Well done, Cadel Evans.

Congratulations on your Tour de France win.

Watching you, live, at the start of your victory lap into Paris.

Update: Cadel is riding with a glass of champagne in his hand. lol.

10.30pm - Live Westminster.

Watching the coverage of the Phone Hacking Inquiry on CNN Live

.

Former Met Commissioner Stephenson resigned

on Sunday and is currently being questioned.

Fox News has same telecast.

Ok, enough back to watching the Tour de France road race.

Nearly four months after part of my bedroom ceiling collapse from a slow water leak, it has finally been repaired. The plasterer came about a 3 weeks ago and cut out the damaged section and installed a plasterboard to ceiling.

A week ago the painter arrived to paint entire ceiling with an oil-based paint and I still have a paint smell in the room -have used fans, left bucket of water to absorb the fumes and have sprayed room deodoriser to try and get rid of the smell of the paint and the room still smells of new paint. My son, Michael (a painter :-) suggests I put a heater in there as he tells me oil-based paint needs to harden before the smell diffusers.

I'm back, again.

$AU150 later, nice shiny virus protector software and being told by computer repairer that my computer jumped straight onto the net when it was connected in their shop but of course they had to do lots of expensive diagnostic stuff to see why it wasn't connecting. *scream* .

I got my machine back home and naturally it wouldn't connect so back to the shop to see it once again jump onto the net. I went home etc etc. Today a couple of etc later rang internet provider. again and a nice Indian accented man called Reggie listened to my tale of woe, he asked me to go to my login page for internet access and disconnect and reconnect, type in my password and username.

We have ignition, Reggie.

You are a marvel and other superlatives.

WooHoo.

Good thing: Back on the Net

Bad thing: $AU150 poorer.

I'm back.

Though using my brother's computer.

I had problems with connecting to the internet (broadband) so whined to my provider and they sent me out a new modem after spending over an hour with their tech support and still not being able to get on the net. New modem worked fine but problem with network card (oops) :-x. My netbook is now at the repairers while they figure out what the problem is. Loose/unconnected card... Maybe.

Anway, a big thank you to Telstra tech support for your patience, you are now on my favourites list and thanks for the shiny and new modem now sitting on my desk waiting to be used. Hopefully by this weekend.