Rain, flash floods, car accidents, traffic jams, thunder

I'm still at work. It was pouring & I got a txt saying our road was flooded, but my car has high clearance, so I wasn't too concerned. I did try to leave when it started thundering but as I drove out one of our school exits, I saw that the road was blocked with cars going out...all the way back to the main Uni ring and beyond. So I turned back the other way, hoping the other exit was free, but I could see cars backed up to the point at which you could turn right rather than left. I think the whole university is grid locked. I turned back in the other school entrance to come back to work & after I parked I get a txt saying there was a crash on the Nathan Street Bridge. That would explain it. Now theres so much water I just got a txt telling my the budies in the aviary have an indoor swimming pool - the aviary is usually 10cm above ground level - ick!

Edit: finally got home & had to use some odd back streets. There was lots of traffic doing the same and some really fast flowing water over roads. I only saw one car in the water with hazard lights, abandoned. I decided to get into my street at the other end as the end I usually use is very potholed and would be flooded. I should have gone the usual way. The bottom end is a bit lower and it was DEEP. I considered driving up someone elses driveway to get out of the water but by the time I thought of that solution, I was onto the shallower part of the road (ie still too deep for a little sedan but ok for me - just. My fan belts were screaming as I came up the drive. Now I just hope it will all drip dry. Dad's belts were screaming too. He was at a shopping centre when it all hit & it was up to his doors trying to get out of the car park. The water was still rising when he left.

answers to the wet question et. al.

Yasi was the cyclone that struck much of Queensland earlier in the year. Anything that was damaged/destroyed as a result has been "Yasi'ed"

A slasher slashes or cuts long grass (whipper-snipper on steroids).

Making money off my blog...a strange and disturbing concept that would require I read all the fine print in the way its done. must...read...contract...all...the...way...through.
Though it might be worth it to see if the advertising was for XKCD ;) Alternately they would be weather related. By the way, its wet here again. We got 40mm last night.

tempted

I was downloading something from EA gamesand I found a new version of sims - Sims medieval. Its just come out. I could buy it and get totally sucked in. (Sims3 was tempting me to start with). If I had more free time...sigh

matryoshka limit

This sucked me in enough that I had to google the title of my blog. The front search page didn't actually use the terms in the same way as in the comic. But they should have! If it doesn't exist it should.

nothing ever goes away

I just had someone comment on a 2007 post. I blame google searches. I've also just found that this program doesn't like me typing google in lower case - it wants Google. Go figure.

And now back to reading through a paper someone here is submitting. So far I've only found a couple of typos. No, my name isn't on the author list :(

wet

It's been raining all day (after raining on and off for weeks). I almost gave myself heat exhaustion getting through mowing the front lawn last week and it needs doing again. I think the back needs a slasher now. Of course its too wet to do anything.

In other news, I'm getting used to my new progressive lenses. The frames are a bit more of a problem - I've been getting them adjusted every day. They still aren't right.

focus , focus now

Lately I've had some days where some of my tasks haven't taken up as much time as I expected (yay!) or have required me to twiddle thumbs waiting for other people (boo!).
As a result, I've been getting to the middle of the day and I've crossed off my day's list or moved it forward while I wait. The temptation is strong to just go home, but there's lots to do that I haven't got to because my days in general have been too full. I need to suck it up and start some of these jobs...but I don't want to. :(

Should I;
read my students partial project proposal
read any number of papers I haven't got to yet
apply for that equipment grant
clean up may samples in the walk in fridge that were dumped there when the lab fridge was Yasi'ed
read the notes for my education subject and reference my assignment
write the practicals for my new subject
write the appendices for my new subject
write lectures for my new subject
read the inch thick pile of papers on QA QC that I need to understand to write a lecture for my new subject.

Hmm.. perhaps the last one. It keeps me in my office while I wait for
1. the phone call from the computer guys
2. The student who promised to turn up so we could go talk to someone else
3. all the email replies from the other jobs I did today.

And is sort of what I'm in the mood for now I'm sucking it up.