Do you know, it is often the "little things" in life that matter.

I got satellite TV for one reason only, ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) Asia-Pacific which then morphed into Australia Network. Come August 16 this year, splat: no longer available.

Great news today, just now:  a crawling message whilst watching CNN : PBO is no longer available and has been replaced with Australia Network. I guess that a new transponder on the satellite is now available, and we are immediately back in Business with an Aussie twang !

Grab the satellite remote and start to toggle up & down, LOCKED ! YAY !

Vigorous air punching happening at Club Jamieson, with a few puzzling "yesses".

http://www.dream.com.ph/programming/programming_progSked.asp?npage=12

This is the line-up for today, they have not changed their website yet, too soon.

Oh, BTW, that super typhoon was a definite damp squib,total crap.

I have had more drenching showers in the bathroom, and the "gales" ? A hair dryer would have had more oomph. Sure a few trees were swaying slightly, dropping autumn leaves, the umbrella had a slight issue coping with the wind - but all in all, total, embarrassing overkill.

Sure at landfall it would have been exciting but here in the Zhou it was business as usual.  Shanghai was NOT nature-nuked.

Mrs. Jamieson did take a leisurely day off work (for fun, apparently) due to the very DIRE predictions from the Government, did some cooking. 

All schools were closed, except the spider and maybe some others I suspect.  I certainly did not crawl to the taxi rank to head downtown.

That is all for today,

Cheers

Jamieson.