Dream a little dream

Gidday.

Well it appears that our internet may be here to stay, it has been at least 2 days and it is still operational, so touch wood we are now in the clear for a while.

Very humid here today, it absolutely bucketed down for 15 mins or so in the morning and that has the effect of making the air very damp. 86% humidity. I have great problems walking outside, as my glasses instantly steam up. It's not so bad if you are outside constantly, but if you are in the aircon air in the car or workshop it's pretty noticeable when you go outside. If you open the windows of the car while driving with the aircon on (which is always is of course) you can see the water droplets condensing in the aircon blast, it's quite cool to watch.

If your working out in the humidity (which today I was) you are pretty much wet the whole time, you are wasting your time trying to stay dry. You just have to drink water and be happy. You have to be careful because when you move electronic gear (radios, laptops, etc) from aircon to anywhere that isn't (when it's humid like today) the device condenses and doesn't work very well. You have to acclimatise it slowly. All new learning.

The other downside of rain is mozzies. They like to breed and exist quite well in damp conditions... usually there is one or two around, but it is impossible to get to our car from our front door without encountering.... about 500. You ply the repellent and swat away but to no avail, the little bastards manage to bite you. One landed on my top and I watched him for a while before squashing him as flat as a pancake. They are quite crafty, the sit there and use their front legs to push their spiky snout into your skin. I never know when I'm getting bitten, apparently they inject a local anaesthetic so you can't feel it before they steal your blood.
The biting isn't the bad thing, and I can probably afford to lose a bit of blood,but you have to watch for the nastys like dengue fever which are a bit of a threat here. That can knock you on your back for 6 months, so it's not very cool.

They have declared it a bit of a problem so the council are going to go around fogging. This basically involves them going around with a loudspeaker saying "everyone get indoors" and then they drive a big spray truck around fogging the entire neighbourhood with mozzie poison. Sounds like a good plan to me, anything to knock the beggers down.

Spent today installing yet more interactive whiteboards to schools, I'm starting to dream about the ruddy things. I had spent a fair while running back and forward to a particular classroom and installing this thing, and finally got it going and was about to leave when the teacher goes: "oh by the way, be careful walking around out there, we saw a brown snake out there a few hours back and we are not too sure where he went".

Thanks for that, could probably have done with that info a few hours back when I was busy taking shortcuts through the gardens and sandpits...

We live and we learn I guess. Unless you get bitten by a snake that is.

Right, I better go and do some dishes, that's one advantage with only having two plates, two bowls, etc. It means if you don't do the dishes, you don't eat. And if you don't eat, you die. So it's good incentive to do the dishes.

TTFN