Keeping up to date

For our regular readers, I can announce that the money finally made it from our bank in NY to our bank in Australia. We have sufficient Australian Dollars to pay the 20% on the house. In addition, the Foreign Investment Review Board decided that even though we are Foreign Devils (an official designation, I believe), we can buy the house, as long as once we leave we sell it back to an Australian.

We have a fridge. Hence salads, soy milk, and cool drinks. Interestingly few fridges here make ice automatically. The US mania for ice in drinks evidently has not travelled here.

Tomorrow we get cable and perhaps faster internet (currently dialup). The English Premier League will finish soon but there are interesting soccer games coming up after the season. In addition, the Tour de France will be on soon.

Big rain here tonight. The house gutters really need cleaning out. A lot of water overflowed onto the balcony. No leaks through the roof, happily.

Work is going well. Much interesting discussion this week centered around the South African equivalent to the xNTD, which they call KAT (short for Karoo Array Telescope).

That's it for now.