Busy, Busy, Busy!

The hot water service has been replaced.  They electrician arrived to check out the possible blown heating element and found the problem was a little larger.  It seams there was a leaking seal which must have been going for some time.

Many of the interior parts around the heating element were rusty and eventually the flow of moisture built up so there was a major short circuit 'blowing' the unit.  The photo gives a hint of the trouble. It looks reasonably OK in the photo but the rust damage inside was just too much.

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In an attempt to remove one of the rusted bolts so the unit could be repaired the bolt broke off.  And that was prior to him attempting to undo the rusted bolts!

There was nothing more to do than get a replacement.which was delivered around lunchtime on Tuesday.  The plumber fitted the new unit before the electrician came back to wire it all up.

The shower was lovely and warm this morning though!

On Monday I had received a call from the the company from whom I had purchased the laptop online.  He was wanting to confirm the delivery address.  According to the 'tracking' advice I was given the laptop was collected just after lunch on Monday around 20k's south of Brisbane and was delivered to our home by mid morning Tuesday.

I was in my element!  A new Windows 8 laptop to setup.  It is all done now (by lunchtime Wednesday) and ready for Trish to use.  She will keep me informed on any further software she may still need.  The old laptop will stay setup for the time being until we are sure the new one is OK and we don't need any important files from it.

The new laptop did a huge update to its Windows 8 and then late on Tuesday afternoon it did another huge update to Windows 8.1. The move to Windows 8.1 took several hours.  The download was enormous, I would guess well over 3GB.  You wouldn't want to be on 2GB download a month plan and have a laptop upgrade to Windows 8.1!

We continue to get top temps around 25 to 27.  It is just sensational (and above average).

It is the first "State Of Origin" Rugby League game tonight and we are around to friends for drinks and watch the game.  Trish flies to Melbourne for 5 nights tomorrow. I am staying home and have footy on 4 of the 5 nights.  The 5th night is a Community Association Public Meeting.  We are having a Wine Tasting after the meeting hoping to get a few extras along.