| Four seasons in one day. |
[4 January 2006|10:18 pm] |
As a follow-up to yesterday's rather disgruntled weather post ...
( ... Axver evaluates the seasons! )
With that settled, I shall now kick back and watch the radar as yet another storm approaches. Looks like this one hit some places to the northwest of me and is now dying down, though. I sure hope it stays that way. Storms are not welcome in the world of Axver if there is any need to be using electrical devices (which in the world of Axver is usually all the time). |
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[3 January 2006|09:46 pm] |
Poll #644590
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: AllIs summer the worst season?
Have a guess who's yet again wishing that he lived in a more sensible climate! |
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[26 October 2005|09:33 pm] |
I love it when you miss something by just a few minutes. I've been worrying about my modem all afternoon, fearing something had gone horribly wrong as the tracking number was not on the system of the postage company and I couldn't contact the people I placed my modem order with ... but had I logged on to check my e-mails just five minutes later than I did, I would've found a nice response from the modem people correcting my tracking code, which shows that my parcel is in Brisbane and should be despatched to me soon, as in tomorrow.
Love it when that happens.
Also, the storms love us so much that apparently an even worse one than the one we just had will be rocking into town tomorrow. Have a wild guess who's going to remember to unplug all of his treasured electrical devices from the wall this time! Here's hoping this wild weather fails to materialise, though.
In other news, my mother went into hospital for some minor surgery to remove something from her stomach. I went in to visit her earlier this evening and she's doing fine, but I still can't help but feel some worry, that kind of minute and unnecessary worry that you just can't help feeling anyway. She's staying overnight tonight, but should be discharged and come home sometime tomorrow. I'm impatiently awaiting that. Tomorrow will hopefully be a good day, barring the arrival of any storms.
Have a good one, everybody! |
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| I forgot what life without DSL is like. |
[25 October 2005|01:28 pm] |
| [ | Tags | | | internet, modem, storms | ] |
| [ | Current Mood |
| |  rushed | ] |
| [ | Current Music |
| | 'All Along The Watchtower (30 December 1989)' by U2 | ] |
Well, last night was fun. I can't think of any storm in my eight years in Australia that equals that one, and apparently we were on the edge and other areas were pelted by hail. Sure seems like there has been a lot of hail lately in southeast Queensland. I hope this isn't signs of a storm-filled summer - as much as they're entertaining to watch, I'm a bit too hooked on the Internet right now to enjoy them. Last night's storm had so much lightning it was insane; the air was extremely electric. At one point, there was this gigantic crack like an explosion extremely close to my house, and although we still don't know what it hit, a few devices here are on the blink. The generator that powers our aerial for free-to-air television networks doesn't work, so bizarrely, we have pay TV but none of the free-to-air stuff! One light in the kitchen well and truly blew too, and of course, my modem's died. Otherwise, everything appears to be fine. I'm thoroughly baffled by this modem - right now, it turns on and even connects to the Internet, but doesn't register the presence of any of the three computers connected to it. Last night, however, it just acted weird and said it was connected to a phone line (but not the Internet) even when there was no phone cable plugged in! Hopefully I'll be able to tinker with it and figure out what's happening - I've already ordered a replacement modem, but I don't expect it until tomorrow. If I can get the current one to work, the new one will come in handy when I move to Brisbane so it's not a waste of money.
For the time being, I'm stuck on the slow agony otherwise known as dialup, and as my DSL plan comes with just ten hours of free dialup access, I'm conserving my time. I don't know how I'll take 7-8 hours without Internet this afternoon and evening, especially with my television not working (it only showed free-to-air stations; we didn't put a cable for pay TV through to my room). Maybe I'll do a lot of reading. Who knows.
Have a good one, folks! |
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| Images of destruction. |
[24 October 2005|10:04 pm] |
Although the cynic in me is not surprised, I'm at least a little startled to see how many people are not aware of the recent Pakistani earthquake, or if aware, don't realise the full extent. There are some sources estimating that the final death toll is going to be higher than that of the Boxing Day tsunami last year. This thing is catastrophically huge. But instead of giving you a longwinded ramble about the disaster, I have something to illustrate the damage even better: photos. (All courtesy of the BBC.)
( As the valley explodes ... )
In other news, possibly the most violent storm I've ever experienced in my time in Australia passed through this evening, and from the news I heard, we caught only the edge of it too. Heaps of lightning, including a strike so close to our house that I've been shaking ever since, and my modem appears to have been killed during the storm. Not quite sure how it happened, but it's certainly not working so I've ordered in a new one and am currently on dialup. Rather slow, but the pictures above put this in perspective very, very swiftly.
Stay safe, everyone. |
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