Well if you don't know but the Barack Obama came to Darwin. His visit was short just 2 1/2 hours, L was downtown at court for work and she was not allowed to leave the city because they had the road closed. So she decided to hang around. She claims to have seen him but wasn't sure, but it was someone in a car that had really dark windows, waving. It was very exciting for everyone here in Darwin, I think he is generally well regarded. He met some relatives of a ship that was sunk in the harbour in WWII in 1942 by the Japanese. He hugged many elder people who's husbands, fathers were killed on the ship. Everyone felt that he's as compassionate man, which won him big points with the public. He also spoke to the soldiers at the RAAF base here. They were all clamouring to shake his hand.
I, on the other hand, only got to see Air Force One parked at the airport. L and I saw it take off later that evening.
Yesterday was a weird day for weather we got 34mm of rain and it was very bright outside at the time, it rained you'd figure it would be dark but it wasn't. Since all roofs here are corrugated metal when it rains it's noisy inside. Last night was actually quite cool and I was quite chilly after I got out of the shower. Currently we have a fan, the strong one that would blow you across a room, in the shower keeping it cool because it gets so humid in the shower room. Actually we have 2 rooms, 1 room that has 2 sinks a shower and a bath and another room with the toilet by itself. Not sure why they do this maybe we're supposed to huddle in the toilet during a cyclone because it's a small room and the roof can't fall in as easily in a small room. Speaking of Cyclones a guy we met the other day said that where we live, if conditions are right with a high tide and a cyclone, we could be under 1 meter of water. I think I better phone for contents insurance pretty soon. Good job we brought our scuba gear.
At work they got me a 2nd screen for my laptop, it's pretty nice 1920x1080 but they didn't give me an extension cord so it sat at my desk for a week. I brought my own cord in to hook it up. They have funny safety laws here, in an office all computer chords and extension cords have to be certified. I asked what certified meant to the certification company guy and he said "we just look at them". Mind you, you could trip over these chords as they are strewn all over the floor, but a least they'll be inspected. So I have all these great screens and my computer is slower than what I have at home.
Our tadpoles are growing bigger and we'll have to separate them into 2 buckets. Their water is getting pretty green and I read we'll have to change it quite often. In the bucket there is mosquito larva and the tadpoles don't eat them. Although we put a few snails in there and they seemed to have been eaten by something. These tadpoles right now only seem to eat vegetation which L drops in rotten bits of her water plant, which they love, we also feed them lettuce. They don't mind the fish food flakes either. All these guys do is eat so it'll be interesting to see how many become frogs. We dropped a fish in there to see if it would eat the larva but I guess going from clean water that has lots of space into green water with 100's of tadpoles stressed him. It just froze and wouldn't move so we fished him out and put him back in the fish pot. He's ok, maybe we should have put 5 in there so he would have a gang but I won't do that. So the larva are safe ... until the tadpoles get an appetite for them (evil laugh).
Speaking of eating, Ralph our lizard buddy showed up again early last night, but because of the bad weather we didn't eat outside, which was the first time in months. Since we didn't stay outside he didn't stick around long. He ate a few pieces of chicken, papaya, mango and watermelon. He quickly left after that.
Christmas is coming and I must admit I'm not really getting much spirit here. I think without our families and no younger kids around it's just not the same. People don't really put up decorations on the outside of their house or they haven't as of yet. We have been invited to a work friend of L's for Christmas day. They are fellow Canadians. If it is a nice day we'll take some pictures on the beach for something different and to say we did it.
If Santa's reading this I could do with a vacuum cleaner.
