After a good nights sleep, I was feeling better, and was hungry.  So we packed up and found somewhere else in town for breakfast.  It was then back to the geek shop to buy a couple of video cards to try to fix the display problem with the other two touch screen computers.

Brett spent the day updating their data in Sportskeep, while I took much longer than it should have been to fix the display resolution.  I also had to go and buy a couple of USB cables from JB, at the rip off price of $20 each – glad we’re charging them for it!  Eventually I managed to get things going using just one of the video cards, and one of the USB cables.  So that was good.

I did some training with them, and we left the stadium about 6.30.  On the way back to the hotel I gave Robbo a call, who happened to be at the casino with his family (who were up visiting).  I had been hoping to catch up with them while I was up, but was just too busy the whole time.  Luckily we got there as they were getting in their car, so we had a chat in the car park before they had to leave.

Brett and I got changed and walked in to town for a nice dinner and then a bit of a pub crawl, which was great.  A night out was just what was needed!  We had planned to stay up for 4 days so we would have some time to see Townsville, but little problems prevented that.

When we got back, we went in to the casino to try our luck.  It was the smallest casino I had ever been in!  Unfortunately I didn’t make anything on the Roulette wheel.  Finally we went to our room to watch some TV.  We were a bit peckish so ordered room service for a midnight snack.

We had breakfast in town this morning – bacon and eggs on toast.  So that filled us up!

We pulled in to the geek shop on the way again, to replace another network switch I had found during the previous day, with a gigabit switch.  By the time I started looking at things and tracing cables, I found I didn’t have to use it, which was good.  The wireless tablets freed up a couple of their points, so that worked well.

We went to the shopping centre and I got a fruit salad for lunch.  I was starting to feel pretty dehydrated and thought the fruit would be good for me.  However not long after finishing I was feeling crook, and ended up vomiting it all back up.  This had me feeling better, but drained, and it was a hard afternoon for working.

I had problems with screen resolutions attempting to re-use their old hardware for the Player Login screens.  The night only had Cricket so we didn’t see a need to stay there too long, as that is quite simple.  So after the second game had started, we left them to it – still with just the one Player Login screen.

Back at the hotel, I pretty much went straight to bed to try to get a good nights sleep and recover.

Breakfast was had at the hotel restaurant.  Again, nothing fantastic – just your usual cooked breakfast.

I found a geek shop wholesaler on line, so sent them my details to become a customer, so I could buy hardware to put in Townsville.  They were on the way to the stadium, so very conveniently located.  Everything was out there and ready for me to just pay for – excellent service with a smile!  We replaced the 16 port switch, an 8 port switch, ADSL Modem / router and got a wireless access point, as I didn’t trust their old Sportsoft crap.

Out at the stadium we started the whole setup / configuration process.  It was a long day.  We had a break for lunch, at the shopping centre up the road.  When I wanted a drink during the afternoon, the owner of the stadium charged me for it, which had me pretty pissed off, considering all the extra stuff we are doing out here for no charge.  By the time the night started we had 1 player login screen running, 2 Datascore tablets, and 3 of their old crappy computers operating with Datascore (they originally had Sportsoft, and had been moved to Spawtz a while ago).

We stayed for most of the night.  The Indoor Cricket umpires were fine on the new tablets.  The netball was generally OK – a couple of hiccups, but nothing too difficult, and a lot of it is them understanding the new system.  We picked up a pizza on the way home for dinner.

We left the house at 6.00 in the morning, to get to the airport nice and early.  One of our bags was overweight, but the new airline policy means they no longer look at combined weight – it’s weight per bag.  So we had bags weighing 23, 22 and 26 Kg, and the signs weighed 14kg.  Even though we had bought 4x23kg bags, we had to pay excess baggage of $40!  On the plus side, she gave us exit row seats for the flight, so we didn’t argue.

We had a relaxed breakfast at the airport.  It was good to sit down before an early morning flight and eat for a change!  We then flew out to Brisbane, where I caught up on emails from the morning and we had a cold drink.  After an hour or so, we boarded our flight to Townsville, eating a snack en route.

We (somehow) managed to get all of our bags into our little Hyundai Getz.  Luckily we had a 4 door model or we would’ve been up the creek!  We asked for an upgrade, but they didn’t have anything else there.  So in the beautiful 27 degrees, we drove to Jupiters Casino – our hotel for the next 4 nights.

Once we checked in and admired our room, we decided to go out to the stadium and see what we were in for.  We walked around and assessed their hardware and networking, and mentally formulated a plan of attack.  From speaking to a couple of people, it seemed there were 2 faulty touch screens, but their other hardware seemed to be OK.  So we went back to the hotel.

We had dinner at the restaurant in the Casino.  It wasn’t anything great – they had a buffet with lots of King Prawns, but they weren’t fantastic.  After dinner we went to the room and watched TV over a couple of drinks.

Well, after dinner I went to Brett’s house, to get ready for our next trip.  This was quite a big one, and it took a bit of packing to get the 10 tablets and 12 phones, plus 10 big signs and tools all packed, whilst keeping all 3 bags under 23kg.