Update

Found some pearl tapioca today so am looking forward to doing a baked tapioca in the next few days.

The vege garden is going well -- I've planted quite a few more herbs.

Susan & I are looking forward to three weeks in Sydney looking after our 1 yr old grandson. They've just purchased a new house so we're looking forward to seeing that too.

Found a whole new exciting area to study--brain plasticity--there are some great videos around explaining how it works--basically, any learning, no matter what your age, increases your neural networks--as we've always known, "use it or lose it" & "no pain no gain" there's no short cut, lots and lots of repetition is necessary to form new & lasting networks in our brain.

I built this stereo amplifier for my Mum & Dad about 30yrs ago. It stopped working recently. The fault turned out to be simple. It just needed a new set of loudspeaker output sockets. It's now working as well as ever.

This is a Sansui stereo amplifier I purchased in New Guinea before I was married. That makes it 36+ years old.

A few days ago it started making a lot of noise in the left channel. The volume control had no effect on the noise, however, the treble control did affect the noise. This meant the offending component had to be between the volume control circuitry and the treble control circuitry. It turned out to be the 3.3 mf electrolytic coupling capacitor between these two stages. I replaced the capacitor and now it too is working as good as new.

Programming

Well I've been working around the clock for the past week developing an online version of AVI's relationship development report. It was needed for a workshop in Dubai conducted by Jim Warner of OnCourse International.

Sprint training suffered as a result, however, I kept up my regular jogging. In fact Stephanie and I managed our longest and best jog (despite a lingering calf muscle strain from the last sprint training session -- the physio was right, you do need to keep the blood flowing through strains to heal them quickly) this year last Monday.

I've also been updating my main website adding links to some videos at the the presentations page.