Hot (well 23 degrees is hot in Connemara!) Sunday on our side of the mountain in Maam Valley, and a very lazy day it has been, too. However, I did find time to tinker with the online photo album sites, and have posted new (and some duplicates too, by accident!) stuff up at : http://www.flickr.com/photos/alan-cookson/ .
Broadband looks like it could reach this outpost of civilisation by the end of next year, since rumour has it that there is a Government directive to the effect that all schools have to have broadband up and running by then. We shall see! Meantime we have upgraded to ISDN, which is no faster than dialup (unless you use both lines together, and pay for 2 calls!) but does allow us to use the telephone and surf at the same time. Works fine on my old desktop, but whenever we switch the modem across to the laptop - that has to be rebooted. VERY inconvenient! Have no idea what causes that. Maybe the fact that my desktop is running XPSP1, but the laptop runs XPSP2, which has more strenuous security features?
Nina's birthday today, so had a cheerful chat with her around midday, just as festivities were getting under way in Amsterdam! She had already received my wee parcel, sent off on Thursday, so that was great. Sounds like it was a really hot day over there, with 30 forecast.
That's it for now, must go and pour some Birthday Booze, and get supper on.
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