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Friday, 17 August 2007

I do believe it was just the other day that I was whining about the reliablity and performance of the Toshiba notebook that I was using. Sure enough, it died last night and now refuses to boot up. It's still under warrantly and as far as I'm concerned, they can replace or refund the damned thing. Either way that'll take a week or two and that just won't do. So I've bought another PC (the event of which is a story in itself) that is clearly a much better machine. This laptop is an ASUS model and the only thing I don't like about it is the fact that it's running Vista, which I despise. I really couldn't be bothered reinstalling windows again though so I'm going to trim as much of the fluffy fat as possible and try and make do with it.

Oh, there is something else I really don't like about this machine is that it doesn't support the standard PC card, which is what my wireless card was. So I've had to upgrade my wireless card as well. I did get great prices on both, but it was still a $1800 kick to the budget.

On the way there I stumbled upon a Tackle World store in Kawana and having never encountered them before, decided to step in and have a chat. I was really very impressed with this shop, both in product line up and price. The service was good to - not only did I walk out of there with a bag-full of Mackeral-ready tackle, I also got some great tips on where I might find some thumper Trevelly.

Originally my plan was to leave Calloundra on Saturday but the more I hear and read about this place, the more I think I haven't yet seen and done enough here. For a bunch of reasons I've only had one trip out here so far (look for that report tonight) but I know there's plenty of kayak fishing opportunities yet to explore.