Tuesday, February 5, 2002

Filling In Time

We're still in the USA waiting for the pets to develop enough rabies antibodies to allow us to apply to Australian Quarantine to bring them home. It will be five weeks before we know whether this round of booster injections have been effective and, as yet, we haven't made much of a dent in the list of short trips I've compiled. We are conquering the local transport system and becoming quite adept at determining which mode of transport and what routes to take. Pity we won't be around to use it much in the future.

Sunday, February 3, 2002

The Updated Web Site : Coming Soonish to a Browser Near You

The last few days have seen our dining room become Web Site Update Central as Debbie has been ceaselessly updating our web site in preparation for the next 'edition'. We've now moved to Paint Shop Pro 7 as our photo-editing tool of choice, and Debbie's now become so proficient at HTML that she prefers to enter our web pages directly rather than use MS Frontpage. So, the last few days have seen 3am bedtimes ...

Friday, February 1, 2002

Brrr ...

It's about 5pm Friday afternoon, the Sun is disappearing, and the evening chill is beginning to set in. It's been like this now for a couple of weeks : generally coolish days followed by freezing or near-freezing nights and early mornings. Just a few nights ago there was a snow advisory for the entire Bay peninsula excepting only San Francisco county.