Well, i got home safe last night. I waited until the wind died down, checked the cfa and vicroads sites to make sure that the Redesdale fire hadn't come too close to the Hwy, and set off about 1am. It was quite eerie. The roads were pretty much deserted, except for the flashing orange fire warning signs, which began about Gisborne and were placed ( Read more... )

Fires going in my area:

Redesdale - grassfire - going - small - 4 tankers
edit: ended up being a 10000 hectare blaze that destroyed 12 houses and an unknown number of sheds. Contained as of Tues morning.

Quarry Hill Bendigo - wildfire - going - spot - 7 tankers
edit: turned into a large fire that destroyed 57 houses, over 100 sheds and killed one ( Read more... )

I've been spending the last couple of days in Melb - it's been lovely and coolish until today. Now it is 40+ degrees (predicted to get to 44) and i am holed up in E's house with Maxie, listening to the wind howling about outside and wondering if i'm going to get blown off the road on the way home. I sincerely hope that this is the last 40 degree ( Read more... )

No cool change for us it seems. D:

Fri 24-44
Sat 25-42
Sun 21-39
Mon 22-38

Now pls excuse me while i go and crawl underneath my rock again

Happy Chinese new year to everyone btw. :)

Can you eat too much fruit? Because at the moment that seems to be pretty much my entire diet, as far as solid food goes anyway. (in ambient temperature that exceeds one's own body temp, it seems that minimum digestion is called for!) Today it was:

a punnet of frozen raspberries
half a pinapple
5 nectarines
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I am so not looking forward to the week ahead... 40+ degrees until Sunday at the least! This is not going to help my already tending-towards-nocturnal habits.

Well. I had a birthday on the weekend, and it was a great deal of fun! Friday/Saturday was spent with Crystalseraph, talking and sleeping and marvelling over cooked vegetarian breakfasts and ( Read more... )

Just started week 2 of the plan. All is going well, although my left wrist ached a bit when i was doing my sets last night. Just an old injury playing up i think, but i should keep my eye on it i suppose.

Anyway, these have been my sets for the last week:

16/1 - 10, 12, 8, 8, 22(max)
18/1 - 11, 15, 9, 10, 20(max)
21/1 - 14, 14, 10, 10, 20(max)

One ( Read more... )

Had an interesting discussion with A tonight. I was upset, and she said, "yeah, well, you've been depressed for quite some time now." And when she said it, i realised how true it was. It explains my lack of resilience, not going to training, the crap memory, the dodgy sleeping patterns. I've just tried to paper it over with keeping myself busy, but ( Read more... )

Oh no! D: crystalseraph  is really quite unwell... from his symptoms (rebound pain in lower right quadrent, fever etc), it sounds like appendicitus. Thankfully the lovely riotqueerfemme  came to the rescue on her dashing white charger (ok, ok, in her beaten-up station wagon!) and carted him off to hospital. Phew! Last i heard, he was being triaged, but that was about an hour ( Read more... )

Tris scratched my face last night, the bugger. >:-( He was desperate to get out and go fighting/hunting but i wouldn't let him, so he resorted to tearing round the house all big eyed, and having battles to the death with corners of the carpet. I ignored him, until he came up to me whilst i was reading in bed and yowled most demandingly. As i turned ( Read more... )