Some Holiday Pictures

I dug up some pics and have reduced them in size so people on non broadband connections can look.. Don’t know who that would be though - M and I did actually take photo’s but these ones are all mine, except the copper mine one.

Old house in Murray Bridge

Church in the Claire Valley

Hahndorf Lutheran Church, 20 mins south of Adelaide

Sir Donald Bradman Rose

Sir Donald Bradman, with the catherdral in the background

Hill in the Barossa Valley

Old building in Hahndorf

Copper mine long view

The funniest thing about South Australia was that they didn’t keep alot of old buildings in the country areas.. so when M and I travelled 200kms to look at an historical site, we weren’t too impressed when all we found was some trees and small bits of rubble, with some bricks stacked and a metal plate on top of it, telling us that the ruins were historical…

Musings..

The alarm sets off and I wake, fuzzy at first, reaching blindly to turn the damn thing off. I lie snuggled under the sheets for a little longer before slipping out of them. Quickly and quietly I shower and dress and make my way into the kitchen. The kettle goes on and I rummage around for a clean google mug, faded due to bad quality and dishwashing and fill it with the required amount of coffee, sugar and milk. The kettle boils and I slowly pour the water, watching it all blend and stir slowly before putting the spoon in the sink and moving towards the office. I am cold sitting in the pale sunlit room, waiting for the day to warm up. The leaves limply hung from leaves as the morning dew still lay heavily on their surface. It’s quiet, the clacking of the small water fountain in the corner fills the air. The computer boots up and beeps lazily, the screen lights up and the harddrive whirs. Sighing deeply I sip my hot coffee, steaming writhes upwards and wait for the computer to finish waking up before reaching forward and beginning my day.

That’s what I do everyday. I feel like I live alone sometimes

Uranium Mine Accident/Safety Breach in KaKaDu, Northern Territory

Yes I have put this up in big bold letters because this matter is very serious. A few years ago the government broke a promise that there would be no new Uranium mines opened in Australia. It seems as though they were thinking of the revenue, and not really much about our contribution to the Nuclear industry around the world, where we have dirty bombs and unstable governments with nuclear capability.

I was listening to Parliament question time, in the Senate and heard something very disturbing that occurred at this mine - Workers were contaminated by waste water, which had quite a high content of uranium waste, when the waste water was somehow hooked up to the drinking water. They were exposed to 400 times the safety limit in radiation permitted at this mine, and the problem was not detected for 12 hours. Workers complained about the taste of the water, and then began to feel sick. The mine was then shut down and evacuated, with a clean up taking place. According to the Senator asking questions, the mine has had more than 100 incidences of contamination occur, and they believe the mine should be shut down, and the company ERA should be fined heavily. Of course, the govt. is seeking legal advice, and won’t condemn the company for its safety breach.

You can read the news story here, it doesn’t quite say the same thing as what I heard in question time, which isn’t that surprising really.

What disturbs me, is that really the other 100 contamination breaches haven’t really made the news or public interest. Kakadu is a world heritage listed park, with a uranium mine in it. You would think that it is in the public interest to have this investigated thoroughly and perhaps have the mine closed.

I found this joke on the net when i was doing my usual “I am bored” thing.

A Norwegian took a trip to Fargo, North Dakota. While in a bar, an Indian on the next stool spoke to the Norwegian in a friendly manner.
“Look,” he said, “let’s have a little game. I’ll ask you a riddle. If you can answer it, I’ll buy you a drink. If you can’t then you buy me one. OK?”

“Ja, dat sounds purty good,” said the Norwegian.

The Indian said, “My father and mother had one child. It wasn’t my brother. It wasn’t my sister. Who was it?”

The Norwegian scratched his head and finally said, “I give up. Who vas it?”

“It was ME,” chortled the Indian.

So the Norwegian paid for the drinks.

Back in Sioux Falls the Norwegian went into the bar and spotted one of his cronies.

“Sven,” he said, “I got a game. If you can answer a question, I’ll buy you a drink. If you can’t, you have to buy me vun. Fair enough?”

“Fair enough,” said Sven.

“Ok,” the Norwegian said, “my father and mudder had vun child. It vasn’t my brudder. It vasn’t my sister. Who vas it?”

“Search me,” said Sven. “I give up, who vas it?”

The Norwegian burst out, “It vas some Indian up in Fargo, North Dakota!”

Also updating links for my blog. I found a few friends who live in perth who have blogs/live journals which don’t look too live journally.. not that I think LJ is bad, it’s what got me blogging in the first place, but still.. it’s too easy i guess Now we have 3 more W.Aussies added. I am thinking about lunch, and actually how bad my back actually aches today. I need someone to walk on it for me. I don’t usually get backpain.

It’s hot today and I am listening to Angry music. I like angry music. It makes me less angry and more energetic. I did take some gurana today so I can assume that bad things will happen to me like energetic and stuff.

I will have to knuckle down this afternoon and do some statistics work, once one of my friends gets online I won’t be doing anymore I think, cuz I just won’t want to! Then its gasbagging big time.

Weekend was good, had dinner with the parents at the Red Turban, which is in Cannington/Kenwick border on Albany Highway. They cook the nicest food. Mum and dad really enjoyed it, so we will have to go back there with them again some time. Saturday was ok until M told me some stuff about the business which then has left me feeling stressed out about our future as far as the business goes, but he’s going to sort something out. More trust issues than anything else and someone elses’ apparent lack of ethics.

Went for coffee with friends in the afternoon on saturday which made me feel heaps better, and found out a friend and her partner have broken up, again. I think it’s for good this time. I have to say, there is something wrong with a grown man always siding with his parents and not being understanding. Everyone else i know, is ok with their partners wanting to avoid in-laws, its like an unwritten law of unsingleness. Not this guy.

K well I have started this lite’n'easy diet thing today so I can get some regular meals and regular times and structure my life around it. I have some weight that needs to be removed, and I need to start eating properly! That means, eating breakfast lunch and dinner. I tend not to eat 3 meals a day, usually 1 sometimes 2 and that isn’t doing my metabolism any good! I have been trying to get hold of my sister so we can arrange times for her help me with some stuff, but she’s not returning my calls, altho she has been really busy.. So i’ll pin her down on the weekend..

House issues: Well M’s brother has managed to lose the bond we paid for, for the house he rented a year. We paid the rent technically aswell, he didn’t contribute anything, and now the bond is gone, and we also must pay another 300 dollars for extra work that needed to be done. I feel really angry about this. I can’t vent to M because he has no interest in listening to me about it, but I feel so frustrated and I just want to yell at W and tell him what I really think about him. Our house inspection was great, the agent is happy with the work we’ve been putting into the yard and house in general. Apparently the new gardner is going to do an audit of plants, rip out the deadish ones and put new ones in. I was hoping we can get nice lavender lining the back fence.. That would smell gorgeous in spring and summer, so when we see him next we will ask!

Work: Well we had staff meeting today and it was ok, except S. seemed to be taking over alot of the meeting, leaving me sitting there with not alot to say and once again, me needing to rush through items because time was getting away. S had alot to say about BK stuff which did annoy me, he’s not the manager - I am and I just don’t feel like getting into a turfwar. C is going away in May. The CEO of where i work has decided that somehow the ticket system will mean that we can lose a couple of staff. Sure - so somehow tickets will mysteriously answer themselves? I feel a little like my job is in danger. S will make sure that he has all his bases covered, I feel like I will be left hanging in the wind. I just hope C will get more work for us. It’s irritating, but some of the staff have issues with working 2 sites, they seem to think 18 dollars an hour isnt enough?! it is for me, I wish I was being paid 18 dollars an hour. *sigh*

I also can’t work at the moment because the ADSL is up and down intermittently so when it’s up next, this post will be sent in, and I can’t work cuz the connection is going up and down faster than a hooker on a busy night in a brothel.

Meh @ today.

Mental note:

Do not take these tests when I am hormonal.

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This is how things are with work at the moment..

We’re doing our best ladies and gentlemen to fix the problem!!!