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