Vireya's Blog

In an attempt to move a library book away from a potential danger this morning, I managed to knock my laptop to the floor. It isn't happ...

A few days ago we used up our monthly internet data allowance. When that happens we get "speed limited" for the rest of the month ...

Meet my new best friends: Hearing aids! They are sitting in their charger, where they spend the night. I've had them since Tuesday, ...

Warning: Do not do this!  It is not legal in this state. The GPS has to be attached to the car. My new GPS has a window mount, but the win...

The company building our local wind farm arranged a bus tour of the work so far, plus the opportunity to get close to one of the turbines. ...

Two weeks ago we went to look at progress on the Lal Lal wind farm (which is not actually in Lal Lal, but a few kms on either side of us). T...

Today at Sit and Sew, one of the other quilters showed us a purchase she had made at the Craft and Quilt Show: A finger light! I didn...

Welcome home to my trusty Elna Lotus! It has been out of action since the 29th of March - nearly 8 weeks. The problem wasn't in the f...

Meet "Creepy"; an Aldi special this week. Tool or toy? I don't normally name machines, but this little guy seemed to need o...

I ordered myself a new phone a couple of weeks ago. My old one wasn't capable of running apps I need, such as the Vic Emergency app whic...

A couple of weeks ago I mentioned that my Kobo had stopped working, and then that it had been revived. Unfortunately the revival didn't ...

Yesterday I drove my Sweet16 to Geelong to be serviced. On my way my windscreen was hit by a stone thrown by a passing truck. There was a lo...

This week I've been working on my mystery quilt, which I still can't blog details of. It is getting close to the end, though. I...

Apparently I have walked over 42km since Tuesday : That "Earned on" at the bottom is wrong. The fitbit must be working on US ti...

My replacement tracking device arrived today. It is a Fitbit Zip. So here is the last reading on my Vivofit, showing the little plus sign th...

Yesterday the "10,000"s figure on my Vivofit stopped working. A couple of weeks back I suggested that once that happened the devi...

Today I finished stitching down the binding on this UFO from 2014: Bonnie Hunter's mystery, "Grand Illusion". Another finis...

For the last couple of days, I've been fascinated by the Wildlife Spotting website. It is set up to allow members of the public to assi...

Trying out these after a hearing test today: At first they were very weird, as I could hear the air travelling through my nose, and the s...

A couple of days ago there was a software update applied my Garmin Vivofit, and it seems to have changed the way time spent on different act...