All Go Again!

I was doing some texting yesterday on Community Association business and mentioned to one person that my internet was down.  She said her son had experienced internet problems that morning too.  Then on a call regarding the Community Association upcoming newsletter I was told their internet was out that morning as well!

I went and checked my own modem/router and saw the internet light was on again and we were once again 'connected'!  So all is go again online! The internet was off for around 3 hours altogether.

It is extremely tropical here this morning.  The humidity is so high you can see it in the atmosphere like a very light fog up against the end of the street.

Hopefully it won't take much to 'ignite' the atmosphere and for us to get a heavy thunderstorm and give everything yet another good watering.  There are 'possible' storms for us 100k's north of Brisbane, while Brisbane itself and the Gold Coast further south have 'probable' storms in their forecast.

I am supposed to be re formatting a neighbour's PC this afternoon.  If all goes well it is a few hours work.  If things don't go well it could be 36 hours!  Hopefully it will be the former rather than the latter!

If all goes OK we will get the reformatting done, Office 2007 installed as well as Firefox and Thunderbird.  That should be enough to see them through until I can get the other stuff installed over the next few days.

People also do not realise the amount of updating the PC will want to do to get everything up to date.  The Computer is about 4 years old so it will need 4 years of Windows 7 updates!

Trish drove the 'old' car the other day and the radio, the dash clock no longer work and there is a red warning light on the dash saying one of the doors is still open.  I took the car to our local repair guy and he suggested I really needed an Auto Electrician.

We were offered $200 for the old car as a trade in some time ago.  Despite its low value, 6 months ago Trish drove it back from Melbourne (almost 2000k's) and it didn't miss a beat!  It will cost around $50 just for the "Auto Elec" to have a look at it and tell us what is wrong!

Where do we draw the line and say no, enough is enough?.  The car still runs beautifully, starts first go and runs on the smell of an oily rag!  How much should we spend to have these problems 'fixed'?