Sorely tempted by an eMac spotted recently in a pawnbroker, it's one of the last ones produced, so it has the 1.42 GHz processor & USB 2.0. Trouble is, they want $200 for it & that's overpriced.
I've been a bit remiss re my PPC Macs: The MDD dual 1.25 GHz G4 hasn't been run since March, according to its Time Machine backup. TenFourFox v45.4 now loaded onto both its Leopard & Tiger HDs. 1Password updated also. Both the 1password .pif file & the TFF zip files have ben loaded up to my iCloud drive, where previous versions of TFF can access them.
The MDD G4 works quite well on the internet as it connects to my broadband router via Gigabit Ethernet.
Reminiscing with Michael, my co-volunteer furniture deliverer about the previous owner of the table we were moving. "Did you know Gavin B?" he asked me. "I did, and his brother David." The table had been bought by their parents sometime in the 1940s.
I said, "Gavin didn't mind a drink or 17, did he?"
"Would you believe up until the age of about 25, he'd never smoked or drank at all?" I replied, "he surely made up for lost time."
Michael the said, "I think it was my own father who started him on his drinking ways with an appreciation of whiskies & port."
Modern houses are not made to move old furniture into. While delivering aid parcels for a charity yesterday we found a Sri Lankan family in need of a dining table & chairs. There'd been just such in the charity's distribution shed for a few months so we arranged to deliver it at around 11 this morning. It's a rectangular table, around 70 years old and 32 inches high. The dining area is at the back of the house on a narrow block. We loaded up the table and 7 matching chairs before heading off.
The front door was about a foot narrower than a standard door. Maybe because a mesh security door is cheaper if it's smaller. The corridor was 36 inches wide & the table had to go in on its side. But the brick pillars either side of the approach to the door left us with no wiggle room, so the table couldn't come in that way.
A pathway to the back of the house from the rear of the garage looked a good option until we realised the steel star pickets used as garden stakes would be in the way.
Fortunately there's a door from the garage into the corridor. Swung the table in on its side and moved it towards the front door to make room for the door into the garage to shut.
Then start moving the table on its side down the corridor. But the corridor isn't straight, is it? No, various bedrooms had their closets built into the sides of the corridor at different stages along its length. Back to the front door with the thing, this time to stand it on its end, still side-on.
Even then it was quite tricky to manoeuvre this awkward shape down an even more awkwardly-shaped corridor. We eventually made it to the tiled area and moved it into place. Very pleased not to have had any of the rusty castors on the table legs come into contact with either the carpet or the gyprock plaster walls.
Chalk and cheese, as the saying goes. Comparing the FaceTime camera on the MacBook Air with the Logitech c615 720p HD webcam. The latter can handle stills of up to 8 MP, very handy indeed.
Johnson & Johnson's Band-Aids are available in Skin-Flex type, either a straight strip or a butterfly type with the dressing pad running from the middle to one side, it's intended for knuckles & fingertips. This latter type is quite suitable for the dermatitis-affedcted right palm.
As the name suggests, the fabric is thin & flexible yet the adhesive is strong & water-resistant. They're quite capable of staying in place for two days, even surviving a couple of hot 10-minute showers.
I'm away from a power source for the MBA. FruitJuice app wants me to complete the Maintenance Cycle by charging the battery as it's dropped to 20%. Fortunately I have my Lenmar Undead (seriously, that's it's name) topup battery/inverter with me. It outputs 240 VAC into the standard 45 watt Apple charger and a single charge can take the MBA to 100% charged from as low as 4%.
@matigo Looks better now the skin isn't dry. I've rubbed vitamin E cream into the affected ares and fitted an extra-sticky plaster to the area with a big dollop of antiseptic cream under it. The glove over the top also helps hold the new dressing in place.