Wednesday, 3 April 2013

4th April - 2XS on Gold Coast - internet trials and tribulations


Thursday 4th April

A totally glorious Hobart day – clear blue skies, a gentle cool zephyr of a wind, nineteen degrees of crisp clear air.  It is apparently hot on the Gold Coast, but overcast – maybe it is better here!

Snapshot:  1.00-3.00

2XS is tied up to a pontoon on the Broadwater, near our friends Tim and Sally’s house. 

Pete is laboring away in Tim’s office, trying to understand a mass of documents relating to what he calls, in slightly grim tones, “your internet system.”  Trying to get it all to make sense and to connect, as an internet system should.  I could hear the weariness and frustration in his voice and I very much admire his persistence.  I would possibly be sobbing bitter tears onto the keyboard, and calling for HELP HELP HELP!!!  Pete is made of stronger stuff; he will persist until he gets it all fixed.

Rachel is in the closes library, working online – she has just started a job in an editorial capacity with Island Magazine and I assume she can work whenever and whenever, industrious hi-tech girl that she is!

James is on board 2XS, trying to MacGuyver an internal helm seat.  I have no idea how he is going to do this but…I have every faith!  Apparently they had some fiercely lashing rain over the past few days which made them all realise that sometimes it is NOT so very much fun having to sit outside at the helm in all weather.

And…I am here in beautiful Hobart, playing with Zoe and Rose in the autumnal sunshine.

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