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April 2000

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And April nearly slipped by too...
Thursday, 27 April 2000

After last months fiasco of missed journal entries, it mearly happened again. But at last I can find time to get one entry in!

Easter and ANZAC Day have come and gone. We spent Easter down in Perth with Leonies mother, arriving back in Kalgoorlie on Monday afternoon. ANZAC Day Dawn Service was well attended this year. It always amazes me how each year, more and more seem to be taking the time to get up at that un-godly hour and make their way to their local cenotaph to pay respects to those who served, and especially those that never returned.

It may sound silly, but I always get a lump in my throat whenever I hear the the Last Post/Revellie, and the Ode.

At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, we will remember them... Let we forget.

Kathryn has now joined the Brownie Guides, and wanted to wear her uniform to the Dawn Service, and to march in the parade later in the day. She got a special priviledge, however, in being invited to lay a wreath at the Dawn Service on behalf of the Brownie Guides. As our Air Training Corp cadets formed an homour guard on the gate to the cenotaph, she walked up with great humility to lay the wreath.

As many remarked that day, it is so good to see the younge taking a part in these services and appreciating the significance of the occasion.

As usual, we participated in both the Boulder and the Kalgoorlie marches.

Another reason, if not a legitimate excuse, as to why I havn't been writing journal entries, occured earlier this month when my Windows machine crashed *big time*. Hard disk was still OK, its just that Windows Exploere was corrupted, and wouldn't loadt, hence not Start button, task bar or icons - no nothing!

All I could do was reach for the Recovery Disk and reload Windows - losing some data in the process. I rescued what I could using my emercency boot disk, but inevitally I missed a few.

So, I have spent the past few weeks reinstalling the necessary software, and getting it back to how it was. Inevitably, it will never be the same, and in a way, thats a good thing, because I was forced to clean up the C: drive - its amasing how much crap there was on there.

And the feeling of complete failure was compounded when I stuffed up the upgrade of my old 486 by zapping the I/O card! - Now it won't boot at all since it can't "see" the drives! However, it now gives me an excuse to upgrade it to a Pentium mother board - thanks to some secondhand dealing! Finally when I complete that, I'll be able to install Linux as I had wanted in the first place.

So, Term 2 at work has begun, and the treadmill of work begins again. Lets hope this time I can find time to write here more often.