I did not get a chance to do any exercise today, due to the weather. I could have used the treadmill, but I decided against it. So I decided to mow the lawns. I have been wanting to do them for a few days, but I have been waiting for good weather. And the conditions this afternoon were atually quite good. With the breeze things were quite nice.

There is a bit of a saga in getting the lawns mown. Firstly, I was having some issues getting the lawnmower started. I almost got it started when the starting cord broke. It took about five minutes to find a rope of the right type and size in the garage… I had given up by the time I found it. So then I needed to replace the cord… It took about 10-15 minutes to replace the starting cord once I found the rope. During this time my next door neighbour [an ambulance driver] came home and saw that I was preparing to mow the lawns and asked if I needed to be taken to the psychiatric ward for mowing in the heat. The thing is that it was not that hot. I would guess it was in the low 20’s.

After all this it took a few minutes to get the motor started… It would catch and then just stop. I think it was some contaminated fuel. So then it finally started working properly. The lawns probably took me 45 minutes or so… I did a quick job, on the basis that I will need to do it again in a week or two…

I like the cordless phone… It has a hands free unit which is really cool… I have used that already. The only big issue with the unit is that the LCD is mostly black when the backlight is not lit which is a pain. You cannot see what the phone is doing unless you press a key. I would have preferred to have the LCD around the other way… I might need to fix this. The other thing I noticed is that there is a series of about 5-6 holes with gold contacts on the phone and the base station… I guess that this is actually for reprogramming the handset… Cute idea…