Monday 12^th October – Home

Home

Bronwen and I spent the day working from home.

Tuesday 13^th October – Loving Hut

Home

Bronwen and I spent the day working from home.

Loving Hut

Bronwen and I had dinner at The Loving Hut, popping past Coles and Woolworths after to buy some groceries—and discover Cole’s amazing new “long-sliced bread”.

Wednesday 14^th October – Home

Home

Working from home again today.

Thursday 15^th October – Home

Home

To no-one’s surprise, both Bronwen and I worked from home today.

Friday 16^th October – Failing Hard Drive

Failing Hard Drive

3 years, 1 month, 3 weeks and 1 day ago I bought two 4TB Toshiba Hard Drives, which live in a mirror in my server—and have a 3-year warranty. This morning my server emailed me to tell me that one of them is now considered to have gone into a “Caution” state—its current pending sector count went from 0 to 8. Perhaps it’s true what they say—that things fail one month out of warranty. It’s potentially ok—it’s not considered a “Warning” yet, and it may re-write the suspicious sectors and get over it, or even remap them and not have any more failures… but it’s generally considered a warning sign that the disk may be about to fail and should no longer be used for anything critical.

Mt Gravatt

Bronwen and I went for a walk up Mt Gravatt. I noticed that the temporary early closure signs have now been replaced with permanent looking ones.

Dominos Pizza

We had Dominos Pizza for dinner.

Saturday 17^th October – Home

Home

Despite it being the weekend, we worked from home and didn’t go out.

Sunday 18^th October

Home

We spent the morning at home.

Hospital

Bronwen began to feel dizzy and unwell, and didn’t seem to be getting better, so we drove to hospital to have her checked out.

Shopping

After waiting ages at hospital for tests—their computer systems were down—we rushed to the shops, getting there only just before they closed.

Bronwen’s Parents’ Place

We drove over to Bronwen’s Parents’ place for dinner.

Monday 19^th October – Home

Home

Bronwen and I worked from home.

Tuesday 20^th October – Shopping

Shopping

Bronwen and I worked from home, walking to the shops in the evening.

Wednesday 21^st October – Cycling Mt Gravatt

Mt Gravatt

After spending all day at home, I went for a walk up Mt Gravatt, while Bronwen cycled up and down a few times.

Thursday 22^nd October – Rats

Home

A quiet day, working from home.

Rats

Bronwen thinks there’s rats in the ceiling so we walked to Bunnings to look at solutions for catching rats—and then on to the supermarket for groceries.

Friday 23^rd October – Home Alone

Home

I drove Bronwen to the busway as she was going into the city to work—which is a rare occurrence nowadays. I then had a busy day working from home.

Bronwen had dinner at her parents’ place and spent the night there.

Saturday 24^th October – Home Alone

Home

I had a quiet day at home by myself.

ALDI

I drove to Bronwen’s parents’ place to pick up Bronwen in the evening, and we dropped past ALDI on the way home.

Sunday 25^th October – Storms & Power Failures

JB Hi-Fi

Bronwen and I walked down to JB Hi-Fi.

Storm & Power Failure

There was a large storm.

The power failed at 6:30 PM—supposedly due to “severe weather”, even though there hadn’t been any “severe weather” for the past few hours.

Bronwen and I went for a bit of a walk around the suburb—the power was on only blocks from our place, but off for hundreds of houses elsewhere. It began to rain again so we went home.

Thai Dee

It wasn’t much fun at home without the power on, so we drove down to the Thai Dee Thai Restaurant, getting there at 8:30, when it shuts at 9. We weren’t sure if it would be too late to still get served, but they said so long as we didn’t order entrees, it’d be ok. However, when we ordered coconut rice to go with our Thai vege and tofu curry they said they were out of coconut rice, and when we changed to plain rice… they said they were out of that as well! We ended up having roti with our Thai curry, which isn’t a very good way to eat Thai curry.

Power Returns

The power came back on at 11:33 PM, so I got up and turned the server back on. It had indeed shut down ungracefully, so I’ll need to look into what went wrong there.

I ended up staying up all night.

Monday 26^th October – Cycling Mt Gravatt

Home

More working from home.

Cycling Mt Gravatt

I went for a walk up Mt Gravatt while Bronwen cycled up and down it.

Tuesday 27^th October – Shopping

Shopping

We popped down to the shops in the morning, but spent the rest of the day at home.

Wednesday 28^th October – Home

Home

Bronwen and I worked from home.

Thursday 29^th October – Home

Home

Bronwen and I didn’t go out anywhere, working from home all day.