Father's Day

Welcome to Father' Day here in Australia.  At my age nowadays I manage to get a call from the kids.  In Kate's case, that will most likely be by Skype or Viber and later on this afternoon from Saudi Arabia!  It doesn't matter, a call is always great.

People have been commenting to Kate on her photos that there very rarely seems to be anyone else in her photos.

What people don't realize is just how hot it is over there and that people may only come out at night!

But the photo above was taken last evening in KAUST and shows there are plenty of people about and they are enjoying the music.  Kate said how hot it was there!

My footy team was defeated on Friday and I feel that is probably as far as they will go this year.  They need a fully fit list and all playing at their best on the same day to be able to defeat the top two teams.  My team is in a regenerating stage and the big tip was that 2015 could be their year.  Or that was the aim anyway!

Computer Club was busy yesterday.  Emails were again my major task.  One lively lady in her 80's had her laptop bought for her and set up by her 60 year old son.  He has her doing emails via Outlook!  That is some email program for an older lady to be using, especially one who has only had experience on XP and Outook Express.

For most people like this I put them onto Thunderbird.  It is the email program most like Outlook Express and people love to be able to click on a contact and then send them an email.  Adding an attachment is all done by drag and drop as well!

She also has to use her Bigpond email address, her son won't let her set up a GMail account!  With GMail you never lose your contacts, and you can send from anywhere at anytime.  What you do is 'forward' a copy of all your incoming Bigpond emails onto GMail.  By doing this you have the best of both worlds!

She was going home to seek his permission to set up a GMail account and if I could install Thunderbird on her laptop!

Another lady said her laptop was running slow.  By the time I had uninstalled 8 or so malware/adware programs and then run Malwarebytes to clean it all up it was running a lot faster.  She was delighted to have her Firefox Home Page back again as well.

It is turning into a showery afternoon.  We have a strong S/E breeze blowing showers in off the sea today.  More consistent showers are expected tomorrow.  I did manage a 12k bike ride this morning, my first ride for over a week!