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Just saying hi. I'm pretty busy at the moment. Hope all is well.
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That makes two of us!
Just fixed my tyre again. Had to call in my dad to help find the leak.
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I don't know if South Australia has been the news internationally or not, but the state just experienced twin tornadoes and lots of flooding. The
river at the end of our street was raging last night. We went down there this morning and it's subsided quite a bit, but a foot bridge we use often
was still covered as shown in the photo.
On the way back I found a yabby in a small puddle on the path. I took it home and put it in our fish pond. The photo is a close up, it's about two
inches (5cm) long.
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Whoa Poly! 
What is that, some type of lobster? I hope he'll like it in your pond!
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Yabbies are relatively common in Australian fresh waterways. They're a species of small crayfish that typically grow to 10 to 20cm in length. People
usually use traps to catch large numbers of them and boil them up and eat them like is done with crabs. It'll be safer in our pond than where it was
before. We've got another major storm front coming tonight.
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I used to hunt and eat them with my grandpa when I was a young boy.
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Depending on your geographical knowledge of Australia, we have a major river here called The Murray River. It's 2,500 kilometres long and there are
many places along its length that are popular for holidays. It forms the majority of the border between New South Wales and Victoria and reaches the
sea at Goolwa in South Australia, the state I grew up in and where I live currently. In my late teens we had a two week family holiday on a houseboat
on the Murray not long after it had been flooded. We had yabbies for dinner several times, they were prolific and far too easy to catch. Caught some
really good fish while we were there as well using yabbies for bait.
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Okay!
I have a real bad cold...
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I hate colds. Get better soon.
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Thanks Poly!
Wish I had more to say but this work is leaving me ragged. When will men ever learn to sit?
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Still down with a cold... it's been a week now. But it's getting better, first day without APC in a while.
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Glad to here the cold is subsiding. What's that about men sitting?
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I work side jobs cleaning. Often the dirtiest ladies is cleaner than the cleanest gents because there's spilled urine under the seat. Or worse.
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I've never understood why men don't sit. Maybe cause I'm lazy, I've always sat in the loo, it's cleaner and more relaxed.
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Started on a pre-uni math course.
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If you've ever got a maths question, ask away. Why have you decided to study maths?
It has ended up that none of the three bad teeth I had could be saved and I just had the third one out yesterday. I'm in pain right now and taking
pain killers, but I'm looking forward to seeing what impact it has on my health, which has had a bit of an edge on it for some time now.
I can't face having implants because mine would involve having bone grafts and I've had my fill of surgery, so I'll be putting up with dentures.
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Sorry to hear about that Poly... that must've been painful...
...I'm getting worried about my upcoming dental visit, two hours of root cleaning...
I love math and always wanted to finish up on the B-section.
We have two types of math here, A and B,in the higher grades. A is generally easier and has probability, B has metrics and stuff. I loved math in high
school and wanted to do math B, but my class got at war with my math teacher who then refused to teach us. My grades plummeted and I scored a 5.4/1 0
average while I needed a 5.5 to continue. That was a crushing blow.
I've also gone back to star gazing, now that I'm up early again.
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Sorry to hear about your teeth again, Poly, I hope you'll feel better and your health will improve now they're gone.
Cool news about the maths course, Bonny. I wish I had been better at maths when I was younger, but maths and science weren't really my cup of tea, at
that time, I regret it a bit now, actually. I've got enormous respect for the people who master this discipline.
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There's lots of great studies around in maths in the States and Netherlands at least, there'll probably be some free online colleges in French as
well...
One of the reasons why I think Dutch kids perform so well in math, is the great Simon Stevin provided accurate and intuitive translations of most
mathematical terms. For mathematics he invented the word wiskunde, skill of what is certain. Hypotenuse? Schuine zijde (tilted side). Equilateral
triangle? Gelijkzijdige driehoek (equal side triangle). Subtract? Aftrekken (pull off).
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One of my highlights of today is listening to a Tim Curry Q&A at UCLA in 1988: hearing him call Andrew Lloyd-Webber's music "more than a bit
derivative" and "if I wanted to sing Pucchini, I'd do opera". Wow.
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