Hi Gary,

I think you are thinking of northern Australia which is constantly warm to hot & very hot. We live in southern Australia where the 4 seasons are quite distinct & I do enjoy them all. Trevor has cut a lot of wood & we now have a cheery fire going constantly which warms the house, night & day, & has also a place to cook on top & in the oven below.

I know what you mean about a break from too much chatting. Yes especially in your season there is so much to do. But I`m glad you can all get outside more as I remember when you were all talking about the pile up of snow & roads closed & you were all indoors for many days. We never have that here. (brrrrrr)


So when God brings up some more topics then we will be motivated to chat more. God bless & enjoy the sun, even if you are tidying up the garden. (I think those are sunglasses?)

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william wrote on Fri, 22 August 2014 16:43

Yep, I think we all have been on an extended 'coffee break'! On the books, I must confess to getting on the kindle bandwagon. You can take it anywhere and not just one but thousands! I've got an older model that has 3g access so anywhere I can get a cell connection, I can get to my books. The book of Job... now that's a good book to have on hand. It's said to be the oldest book in the world and even secular folks sing its praises. I only mention it because that's where I've been living for the last month or so (not having a Job type trial, mind you, just studying the book!) Blessings, William

Hi William,

Remember as a kid they use to tell us, don't set to close to the TV it will ruin your eyes. I don't know if you guys heard that one down there. But I remember adults telling us that when we were younger. In today's world kids are looking at a screen 24/7.

I definitely can see the advantage of not having to store volumes of books, after a while you run out of book cases to store them all, if your an avid reader it becomes a problem. We have a book store in town that sells hardback books for a dollar each. Over the last several months I've read over a dozen books I got there and now I'm stuck with all these books and no where to put them. I'd send them to James but he's probably already read them.

I can see the advantage of switching to reading on one of these devices. My problem now is I'm "Ipad, Kindle", illiterate. I don't know which device is best to use.

Does the device connect to the internet through wifi* and which is better color or black and white? I hear some people don't care for color and others swear by it. Also are you flooded with advertisements while using the kindle? While I'm at it, what is the difference between a kindle and an ipad, can both be used for just reading?

As you can see I don't know anything about all this. I can get kindle books on my laptop and I read a portion of a freebie recently but they wanted hard earned cash to finish the book.

I never have looked into this because I thought it was probably just a small laptop which I already have.

I do like all the technology.

I had a situation recently where I ran into a older German couple who barely could speak English. I have an app on my smart phone which translates any language, it will even write it out while speaking the language. Anyway I was able to talk to these people using the phone to translate and they could talk to me.

They got a kick out of it and was all smiles when they left. I have been impressed with what these phones are capable of doing on the other hand I think there deadly in a car because it becomes a distraction. Its very tempting to be playing with these while driving. I stand guilty on this.

Never got into Job much, the conversations with his friends always seemed very long and I would lose interest. It reminded me of the begats, who begat who.

Lord Bless,
Gary

*I know it connects to wifi but is there some separate fee you have to pay to use it?, is what I meant.

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