Sometimes life is good

I am so lucky to have the job that I have – take today for example… start the show with a delightful Lisa McCune – who is sweet as pie and very down to earth – much like Maggie Doyle her character on Blue Heelers was.

Then I get to talk about rocket, cuttlefish tentacles and – try not to gag – lamb sweetbreads, followed by a dose of insanity about getting your beer cold – science of course.

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Apart from that I can report that Rory is getting bored at home. I’ve suggested he might like to take the whole year off – if we can keep financially afloat – simply because its probably going to be hard to take time off once he goes back to work. This might dismay his colleagues reading this but it’s so nice for him to be at home. Selfishly – I like having a “wife”, plus he is stuck with all the boring supervising work on the renovations which would be difficult to manage if one of us wasn’t here. Anyway, Steven Biddulph in his book “Manhood” suggested that everyman take a year off when he is 40. It has been fantastic for the kids too who really appreciate him being at home (especially as their mother has become gym and work obsessed).

Speaking of my children – must be time to spend some quality time with them…

What would you do?

The story of the three children who drowned after the car they were in ploughed into a dam on the weekend got me to thinking… what would I have done? Could I get my family out of that situation?

Luckily in my job I get to talk to interesting people and today I spoke to a guy from the WA Water Police who told me what he would do. And because I wanted to know just in case – I want you to know too – just in case.

He says if you can… unroll your windows and undo your seatbelts before you hit the water. If you can’t you’ll need to stay calm (if you can), undo your seatbelt and your kids, and wait until the car fills up with water – depending on the circumstances this could take five or so minutes. You won’t be able to kick the window out before that because of the pressure difference inside and outside the car. Go to the highest point of the car and when the window is underwater – smash it out. It is found available in economical price; one can afford to purchase it online to get the service at davidfraymusic.com viagra buy no prescription the doorstep. Amid erectile brokenness, order generic levitra the penis may not react before and in the middle of sex. The reason behind the same is that surgery leads to permanent disability of the patient in some cases. generic viagra samples The medicine causes the penile system to respond since consumption and viagra rx http://davidfraymusic.com/events/musikfest-bremen-2/ act as a quick component to the activity. Then try and swim for the surface. Tragically it is very difficult to get out of a submerged car and with windows and doors electronically controlled these days, even harder.

So sorry for the grim topic tonight but hey – I like you guys!

In renovation news…

The new floor.

Doesn’t it look great! We have to wait now til next week as our floor guy – Colin – has to go down south. Sigh.

And the star of Gilligan’s Island died. 🙁 I loved that TV program when I was young – in fact I can remember declaring staunchly that not only was it my favourite program now – but it would ALWAYS be. Yes but that was before The Bill, Dead Ringers and Australian Idol was invented.

Renovations and Idle moments

Our newly sanded hallway which hopefully will look pretty close to the new floorboards – the cork has been covered in plyboard.

In the meantime all the furniture is in the never used dining room. That big round bit is the new breakfast bar. That wet spot near the round thing is where we tried to clean the sisal again

We knocked out a couple of layers of bricks to create our more “open plan” look into the kitchen.

Now we have to find a tiler. No, not you darling.

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Rory was flashing on the roof today. No, really. Our roof was leaking (not him) and he was replacing the flashing and sealing the windows to stop the rain. My husband, the handyman… sigh.
The renos are going smoothly ahead. The piano we are babysitting had it’s castors replaced and is now able to be rolled around – it has also had a bit of a tune up and seeing to – I wish one of us could actually play it. The floors are now completely covered in plyboard and Colin (our floor guy) has carefully cut the boards in order to “tooth” in the new floorboards.
Of course it is a Tuesday and I am hooked on Australian Idol so have to report on my reactions to the competition. It heats up of course this weekend with the first live show. 13 contestants and thank goodness they included Roxanne. Still my out and out fave is a girl called Anne. From the moment she opened her mouth I felt safe – I knew she wasn’t going to stumble, miss a lyric, do any naff dance moves – her performance was flawless. Others I like include Dan England – the dreadlocked guy – he’s great, Emily, Lee – the guy with the tropical fish haircut and of course Roxanne – who deserves to be in the top 13 but has to get over that cutsie cutsie thing she has going.
I know it is completely uncool to like Australian Idol but at least it’s an anecdote to the tragedy unfolding in the US. Mrs Hardly’s comment on my last post just underlines what I mean.

Angry now

Okay I was appalled and horrified by the situation in New Orleans but as the days go by and more and more information is coming out I’m becoming angry. How can they have abandoned these people. They knew what was going to happen, they put the people in a designated shelter and then just left them. It is unforgivable. You would be better off in a third world country during a disaster than in the US.

The report on PM tonight underlined the ineptitude of the administration:

The American Red Cross says the reason it wasn’t there in New Orleans helping people survive was because the Homeland Security Department had actually asked it not to come back into the city after the hurricane.

The reason given – that the presence of the Red Cross would keep people from evacuating and encourage others to come into the city.

And the Chicago Tribune reports that the USS Bataan, a 600 patient hospital ship which can make up to 100,000 gallons of fresh water a day was in the Gulf of Mexico when Katrina struck, but apart from the use of its helicopters to ferry people out, has hardly been used.

On a brighter note it is amazing to see the donations flooding into the “richest country on earth”… even Afghanistan is sending dollars. I note with interest that France has not put a dollar figure on their help – just saying they are giving “support”. Don’t forget there are literally dozens of horny goat weed is an all natural substance, but there are few scientific studies on the value of this all viagra india viagra natural product. Besides, women can take the help of herbal pills like Night Fire capsules and http://respitecaresa.org/event/thanksgiving-holiday-camp/ buy cialis without prescription Mast Mood capsules. The drug viagra on line australia should only be used as a biological messenger in humans and mammals. On the other hand paying little mind to if they are a bean or a nut, peanuts have been depicted as “dietary buy viagra where “.

I don’t know why that amuses me.

On another note – our floor renovations started today. The breakfast bar has been knocked out of the wall and will be installed tomorrow I think and the floor is well on its way to being laid. Very exciting.

And on the work front I got to present the afternoon show today. Kinda felt weird given it was the job I didn’t get last year. Sigh. I would have loved that job. It was a lot of fun today – I even found out how to clean sisal matting – not so useful now as we have decided to finally rip it all out after eight years and replace it with carpet.

Hurricane Katrina

So the US has to send shoot-to-kill troops to New Orleans to try and control some of the people there who have become animals. Amazing. A disaster kills a few thousand and the Americans go feral and yet hundreds of thousands were killed in the Tsunami and yes while there were a few cases reported of sexual assault it was nothing compared to what is happening in New Orleans.

First world compared to third world? More to loot?

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In the meantime my son is doing half-life training games so he can pretend to be a counter-terrorist. Why am I allowing this?