Yes, I Am Still Here!

It has been a hectic few days since I last posted on the blog.

Thursday was spent watching cricket again at Maroochydore. It was a later start than usual for John and me as we had a little recovering to do from the 20/20 matches the night before. But as usual the cricket was fantastic. Though this photo is from the previous day, you will notice John suffers from sunburn so he needs to take extraordinary steps to keep the harmful sun's rays at bay.

John who is now retired is beginning to take an interest in movies which can be downloaded from the internet. He is not a computer savvy person but with this new found interest, he sees computers as a problem to be overcome. Any spare minute we had was spent going over how to download movies, what software you need and then how to show them. After spending about $320 John walked away from JB Hi Fi with a 1 terabyte external hard disk drive and a WD TV Media Player. Time was then spent (whenever possible) either copying movies across from my storage drives or going through the software and how it all worked. It has been a massive learning curve for him.

Then there was stuff to do with photos, saving email attachments and other skills attached to using a PC. He was a smart learner! He will use my site at http://movieshowto.50webs.com/index.html to help him out. We have been through it all numerous times now.

Friday night was another 20/20 match again at Caloundra while Saturday turned out to be a movies/computer day! Sunday's cricket match was cancelled so again we worked on movies. Later that afternoon (photo above left) we went to Paul and Linda's home for a meal and to watch the N.R.L. Grand Final. Tony and Angela were there too and we all had a fantastic night. Linda and Paul cooked up some sausages and mash along with onion gravy and mushy peas. It was great. Again we either ate or drank too much!

Finally it was Monday, the day of John's flight back to Melbourne at 5;15 that night. After a glorious lunch at Buderim Tavern we dropped John at the airport a little early but with plenty of time to spare. However the plane was delayed and left well after 10pm. With Daylight Saving now in the southern states John didn't get to his bed at home till 3 in the morning!

I rang him this morning at about 11 am, he was jsut out of bed steadily saving attached photos from emails he had stored for over 6 years because he did not know how to do it.

Trish has gone to Brisbane with Betty again today!