs sound amazing. I hope you have a lot of fun with the gear and
in building it too :)

Thanks :) I added up all I spent on various parts, now I am a little nervous, I
hope it works! LOL

It's been a few years now since I last built a new machine. I daydream
about
a newer system with better specs but what I have now (Intel i3 with 12
gig
ram a SSD and 1TB HDD) does the trick for the most part. A new wide
screen
monitor would be rather nice though :)

Sounds pretty decent. If I wasn't keen on playing games, such a system would suit well. Actually what I have at present is ok it's an AMD A8 I think, a little flakey with the bluetooth and front usb ports / sd card slot. For coding
and BBS development etc works well. Except it takes a good 5 minutes to start (at least), I'm not sure why that is.

Thanks, lawns tomorrow while the weather lasts, and probably some more
final
touch ups tomorrow also. Then Monday to crash and wonder why the body
aches
so much. Good times :)

Ah yeah, lawns. One thing I'm glad I don't have to do any more (Grounds keepers
do the lawns for our unit block). It's been really wet today here.

I can imagine you would be quiet sore after all that. I was pretty sore the day
before yesterday and all i did was move things around and put together the parts of my computer that did arrive.

Andrew


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Apam wrote to Avon <=-

I've been building a new computer, I got tired of just scraping in the minimum specs with the "refurbished" "ex-lease" "what i could justify"
PCs :)

My 12 year-old, $199, off-lease Core2 Duo (recently upgraded to a
Core 2 Quad) and I resent that remark! :)

It's had a good run, but I'm finally looking at something new - or at
least a newer refurbished, off-lease Dell Precision Workstation. If
my current system weren't so big, I'd fill it with drives and make it
a NAS.






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