Feeling the Heat

So, today was a max of 43 degrees. Now that is damn hot, like really hot. Still no real humidity which makes it almost bearable, but not quite. All week it's going to be that damn hot. I walked to the car in the middle of the day and back, as a result I have a mild sunburn. The proton was running quite hot aswell.

Well anyway, no choice but to deal, drink lots of water and yeh - why not some Dr Pepper.

USA Foods www.usafoods.com.au sells Dr Pepper, so I bought 24 cans. I also bought some Lipton raspberry flavoured instant Iced Tea, PopTarts (for Matt) and a can of Cherry (Code Red) Mountain Dew (crap).

Hooray for aircon - lets hope the energy companies have enough power to let us keep running it.

Oh yeah, did I mention some of connex's (victorian rail) tracks buckled under the heat today.

Random Reviews

Liverpool vs Everton: Damn - These two are permanently at each other. Liverpool should be the better team and definitely have some better stars. As long as Everton have guts (and timmy cahill) then they will hold out though.

The Black Cow, Launceston, Tas: Best restaurant in Australia. It's a tough call and I have eaten at a few decent restaurants around Australia, but the Black Cow does a mean steak. Still water winery is responsible for the chef and the wine that matches it. The duet has come up with an awesome menu and some great wines to match. The local produce, both the lamb and the beef were just awesome.

Gordon River Cruises, Strahan, Tas: Great cruise, friendly staff and a nice 6hrs on a smooth catamaran. Two nice stop offs at the Heritage Landing and the ex-convict settlement: Sarah Island. The boat cruises down the Gordon River, right to the start of the Franklin river and all through the UNESCO world heritage forest. Oh yeah, it starts off with a cruise out through Hell's Gates and into the southern ocean. From there all you would hit in one direction is Antarctica, or in another direction - Chile. On the way back in you go pass the salmon and ocean trout farms. Damn tassie salmon is good, and they serve it on the buffet in the boat aswell.

Strahan, Tas: overpriced, over-rated but yeah it's ok I guess.

Hobart, Tas: pretty mad. I liked it. Nice cafe's/restaurants/art galleries etc.

Boags Brewery, Launceston, Tas: mmm beer

Mole Creek Caves, Tas: cool, glow worms rock.

Cradle Mountain, Tas. They sell it as this amazing unique experience. Quite over-rated really. Admittedly it was very dry but it really resembled queensland and much of the lakes etc we see in QLD. I would love to go back in full snow, would be quite beautiful then I would imagine. Some nice mountains around tassie though, whereas QLD is quite flat.

HTC touch Diamond: Seriously mad.

Dandenong Ranges: A nice ride up. Pretty countryside. Nothing overly awesome though. Sassafras had some cute shops. I got Dr Pepper at a confectionary shop - yay.

Dr Pepper: still Awesome.