Waiting!

The weather yesterday (Mon) was a warm 25 degrees with the wind blowing in off the sea. Today will be a little chillier with the wind around to the south-west again and an expected top temp of 22 degrees. My ride this morning was a little on the brisk side.

I have two cousins, Garry and Phillip sons of my recently departed uncle in Canberra. I only caught up with Garry 8 years ago when we were on our 8 month caravan trip. Garry and Marie live around 160k's north of us. Garry is a year or so older than me while Phil is a couple of years younger. Both have lived 'hard' lives.

For a while they worked together as roof tilers in Darwin.

Currently the younger cousin Phil is in Intensive Care at Monash hospital in Melbourne. Phil's organs have shut down following an operation he had on the weekend and he isn't doing well. Every time the phone rings I prepare for the worst and think about jumping online to grab tickets to fly down to Melbourne.

This meant yesterday was extremely busy getting a week's chores out of the way in case I have to drop everything suddenly and 'go'.

Our local Community association has been busy the last day or so and now as President I am in the thick of all of the action. Great day yesterday as we had a couple of 'wins'. All the news from BeCA is HERE.

Today saw me off to Centrelink to sort out a couple of minor issues seeing now I am a "Pensioner". Trish's work as a Street Walker (Census Collector) means I have to inform centrelink that she is doing some work.

I will continue to sit back and wait for the phone to ring!

MyP2P

Had an interesting situation Sunday afternoon here. At our place AFL footy takes over on the weekend. Most weekends we get all games on either PayTV or Free To Air (FTA). Every now and again we have a problem with the Sunday mid afternoon game shown on local Channel 7.

Here in Queensland all Brisbane and Gold Coast games are shown, usually live and on FTA TV. Sometimes this means we have the Brisbane game on PayTV as well as FTA TV as was the case today. We missed all TV coverage of the Hawthorn Vs North Melbourne game.

But today it wasn't a problem, we visited the MyP2P website (HERE) From the home page you click on the "Live Sports" tab at the top and then on to "Other". We found the Hawthorn Vs North Melbourne match there and watched it live on Trish's laptop while we kept an eye on other games on PayTV.

We found if we watched the 750kbps links the laptop suffered a little bit of a problem with buffering or possibly problems processing the video (the laptop only has onboard graphics and not a separate Graphics Card).

However when we dropped it back to 500kbps the stream came through 100% clearly and with little problem even in 'full-screen'.

For some of the 'links' you have to download some software, usually a 'player' to handle a certain type of video stream. Sopcast and Veetle are a couple I have had to download and install on my PC. The link tells you what program you need. Some links don't require any additional software. The link page asks if you want to download and install the software. After doing so, you reload the website link and watch your sport!

MyP2P is a great link to store in your Bookmarks/Favorites!

Friday morning was supposed to be fine with a few showers late in the afternoon. Needless to say we got 4mls Friday morning as the photo shows. With the diverter from the rain spout being diverted into the pool it had a bit of a lift as far as the water level is concerned.

A few beers with friends in the afternoon set up the night to watch the footy on TV. Trish completed her Census Form deliveries on Friday so now it wait and see till Census night on Tuesday. Then the big job comes collecting them all!

Saturday morning was busy but not hectic at the Computer Club. I managed to help out a lot but was never stressed so I had a line of people waiting for help.

My footy team had another huge win on Saturday.

Sunday there is some warmth in the air. For the first time I didn't reach straight for the Track Suit trousers, a pair of shorts were comfortable enough. There is more footy to come on TV today so that should fill it all in OK. It is forecast for possible storms this afternoon but it looks excellent right now.

I have a cousin who is in hospital in Melbourne undergoing surgery. Things could be better so we will keep our fingers crossed that everything goes to plan.

A Great Day

I have been kept extra busy by the Community Association website the last day or so. There is always something to update on the site or to change. We get emails about cats using someones front yard as a toilet, or a neighbour who parks across a driveway type things sent to us. This isn't our role. I have updated the "Contact Us" page on the website to direct people to the online Service Request form at the local council who do this sort of stuff.

Click on the screenshot for a larger view

Trish did some more Census Form deliveries after Stitchers yesterday then I had a Community Meeting at 4 pm to get to. I seemed to sleep pretty well last night.

Today I was again updating the website with a report on last night's meeting. I slipped in a 13 k bike ride as well and gave the pool filter a good clean.

Trish is at the Tourist Info Centre this morning and hopes to do another two hours of Census Form deliveries later on.

Tonight she has "Trivia" and I have an AFL on TV night on my own! I will enjoy a couple of quiet 'frothy tops'. I have another brew to put on tomorrow morning!

Pres Les

Kim got away OK on Sunday, she flew out at around 7 pm and was back at her place in St Kilda before 11 pm.

Airfares have gone up a lot since Tiger stopped flying here. Tiger are due back in the air later this week and we are ready to 'pounce' on any cheap fares which may crop up when things get back to normal. If we miss out then so be it, we will just wait a bit and head down south a little later.

Trish did census deliveries all Monday. She was pretty exhausted when she arrived home. Then it was for me to head off to a Community Association Meeting where I was elected President. It was a great night with over 50 residents there, about the most ever. One guy did a presentation on the future of the Caloundra Airport. He showed slides of the flight paths helicopters are expected to take and people in the audience just laughed at him. He went on to say aircraft movements are expected to double over the next 20 years and he was in even more trouble.

Then the developers Stockland had a presentation on their new 700 household development. They had a better reception.

Overall it was a great night and the people there loved it.

Today It was time to re do the BeCA Website, swap email addresses around and update details. Most of it is now done.

Trish did another 80 or so census deliveries and she has broken the back of it now. I went to the 'new' secretary's home and helped set up the BeCA laptop with email account, connect to the internet home netwrok and get the printer running.

Then it was back home and update the BeCA website.

We had a ring from "Cardinia Waters" Retirement Villa's saying our reserved Villa would be ready mid November. Trish has said she didn't want to do that and we should reconsider the reservation and let it slide.

Sensational weather right now with days getting towards the mid 20 degree mark. Just delightful weather!