Back To The Mundane Stuff

The photo to the left shows the first bit of sunshine we have seen here on the Sunshine Coast for several days.  Despite it being  wet on and off over the last 8 or so days, I did get a fair bit of bike riding in knocking over around 70k's in between any wet mornings last week.

However with the recent downpour, especially over the weekend which saw us receive over 180mls (or over 7"), the bike has been put well away.  All told we have received almost 10" (238mls to be exact) since the previous weekend.  A strong wind is accompanying the rain which is whipping up huge seas at all the closed local beaches.

So to see some blue sky this morning is a bit of a change.  We've been sitting around 20° over the last 3 or 4 days while Melbourne has been up to a balmy 28°.

We have gone from a 'below average rainfall' 2018 to an 'on average rainfall' year in the matter of 8 days or so. With the sun out just now between the showers, you can really feel its warmth telling us summer isn't too far away.  Give me 30 minutes of that sunshine and the towels on the line will be dry!

So what else is new.  All of our computers 'played up' after a recent Windows Update.  Fortunately a restart on most occasions eventually managed to 'fix' things.  Bill over the road turned his PC on and he appeared to have lost everything, it was as if his PC had just been reformatted.

I reinstalled the stuff he wanted so he could get up and running again when I eventually worked out that his PC had just created a new startup 'profile'.  I found his old profile with his favorite settings, shortcuts and all his photos and downloads so just copy pasted that to the current 'new profile' and hopefully all should be fine again.

My Computer did the exactly the same thing but everything returned to normal with an immediate restart.

Mr NBN is still to be connected at our place.  We are getting are getting a Fibre to the Curb (FTTC) connection and it seems each FTTC customer is timetabled as to when they will be connected. FTTC requires an extra piece of hardware which of course had to be delivered.  It's the small white box in this photo left.  Ours arrived on Friday and our FTTC connection goes through sometime on Wednesday this week, around 48 hours away as I type.

The larger box on its side is the new modem/router while the larger black box on the left is my 4TB Seagate Cloud Drive.

Again the guy over the road had his connection go through late last week and he is with the same company as I am.  After getting connected and now on a 50MB speed internet plan he clocked a download rate over 47Mb.  He is delighted!

The bottom of the range but extremely handy Dyson stick vacuum we have has been great for smaller cleaning up jobs around the house.  However the 'trigger' sticks and at times keeps on cutting out making it a pain to use.  With an online 20% off sale at a local Electrical store we bought a Bosch stick vacuum to take its place.  It isn't quite as portable and light to use as the Dyson but is more like a heavier 'real' vacuum cleaner.  And it is heaps more powerful though much heavier than the Dyson ever was.

But at 2/3 the price of the Dyson, the Bosh Stick vacuum is just perfect for our smaller house.

The Community Association celebrated its 10th Anniversary on Saturday night.  We had a subsidized meal and a great night.  All the current Management Committee (and most partners) were there but only 1 or the 'original' team came along.  Kerry loved the night and had a great time.

 Trish is mulling over the idea of taking over the Presidency of the Arts Centre Association.  She has completed her allowable terms as Secretary and has to resign later this year.  Needless to say she is keen to see who offers to take on the Secretary role in the new setup prior to making any commitment re the presidency.

So that is all our news, bits of this and bits of that.  I can hear again now my hearing aid has been repaired again.

All we need now is for the sun to stay out and dry everything up.  Some showers are predicted for each of the next few days, fortunately the forecast is for 'showers decreasing'.  We can only hope so!

Roll on Wednesday!