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John's visit

August 04, 2009

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John visited and we had great fun eating lamb

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Roadtrip - Tassie by ferry in a 1974 144 Volvo

Drive to MelbourneBe boring if I just said - well it was a 700km drive so what! But it was.
Bugger
Mileages were ineresting;
At holbrook it was getting    11.8 l/100km (what a shit measurment)
Launceston    10.57 l/100km
sat on 100 to 110 prefered 103kmp
Ferry I'm boring and love the ferry. Sleep and food is great. We were on level 1 with the 144 as my wife (the owner) requested.
First on last off and no caravans to booggy with.

Performance Faultless I cant see why people buy new cars. Sorry wait till electic is worth having. Till then a decent 1970's car will do.

HP Pavilion X360 Manjaro XFCE Edition (17.1.4)

Installed several distros on this duo core machine and it dies with most when Dropbox and Insync start up.
With Ubuntu and most gnome desktops its slow.
So I put Manjaro XFCE Edition (17.1.4) on after trying Netrunner rolling.
Strangely the Plasma desktop did not suck resources but is not to my liking.
So I installed the XCFE version then added Mate and Cinnamon.
I like both but in my situation Cinnamon is the best as the indicators for Dropbox and Insync both work "out of the box".
As ever I also added Scrivener 2.9 running under wine. No issues.
Zotero_standalone.
Vivaldi - Browser of choice. Not a resource hog.

So far so good.

Also found a great Ever-note client for Linux in Tusk https://klauscfhq.github.io/tusk/

Soma GRAND RANDONNEUR build stage....

Bought a Soma "GRAND RANDONNEUR frameset" For some time now I have lusted after a 650B bicycle. Thought about several conversions from a 700c but never got round to it. Conversions always seemed so much of a compromise. After I sold two Volvos I rewarded myself by getting a Soma frame set from Commuter cycles in Brunswick.I also acquired; 650B wheelsHub generatorSKF gut axel The build Stage One I assembled the Frame with the bits I had in shed; Suntour headsetSugino Chainwheel 24, 34, 44Suntour Cyclone II front changerSuntour Superb Rear Longarm changer7 speed Suntour rear hubSuntour change leavers - indexed / friction set to frictiongeneric aluminium seat tubegeneric head stock adapter and forward style headset?touring figure 8 type handle barsrear rackblackburn front bag mountsshimarno v brakes and brake levers with coolstop pads.Oh and 650B x 42 mm - “Hetre” (red) Grand Bois tyres

The Ride I still have to get a feel for how fast te bicycle is but... it is well glued to the…

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