Tuesday, October 28, 2003
Eating Insectsyup, i eat one and a half the other day.
by choice.
a witchity grub. they are moth larvae, and live in the roots of the witchity bush.
they tasted like quiche.
i could quite happily eat a whole plate of them.
Red sky in the morning.... watch out the farms on fire. again
yesterday was going to be a good day. was going to get a job, put my cv in etc.
CAME DOWN HERE TO DO SOME BLOG UPDATES AND bloody caps key is on then left the library. as i came out the library, the sky was red. DUST STORM! wow, cool i thought. the whole sky was red! was like being on mars (i guess). red ground, red sky. cool...well, hot. the storms winds were boiling and the temp was 41 degrees yesterday.
i go back home, get changed into a shirt and a smart pair of shorts , and battle my way up to HR to put my CV in. by the time i get there im covered in red dust, but im not deterred.
i go in, hand it in, and go back to the bar and have a beer.
then someone comes charging in and says that people are being evacuated. again. for the second time in 3 days.
so we all try and go back to our rooms to get our stuff but are told we cant and are hearded to a hotel in the resort.
absolute pandemonium. all the holiday makeers are being shipped out to the airport on buses, noone knows whats going on. stories from "ahh, nothins happenin" to " the whole of staff housing has burnt down" are going round like wildfire.
we eventually get evacuated to the airport. the road is gridlocked! in the dessert! hilarious.
you can see where the fire has swept through next to the road, as it started near the airport.
awesome.
4 hours at the airport. dust everywhere. its boiling hot.
so we had a beer. ( me and this girl, called , wait for it, MAX FOX. coolest name i ever heard.)
4 hours later we get back on the bus and go home.
i go for a quick beer. im knackered, so i go home to bed. i fall asleep about 8pm.
i wake up at midnight, turn the light on, and ....NOTHIN.
i try another light......NOTHIN!
i get a drink. No water......
i go to the front door. theres noone anywhere. no noise. nuthin.
im thinkiing...shit...the power stations gone up in flames as has the water plant. SHIT!
im thinkiing.....everyones been evacuated again and theyve missed me.
so , im hurrying, trying to put on clothes before i get burnt to a crisp and i run out the door
...i finally find someone who tells me that the power went off a few hours ago, and of course the water is all pumped here, so no leccy, no pressure.....
no sweat. was lucky i wasnt wearing any pants as i would have ruined them.
yesterday was going to be a good day. was going to get a job, put my cv in etc.
CAME DOWN HERE TO DO SOME BLOG UPDATES AND bloody caps key is on then left the library. as i came out the library, the sky was red. DUST STORM! wow, cool i thought. the whole sky was red! was like being on mars (i guess). red ground, red sky. cool...well, hot. the storms winds were boiling and the temp was 41 degrees yesterday.
i go back home, get changed into a shirt and a smart pair of shorts , and battle my way up to HR to put my CV in. by the time i get there im covered in red dust, but im not deterred.
i go in, hand it in, and go back to the bar and have a beer.
then someone comes charging in and says that people are being evacuated. again. for the second time in 3 days.
so we all try and go back to our rooms to get our stuff but are told we cant and are hearded to a hotel in the resort.
absolute pandemonium. all the holiday makeers are being shipped out to the airport on buses, noone knows whats going on. stories from "ahh, nothins happenin" to " the whole of staff housing has burnt down" are going round like wildfire.
we eventually get evacuated to the airport. the road is gridlocked! in the dessert! hilarious.
you can see where the fire has swept through next to the road, as it started near the airport.
awesome.
4 hours at the airport. dust everywhere. its boiling hot.
so we had a beer. ( me and this girl, called , wait for it, MAX FOX. coolest name i ever heard.)
4 hours later we get back on the bus and go home.
i go for a quick beer. im knackered, so i go home to bed. i fall asleep about 8pm.
i wake up at midnight, turn the light on, and ....NOTHIN.
i try another light......NOTHIN!
i get a drink. No water......
i go to the front door. theres noone anywhere. no noise. nuthin.
im thinkiing...shit...the power stations gone up in flames as has the water plant. SHIT!
im thinkiing.....everyones been evacuated again and theyve missed me.
so , im hurrying, trying to put on clothes before i get burnt to a crisp and i run out the door
...i finally find someone who tells me that the power went off a few hours ago, and of course the water is all pumped here, so no leccy, no pressure.....
no sweat. was lucky i wasnt wearing any pants as i would have ruined them.
coincidence?
well, put my cv in yesterday. see if you can see a pattern developing.
last time i tried to put my cv in was friday.
well, put my cv in yesterday. see if you can see a pattern developing.
last time i tried to put my cv in was friday.
Monday, October 27, 2003
JObsbig ones. im looking for one. today. so id better get a move on.
later.
byee....
Uluru
had a very strange experience on friday. im not normally very spiritual, except at the bar, but i visited Uluru(thats ayers rock to youse...). i touched it. i had shivers down my back. i choked back tears. i felt old. i felt as if ages had passed. i felt alive.
sounds like crap, but thats what it was like. it has an energy. it felt peacefull.
i felt at peace for the first time in a while.
i met a very strange girl also.
shes an astronomer. she also translates for the aboriginal guides. she also gives guided star talks in the evening. she was shocked to discover that i had a degree in astrophysics. she smiled at me when i said i was looking to stay and work.
i looked into her eyes and saw contentment. happiness. peace.
her talk was inspirational, actaully quite awe inspiring. out in the desert under nothing but the glorious southern sky.
she took mw to meet her employers. they want to offer me a job doing the same thing.
it sounds awesome.
she is incredible.
am going out to her talk again this evening.
oh, shes pretty cute too.
her name is katia.
hmmmm........have i been called here.......
had a very strange experience on friday. im not normally very spiritual, except at the bar, but i visited Uluru(thats ayers rock to youse...). i touched it. i had shivers down my back. i choked back tears. i felt old. i felt as if ages had passed. i felt alive.
sounds like crap, but thats what it was like. it has an energy. it felt peacefull.
i felt at peace for the first time in a while.
i met a very strange girl also.
shes an astronomer. she also translates for the aboriginal guides. she also gives guided star talks in the evening. she was shocked to discover that i had a degree in astrophysics. she smiled at me when i said i was looking to stay and work.
i looked into her eyes and saw contentment. happiness. peace.
her talk was inspirational, actaully quite awe inspiring. out in the desert under nothing but the glorious southern sky.
she took mw to meet her employers. they want to offer me a job doing the same thing.
it sounds awesome.
she is incredible.
am going out to her talk again this evening.
oh, shes pretty cute too.
her name is katia.
hmmmm........have i been called here.......
FIRE
there was a huge fire here last week.
i mean huge.
the resort lost its million dollar baby, longitude, a high class $1500 dollar a night resort. the fire station lost a truck but luckily noone was hurt badly. lots of shaken up people though. nearly burned down all the worker accomodation as well
it was about 3km long. flames 30 foot high. racing, i mean, racing , along the landscape. luckily the wind saved us that day, had it been blowing toward us instead of away for most of the day, our houses would have been toast. when the wind changed and came toward us, jesus man it was scary. eevn though we knew we had a firebreak in the way. but then people start talking about it jumping the fire break.....
i was there. i saw it. we all had the fire hoses in the accomodation out, me and this aussie guy adam were behing our place, we were hosing down this crappy dead, tinder dry scrub stuff that lives on the ground all behind the housing, in the vain hope that it might stop this 30 foot WALL of flame. theres a ridge at the back of the accomodation, about a km wide. the fire marched over it like it wasnt even there. that ridge it 300 feet away from the back of our housing.
luckily the fire break saved our houses and the main resort.
ive never seen anything like it. whole trees catching fire at once. most of the visible horison just on fire.
woah.
there was a huge fire here last week.
i mean huge.
the resort lost its million dollar baby, longitude, a high class $1500 dollar a night resort. the fire station lost a truck but luckily noone was hurt badly. lots of shaken up people though. nearly burned down all the worker accomodation as well
it was about 3km long. flames 30 foot high. racing, i mean, racing , along the landscape. luckily the wind saved us that day, had it been blowing toward us instead of away for most of the day, our houses would have been toast. when the wind changed and came toward us, jesus man it was scary. eevn though we knew we had a firebreak in the way. but then people start talking about it jumping the fire break.....
i was there. i saw it. we all had the fire hoses in the accomodation out, me and this aussie guy adam were behing our place, we were hosing down this crappy dead, tinder dry scrub stuff that lives on the ground all behind the housing, in the vain hope that it might stop this 30 foot WALL of flame. theres a ridge at the back of the accomodation, about a km wide. the fire marched over it like it wasnt even there. that ridge it 300 feet away from the back of our housing.
luckily the fire break saved our houses and the main resort.
ive never seen anything like it. whole trees catching fire at once. most of the visible horison just on fire.
woah.
Getting your balls cut open at the airport
i forgot to mention this. when i came into oz, they cut my balls open.
no seriously.
they put my bag through an x-ray machine before they did this, then opened my bag. and demanded to know what was in my balls.
i thought it was a stupid question.
"do they contain seeds?" she asks
i was too shocked to answer. to which she then proceeds to pull out a knife and cut open one of my balls.
she said, "yup, seeds. gonna have to take the others as well im afraid"
i was gobsmacked. ive had those balls for many years and ive never once had problems crossing borders with them.
i was gutted as she casually tossed my juggling balls into the quarantine bin and i took a sad lonely walk from the immigration building to the world waiting beyond
i forgot to mention this. when i came into oz, they cut my balls open.
no seriously.
they put my bag through an x-ray machine before they did this, then opened my bag. and demanded to know what was in my balls.
i thought it was a stupid question.
"do they contain seeds?" she asks
i was too shocked to answer. to which she then proceeds to pull out a knife and cut open one of my balls.
she said, "yup, seeds. gonna have to take the others as well im afraid"
i was gobsmacked. ive had those balls for many years and ive never once had problems crossing borders with them.
i was gutted as she casually tossed my juggling balls into the quarantine bin and i took a sad lonely walk from the immigration building to the world waiting beyond
italien cameras
so im watching the sun set over uluru (ayers rock) and this italien guy comes up to me with a camera and goes
"scuzzi, please, may you...."
obviously he wants his picture taken with his wife while the sun sets, but this is pissing me off as im trying to watch the colour change and was completely absorbed before he disturbs me. so i reply
" ahh, you want me to steal your camera?"
"oh , ci, ci, grazzi....."
i didnt steal it but i nearly pissed myself laughing.
so im watching the sun set over uluru (ayers rock) and this italien guy comes up to me with a camera and goes
"scuzzi, please, may you...."
obviously he wants his picture taken with his wife while the sun sets, but this is pissing me off as im trying to watch the colour change and was completely absorbed before he disturbs me. so i reply
" ahh, you want me to steal your camera?"
"oh , ci, ci, grazzi....."
i didnt steal it but i nearly pissed myself laughing.
electric germans
i was taking a walk the other day in a very sacred place to the aborignals , a place called kata juta, or the olgas, which is the most incredible sight. anyway, thats another story. what i saw there briefly was a german man being followed by a bunch of orientals. on this guys cap was a solar panel. the thought suddenly occured that the japs were field testing their latest robotic marvel, a solar powered 4 wheel drive all terrain german. he lives on solar energy alone and requires no food or drink. however, he still puts his towel on the first available sunlounger at 4am in the morning.
i was taking a walk the other day in a very sacred place to the aborignals , a place called kata juta, or the olgas, which is the most incredible sight. anyway, thats another story. what i saw there briefly was a german man being followed by a bunch of orientals. on this guys cap was a solar panel. the thought suddenly occured that the japs were field testing their latest robotic marvel, a solar powered 4 wheel drive all terrain german. he lives on solar energy alone and requires no food or drink. however, he still puts his towel on the first available sunlounger at 4am in the morning.
