Sunday, May 06, 2007

Caravanning Friends From Victoria

I am pleased to tell you my networking problems have been solved. I can now swap files between the two computers and all seems to be operating reasonably well. A few small hiccups to work out but we will soon see about those. I recently set up a new 'toy' so I could wirelessly send Pay TV signals from the lounge room into the "office" where the new router modem lives. It seems the signal channel was the same as that trying to use the Wireless Network. I swapped the channel on the AV sender and now all things seem to be working OK. I still have to work out how to share the printer and to get the security enforced on the network.

We have known Irene and Russell from our Hampton Park days for years. They have recently joined the caravanning fraternity and are having a 2 month trip to check out the caravanning lifestyle. Cooler wet weather down south saw them arrive here in Queensland a few days ago earlier than expected. Irene's sister now lives in Brisbane so they are enjoying the sights of Brisbane for the last few days. I drove down to catch up with Russell recently while Irene was investigating some of the shops around the city.

2000k's in less than a week towing the van to get here now sees them enjoying a much slower lifestyle. They expect to move on to Caloundra early next week. The weather here has been unseasonably warm and dry with temps in the high 20's all week.

Trish is enjoying her "Nanna" in Melbourne and is due to fly home on Wednesday.

We have both got cheap flights down to Melbourne via the internet which will allow me to get to some of the AFL finals. They work out to be under $60 one way for one person. It is always cheaper to fly mid week when there seem to be more specials available.

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