I have just taken my mother to the hospital for a six monthly checkup for her cancer. Thankfully that went really well. The oncologist was really thorough and does not want to see her for another six months which is fantastic. She said that if it was going to come back then it probably would have by no. So some really great news there! The cancer treatment centre is actually quite nice, and the staff and volunteers there really care. Simple things like offering you a coffee, and things like that.

I did take my laptop with me but I did not get a chance to do much. They were running on time and by the time I had it turned on I needed to shut it down. I did get a chance to compare the SierraWireless GPRS card with my Vodafone one. The SierraWireless one worked so much better – I actually got a connection with it. The Vodafone one would not connect at all. This is despite the fact that I was sharing a SIM card between them. I suspect that this is mostly drivers rather than hardware differences – I will need to have a better look though.

I dropped in at the shopping centre on the way home – and I was really good. I picked up a single book, and it was only $2.50. It was marked at $5 on special, and there was a 50% off computer books in the Angus and Robertson clearence centre. It was a book about language and how it has been affected by the internet. Might be a graduation present for my mother when she finally gets her degree.