Tropical Downpour

This morning the sun made an appearance in the sky and was visible from the balcony outside lil bro's office where I am sitting starting this post. The balcony is about 12'x12' and I know now that it faces North towards Jakarta, this means that the volcano which has yet to reveal itself from beneath the cloud cover lies to the South of our location. The sun did not last long and by lunchtime clouds filled the sky and were an ominous dark grey/black in colour.

As we left the house this afternoon the heavens opened and for five minutes it felt like we were driving through the bottom of Niagara Falls. The rain eased off after that to merely heavy but with much better visibility (IE we could see where we were going) and we had the joy of watching some lightening strikes in the distance as we headed up the road to collect the kids from school.

On the way back me and the kids got dropped off at an internet cafe 5 mins drive from the house so that they could play games and I could get something faster than dial up to make a few posts and do some long neglected blog rounds.

Pretty good deal on the price here – less than £1 for two hours access, connection seems to be running at 34 Mbps which is respectable. Spoke too soon after 10 mins I lost Internet access through the wireless and it took another 50 mins to get a 100 Mbps LAN connection working – did not help that the first guy did not have any English but even at the end of ot we were not sure how we fixed it.