Say something random about you (Part 4)

He was an excellent actor and I remember him fondly in Romeo and Juliet, too. He was one of those actors that popped up everywhere.

RIP

I know I've seen PP in a few things. Looked up IMDb, I've seen him in Alien3, Amistad, Jurassic Park 3, and Aeon Flux. Very distinctive guy. RIP.

Re: Brassed Off
Never heard William Tell Overture with only brass before, only full orchestra with strings. The sound is quite different. The coronet soloist is very impressive.

do we get to see you model it when you get it?

giggle, giggle...

I'm sorry Nay. If anything happened to you, I'd truly be sad, but you're handling your current situation quite well.

I pray that these rains end soon. I'm tired of cold weather, too.

Nay, at least your phone is working. Do you still have electricity? Has it reached 38C?

You could go around the neighborhood with fresh baked cookies or cold drinks or wine or something. I'll bet everyone else is feeling trapped, too. Tie a little wagon to Bud and have him carry the food. That would be really cute.

Just spent the early morning...at work!

It was nice, people are nice, although I don't know how much of an 'up and a'tem' attitude you have at 4 or 5 in the morning.

It was really short-3 hours. It flew by like nothing. I don't mind the work right now, but I really need more hours. Or more days, or more projects.

We'll see. Hopefully I did well enough for the company to schedule me more often. I have another job schedule for tomorrow, but that's it for the month for now. Kind of weird.

I'm so glad Alice is working again!

Maybe gradually building up hours at work is the way to go....you know, to get back into the swing of things.

Nay wrote:

Alice, you sound so excited. It's lovely to see after so many hurdles. But I don't quite understand the job. What are your hours based on?

Random:

Some media circles are saying the floods in Queensland cover an area the same size as New South Wales (another state approx 809000 sq km) and for those Northern Hemisphere peoples, a comparable size is the same area as France and a bit of Germany apparently.

Yikes!

Store Inventory, Nay. We work before or after stores are closed.

I did store inventory once for about 4 hours. I rather enjoyed it once I figured out how to fill out the forms. I like going through other people's stuff. Plus you're in sales without having to deal with customers, just their mess. I hope you get more hours.

Nay, sounds like you need to fill under the house first. Probably have to remove a lot of the panels covering the underneath. If you fill the yards and the house is a valley, you're gonna get a lake under your house. Not good. Really bad, actually.

I read that flooded people are really worry about snakes. Y'all's snakes are some of the deadliest in the world. Do you have a sharp bladed hoe or machete or shot gun handy just in case? Really thick leather or metal boots and gloves? You already have a snake bait.

Nay, you can have a sump pump installed under your house. They grade the ground so that any water runs toward the pump, and the hole that the pump is in. The pump automatically turns on and starts pumping the water out from under the house (you can tie it into a drain, if you put drains outside the house, and then it drains away from the house) when the hole becomes full of water. There is a trigger that turns it on. They are common here in areas that flood or have a lot of ground water. It's really the only solution for removing water from under the house. You can have drains etc. outside the perimeter of the house, but because the crawl space under the house is below ground level, you will still get ground water pooling under the house - even with drains - when the ground becomes saturated with water (which happens with severe rain and the ground can hold no more water).

As for snakes, another use for a gun. I'll teach you how to be a deadly shot..... We have rattlers and cotton mouths - very deadly. But no match for a gun. Then you can have a nice pair of snakeskin boots made......

Australia sounds a lot like Texas. Hubby killed a copperhead years ago with a machete. Father-in-law killed a coral snake with a hoe. I ran over a copperhead with a car.

I did stop once to let a colony of tarantulas cross the highway.

Sump pump sounds the best. Good investment. Get a mongoose, too. Oh, wait, snakes eat frogs. Nevermind the mongoose.

I'm reading the Good Earth trilogy by Pearl S. Buck. These pictures remind me of some of the descriptions of the floods in China back then. This is from the second book Sons.

"...for the water spread in a sea on either side, and the dykes were crowded with huddled people. And not people only, but rats and serpents and wild things struggled to share that space with the people, and these wild things forgot their fears and tried with all their feeble strength to contend for space."

How is the little snake bait?

It's snowing here. The streets aren't bad, but the drivers are.

Um, no...I just got home from work. It was dark by the time I got home. It's very cold and it's snowing.

I just priced flights to Atlanta on Labor Day weekend and DragonCon sounds mighty tempting this year....very cheap if I book now....

Nay, those pictures scare me, but it does make me feel bad for those creatures.

We had a little jolt about two hours ago. Was a wonderful thing to wake up to after napping from an early schedule.

Nay, I am praying for your safety and I hope the damages are not too bad.

Alice--So happy about your job! Have fun!

DK--They are predicting snow in my neck of the woods, too. I am not sure if I am happy about that or not....

Just enjoying life with all its messiness, challenges and joys!

Random:

Today, Toowoomba - a mid-sized city in southern QLD - received 100mm (4 inches) of rain in less than an hour and, as a direct consequence, a small creek burst it banks. With no warning, an actual 2 metre high tsunami occurred. Two people have been confirmed dead and three children are still missing after being swept off a street corner. I know the exact creek and streets affected because I lived there for many years. The video links will show you only a little of the damage. The wave then passed down the mountain range and threatened small towns in the valley below.

Several other towns and cities throughout the state have been affected by repeated flooding - repeated ie. they have already gone under once.

More than 300mm (12 inches) has fallen on Brisbane's catchment area (the state's capital) in the past 24 hours. The only barrier between safety and devastating floods is Wivenhoe Dam to the city's north. It is already 40% over capacity.

Please say some prayers for all Queenslanders. We are doing it really tough at the moment.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/video/2011/01/10/3109971.htm

http://www.abc.net.au/news/video/2011/01/10/3109884.htm