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You know it's HOT in Australia when….

1: The best carpark is determined by shade, not distance.
2: Hot water comes out of both taps.
3: You learn that a seat belt buckle makes a good branding iron.
4: The temp drops below 32ºC and you feel chilly.
5: You learn it only takes 2 fingers to steer a car.
6: You can sunburn through the windscreen of a car.
7: You develop a fear of door handles.
8: You break into a sweat at 7am.
9: Your biggest bicycle fear is "what if I get knocked out and end up cooking on the road".
10: You realise asphalt is a liquid state.11: Farmers are feeding chickens ice to prevent hard boiled eggs.
12: The trees are whistling for dogs.
13: Shopping Centres are temples where you worship air conditioning.
14: Sticking your head in freezers is considered normal.15: A cup full of ice is considered a great snack.
16: A blackout is life threatening because the air conditioner and fans stop working.
17: You keep everything in the fridge, including clothing.
18: The effort of towelling yourself off after a shower means you need another shower right away.
19: You worry the ceiling fan is spinning so fast it will fly off and kill you.
20: You laugh because you know this list is so accurate.

Ewan McGregor's brother used to be an RAF fighter pilot. His callsign was "Obi Two."

The Alaskan Airlines solution.

A Turkish proverb: "The forest was shrinking, but the trees kept voting for the Axe, for the Axe was clever and convinced the Trees that because his handle was made of wood, he was one of them."

Happy retirement.

@matigo If I had opted not to have the procedure my vision would have remained blurred. To go from 20:20 vision to mush so suddenly showed a problem that had to be fixed.

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Posterior Capsulotomy laser eye treatment performed today, I'm already experiencing improved vision. Some six weeks ago my vision in my right eye became blurred and hazy, four years ago the opthamologist who performed the cataract operation in 2015 mentioned the likelihood of such a problem. Here's a good explanation of the problem and the fix: https://www.mtwaverleyeye.com.au/posterior-capsulotomy

@matigo No reason why not, it's only 11.5 years old with a mere 232,000 km done, of which I contributed 98,000 in six years of ownership. It's a 2012 Mazda2 4-door hatchback (do you call that a 5-door?) with a 5-speed manual transmission and 1498 cc engine. Said engine is a non-displacement type, which means if the valve timing chain should fail for some reason, the pistons cannot come into contact with the valves.

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I recently had some work done on my car by a mobile mechanic, he had to replace the serpentine drive belt that powers the water pump, alternator and air conditioning. The old belt tore itself to bits suddenly some 40km from home, so the car was undrivable and had to be towed back home.
He also had to replace the belt's tensioning pulley as it was wobbling from side to side because of worn bushings. I got him to do a 10,000 km service as that was due, one of the items that needed replacing was a dusty air cleaner filter. He wasn't able to source a replacement pulley that day so he arranged to come back 6 days later.

I noticed after this service that there was excessive induction noice under acceleration and when he returned to fit the new pulley I noticed two of the five spring clips holding the air cleaner cover in place had worked loose. Once reattached, the excessive induction noise was gone.

There's creek running through this suburb called Toomuc Creek. We've had very heavy rainfall over the last two days and the upper reaches which run through farmland are very flooded. Toomuc gains another letter, becoming Toomuch Creek.