Kym's Blog

Been a long time between posts hasn’t it? I guess there have been a few reasons … its soccer and footy season so we are always busy, Hedy has started her radiotherapy treatment, Matt had quite a few teeth out, its cold … etc. etc.

But probably the major reason I have been tardy in posting lately is that I have had another couple of projects on the go.

Firstly, I switched our main laptop a few weeks ago to Windows 7. While this is still in the “release candidate” stage I have found it a fair improvement over Vista, even on our laptop which is now about 18 months old. The 3 highlights for me are:

1. Its quick, noticeably faster than Vista even though I did an update rather than fresh install … lazy as usual.
2. I love the new design of the task bar, with easy access to multiple open windows all at once … its almost like using a Mac!
3. Its power management is a vast improvement … we can actually contemplate watching a TV show from Channel Bit-torrent now without bringing out the power adaptor.

Fortunately we will be up for a new laptop a couple of months after the official release, which means I won’t have to worry about finding some way to “appropriate it” once the release candidate expires.

The second project has been to prepare a new website for Dan’s soccer team … and I am pleased to say that you can see the results now at Unley Rangers. This has been another learning experience for me as I decided to use Wordpress to produce the site, but with a theme that was far more “website” and much less “blog” than that which I am using here. It has been interesting, to say the least, to work with the guys to develop the new site … and has given me a chance finally to give something back to a club that has provided us with a lot of entertainment over the years.

The theme is use by the way is Mimbo, with a few modifications of my own thrown it. I am actually pretty pleased with the outcome and am seriously considering using Mimbo here on this site as well.

So, there you go … if you understood half of this then well done … if you didn’t I guess it can be summed up by saying “Sorry for the lack of posts lately, I’ve been busy”!

The next car is coming soon I promise!

With Hedy’s chemotherapy treatment finally out of the way, our friends Stewart and Lesley took us to Chianti yesterday for a celebratory lunch. After a cold and wet morning at soccer, this was a wonderful way to “move on” from the most onerous phase of the treatment plan. We expect the next 6 weeks of radiotherapy to be much more easily managed, although I guess time will tell.

In some ways it was not a surprise when Stewart rang late last week to suggest this. They are just one of a number of couples/individuals that have been supportive over the last months, without intruding at all. You will all know who you are and I hope that you also realise the depth of our appreciation for the phone calls, emails etc over this time.

Lunch was, for the record, very good … although it was interesting that, for me at least, the highlight was not the food, although that was great, but the level of attention to detail shown by the staff. Certainly the best service I can remember for a while, in a kind of “casual-but-everything-exactly-as-it-should-be” way.

As you do in Adelaide we bumped into a couple of different sets of friends also celebrating, one couple an anniversary and another, that I hadn’t seen for I guess 25 years, a birthday.

May the Fourth be with you!