General site news and happenings

Remember how I said a while ago that the broadband situation in our area is dismal? Well, the biggest hurdle was not the availablilty of broadband, but the price. With Telstra's NextG wireless the only real choice of technology with a brand new tower a few kilometers down the road, we've been watching the prices with interest.

The baby is now past 6 months old and still obstinately not doing anything interesting, other than exuding cute at levels that could kill a horse, and apparently can effectively hypnotise most little old ladies and checkout chicks that she encounters.

Spotted this on the way back from a shopping trip today.

So if you're looking for a $50,000 house in Peterborough, this might be the one for you. Most interesting for sale sign I've ever seen.

Recently, we had cause to refinance the mortgage. Nothing unusual about that, people do it all the time. But we're in a location with a 'bad' postcode, and the loan amount was well under the usual minimum lending limit. So here's a bit of a breakdown on what happened with some of the mortgage brokers I rang.

Since the school holidays, we've had a total discipline breakdown. My daughter went to her grandparents for about a week, and then to her father's for a few days. It is fairly normal for her to be a horrible undisciplined brat expecting to be treated like a princess for a week or so after she visits her father for more than a few hours, but this time it has been different.