On Saturday morning I ordered a 50-piece cutlery set online as the physical shops had all sold out. The store's website indicated that any chance of the item being delivered before Xmas had lapsed.
The item was delivered this morning, three days after being ordered. Colour me impressed.
@jussipekonen I was mistaken, it wasn't the Nokia ringtone, it was the default iPhone ringtone. ToxicEternity, anyone? https://alpha.app.net/jussipekonen/post/68881108
// @matigo
Thought I was clever having a magnetically activated pet door for my cat ? to enter & no other cats can get in cos they don't have a magnet on their collar. But now you can get doors that are unlocked by the critter's implanted microchip ID. They are double the price of magnetic ones, though.
Just remembered other cooling optios available: a big portable evaporative cooler I can put in the bedroom, or a portable refrigerated A/C I have hiding in a wardrobe. I'll try the fan first.
@matigo I'm using a heavy-metal version of the classic Nokia ringtone on my iPhone. It's from a post @jussipekonen put up several months ago on ADN.
Going to be a warm night, I'll either set up a fan to move the air in the bedroom or sleep on the couch in the air-conditioned loungeroom.
@matigo I was raised on a dairy farm and love the taste & mouthfeel of real milk, which you can't buy for human consumption cos health regulators are fuckwits. Raw milk did me no harm for twenty years. This stuff I've found is made by an on-farm cheese factory & their milk goes through minimal processing: low temperature pasteurisation only.
As for the data, the MacBook Pro had 100 iTunes apps to update & was using most of my bandwidth. That's why I headed out to access something faster.
Went out without a mobile phone to do a bunch of iTunes app downloads on a fast semi-public wifi, one that's built into a public phone booth. I can access it because my home wifi is set up with a Fon & a Telstra Air hotspot, which in turn means I can access Telstra Air hotspots, be they public phones or similarly setup home routers like mine. My home broadband is billed for any usage.
I'd also taken a 12 - 240 volt inverter and the MBA charger, and topped up the MBA's battery whilst doing the downloads.
But I left it connected for too long & the car wouldn't start or would stall when I did start it. Grr. No mobile phone to call for help.
But wait! I'm at a public phone & the automobile association's roadside assist number is toll-free. So I'm standing at the phone booth trying to find my AA membership card. I knew it was somewhere in my wallet but it was proving elusive. So I returned to the car & spread the various cards out on the passenger seat & eventually found the thing.
I decided to give the car one more chance, it had been about 5 minutes since the last try & I was rewarded with a running engine.
I immediately headed off on a 58km round trip to buy the very special milk that I like & can only get at this one shop.
So the car has had a decently long run to charge up the battery. Two lessons learnt: 1: always take a mobile phone. 2: use the Lenmar Chug Plug https://www.amazon.com/ChugPlug-External-Battery-Portable-Adapters/dp/B00IIZOYFG/ref=sr11?ie=UTF8&qid=1482140720&sr=8-1&keywords=chug+plug+macbook+air with its internal battery instead depleting the car battery.
Sad when 4G/LTE downloads are ony ½ that of 3G. Network congestion is the problem. There's over 50,000 folk in this suburb and lots of them will have smartphones, the majority will be on the same network I use.