Update on Thursday.

When I looked outside at 3am the rain was gushing down the street like a river in full flood, but although there is a lot wrong with the roads and infrastructure of this town, one thing they have right is an excellent drainage scheme which very quickly takes away all the surface water, so when I looked out again at 7 the street was dry.

I am picking up the Kiwani donuts at the moment as I won't be here to take my turn next month.     The speaker was very interesting, she was talking about computers and technology in schools today.  Every school has a laptop trolley, which costs $30,000, and is wheeled into different classrooms as needed.  I wondered how a laptop on wheels could cost that much but apparently this trolley is also kitted out with all sorts of other high tech devices as well.  Even projecting transparencies on to a screen is old hat now, replaced by much more modern devices.

I felt so OLD.  When I went to school we just had paper and pens, blackboards and books, and how old fashioned that all seems now that kindergarten and first grade children are taught how to use i-Pads.

I was telling Fr Clark at Kiwanis that I don't know the difference between thunder and earthquakes, it sounded like a thunderstorm in the night but the noise seemed to be coming from right under the house.   He said that the walls move if it is an earthquake, which is true, I've had to go round straightening all the pictures when we've had one.  The worst earthquake was when my bed was bouncing around and Bubbles was swaying about on it, but on that occasion pictures actually fell off the walls.

After Kiwanis I went to Walmart for some shopping, and intended afterwards to go to Communion at Emmanuel, and lunch, but my virtually sleepless night caught up with me, and I was just too tired to go out again.   Spent the afternoon watching episodes of Wife Swap.

Was going to the movies tonight with Pattisue, but we've postponed it until next week, the weather forecast a freeze up, and I knew I'd still be tired.   We're going to see No 42, the true story of a guy breaking the colour barrier in major league baseball.    She's driving herself to Texas this weekend, I hope she'll be alright.