Hi! Holger,   
      
   On Sat, 09 Aug 14, you wrote to me:   
      
    HG> I just want to tell you that life goes on here.   
      
   Cool.  It's what makes the world go round & round.  ;-)   
      
    HG> Last thursday was a day with rain and thunder so I took that as an   
    HG> excuse for not doing my daily scandinavian walking.   
      
   That seems reasonable.   
      
    HG> Instead I removed the Nakamichi 5-disk changer from the old BBS   
   [ ...trim...]   
    HG> Today I let the machine run for an extended period and there were no   
    HG> signs of high temperatures. Anyway, it usually doesn't run long   
    HG> hours.   
      
   I applaud your adventures.  I just like them to work these days.  The most I   
   might do is move HDDs around; the last occasion was about 18 months ago, from   
   my eldest daughter's dead HP to my new Dell.  We have that one plus two of my   
   youngest daughter's now-dead Dell laptops.  I've tossed-out most of my old   
   (old!) junk.  I just like them to work these days.  Oops... I already said   
   that.  :)   
      
    HG> Our hot (!) summer is coming to an end. From up to 30+ø C the   
    HG> tempera- ture has gone down about 5ø and for next week the forecast    
    HG> is for 20ø which is much more comfortable.   
      
   We haven't really had a proper winter.  Oh, there were a few nights when I   
   slipped a folded light blanket over my knees while watching TV.  For the most   
   part, I've been wearing board shorts & t-shirts, with a light polyester vest   
   or a light jogging top, oh, plus my ugg boots 'after dark'.   
      
    HG> Also I want to tell you that following the V8 Supercars series on   
    HG> Motors TV improves my knowledge of Australia just like amateur radio    
    HG> does.   
      
   Beaudy, mate.  ;-)   
      
    HG> When I see a race the logo shows the name of the race, the last one   
    HG> was the "Ipswich 400". I know where Ipswich in England is but didn't   
    HG> know where in Australia the same named place was so I pulled out my   
    HG> World Atlas and located it. I've done the same for all the other races   
    HG> in that series. Sometimes though the logo only tells the name of the   
    HG> track so it can be a bit difficult to find out where that is. It's   
    HG> happened once.   
      
   Don't be afraid to ask.  I'd certainly like to help.  Ipswich is close to my   
   old town of origin (birth), Brisbane.  It was a sort of a go-between place, on   
   the highway to somewhere else.  These days it's a major metropolis.   
      
    HG> Have a nice winter.   
      
   Thanks for the thought but we're experiencing a kind of pre-Spring here.  I've   
   been calling it Spring since 28 July, in fact.  There's a bit of 'liquid   
   sunshine' about at present but we'll have beautiful weather from now till the   
   end of October.  Then, it justs gets better.  :)   
      
   Cheers,   
   Paul.   
      
   ... I got lost in thought.  It was unfamiliar territory.   
   --- Paul's Win98SE VirtualBox   
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