Sunday Morning Report

The weather continues to be sensational with cloudless blue skies and glorious days with temps in the low 20's.

Today will be another 22 degree day but a little windy with winds temperate from the south west. There is a thought we will have temps in the high 20's for a couple of days later this week. Two friends of ours from Melbourne are visiting the Sunshine Coast with other family members. Anne and Gordon Atkin popped in Friday after lunch for a quick hello. We hope to catch up with them when their commitments permit.

The guy is coming to rejuvenate the poolside pavers on Monday and expects the job to take several days. It will include applying more pigmentation and resealing. Firstly the pavers will be cleaned, then the new pigment applied and finally sealed. Each stage will take about a day.

Whilst cleaning up last night I noticed the hot water wasn't too hot. It looks like the heating element has gone in the hot water service so we will have cold showers till it is replaced. Hopefully it will be done on Monday. These things always happen over the weekend don't they!

Yesterday's Computer Club was again busy where I caught up with several people to help them out. One of the tutorial presenters was ill so I was asked to step into the breach and do a repeat of one of my tutorials. Later in the day we caught up with Kate, Arj and two of the grand kids James and Charli via Skype. We head down to Melbourne in a little over 2 weeks time for a fortnight.

My footy team suffered another loss on Friday night but the cricket from England has made up for any disappointment I may have suffered.

A Pleasant 24 Hours

We have just farewelled Graeme, a former colleague of mine from my days teaching back in Victoria. Graeme was in the area for a few weeks, he is in the process of selling a unit he has in Kingscliff and wanted to be onsite for negotiations. His mother lives in an accommodation place near the unit as well.

Kingscliff is under 200kms south of us so is a touch over 2 hour's drive. It was great to see him again. We enjoyed quite a few home brews yesterday afternoon before he headed back after lunch today.

Another glorious day with plenty of sunshine and temps in the low 20's.

The main PC is back from its service with a clean bill of health. I was advised to remove my firewall as it was most likely causing some programs not to load and open. I am now using the installed Windows Vista firewall as well as the inbuilt firewall in the modem/router. The 'Tech's' advice was that was all that was needed, going for a third installed firewall was only going to complicate things.

The Bank Robbery

Fortunately, all who read this are happily married so this joke doesn't relate to us .......

A guy charged into a bank today wearing a balaclava and wielding a gun.

He made people lie down while he stuffed money into his bag.

As he tried to leave one brave guy ran at him, failed to overpower him, but did pull his balaclava off. The robber shot him.

He then shouted 'did anyone else see my face' most people looked down at the floor but one guy looked at him, so the robber shot him as well.

He then shouted 'did anyone else see my face' and after a short silence a voice was heard from a far corner 'I think my missus got a glimpse.... "

Tuesday, 28 hours without my PC!

I dropped the main PC off at the repair shop yesterday morning with attached photos of what it had been doing. The guy at the shop seemed a bit gob smacked over some of the photos. It is in for a 'service' which includes a clean-up. PCs are well known for becoming dusty inside leading to breakdowns. The rest of the time there should be spent confirming what the problem is and confirming it is a hardware problem.

Sensational weather today, glorious sunny day with temps nudging mid 20's. So far I have done a 11k bike ride, bottled my most recent brew, mowed the lawns and cleaned the pool!

We have friends Gordon and Anne Atkin visiting the area beginning Friday for a week or so. They have family staying in Caloundra so we will only see a little of them. As Gordon is a Collingwood supporter, I guess we may see them Saturday night when Collingwood is on Pay TV in this part of Australia!

Another mate Graeme Williamson is visiting tomorrow afternoon and staying overnight. We will possibly sneak a few 'frothy tops" in I guess.

From The New Laptop

It has been a fun couple of days after the new laptop arrived. I got the chance to 'set it all up'. It is just about there now and so it is "Blog Test" time. This post is from the new laptop.

Setting it up has been a bit time consuming but a heap of fun. It is now a smaller version of the main PC which goes in tomorrow for a service. This is an excuse to ensure it is all clean inside and to check out my video problems. We will see if the video card is operating properly or not.

It was very busy for me at the Computer Club yesterday. About 6 people tackled me soon after I arrived and we did all things from getting photos from someone's mobile phone to advising on how to 'reformat' a laptop. Other people had problems with programs not doing what they wanted or emails not showing up properly. One guy wanted to know how he could email a section of an Excel document to his 'employers'. He was unaware of copy (Control C) and paste (Control V). He was delighted when he saw how easy it was.

We did a little movie swapping too. Pirate programs and anything illegal is strictly forbidden so this limits what I can tell people about.

Another exciting game of footy for me on TV yesterday with my team just getting over the line. Another one point game on Saturday night made for an exciting day's TV.

It is still lovely and sunny with temps reaching the low 20's. We only had 11mls of rain in July! According to the calendar the coldest part of the year is now over, but a chilly 6 or so this morning indicated we may have some more cool mornings still to come.