St Mary's Kangaroo pt

This morning Phoebe and I went to church at St Mary's Kangaroo pt. What a lovely experience. They seem to be able to smoothly integrate current identity ideas with traditional Anglican rituals in a way that, in my view, would make everyone feel welcome. 

 

There were two times when inclusivity was mentioned: 

1. firstly the fellow did what I thought was a very nice little commentary about welcoming everyone including those of different sexual orientation or identity, different race or just difference. He went on to talk about not just welcoming people but to listen to them. It was done in a very benign matterofact way that I don't recall much of the detail. I just liked it.

2. Secondly, in the lead up to communion he said everyone is welcome to take communion. 

 

This acceptance of the new was balanced by saying that they should be proud of Anglican tradition and he explained an old Anglican tradition of the priest breaking some of the bread he was about to consume in the communion service and dropping it in the wine.  He noted with a grin that no one has been back washing. 

 

I liked the old world stone and lightness of the blue roof in the sanctuary area.

A view of the entrance. On a sunny day like today it's very peaceful. The city is over my left shoulder.

Outdoor morning tea included coffee, chocolate slice And very refreshing egg sandwiches. The city is in the background.

Foresight by the architect, designing presumably in the 1800's. To thoughtfully include these ledges on the buttresses.

Round the back, actually the front. A bell tower, a wall of plaques of deceased parishioners and some benches to relax.

Zoom in to see dates in the 1800's

Cirque du soleil Kooza

https://www.cirquedusoleil.com

Cirque du soleil

As Phoebe and I drove home from the Gold Coast, she received a call from her Nephew offering 3 free tickets to Cirque du soleil.  

Initial thought was to invite her kids as her eldest's birthday is next week.  No takers. Decided to invite friends Robin and Chris. They accepted. That was great.  It's so nice sharing an experience with interesting friends. 

We met at Robin's house at 5pm and shared a drink. 

Shared my car with the intention to cruise racecourse road Hamilton and find a restaurant. Choose the Hamilton hotel.  It was loud with excitement as people had gathered to watch the AFL grand final and Brisbane had won.

Interestingly Phoebe and I both ordered a burger and beer. One of us commented that it had been a while since they'd had a burger and the other said a burger is associated with a pub meal. Maybe we've grown into each other. 

Onto Cirque du soleil and we parked outside on the road pointing east. I wanted to avoid the $20 parking charge. 

On the way in we posed for a photo infront of a sign.

Inside, on my part,  a mix of feelings:  on the one hand a wow factor associated with three strength and skill of the performers. 

The staging was great.  Some wow factor with a three level construction with performer entrance at the bottom, live musicians in the middle and occasional performers appearing on the top level. 

A few negatives that I felt detracted.

Cirque du soleil pitch themselves as top shelf as distinct from those old tired travelling circuses that set up in a suburban parks. 

In the end though the show was a series of discrete acrobatic performances by skilled people.

AND or? BUT

The chairs were plastic, 

A bit too narrow,

packed too close both side-side and also 

minimal space to the row in front.

The AC was too cold and blew on the back of my head. It would have been great on a hot daytime performance but not at night. 

They had swanky VIP rooms visible on the way in but inside it felt like VIPs sat on the same squashed plastic seats. I thought they should have had some kind of swanky seating. Maybe like a corporate box.

The performances were ok but I felt the production lacked the wow factor support such as was a part of the magic show I went to with Daniel. (The incredibles?)

Music and lights were subdued and maybe add a master of ceremonies(ring master haha).  The MC could also have helped to tell the story that strings the various performances together. 

Parkrun

Main Beach parkrun results for event #750. Your time was 00:38:31.

I'm getting slower. 

Had to take a few short walks.

Fixing up my Thinkpad

 PREVIOUS SETUPS

https://thomsoneu.blogspot.com/2024/09/setting-up-x1-thinkpad.html

https://thomsoneu.blogspot.com/2024/04/setting-up-t490s.html 

ISSUES:
Thunderbird is not compact view. 
Thunderbird not on the task bar.
No Classic / Open Shell

1. Re DOWNLOAD  FREEWARE - NINITE.COM
Download and install
Firefox, Chrome, 7-Zip, Putty, Classic Start, WinSCP, Notepad++
VLC, K-Lite Codecs, Thunderbird, Foxit Reader,Open Shell

2. Restart

3. OPEN SHELL
Right click>Setting>Replace Start Button

4. FIREFOX
Home screen is MRP->my blog
It says "Your browser is being managed by your organization".
I was able to find the location where my blog was listed and drag it up to make it first priority
BUT it keeps making a new tab rather than just opening home.  For another day.

SCREEN HUNTER
https://www.wisdom-soft.com
https://www.wisdom-soft.com/downloads/downloadfiles.htm
Free version but I at some time in the past paid $US19.95 for 5 licences 

ONE DRIVE 
In the end, I had to log into work one drive and then add the personal one drive.  This was done by 
Open OneDrive Settings: 
Click the OneDrive cloud icon (usually a blue icon for work) in your system tray down by the clock.
Go to the Account tab in the window that pops up.
Click the Add an account button.
Enter your personal Microsoft email address and complete the sign-in prompts.

5. THUNDERBIRD
Not on task bar - 
Press the Windows Key and type Thunderbird.
Right-click the app result and select Pin to taskbar.
View is not compact:
Click the Layout icon (three horizontal lines) in the top-right corner of the email client, just below the close button.Select Table View from the menu. This changes the multi-line card layout into a traditional single-line, compact list.
No Signature
Tools>Account Settings
  in the signature text box in the middle of the window,
     Tick "Use HTML"
     Paste from onedrive>syndetic>Email Signature Block.html

Remove Threaded Display
   View>Sort By>Unthreaded

Put signature below my reply
Tools>Account Settings>Composition and Addressing
    🗸 Compose in HTML
    🗸 Automaticallyu quote the original message when replying
        when quoting, start my reply above the quote
          and place my signature below my reply (avove the quote)
    🗸  Include signature for replies
    🗸  Include signature for forwards.

ONE DRIVE 

I try Personal but as soon as I click it, I get an error

OK lets go back.

 

 So I selected Work or school account and gettjis

 

 

Mags poo'd in the house.

Two big puddles of poo. Could be vomit but we suspect direah.

Gloves.  Wiped / soaked up with toilet paper. Sloshed lots of disinfectant around. 

Monday night men

Monday night we used the public BBQ at Gold Mine Picnic Area at Mt Cootha.

We was

1Chris

2Frank

3Steve

4Rob

5David

6Paul

7Tom

SHOPPING $70

I'll bring

-Mince patties x 12

-Lettuce

-Tomatoe

-Cucumber 

-Beetroot

-Cheese

-Bread white and multi grain.

-Tomatoe sauce

-Bbq sauce

-Butter

-Paper towels.

-Paper plates

-Paper Cups

-Light + string.

-Rubbish bag.

Bottle of Red,

2 bottles sparkling water.

Cutting board

Serrated knife

2 ordinary knives to spread butter. 

Tongs

Barbiemate 

Others brought:

Chips,  cheese, more wine and sparking water. Chocolate. 

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2 each mince patties was tonnes.  Mags got at least 3.

Almost no white bread eaten.  

The multi grain was all but 1 or 2 slices eaten. So it's the go for next time. 

Dave brought two of his blow up lights and Chris brought a wonderful big light

Straddie

STRADBROKE Plan

5:00 Alarm

5:30 depart 45 drive

6:30 park

6:45 Ferry 

Toondah Harbour, Cleveland 

I awoke at 4:55 and made a coffee to help the others start their engines.

Just after 5:30 we were on our way. At Cleveland, we found a council car park near the Sealink terminal. 

Mags was very nervous.  Shaking. I took her up on top but hard to get a photo of her.  Chatted to a carpenter apprentice Xavier.

Phoebe's brother Picked us up. It's a dual cab with a capsule on the back. Mags had to be in there on her own. I kept her on a long rope so she couldn't eat the native wild life. 

We walked the 100m to the beach. Slept on the sand. Walked into the sea up to my knees. 

Lovely lunch of chicken and salad in the back yard.