Mainland, Victoria

Countdown! In one hour & 20 minutes a steam train with 2 big locos & 13 carriages rolls into town to pick up passengers for a day trip. Not going on it but will see it.

Wild & woolly weather. Snowfields to the north are expecting blizzards and up to one metre of snow today. Big cold front coming up from Antarctica. There's one small island 200 km to the southwest that's the only landmass between Antarctica and Australia.

Needed to download a TenFourFox update on my 12" G4 PowerBook but the internet (801.11g) was too slow. So I used the iCab browser on the iPad & sent the download to Readdle's Documents 6 app. I then sent it over wifi to the G4 using Documents 6 as a server

Darn.

Indeed. I was her first visitor since yesterday's operation.

Since it was 13 km in a straight line (& 19 km by road) from today's Mac User Group meeting to the hospital my Mum is recuperating in, I chose to visit her before heading home.

Been shivering for hours but too lazy to add more bedding. I broke down & have added a 3 blanket-weight queen-sized duvet to the existing 2 blanket-weight single bed duvet. Much warmer.

Electrician vs instrument technician. Classic fun. https://youtu.be/qcsoqIylmDI

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SanDisk iXpand drive while backing up 8000 + photos from the iPhone chews through the battery. Fortunately it can be charged while in use via the UB port. I have it connected to an external battery.