Melrick

As long as no blue cheese is involved....

If it's blue, the doner needs to see a doctor. Probably silver poisoning.

At least it's tons of protein, right?

I don’t know who Brienne is but I appreciate the offer. lol

Off topic, but you guys… giving NZ a run for their money… 

And as every right thinking Aussie said at that announcement: About bloody time!

You’re welcome to move… currently it is windy enough to make the rain come in sideways, and a balmy 1°C That’s 33.8°F for you temperature challenged folks  

@Melrick Steaks?  A little aluminium foil, and should be able to cook it as desired.

@WillowDarkling Oh stop, you’re making me jealous! lol

@Desiderius Price  That would have probably worked.  Although much like our lawn, my appetite dries up in extreme heat.

aw man Melrick that sucks to not have a/c

Awww… you are right, though – you are not missing that much. Once you’ve done with the snowman building, and the falling and playing, and the sledging, and the tickling touch of snow on your face and eyelashes there’s not much left that’s good about it. As soon as you need to go to work, or go anywhere for any reason, you’ll find the public transport system has ground to a halt. The roads are full of idiots who’ve taken the car out and got stranded, making it all but impossible to get around for people who <i>do</i> know how to drive in it. So you walk, but the pavements are covered with compacted ice four inches thick (and that is not nice to fall on!). The hospitals fill with people who’ve broken arms and legs. The entire world turns into a giant freezer for weeks while it melts into filthy sludge, even if snow doesn’t fall again. No matter how many pairs of socks you wear, your feet are always freezing (your toes to the point of pain). Your hands are cold and your fingers hurt, so you wear gloves which don’t really help, and as you go about your business it’s like wearing a bundle of candy floss on each hand, making it impossible to do things like eat, write, go through your wallet to pay for a hot drink, hold a hot drink…

Having said all that… heat without aircon sucks A few years ago I went to Spain where they had a similar temperature and the AC was broken in our villa. I spent the whole week in the villa, out of the sun, wearing a succession of frozen tea towels on my head, interspersed by endless cold showers. My hair was wet through for the whole seven days. You have my sympathy. *pets*

I know only too well what your trip to Span was like, because I do stuff like that every summer. lol  And I only want to visit snow, I sure as hell don’t want to live in it!  You can keep all that crap to yourself. lol

Oh, Melrick…

I hope you’ll be okay

It's funny, when you're a child you think your parents are immortal. It's quite a shock when you finally realise they're not.

And when you realize how much you still need them, despite how adult you might be.

  We had them for a while, and they were great. I’ll always love my dad too.

Oh, the puns that can be had here… I think I’ll hold off….

I sea, but eye’m not one to hold back from puns. I might even make it a gull to throw around as many puns as possible. XD 

Resisting…. trying to avoid temptation …. about how shitty the day’s going, or how the head is full of it… resisting.

     An island that’s also a nation and a continent does seem a little too fictitious.  No, that can’t be right.  Hugh Jackman is real, is he not?  Now New Zealand on the other hand, I’ve never actually seen someone from there...

@Praetor Hobbits are very good at making sure they’re not seen, that’s just in the nature of a hobbit.

I’m just glad my girlfriend isn’t Australian.  At least she isn’t imaginary.

And we wonder why kiwi haven’t taken over the world. Yeesh. If that were true for humans, I’d have remained childless quite happily.

I never met her either, but may she rest in peace.

May she be at rest, and may her loved ones find peace.

Too young.

Terrible… my heart is breaking for Todd Fisher today, who has lost his sister and his mother in such a short space of time.

Honestly, it feels like a generation is disappearing.

It really does feel like that, I agree. Not that a generation hasn’t lost all of their heroes before, but it’s usually spread out a little more than this.

Seriously… I’d be pissed at the shop for not checking both HDs thoroughly.

Damn… sorry Melrick. From bad to worse

If you can, backup your data.

Dear gods, man! You’d best keep us posted as to the results, although I imagine it’s going to make one hell of a photo album. 

I’ve had a few of those but never under anaesthesia. They usually give me a mild sedative that helps me relax, but I’m usually chatting away with the doctor and nurse, and watching the monitor while they do it. But I absolutely agree with you on the preparations. To describe it in a very vivid phrase, it’s like shitting the fires of Hell…   I’ll admit, the last two times I’ve gone in, my gastro told me not to prep, and I felt SO sorry for him. But he’s the expert, so he should know why he didn’t want the prep done…  

But please, keep us updated on the capsule’s journey, that will be a hoot to read, I’m sure  

Also, on a more serious note, I hope you get the all clear and that everything will be alright  

I’ll be sure to keep you all updated. lol

And my friends in NSW posted on FB yesterday, that there’s now also a plague of spiders running away from the flooding…  So, good luck with that, Melrick!

omg a plague of spiders and mice! remind me never to visit austraila! but be safe Melrick! guess i wont complain about the weather either

lol I read about the spiders.  I’m not bothered by spiders, so that doesn’t worry me.  Well, as long as the deadly ones stay outside.

Today was a day of sunshine!  Actually sunshine!  Man that feels good.  Some areas got 1 metre of rain in a 7 day period, which is about 3.3 feet.

Ah… now I get the picture. *nods*

Just turning up to claim their salary, are they? Yep. Sounds like a group of politicians I know too. And a bunch of unelected idiots whom I will never, ever, meet. And if I did meet them, the title I’d give them wouldn’t be the one they were used to. With the possible exception of Lord Adonis, who is invariably an incredible disappointment every time you see his picture alongside his name. *sighs* I might be tempted into sarcasm with that one.

I’m just going  to say congratulations, Melrick, it’s fantastic news, and hopefully the politicians will be quick to put it into law, as the people want them to. 

They’re saying they’re hoping to have the legislation in place by Christmas.  Yesterday was a good day for Australia, actually.  Marriage equality, and Australia won its soccer match, thereby qualifying for the World Cup!  Woohoo!

But now there’s this waiting game, and damn is it stressful!  I need my computer to DE-stress, not add to it. 

Hope it doesn’t reoccur… there’s always the chance it didn’t cope well with the heat you had recently.

But you’d expect it to misbehave during the heat, though, not after it.  I’ve had it going for about 8 hours today and I haven’t notice it do it.  Weird.

Or, if I need to shut off the machine, right now, but windows decides that’s a wonderful time to install an update… it’s like, damn, I don’t have to option to even defer it to the next boot.  (My desktop is dual boot, linux vs windows, and a quirk of the motherboard lets me use a slider switch to choose between the two.)

If you get fed up with windows, one can try one of the Linux distributions (Mint is a typical “safe” choice).  Mine, Gentoo, is very rough, however, it doesn’t mess around when I tell it to do something; ie, shutting down doesn’t bog me down with all those “do you want to save” or other dialogs, it shuts down as instructed.

No wonder I have a headache.  Microsoft is enough to give anyone a headache.

For a short while, with win 7 and 8.1, they seemed to start getting it right, so much so that I had switched my desktop to windows due to a rather intractable technical difficulty that made Linux really tough to get working properly (new hardware and something I hadn’t dealt with before), and this was after more than a decade with Linux.  However, they soon began pushing windows 10, very aggressively, effectively forcing the switch, and that told me enough to double my efforts to get Linux back.  Once I can afford new hardware, I’m divorcing the two, and will go back to dedicated separate linux/windows machines.  (I still need windows, from time to time, both for games and tax software.)

Hopefully I’m never cursed by one of these procedures, but now I know to opt for the sedation.

With rare exceptions, when sedation is offered, it’s like Yogi Berra’s fork in the road.  You take it.

Drugs are your friend, at least in these situations! lol

If you wind up back this way, we’ll go to JG Melon’s again, for a good burger and perfect Key Lime pie  

Years ago, while visiting a friend & his GF, we went into a steak place, pretty fancy, one look at the menu prices ($50 to start), it was like “nope”.  Went back to go with a frozen pizza (cooked, of course), way better decision.

JG Melon’s burger was genuinely the best burger I’ve ever had, and that key lime pie was sublime!  btw, we wouldn’t call anything like that a pie here, we’d call it a tart.  A pie is only something with a filling inside a pastry thing, like a meat pie.

I think I’m smitten! I’m going to have to read up on rules, and then watch more, but this looks far more interesting than I’d imagined. Thank you!

lol You’re welcome!

Btw, the name “Darwin’s Law” would work on two levels.  The capital city of The Northern Territory, which is up the Top End where all the crocs are, is called Darwin.  Drop them off there and tell them it’s okay to go swimming in any of the waterholes in the area.  The reality is that only the insane would go swimming in anything vaguely wet up there.

Excellent! If we add whale hunters to the mix, we could intimate that there are whales in the water. Nice early pay off for the viewers.

Green whales, with lots of teeth.

I actually love crocodiles. There was a program on not long back here called Spy in the Wild, and they put two cameras in fake baby crocs, and left them to see what happens to real babies. And when they all hatched, their mother (who’s been waiting for them) picks them all up in her mouth and carries them to the water where they’ll be safe. They’re all there, peeking out of this weird natural cage between her teeth. Most amazing thing. Especially since when I was a kid, nature documentaries were still telling us all that crocodiles didn’t care for their young at all.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bVZeOt7bCw

I’ve seen that show.  Very interesting.  They used to think crocs ate their babies, because they saw them pick them up in their mouths, and they couldn’t entertain the idea that these giant, savage creatures could possibly be that gentle with their young.

True.  Touch wood!

Welcome Back.

Thanks.  Good to be back.