Yessireebob!
I’ll be on holiday and a deserved break for a little while with the family. I’ll be checking in from time to time but for all intents and purposes, I wish to dedicate that time for the family, we haven’t had a holiday together for quite a while.
We’ll be off to Bonny Scotland first and then to Victoria, BC, Canada.
I wish you well my friends, and thanks again for your continued friendship.
Tataaaa..
It’s been a very busy week, and the weekend is too. The house is being painted so it’s like living in a construction site for the last 3 or 4 weeks. So forgive me for not posting anything. I promise you that i have been gainfully employed and you shall see and hear the fruits of that labour soon enough.
For now, enjoy these particular variety of Bahraini dates, the Khawajah, one of the largest dates available and quite sweet too.
Have a wonderful and peaceful weekend.
I painted my study to the colour I always wanted. Red Wine!
Have a wonderful weekend my friends!
I’ve done everything I could to limit the use of the internet in the house just so that at least we go past two weeks before I get the dreaded “you’re it” message from our beloved Batelco.
The record was 12 days.
Since they upgraded the package to 4MB, which is just a few weeks ago, we got the 75% warning yesterday, so I doubt very much that we’ll get to the record 12 days this time. The kids swear that they’re not downloading much, just watching YouTube sometimes and surfing. Just normal Internet activity to them really, they haven’t been reared on a 300 baud connection with BD600 a month telephone bills, so what do they know? To them, it’s like the air they breath, just second nature.
They got incensed when I limited their Internet access between 8am to 8pm with a complete blackout after 8pm.
Weird. Even with that, we bust the limit. Something I am highly skeptical of. No, we don’t have viruses nor trojans that I know of. We’re exclusively on Macs, one desktop and 4 laptops (5 with mine when I bring it over), so the only thing that is permanently connected is the iMac.
What is a man to do then? Especially when my business depends on the Internet and I have to carry on working when I get home? Well, get a higher bandwidth limit of course. Therefore, the call went to Batelco yesterday to upgrade our package to 8MB which comes with a 40GB limit. That should get us to approximately a 3 week limit before we bust that at the rate we’re going.
They checked the line and called me today: our lines coming into the house can’t handle more than 5 and a bit Mbps. Damn. Well, as the main reason for thinking of this package is really bandwidth rather than speed, I told them to just go ahead. Those 15GB/month extra would easily make up the difference in price.
Today, the deed was done.
Let’s see how long it lasts.
If you have any ideas why we’re eating up bandwidth like this, I would like to hear them.
The garden is a bit bare at the moment, most plants have been severely cut back to make enough space for the painters to do their job. Yes, we’re having the whole house repainted – with a new colour scheme inside and out. I think it will take another 2 weeks before we’re done, giving us just a few days before we fly off for summer holidays in Victoria, BC, Canada.
Why there? Delivering daughter #2 to college where she will join her elder sister. It’s fortunate that both will be in the same college and ultimately will be sharing the same accommodation.
Have a wonderful and peaceful Friday my friends, and thanks once again for visiting.
