Finally back online!

Was without the Net for 2 days back at PIL’s because SIL had terminated the Singnet account. I wasn’t aware of that for the 1st day, so there was nothing much I could do. On the 2nd day, I thought of connecting a wireless router to the Hubstation and it proved to be more challenging than I thought as I couldn’t get an IP assigned via DHCP.

Turned out that the solution was remarkably low-tech. I just had to turn the Hubstation off and on again to get it to work. Think there is some setting in the Hubstation that remembers the last MAC address that was connected to it. Wasted 3 to 4 hours of my time…

Pork Ribs

I love pork ribs, and I normally have no problems polishing off a plate of them. Unfortunately, today on Oz Day 2009, I met my match.

Unc Nick brought FIL, Esh, 7th Aunt and myself to a club in Sydney. I ordered a rack of ribs, but what came was a rack of ribs from some mutant pig!. The ribs were stacked on top of a pile of potato wedges!

I finished off most of the ribs, save one. Quite a large pile of potato wedges was left behind though…

Back from trail walk

Just came back from a walk in the park with Uncle Nick. Apparently a walk in the park in Australia is no “walk in the park.”

Here I was, expecting things to be like MacRitchie Reservoir but in reality it was more like army training where we had to navigate through uneven terrain along rock strewn paths.

Managed to keep up (barely) with Uncle Nick and we managed to reach back home before dark. I wasn’t keen on being featured in an episode of “I shouldn’t be alive.”