Wednesday, March 08, 2006

Diary of a Mount Isa Summer (by a Pom)

August 31st

Just got transferred with work into our new home in Mount Isa, Queensland!! Now this is a city that knows how to live!! Beautiful sunny days and warm balmy evenings. What a place! I watched the sunset from a deck chair on the veranda It was beautiful. I've finally found my home. I love it here.

September 13th:

Really heating up. Got to 35 today. Not a problem. Live in an air-conditioned home, drive an air-conditioned car. What a pleasure to see the sun everyday like this. I'm turning into a sun worshiper.

September 30th:

Had the backyard landscaped with tropical plants today. Lots of palms and rocks. What a breeze to maintain. No more mowing lawn for me. Another scorcher today, but I love it here.

October 10th

The temperature hasn't been below 35 all week. How do people get used to this kind of heat? At least today it's kind of windy though. But getting used to the heat is taking longer than I expected.

October 15th

Fell asleep by the pool. Got 3rd degree burns over 60% of my body. Missed 3 days of work. What a dumb thing to do. I learned my lesson though. Got to respect the ol' sun in a climate like this.

October 20th

I missed Kitty (our cat) sneaking into the car when I left this morning. By the time I got to the hot car for lunch, Kitty had died and swollen up to the size of a shopping bag and stank up the $3,000 leather upholstery. I told the kids that she ran away. The car now smells like Wiskettes and cat tomtit I learned my lesson though. No more pets in this heat.

October 25th

The wind sucks. It feels like a giant cattle trucking blow dryer!! And it's hot as hell. The home air-conditioner is on the blink and the AC repairman charged $200 just to drive over and tell me he needed to order parts.

October 30th

Been sleeping outside by the pool for 3 nights now. Bloody $300,000 house and we can't even go inside. Why did I ever come here?

November 4th

It's 38 degrees. Finally got the ol' air-conditioner fixed today. It cost $500 and gets the temperature down to 25, but the bloody humidity makes the house feel like it's about 30. Stupid repairman. I hate this stupid cattle trucking place.

November 8th

If another wise arse cracks, "Hot enough for you today?" I'm going to cattle trucking throttle him. cattle trucking heat! By the time I get to work the car's radiator was boiling over, my clothes are soaking cattle trucking wet, and I smell like baked cat!!

November 9th

Tried to run some messages after work. Wore shorts, and sat on the black leather seats in the ol' car. I thought my cattle truckin arse was on fire. I lost 2 layers of flesh and all the hair on the back of my legs and my cattle trucking arse. Now my car smells like burnt hair, fried arse, and baked cat.

November 10th

The weather report might as well be a cattle trucking recording. Hot and sunny. Hot and sunny. Hot and cattle trucking sunny. It's been too hot to do anything for 2 damn months and the weatherman says it might really warm up next week. Doesn't it ever rain in this damn cattle trucking place? Water rationing will be next so my $2,000 worth of palms just might dry up and blow into the cattle trucking pool. Even the palms can't live in this cattle trucking heat.

November 14th

Welcome to HELL!!! Temperature got to 41 today. Now the air-conditioner's gone in my car. The repairman came to fix it and said, "Hot enough for you today?" My wife had to spend the $2500 mortgage payment to bail my arse out of jail for
assaulting the stupid cattle trucker. cattle truck Mount Isa! What kind of a sick demented cattle trucking idiot would want to live here?

December 1st

WHAT????? This is the first day of Summer???? You are cattle trucking kidding!

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