GLOBAL WARMING, LOCAL DRYING

Summer was unusually cool, autumn was unusually cold, and winter 
is, if not unusually cold then at least unrelentingly so without 
very low minimums but little warmth during the day. The main thing 
though is that it's _dry_. There's been hardly any rain and the 
ground is still as hard as in summer. Rain was predicted for the 
end of this week but ironically these days have turned out to 
feature the first bursts of consistent sunshine for weeks. In 
eastern NSW they got flooding over autumn, in WA they reportedly 
got a break in their dry spell recently, but here it's just stayed 
dry. The result is that in spite of my desperate efforts to fix up 
the rusty guttering around the house so as to catch what little 
water the heavens have yeilded, the house ran out of water. I do at 
least now know the minimum point on the tank's level indicator 
(confusingly earlier in the scale than I thought, or it's getting 
stuck), but this means everything's on hold now while I spend my 
days carting water.

So that business-related project I put on pause gets paused even 
longer, and the end of this month was a deadline that I knew I just 
ineveitably would meet for finishing that, but I can't, even 
working on the weekend which I'll have to do now. Why do I bother? 
I'm just too damn slow. Probably due partly to all my constant 
wrong assumptions like where the empty position is on the tank 
level indicator. I should've tried a dipstick and not wasted hours 
trying to fix a pump that wasn't broken. Anyway, off again for a 
second day driving water about...

 - The Free Thinker