120mls later (or about 5")

The rain has departed the Sunny Coast after dropping a total of 120mls over a couple of days with 61mls falling Friday and overnight into Saturday morning.  The remaining 60mls fell over the other days. Some areas of the Gold Coast (250k's south of us) received 250mls in 24 hours.

This amount of rain over an extended time isn't a problem for us so we have escaped virtually unscathed.  We are now left with a howling southerly wind.  This is great for drying stuff out a little but not good for top temperatures.  We will struggle to the the top of the teens today!

Computer Club was real quiet yesterday with only around 20 die hards making the effort to get along after all the rain.  So there was time for a good chat about things and for some one on one help from the Club President who is a fully authorized Microsoft Technician.

The footy yesterday (Saturday) was quite nerve wracking for both of us but both teams came out of the day with wins.

After a few responses to questions I had asked online, it appears a Seagate Cloud Wireless Network drive (pic above) is not the way for me to go right now when you consider what I already have.  File transfer across the network is hampered by the speed of any wireless network, wireless computer connections are well known to be considerably slower than a 'hard wired' or Ethernet connection.  I can share files wirelessly at around 7 mb per second.  A USB connection can share at around 80mb per second!

And the Android TV box does not share files quickly at all, usually it is well under 2mb per second.

I have rejigged my hard drives around the place a little and have improved the setup just a little.

All up I have 3 external hard drives connected to the main PC, one of them is connected to the WD Media Player, another to the new Android TV Box and Trish has her own portable drive to back up her files.  So to add another 3TB networked wireless drive to the setup we had would not have been a good economical decision.

I can keep copies of backups easily from my PC and Trish backs up her files as well.  For all intents and purposes, the 1TB portable drive attached to the WDTV media player in the lounge can act as 1TB Network Drive as it is always on and always connected to the wireless network.

The bottle washing was completed by 9 am this morning and I will bottle tomorrow. The rest of the time will be spent indoors cuddling up against the colder winds blowing outside.