It rained all night, it rained all morning. And yet after all the calls about road closures and tire destroying potholes and flooding across the country during the show, I walked to the car in balmy sunshine. I'm also not 50 million dollars richer, so there's that too today.
MOTHER NATURE TRYING THINGS ON FOR SIZE
'Could be possibly cancelled due to rain' is a sentence we've found has had a lot of use in the last few weeks, especially when the weather starts okay and then gets viciously hungover and therefore cranky as the days progress. It seems the weather calendar this time of year works along these lines:
Monday - Great weather
Tuesday - Okay weather
Wednesday - Okay, here we go, starting to turn. Weather starts okay, then rain.
Thursday - Rain rolls up with a camper van, a thundery dog and enough food and drink to last the weekend as it's here to stay.
Friday - Lashings of the stuff. Down it comes. Over the day and over the night.
Saturday - Rain decides to play funny buggers, starting with clear skies and lulling us all into a false security. But as soon as we've washed the car or scraped the last burnt bit of sausage off the BBQ hotplate, dark clouds move over quicker than bad neighbours after you've just received the keys to your dream house and washes anything and everything in a great burst.
Sunday - Making a mockery of weather bureaus and media news reports alike, Rain decides to sleep in and then not even bother working for the rest of the day making all wet weather forecasts moot. On the ride home it will stop for a breather, spit down for all of 30 seconds and that's about it. The week's up and down forecast begins again come Monday.
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| Current view from the Father In Laws truck on the way to work |
But on a serious note, thoughts are with those around the country battling floods and spills at the moment. Having been part of food and supplies drives to flood affected areas previously, your heart truly breaks when you see the devastation that crazy weather and rising waters can do, especially to small communities. Also a special shout out to emergencies services and recovery crews - it's a never ending job sometimes but we'd all be in a much darker place without you doing what you do.
BINGE TIME
On the chance of a wet weekend (at the time of writing the rain has stopped and started more times than trying to get a stubborn rotary engine to catch on) we looked for suggestions of things to binge watch. Because when it rains, there's nothing like the opportunity to watch back to back shows and stay warm inside (especially when there's plenty of food and possibly drink to binge on too). And it wasn't just the streaming shows that were nominated either:
-Break out the box sets maybe? I have Married with Children or Are You Being Served, obviously missing all the popular ones like Friends (pass), Desperate Housewives (double pass) and Seinfeld (yeah no.) Although I may be able to find my collection of Fawlty Towers in a pinch if I need to.
-Blow the dust off some VHS. A listener suggested all of Star Wars which should pretty much chew up the entire weekend of wet weather in one big hit.
The last time I had a VCR let alone watched a VHS tape? I'm thinking in the early stages of my radio career (so 22+ years ago) and that was up until I spent $350 on an XMS DVD player from Strathfield Car Radios that could play all regions. After that my tape collection slowly disappeared..
-Watch the grand final replay from this year? Not when it didn't go well the first time..
-Well what about the most binged shows off all time like Game of Thrones or Breaking Bad then? Great suggestions both and while Breaking Bad is on my eventual list, it did remind me that I haven't even started the TV series 12 Monkeys and apparently that's really good.
So maybe it'll be a 12 Monkeys marathon this weekend then?
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| Is it Monkey time? |
WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF YOU WON FIFTY MILLION DOLLARS?
I asked myself that question yesterday on the way to the nearest newsagent for a Powerball ticket in the fifty million dollar draw and I think the order would go something along the lines of:
1. Don't tell anyone.
2. Pay off the credit card and other debts in an instant.
3. Buy a normally unaffordable (to me) Lexus.
4. Go house shopping. Find an awesome one I liked, then take the family around for a look under the guise that I've been asked to do so by someone far richer than I am. If I got a unanimous yes to the question 'Would you enjoy this if we owned it?' then I'd buy it. (And I guess I'd have to explain where the money came from then I suppose..)
5. Not tell anyone at work but put in plans to resign from my job in six months time, pretending my writing career has actually taken off somehow and that's why I'm hanging up the microphone. How my books could jump from a handful of dollars to 50 mil is anyone's guess but maybe I'm the cybernetic JK Rowling and the world hasn't discovered this brilliant fact yet.
A solid plan I think you'll agree, save for one small drawback. My ticket didn't win a bean. But today according to the reports I did sell a couple of books, so that's not a bad start to my future millions!
Enjoy your weekend (stay dry!) and we'll chat soon!
-Almigo
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