Paul's 50th cruse

Things I remember

Before departure I'd thought it was going to be really boring. I figured I'd spend my days lying on the chaise lounge beside the pool.  Turns out there was too much to do.  They give you these little pieces of paper to write your daily plan on.   In the end I had to write "sit beside pool and chill" on my daily planner. 

Chris BGS Pre Formal

Travel Insurance

Turns out our credit card does not have travel insurance associated with it.  My recollection is that these days most credit card travel insurances only cover international so I suspect we kind of ignored that in exchange for low fees.

The main contender is the QBE multi trip insurance and apart from the medical evac on this trip the other handy feature is the rental car excess of about $4k.  This saves about $30/day when hiring a car so it does not take too many work trips to make a significant saving.

QBE Single Trip $143.91

Annual Multi Trip 
QBE            incl USA  $965.25+ $468 Snow =$1433
QBE            ex USA    $580.91 +$468Snow  =$1048
QBE via Qantas incl USA  $675    +$500Snow  =$1175  Excess unknown
QBE via TUH     ex USA   $451.82  $364Snow  = $815  $200 Excess  
QBE via TUH    inc USA   $750   + $364Snow  = $1114 $200 Excess 

Ah a new consideration.
Can a second adult on the same policy travel independently and be covered?
QBE        - YES
QBE Qantas - NO  <- br="" surprising="">
QBE TUH    - YES
Conversation reference: 1100685318

P1 Campfire cooking 2016

Friday Night.  P1 is now grade 6 (Used to be Gr7).  I'm organising the campfire cooking.  The leaders have not been particularly communicative and I'm not sure if I am alerting the fire brigade or if I'm buying the ingredients.

Had a look on google for the Hangi Hotline.  Cant find any reference on google.

Qld Fire & Rescue “Hungi Hotline” 1800 017 029 – to notify of campfire.

Risk Matrix


Camp Fire

Perceived Risk	Likelihood of occurrence	Severity of Consequences (IF it happens)	Action being undertaken to minimise risks and consequences
Person falls into fire	LOW	HIGH	Prevention - Warn kids no mucking around or running or fighting near the fire.  Enforce this!
Burn hand or leg from touching something hot or hot coals on ground	MEDIUM	LOW	Prevention - Warn them of hot coals and embers.  Show them the bucket of cold water and instruct them to dunk burned bits in it. First Aid - Bucket of cold water nearby.
Burn or poked eye from kids playing with fire sticks	LOW	HIGH	Prevention - Warn kids - no fire sticks.  Enforce this.
Something else catches fire.  (Building or neighbours garden for example)	LOW	HIGH	Prevention - The fire is several meters from anything else and the ground around the fire is mowed green grass. Water available in the unlikely event that the grass starts to burn. Fire not so large as to present a risk to other structures.
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Installing Tascam US-122 on Windows 10

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/1649-73-install-tascam-window


1.  Note:No drivers for win 8 or 10
2 Driver down load is http://tascam.com/product/us-122/downloads/
3 Down load US122_Win_3.40f.zip
4 unzip it
5 Disconnect the US-122 from the computer.
6 Right click, select properties, click the compatibility mode box, choose Windows Vista (service pack 2).
7 Double click it.  Click the usual acceptances.  Note the dialog with "finish" came up directly under one of the earlier ones.  The only way I could find to click the finish button was to use Alt-Tab.
8 Plug in the US-122
9 Plug in a mic
10 Run Audacity & try out.

This is what the device driver shows when the US-122 is plugged in without the driver program being run.
















Right click, select properties, click the compatibility mode box, choose Windows Vista (service pack 2)

After driver has been installed it shows up under Audio inputs and outputs.

Flashpoint 28-8-2016 Luke 14:7-14

I'll take this as Luke 14:1-14
From 1-7 Jesus is challenging people about the rule of "don't work on the Sabbath"  He talks about retrieving animals that have fallen down wells and healing sick people and doing it because it has to be done.
7-14 has a story about being invited to a dinner and a warning not to sit at the bast place near the guest of honour because you may be embarrassed if asked to move for someone of a higher stature.
The warning is that those who big note themselves will be humbled and vis versa.  It concludes with an encouragement to invite those who can not repay you.

OK so what do we distill this down to for the kids.

Do be humble.

Samsung S5 movie files

PROBLEM
I could not find and copy video files off my Samsung S5 to my Windows 10 PC.

INVESTIGATION
Going to my files>Videos
tap and hold.  observe green tick.
Click the three vertical dots at the top right.   This opens a screen called "Details"
Path
/storage/emulated/0/DCIM/Camera/20160283_095822.mp4
I could not on my windows machine find this directory anywhere.

SOLUTION
When the phone is connected to the PC, change the USB connection mode to "Media Device". 
This is done by connecting the phone to the PC,
Slide finger down from the top.
Observe "Connected as a Camera"
Tap it and change to "Connect as Media device (MTP)"
Now the video files show up in the same directory as the still images.  Where they were not visible when it was connected as a camera.