Thanks and perhaps your right :) At least time seems to ticking by OK even if I no longer have anything locked to it.
Cheers, Steve On 25/02/2011, Rob Kimberley <[email protected]> wrote: > Glad to hear you are safe Steve - Time Nuts wouldn't quite be the same > without you! > Good luck down there mate. > > Rob > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Steve Rooke > Sent: 24 February 2011 10:13 AM > To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement > Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Earthquake meets time ball > > Many thanks, I appreciate your kind thoughts. If your any good at fixing > power, water, sewerage and can get the ADSL up on my newly re-connected > phone line, as dial-up is really boring, I'd welcome that with open arms. I > do have a petrol generator now but getting it was a real bun-fight and I was > lucky to grab one off the trailer as they were being delivered to the > hardware store. Believe me they went like hot cakes. Getting petrol was a > case of queuing for ages miles down the road just to be rationed to $50 > worth of fuel for the car and the jerry-can to run the generator. Wish I had > my old Land Rover right now as you practically need a 4x4 to drive on the > roads around here. But we are coping ok and there is a great spirit here > with many people dragging their bbqs into the streets and cooking up their > meat from the freezer and offering to all who come by as it's going off in > their freezers. There's a artesian well-head in a local school that is > overflowing as the power is off and is cannot be controlled, and I can get > to it on foot with bottles I can fill by holding them under the running > water. All this water needs to be boiled and I'm lucky that I bought a > propane gas little cooking hob last time we had a quake so I'm able to do > that and heat up food. It's just like camping here as you have to dig a hole > in the garden for the number 1's and 2's too. > It's OK, we are surviving and it'll all sort itself out eventually. > > Sorry for this OT post. > > Cheers, Steve > > On 24/02/2011, Poul-Henning Kamp <[email protected]> wrote: >> In message >> <[email protected]>, >> Stev >> e Rooke writes: >> >> Keep smiling Steve, and let us know if we can do anything for you. >> >> -- >> Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 >> [email protected] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 >> FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe >> Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by > incompetence. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to >> https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts >> and follow the instructions there. >> > > > -- > Steve Rooke - ZL3TUV & G8KVD > The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once. > - Einstein > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe, go to > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. > > > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe, go to > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. > -- Steve Rooke - ZL3TUV & G8KVD The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once. - Einstein _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
