All Online Again!

At around 3:30 pm on Sunday the lights on the modem/router starting going berserk!  A minute or so later when things had settled down all the indicator lights were on and I was again connected to the internet!

It is only when the net isn't there that you (I) appreciate how much you depend on it.

The smart phone took over some of the duties and was able to keep me up to speed with most of my incoming emails.  The media player also needed the internet though it isn't a crucial part of its operation.

My internet radio on which I listen each morning and evening wasn't available either!

The phone uses wifi as its first port of call for all updates and data use etc.  Though the internet wasn't connected, we still had the local wifi network running.  It was therefore necessary to turn the phone's wifi "Off" so it could then use the data section of the mobile phone network and get emails and access the internet radio. With the phone's wifi left on, it was accessing the local network which didn't have internet access.

So it has been a busy week with my PC playing up during its start up earlier in the week and then when we lost the internet for almost 2 days. Right now, all is 100% again.

We enjoyed around 68mls of rain over the three days including the weekend.  That rainfall total exceeds what we would normally expect for all of August.  The wet weather cleared Sunday morning into a gorgeous sunny and warm day.  It was around 24 degrees.

But today Monday we have a strong wind warning and a blustery cold southerly is blowing.  Though pleasant enough out of the wind, the top temperature will be around 20 degrees.  The wind chill factor will make that feel somewhat cooler!

It wasn't pleasant enough to set out for a bike ride but I did deliver around 105 Newsletters though.  This took almost an hour and I managed a bit of a sweat up during the walk!

Arj sent a link to all their Week 2 KAUST photos on Flickr.  He wants people to be able to view the photos he wants to show but not his whole collection.  It is a matter of working out the "Permissions".  The link is now working again, click HERE. The whole experience appears most spectacular to those of us still here in Australia.  What a marvelous experience for them.

This is a link to some photos Kate has on Facebook.  I am not sure if they will work for you though if you don't have a Facebook account!  Click HERE. Now click on the photo to progress to the next one.  You can also read the caption/comments that goes with each photo.

The best way to keep up with them is via Facebook though!  So get to be a Facebook 'friend' of Arj and you will see most of the photos that way!