After last week’s cold and relentless rain, this week is turning out beautifully. It’s sunny and even a little warm. It feels like spring is arriving. Many flowers have been appearing already. Magnolias are in full bloom in many places, and some of the trees are even losing their flowers and showing new green foliage already. Cherry blossoms are out, and azaleas are appearing too.
However the Bureau of Meteorology tells us it’s all an illusion. They say next week will see four cold fronts in rapid succession, bringing possibly the coldest weather of the entire year and more rain. They’re even saying it might snow in places like Canberra, where it rarely happens. Also there will be gale force winds with possible destructive effects. But I’m enjoying this week’s warmth while it lasts.
I spent today working on a science lesson for an online class tomorrow. We’re going to do states of matter and a precipitation reaction, with epsom salts and washing soda.
I’m also struggling with two technical issues. For the past two days I’ve been trying to withdraw funds from PayPal into my bank account. I’ve done this many times in the past and never had any issues. But every time I try to do it since yesterday, PayPal has displayed an error message telling me I’m over my daily withdrawal limit. I didn’t even know they had a daily withdrawal limit. But no matter how low I make the amount, it still says I’m over the limit. So I can’t get any money out of PayPal at all.
Secondly, my wife recently got a new laptop, a MacBook Air. I’m trying to set it up to use my network backup drive as the Time Machine backup drive. I’ve followed all the instructions on apple.com to set up the drive as a shared network drive, with a user with read/write access, and I can connect to the drive from the new MacBook. But when I try to configure it as the Time Machine backup drive, it says it doesn’t have read/write permission to the drive, despite me connecting with my username and password (my username that does have read/write permission to that drive). I can’t figure out what’s wrong.
More pleasantly, here’s a photo of that waffle I had for lunch the other day:
Nice looking, isn’t it?
And here’s a photo I took today which I’ve annotated with all the new high-rise apartment construction going on in the neighbourhood.
This doesn’t show all the construction either. There’s more hidden behind the palm tree on the left. I’ll try to take another photo from a different location and show some of that too.