@matigo 
Be careful what you wish for!
A story from my cousin in a country town four hours away by road: vandalism-related fire destroyed the only supermarket in the town two weeks before Christmas. Fifty locals became unemployed, including the son of a couple who run a plumbing warehouse business in the town.
They have voluntarily vacated their business premises & set up in a vacant building further out, leaving their previous locale available as a temporary supermarket. It's ideal for that purpose as it's 100 metres from the burnt-out store and has the required storage & car parking area.
The operators of the temporary supermarket have re-employed most of their previous employees & will be operating to keep them working & to keep the town supplied with groceries.
There's no space for the liquor store in the temporary premises but the shire-owned former public library building is being rented out to the supermarket operator as a replacement until the store is rebuilt.
Prior to that, a shopping bus to other towns within a 30 km radius was run twice-weekly.
Community spirit in action there. It's also a popular tourist destination so they'll benefit from the temporary store as well. Win-win.
@variablepulserate he is. Ex = has-been. Spert = drip under pressure!
// @matigo
Daylight Savings Time ends in 40 minutes. Australian carrier Telstra had a major network outahe a bit over a werk ago. So in compensation have declared April 3 as a free data day, from midnight April 2 to midnight April 3, local time. In those Australian states which observe DST, the midnight to midnight timeframe covers 25 hours as the when Summer Time 3 am is reached, it reverts to Standard Time 2 am. Theoretically I could have been going mad on 4G downloads for three hours by the time 2 am Standard time arrives, leaving 22 hours of free download time.
Happy 25 hour free Telstra data day!
@streakmachine My sister needed a basic internet machine for her international travels so she paid AU$75 for a cheap & frankly, quite nasty 7-inch Android tablet. It died within 4 weeks, just wouldn't power on one day. It was replaced under warranty only to fail to accept all passwords one day. It was getting horribly close to the departure date so I gave her the 2012 Nexus 7 that I just wasn't using. It was just what she needed, something useful but cheap enough not to be missed if it should vanish through theft or misfortune. After three months throughout the Greek islands & the Baltic states it was as good as when she'd left.
// @matigo
@variablepulserate Between March 2003 & September 2009 I had a series of G3 & G4 iBooks, all purchased second-hand. Most were 12-inch, including a FireWire Clamshell and also a 14-inch 1.33 GHz model. Both of those are still used by the retired couple to whom I traded them. One for cash, one for favours rendered. I guess I never had them long enough for such corner cracks to appear.
// @matigo
@matigo Think about it. The missing bits of plastic. Of course it doesn't have the missing bits of plastic. Because they're missing.
// @variablepulserate