For some reason, I keep getting emails about silly things. I have considered that in fairness, despite replying to the sender not to contact, it does not seem to stop them sending these silly emails. An example of which arrived tonight again...

from julia bruce-thomson to brucie best e mail address , hat , sarahgars@hotmail.com, john thomson , louisejpeace@hotmail.co.uk, "Barbara Bruce." , hev clive date Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 11:53 PM subject This Is How Winners Are Made !!! mailed-by hotmail.com

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Hello all, hope you enjoy this :o)

This Is How Winners Are Made !!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTw72u5c84Q&feature=player_embedded

Jules XXX

A week or so back I visited this river. On this day it was not raining, which is always a bonus. Today another cyclone is heading for Darwin, but basically, my guess is that the Darwin area and possibly Adelaide will be rained on pretty heavy, I can't really guess.

Today, nothing happened, except rain. Also, Melbourne is now flooded, but I can't post images because, for one, i'm sick tired posting bad weather images and also, the mainstream media just loves this stuff... Again, it will go in the best collection of bad weather from around the world 2011 edition at the end of the year. Honestly, I can barely keep up with the amount of events. Oh, here's a picture I drew.

So, no doubt, I'm wondering what I can even do here. The cleanup process has been very quick with most main streets back cleared. Just now i'm typing on laptop battery as the power has been out here for around 3 or 4 days like most of this town. Many people are running generators and are probably a bit prepared for this, better than me. I'm very upset that the coal, cane and mining has been held up badly not to mention logistics. Although Aus is a large country, most of the place is bare, obviously, people just in cities and towns, so, really, it's not that big when you think about it. I am unsure what else to say at this time, really, I should be out doing something, but I don't know where to start. I never was a hoo haa type, and running things by the seat of the pants type, but there is a lot of that here and grandiose, smartly too.

The air is getting hotter again now. Weather here is again, suceptible to change, the things that worry me now are thunderstorms and flooding. My only hope is that my relatives get their $1000 approved from the government as relief payout, in hope that they can begin rebuilding their lives. Life is hard here without these essential very much needed government centrelink (aka dole office) pecuniary benefits. I can't see how they will able to cope without this extra financial levarage.

Another day passes, this area is getting regular rain and thunderstorms now. Despite constant interrogation by relatives regarding personal things, it is extremely mentally exhausting. I found the IQ test from Mensa a completely simple affair compared to silly trivial constant tit for tat bickering about non progressive subjects.

I am trying to weigh up whether it really is worth staying in Aus long term given the amount of politics and urban rubishness that dominates most places. At the moment, I just haven't met too many of the right people, although there are a few, lurking out there somwhere in the shadows i'm sure.

Really, I badly need a week in bed just to get a proper rest from talk and talk and talk and talk and talk and talk amongst other basic necessities like the power back on at my house and a job worth doing etc. I am tempted to go mining, but whatever I end up doing, I need a reliable crew that isn't into killing one another by silly mistakes. After 15 years of pretty manual work, I know from experience that some jobs just are not worth the hassle, no matter the pay. When I left the UK, a well paid job came up for me with a good salary near 50K annual. Literally, I couldn't take it, because the weather was so bad, never mind the workplace politics that often goes with the package.

Honestly, im exhausted. Surely a lotta pretty normal people around here will be too. This last cyclone beat the hell out of this town, but certainly it should have been way worse. It will take a month or two before proper normality regains here, despite material things being fixed/replaced etc.

Well, the cyclone is over now. I have not posted photos, as I did not find it appropriate to fixate on local devastation with people obviously trying to get back on their feet after such an event. I will create an album at the end of the year though, containing footage of the cyclone along with any other weather disasters that may occur on a worldwide scale. I do this in an attempt to keep track of the scale of the weather menace that is global now.

I am just so glad that there were no atrocities to my knowledge, apart from material damadges. Something must be looking out for us, because really, we shouldn't even be here today given such an event. Everyone should thank their stars who made it through that.