pmccarthy

Back to filling my day in lockdown. The weather here in Victoria is really getting us down. I don't know if it is the longest, coldest, wettest winter ever, but it feels like it. I guess partly because we usually get away for at least a couple of weeks in the middle, but being resticted to country Victoria there is little point. Just a couple of years ago we had a heatwave in September, nothing like that now. So I think many people are now quite depressed and have lost interest in life. I have lots of projects waiting in the shed but i stay inside by the wood fire until 10am, reading or watching stupid Youtube videos. Then maybe try to achieve something but am easily put off. I dismantled something yesterday and ordered a part on line and now will have to wait a week or two before I can put it back together. I can hardly face the shed and don't want to start another job. The wind is howling, nothing can be done in the yard. On line connections have become important. If I send an email and don't get a reply, it upsets me as there is no other contact with people. I am going through old work diaries, typing out summaries so I can throw the old diaries out without losing too much history. I am finding dates of family events that I can now tie back to old photographs. But this upsets me too, as it tells of a time that life was so different.

There were flu epidemics in the 1880s and 1890s that ripped through Australia killing people too.

We have a saltwater pool, maintenance is not to bad, and the grandkids love it. They used to come around a lot in summer when it was legal to do so. our most useless household object is a butchers block in the kitchen. It came out of a butchery, I restored it, and it has never been used. The kitchen was designed around it.

Way back when, we used to justify buying FlameThrowers to mount on the roo bar so we wouldnt be "driving into our headlights" when the roo appeared.

Is she one of those leggy blondes who ride their bicycles bolt upright across the Vasabrond? Give her your money.

Loved our Beagle and never thought I could subsequently love a dog with stick up ears, but our Bull Terrier has won our hearts in the last eight years.

Aero engines and wartime. What a great example of evolution under extreme natural selection.

On our mother's family's farm we shared the bath water, which was brown and six inches deep. At home we got more depth and clear water.

We had one the same and ripped it out, now have a normal one. It used too much water.

You are looking for a fight there Facthuntr. My 1968 beetle was a gem, took me across Australia and back and all over. 1500 motor with disc brakes up front. 68mph maximum and cruising speed. But I admit, noisy when it was hot and you had to wind the window down.

I agree, have wept over dogs in the past. I have never had any other animals. Condolences.

Like many of Australia’s ACORN-SAT weather stations, the site at Townsville airport was set-up in 1939 as an Aeradio office for monitoring air-traffic and to provide advice of inclement weather along the east coast route between Melbourne and Port Moresby. Changes in facilities, instruments and functions caused the site to move irregularly; however, moves and changes prior to December 1994 were not detailed in ACORN-SAT or site-summary metadata. Despite repeated assurances in peer-reviewed publications written by Bureau climate scientists and others, that the history of ACORN-SAT sites had been exhaustively researched and appropriate adjustments had been made for the effect of site changes on data, it was not the case at Cairns and neither is it true for Townsville. As there is no measurable change or warming in temperature data for Townsville Airport, claims of catastrophic consequences for the Great Barrier Reef are unfounded in the temperature data and, as a consequence, are grossly overstated. For further reading on the problems with BOM data, see https://www.bomwatch.com.au/

To get the vax certificate I have to link my Medicare card to my credit card. Have never done that before and it doesn’t make sense to me.

Better than that coz they don’t pay income tax, the discount is more like 30-40%.

When you are working with machinery, imperial units are very precise once you know that the whole machine was built to 1/16 inch tolerances. So once you measure, you know exactly what the original size was. In metric you get some odd mm measurement from the worn part and are none the wiser.

Tonight I am with SWMBO who is watching the grand final with great attention, while I am on the iPad. I got my first pair of footy boots when I was nine, but we moved towns and the new school banned aluminium stops on the boots. My parents refused to pay for leather stops, so I had to watch my friends play. When we moved again, the new school played Aussie Rules and not Rugby, and I didn’t understand it. I resolved to never, ever, ever, watch football again and I have been successful at that for 57 years so far. My brain just turns off when anything to do with the “game” happens. I would rather watch a video of seals being clubbed to death.

Depends what you write in them.

Acting is the operative word.

The Pit and the Pendulum, a short story by Edgar Allan Poe.

Scientists say quake probably caused by tectonic pressure from NZ. Bloody Jacinta again!

The archaeologist overcame his dyslexia and got a degree, but spent the last three years digging up a Viking shit burial.

Good luck with it Jerry

Newcastle NSW was a biggie.

You blokes can sure dish it out.

Thank you Fliteright. As a result of your post I discovered that my computer clock is five minutes fast. The time synchronisation was turned off! Now I know why I am always first to join Zoom meetings!