Got on the www last night to pay some bills etc. Had just completed them when the www started going funny. Rebooted the modem, except it didn't reboot, died a miserable death on the desk, no lights, nothing.
Spent 30 mins waiting on the phone to get a replacement sorted from Spark, our Telco provider.
But it was a beautiful night, crystal clear finally, cold southerly after some thunder and rain. Observatory time I thought, can't browse the web or nothing.
Mount fired up first time ... but the Ob PC didn't ! After multiple attempts to reboot, repair, recycle, re-anything, I gave that up too !
Went to bed, read a book ...
On another note. I have been busy setting up a small business at home. Retirement looms and I need something to keep me out of trouble and provide a bit of beer money now and then. Not sure when I'll transition out of the rat race workforce completely, depends on growth I guess, 6 months, 12 months maybe ? Hopefully ? Wishfully ?
Electric Vehicles are the growing trend so I have set up a bike conversion business. Convert your bike to electric assist. Fits well with Auckland's transport directions, cycleways and the multitude of small hills around.
Involves some degree of local promotion and getting out and about to push(bike) the concept to the commuters etc. So may not be quite as regular posting on here while I get this going and my astro time will be curtailed a bit.
But I'll be keeping an eye on you fella's so behave ...
Look out for E+BIKE around town ... ok, in Auckland anyway..