The
preliminary sorting out, cleaning through, & repacking of the van
was thought about today! It is a week till Elaine & Geoff return
from their Birdsville Big Bash & outback Queensland trip. There
isn't much to do cleaning-wise as we only had 1 night in the van on
the way from Arding. But I did manage to do a bit of clothes &
book culling.
In
the afternoon I headed to Lakewood to meet another orchid enthusiast. It turns out he is a friend of Richard, who I met at the beginning of
our stay here. He thinks I have probably seen all the likely
flowering orchids in this area, but gave me some suggestions of
places to try when we head south next week.
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| These brightly coloured & chatty little Rainbow Lorikeets were everywhere |
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Amongst the noisy Rainbow Lorikeet I spotted this Scaly-breasted Lorikeet
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| This large lace Monitor (at least a metre in length) climbed up a small skinny tree to get away from us |
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| Look at those claws... |
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| Surfing Dolphins |
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| Australian or Nankeen Kestral |
HE SAID:
I took it fairly easy today, just doing a few very minor things in anticipation of our departure next week. But, I am thrilled that today is the 8th anniversary of my finishing work and taking a redundancy package, which has allowed us this amazing opportunity to see our great, huge, country! Still happy!
But by far the longest time spent on one task today was the bloody internet, or what some may call "Malcolm Turnbull's complete stuffing up of a good idea" a.k.a The NBN. The problem may not be directly related to Malcolm's completely ignoramus-ly botching a bloody good idea, but venting in his direction still seems appropriate.
Last night the internet dropped out just after dinner. I did the usual troubleshooting: restart the modem, check cable connections, check online (using my phone) for outages, reset the modem etc, but no luck. There was no improvement overnight so I did the troubleshooting again, but to no avail. So I asked a neighbour if their internet was working, and it was! That meant to me that the problem was just us. Bugger.
So I got onto Telstra online chat and spent almost an hour going through their very slow version of what I had already done, and they determined that it was the modem. So, they said that someone from the specialised team will call. And they did, but I wasted more time telling the specialist bloke the correct version of events, then spent even longer avoiding his efforts to sign me up to a Platinum Technician Service. In the end, same as the online chat bloke, he said he will have a modem sent to the house.
The funny thing, for me, is that after nearly 24 hours of no service the damned modem connected to the internet by itself. I knew that this could happen, but my suspicions are more along the lines of "someone has complained, so I had their service checked, and we had stuffed something up".
I took it fairly easy today, just doing a few very minor things in anticipation of our departure next week. But, I am thrilled that today is the 8th anniversary of my finishing work and taking a redundancy package, which has allowed us this amazing opportunity to see our great, huge, country! Still happy!
But by far the longest time spent on one task today was the bloody internet, or what some may call "Malcolm Turnbull's complete stuffing up of a good idea" a.k.a The NBN. The problem may not be directly related to Malcolm's completely ignoramus-ly botching a bloody good idea, but venting in his direction still seems appropriate.
Last night the internet dropped out just after dinner. I did the usual troubleshooting: restart the modem, check cable connections, check online (using my phone) for outages, reset the modem etc, but no luck. There was no improvement overnight so I did the troubleshooting again, but to no avail. So I asked a neighbour if their internet was working, and it was! That meant to me that the problem was just us. Bugger.
So I got onto Telstra online chat and spent almost an hour going through their very slow version of what I had already done, and they determined that it was the modem. So, they said that someone from the specialised team will call. And they did, but I wasted more time telling the specialist bloke the correct version of events, then spent even longer avoiding his efforts to sign me up to a Platinum Technician Service. In the end, same as the online chat bloke, he said he will have a modem sent to the house.
The funny thing, for me, is that after nearly 24 hours of no service the damned modem connected to the internet by itself. I knew that this could happen, but my suspicions are more along the lines of "someone has complained, so I had their service checked, and we had stuffed something up".
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