Quasi fibre cometh soon.

This green box is a node for the NBN optical fibre rollout, I think Ingham will be connected in October, this is 300 metres from our house and I think we'll be connected by copper to it, hopefully something cat6 or better but it should mean little difference for us as our DSL connection is pretty good and regardless of connection speed Australia's internet is clogged anyway during normal hours.
When it's connected it will bring forth a good excuse to finally terminate our old POTS phone and move to VOIP but that should mean losing our great phone number, something I've held onto for years as it's so easy to remember.

More artwork.

This frog has been in Tyto a bit longer than the Sunbird and seems to be surviving alright.
The wonderful Tyto viewing tower is in the background but it only opens during popular hours, oddly to me they have an unmarked smoking area next to the entry to the tower, due I suppose it being a very convenient place for smokers, a bit sad for people who want to use the tower though.

New artwork in Ingham.

I went for a wander at dawn this morning as Peter had told me about this new bit of metalwork, it shows a metal bird (possibly sunbird) taking nectar from a metal flower.
The idea's good, pity these things always come with an inflated price tag with an extra zero or two usually plonked on the right end of the price tag whenever there's a whiff of public funding money about.

A final repair for my mouse.

The left button on my mouse had become unreliable again so I swapped in a new switch from my goodies box.

This is the third replacement switch I've put into this cheap mouse but the copper tracks are now cactus so this will be the last repair for this lovely mouse that has been a joy to both use and look at for years, such a lovely colour as well as a good fit for my hand, and having a pointer that works nicely with my mouse mat, I'll miss it when it's gone despite it only costing a few dollars.

Snakes don't have legs.

Olivia took this pretty good photo of what she thought was a snake yesterday while we were out checking on how Grace was going.
Jimby would call it a lizard but he lives in a simple world.

It was a good do.

Sorry I'm very slack posting after Olivia's party, maybe the cold weather has curbed my activity.
It ended up a pretty good night and due to nobody writing down a list of songs they wanted to blast out on the karaoke I ended up hogging the microphone a bit too much due to me having put some songs that I knew onto the USB drive, thus they were all at least 45 years old, unlike most of the girls.

I even discovered I can almost do Roy Orbison stuff, what I lack in voice I can almost make up for in effort. My voice also has a great similarity with Frank Sinatra in that it's gone to Gowings at about the same age as Frank's did although he actually had one when younger.
This photo also shows some evidence that I suffer from dwarfism, much like the late great wrestler Andre the Giant I lack legs that are in proportion.

Warming up for tomorrow.

Soosie came over for a haircut today and them tested the karaoke setup we have for Olivia's and Lorna's party that we're having tomorrow, hopefully a few people will enjoy our meagre offering.

Soosie's (I always think of Bruce the Blowfly's girlfriend when I hear Susan, he was in a great TV show 30 years ago) daughter Kesha drew a photo of me, dunno what that stuff on my head is but the teeth are fairly accurate, crooked and about the right colour, a few too many though.