Yrae Chronicles

38, 39*, 40**, 41, 42... Just as we were thinking, well, we've had a few spikes but no holy-shit-heatwaves yet... HELLO SUMMER. Meanwhile Sydney's getting pummelled by fricking tornadoes and hailstones the size of golf balls. What the actual shit. Amazingly we're not on fire, but eh, early days yet.

I'm not going for runs right now. We get a cool change on Sunday though! Only 30, yessss. See if that sticks.

In other news, I got a hair cut yaaaaay. And a second ear piercing! Which I've been wanting to do for a while but never thought about it while I was actually at the hairdresser. Even less ouchy than I remember it being the first time around, and I don't remember it being particularly ouchy then, either. So that's cool.

It's quarter to eleven at night and it's still over 31 goddamn degrees.



* That was today's forecast, actually ended up being a touch over 41 so this bodes well.
** That's what yesterday said tomorrow's forecast was, but it's now up to 42. It was just nice how it was slowly counting up, degree by horrible degree. Now the bomsite's just decided 'nope screw it. all of the hot. aLL OF IT.'

Welp, plastic bags at the supermarket checkout are officially banned. Only in SA, of course, cos we get subjected to weird things like that. So now the whole state is asking, as we have been since the announcement a year ago, what the frig do we use to line our bins with now? How many plastic bags ACTUALLY just get thrown out, without being used as bin liners, as storage for dirty clothes or bathers on the way back from the beach, covering up food to keep it fresh in the fridge, stop bugs from eating it on the mantlepiece?

And apparently all the greenies are pressuring other states to take up the bag ban. NO, REST OF AUSTRALIA, DON'T DO IT. It's more stupid than the upcoming ban on incandescent light globes D: (which IS nationwide. Yeah.)

Again, I say, I didn't bloody vote for 'em. Well, Mr Rann? What do YOU line your kitchen bin with, hmm?

K so, apparently Underbelly is finally being screened in Victoria. For those not in the know, it's a drama series based on gangland wars in Melbourne, specifically real events that happened a few years ago. Shown around the country earlier this year but banned in Victoria because the court case is ongoing. MMM CONTROVERSIAL.

Anyway. Yes. Apparently a heavily censored version is being aired there now but only up to episode 5. Some of this censoring involves pixellating people's faces. They're ACTORS, people D: