Bloody government forms. Attempted to upload seven multi-page PDFs as created by my flatbed scanner to one department’s website, only to get the generic error in red: “Something went wrong…”
After extracting the individual pages & renaming them I had 13 PDF which all uploaded without a glitch.
@matigo Just learned the train lost about 2 hours of time on both outbound and inbound legs because the lead loco on the outbound section suffered a major fault and had to go into limp-home mode. It could manage the reduced speed. No doubt they’ll be dipping into their spare parts bins to apply a fix.
@matigo The railway preservation group is based at the former workshop where all these locos were built. There were 53 built & 21 of them are preserved. Scrapped units would have parts available & they can make parts that are lacking.
The sun was out this morning so I went off to the main shopping centre about 2 km from home. Almost there I heard several screaming steam whistles and concluded a western suburbs-based steam preservation society was having another outing.
Indeed they were: in 1922, the first of a new class of locomotives, the K-class went into service starting with K100. The last of that class was decommissioned in 1979 and 21 of the units are owned by various preservation grooups.
The whistles belonged to a centenary special train of some 13 carriages hauled by three of the preserved K-class locos. It had stopped in my location, 57 km from its departure point to take on water for a round trip of some 325 km. The leading locomotive, marked as K100 (the first of the K-class) was actually the last constructed K-class, K153 (built in 1940) done up in K100 livery.
As I was preparing for bed some 12 hours later, I heard the whistles off in the distance again. The train had bee delayed by about 90 minutes at the far end.
I’ve attached a pic of the three locos.
I emptied lots of junk and plenty of good stuff from the boot (trunk) of my 2012 Mazda2. This car has a horrible - never been used - spacesaver spare wheel & tyre. I’m going to ge a full-sized wheel & tyre because it can fit in there, just not in the provided well. That will become storage space for essential but little-used items like clothing and tools. Part of that process involves modifying the hold-down bolt because I don’t want the wheel to become a missile should I be in a collision.
@variablepulserate Very much so, the case as well. A good thing it’s not a leather case…
// @matigo
About six hours ago my front-load washer was making odd clunking noises while performing a prewash cycle. Deduced it was the iPhone in a trouser pocket so I shut the machine off and waited until it deigned to allow the door to open. I found the phone in about three inches of soapy water and it seemed to still be working. I removed its case (fortunately not leather), rinsed its ports with cold fresh water and shook out as much water as wanted to come out. Next I tapped the bottom if the phone against my hand to clear our more moisture. Then it went under the warm dry airstream of the reverse cycle A/C for an hour. It seemed to be fine, so I made a backup over wifi with the iMazing app on my iMac before returning it to its spot near the A/C.
It has survived the experience perfectly fine. To be expected, it’s designed to survive being dunked in water up to a metre deep for up to 30 minutes.
@variablepulserate In Australia 2G/EDGE is long gone, all three networks abandoned it at the suggestion of the regulatory authority, aka ACCC. It won’t be long before 3G is closed, too.
I had a similar dilemna with my late mother. I had considered a Nokia 3310 3G device (the modern one) but it was too flash for her. I eventually settled on a Telstra-branded ZTE flip phone that’s nigh on indestructible, a friend had given it to me when his wife upgraded to an iPhone.