I hate it when people ask me what I'll be doing in three years. I only have 2020 vision in one eye.
@hazardwarning One of our Men's Shed member is 75 & two years ago had ½ his right lung & ⅓ of his left removed due to lung cancer - he's going really well now, still pretty fit.
// @indigo @kdfrawg @c
@kdfrawg We usually get biggish Richter numbers but very deep down. mostly in the region of the giant earthworms https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GiantGippslandearthworm - so much so that local Aboriginal legend explains the tremors as being the underground worm movement.
// @hazardwarning
Hot & humid today, but the forecast shows a 98% chance of rain tonight. Please, make it so!
@kdfrawg We get the occasional one, the most memorable of recent quivers was a 7.6 some 10 km underground, about 50 to the southeast. A friend on Twitter likened the experience to that of sitting atop a washing machine on its spin cycle.
It went for at least 35 seconds and rather than being the normal up & down thumpy bumpy action it was as my friend described: a squirming, twisting motion. Really weird. There were a number of rural roads closed thru landslips around the epicentre.
// @hazardwarning
@peemee I stand corrected: the WHOA is back for a limited time, available online or possibly at the brewery itself. That entails a 200 km round trip.
I've had a few beers sitting around in a deep dark cupboard, left over Xmas gifts from two years ago. They're from a craft brewery situated in a former milk processing plant. I've just finished one brew I shall probably never see again: it was a limited edition special brew two years ago. It's called WHOA, meaning Wet Hopped Oatmeal Ale, a dry golden ale, the hops were harvested on brew day, don't get much fresher than that. No preservatives or chemicals, consisting of only water, malt, hops, yeast & oatmeal.
I'm quite impressed.
About 13 years ago, long before there were any houses here I was working 3 km to the south of this location. We observed five enormous vertical columns of water as the future fountain was tested for the first time.
@kdfrawg An Irish native was asked by a visiting American, who'd noticed the relaxed pace of life over there, if the Irish had anything like mañana. The answer was "Yes, we have something similar. But it lacks quite the same degree of urgency as mañana."
// @indigo