@cyclicautomata Hitting a roo is a terrible thing. Your post made me freshly sweat from mine four months ago. I hate it.

With my foot resting on the brake, and the car at 55kmph under cruise control, I have a _just_ better than even chance of not hitting a roo at night. Any faster than that, and I cannot stop in time.

So, you'll find me at pootling along at 55 in an 80 or 100 zone near #Bywong at night. Proud of it. I pull over and stop to let others pass.

At 110kmph on the Federal highway, I am simply playing the odds. There's no sense in braking nor swerving, it cannot possibly help and the result can only be somewhere between terrible and catastrophic, no matter what I do.

My car, a 2020 Subaru has ADAS. The roos seem to be utterly invisible to it. My partner's 2025 VW seems the same.

@warblington In #Bywong, I am seventeen thousand kilometres away from the #Warblington level crossing. I do love to occasionally find out what the boom gates might be doing in the next half hour. Thank you for this bit of whimsy in an otherwise too serious world.

A small point though; I feel that the minimum open time is probably a minute or two? Predictions like this one might allow Marty and Doc through, but lesser cars would struggle, I think.

Also: Saying 'Warblington' is a marvellous feeling in the mouth. Please tell me it is pronounced as-written, and not something like Bicester or Magdalen?

Steady steady rain in #Bywong.

No lunar eclipse, but masses of little froggies moving about in the night, looking for their next damp home. Will do an eclipse another time. the rain is absohoppinglutely marvellous.
There's nothing quite like overflowing the last #watertank in the string. I can loiter endlessly under the shower. I could learn Italian.

#amphibians #frogs #eclipse #KristinaOlsen #wastingTime #blessedAreTheRoofmakers #canberra

Rain all night. Steady. The frogs are very glad. #Bywong
We have a tiny bat in the house!
Not at all sure how the sillybilly got in (probably when we came in tonight) but it does not see the way out, and thinks our attempts of catching with tea towels are terrific fun.
We will go to bed. And to the hammerbarn in the morning, to get some vast netting or similar to try again tomorrow. Until then, we have a professional bug catcher on the job, I guess.
#bywong #bat #microbat #EverythingOpen
Outside my kitchen window. #Bywong
Today in #Bywong. Bright, cool and sunny. The local mob of roos have moved past the house and up the ridge.

Google asked: 'Industry'?
Horseshit options include 'aAdvertising and marketing', 'Education'

In #Bywong, say: 'What does your company make or do?'

If the answer is 'we make earthmoving equipment', then you can call that 'industry', otherwise, #FuckOff.

#FuckAmericanaFriday

LinkedIn 'reached out' to me today

Use 'called', 'mailed', 'yelled at', 'hit up', 'prodded', ... as the context demands. In #Bywong, you 'reach out' to get a fresh roll when you are caught unprepared by the cardboard cylinder. You 'reach out' to get a ticket at a shopping centre car park.

Fuck off LinkedIn, altogether and in all your constituent parts.
Fuck off 'reached out'.

#FuckAmericanaFriday