Cheers, Mate

[susandennis]

I bought this nearly $600 chromebook in January. I've been gradually falling out of love and this morning I think I have pretty much decided to return it. Happily I bought it from Costco so not only very returnable but easy to do. The first problem is that it is very loud. It has a fan, which is fine, but when the fan kicks on, it's just egregiously and annoyingly loud. But, even worse is the wifi radio. I've had wifi issues for a while. We swapped out routers two weeks ago and I have monitor software running so I know there has been no wifi failure. And, yet, this sucker keeps losing the signal. Plus when it does, it's set to just use my phone automagically. Which it does not. This morning I had to reboot to get any wifi at all. this is a fucking chromebook. No internet is kind of a problem.

I'm reading The Survivors by Jane Harper set in Tasmania and ready by a very Australian narrator. I hear him in my head all day even though I only listen at night before I got to bed.

Yesterday I started watching The Tourist (HBO). It's an intense thriller set in the outback of Australia. I watched 3 episodes back to back. If you do that, make sure you have some water to drink nearby. It's dry.

I've never been to Australia. (New Zealand, twice, but that's as close as I've gotten.) But now I'm feeling very Cheers, Mate.

I have old lady skin that is parched every day by pool chemicals and watching all that outback scenery in Australia made my skin just crack like the ground. I finally got out the heavy duty Cerave, stripped down and lathered myself all over. My skin drank up that stuff like nobody's business. I'll bet I used a good half cup of the stuff.

Today, after my swim and shower, before I got dressed, I lathered again. I use a spatchula to get the stuff on my back and this always amuses anyone in the locker room at the time. But, damn, it does the job. I feel like I will not only live, but will now be able to watch the rst of The Tourist!

Oh and I ran into a very old swim buddy this morning. She's probably only a little younger than I am but I haven't seen since well before the pandemic started. "OH! Hi!! I haven't seen you in forever!!" It was a fun greeting to get. We had a nice catch up. It's really nice to have so many nice swim friends.

Today there will be cookie making. Ginger cookies.

And I'm going to get out my old chromebook and charge it up and put it back into service to help me decide the fate of this loud pos.

Now I'm going to go hang up my swimsuit.

I leave you with some great real estate porn - this house is Seattle in so many wonderful ways. Also me. Check out that game room ceiling and the kitchen floor.

Comments

[zoefruitcake]

That house is so cool

[maisydaisy]

I think they were inspired by your wonderful sense of colour !

[jo]

I'm more amazed by the fact that you can get a 3-bdrm house for under $500,000. That would get you at best a bachelor condo unit in Toronto.

[susandennis]

to be fair, it's in a pretty horrible neighborhood. i'd be surpised if you could find a bachelor condo in Seattle proper for that much.

actually, a quick google turned up this fascinating page - https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_cities.jsp?country1=Canada&city1=Toronto&country2=United+States&city2=Seattle%2C+WA

i would have thought toronto was pricier than seattle in most areas... hmmmm

[maju]

Are you sure you didn't design and decorate that house?

Cheers mate.

[susandennis]

hahahaha cheers!

[alefy]

That house is very you! And very ‘reasonably priced’. Good stuff.

I have not been to the outback yet- but, hey mate, hope you enjoy the rest of the episodes of the show!

[ihavenoarms]

i have a chromebook to

[msconduct]

Aha, yes, The Tourist is the one I mentioned a while ago that's very outback-heavy! We've decided that if there's too much Covid in Europe next year to think of travelling there, our backup trip will be doing the drive across the Nullarbor to Perth I mentioned that I've wanted to do for years. I fell more and more in love with the idea watching The Tourist. I also want to go to Uluru at the same time, again something I've always wanted to do. And I've never seen Perth either. On my first trip (back) to the UK, I came home around the East, and there was a refuelling stop in Perth. It was so weird feeling like I was in Australia so almost home, yet I was still eight hours away. (It's just over six hours these days, which is still pretty long.) Australia is BIG.

[dandylover1]

I hope you can get a refund on that computer and find a better one. I don't use Chrome, so I can't help you with that, but it shouldn't be doing this. I've never heard of Cerave. Is it natural or synthetic? I guess there are some advantages to not having your own pool, namely friendship. I hope you see your old friend again. That sounded quite pleasant.

[jwg]

Some pretty interesting decor. I like the ceiling with all the games.

[sherlockishere]

Oh, how did you get to go to NZ? It seems like such an exotic place to travel to! Me, I've only gotten as far as Europe and the British Isles. I go back over and over because I fell in love with it!

[susandennis]

Great question. My Mom and Dad found a 2.5 week travel package to New Zealand that was reasonably priced and decided to go. Then they invited me. I invited my friend, John. So the four of us went and we had a blast and the places we saw were just amazing. This was 1994. 2.5 weeks wasn't nearly enough for me and John so the very next year, we went back - just the two of us and saw the stuff we didn't get to see the first time. It was just enchanting. I'd go back in a heartbeat if the trip was not a week in a fucking plane!! (ALSO note, this was before 9/11 so travel was long but not horrible.)

[sherlockishere]

Yeah, I can't imagine how much time you have to spend on a place to get there! Just flying to Europe is hard enough. No to mention all the walking within airports. I flew out of Rome the last time I was in Europe, and I swear it was 3-4 miles of concourses before I got to the gate there!

[mollywheezy]

What a fun house! The game room ceiling is made of awesome. The kitchen floor made me dizzy. I thought the bathroom was really cool. My niece would love the monkeys. :)