Thursday, July 10, 2003  

Where: Queen Street Mall, Brisbane
When: 3:55pm local time

Funny how when you finally manage to grab Internet access it's mostly irrelevant. Thanks to the kids (there are 13 of us grandchildren here, and most of them have yet to hit their teens) ALL having their own email address and MSN accounts and ALL insisting that as such they have important emails and affairs to attend to and thus have as much right to use the single Internet-capable computer in the flat as I do, I haven't had the patience to get on and check stuff (emails, news etc) as often as I should.

So the wireless access all throughout the open-air Queen Street Mall SHOULD have been a godsend, but right now it doesn't exactly feel like it. For some reason, my email program absolutely refuses to download my email, even though it works just fine over the web. MSN, AIM and ICQ also refuse to work. I'm not entirely sure what's going on, but I'm left pretty much with only the web... and for some reason I don't feel like tackling the mounting pile of websites I have to get into. It's just... boring right now.

Mind you, it's not that everything else has been too exciting. Fairly slow days here, but it's pleasant enough. And I got new shoes! New shoes are good!

Posted at 4:18 PM

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