Ok i give up. Im tired of staring at the picture loading screen. I will try to upload the pics later but she did a really good one the other day.....Monday? i don't know maybe today is monday. no it's Friday. You definitely lose track of time out here. But the time is now, quite early morning. I got up to send of Ashley and Anna who are going back to NZ for graduation week and a massive party. They left at around 5:30 so they can make it to town before their planes leave hopefully. But there are also two new guys here.... Rasmus (i'm not sure how to pronounce his name let alone spell it) and Espen. Danish friends of one of the guys that was here before. So that leaves us with three danish guys and an american. Not a lot of english is going to be happening around here so i better brush up on my Danish. Well i have to go check that the generator has fuel in it so i may write more later.
Ok now it is later and i am writing more. I spent the better part of the last 5 hours battling air compressors. Its funny how out here a simple task will turn out to be a rabbit hole of compounding problems. We were told: Go over to that tractor over there and fill up the tires so we can tow it to the shop. OK we thought. No problem. Then we found that two of the tires were blown out and one was completely flat and maybe punctured. So we decided to get an air compressor to see if the tires would hold air. So we got an air compressor but the battery wasn't working and we had to hook it up to a car. Then the head wouldn't fit right because part of the tire rim was blocking it and we had to find another head. Which turned into finding a new air compressor which had a broken starter motor. so we changed that. then the release valve broke so we got a petrol powered compressor that after clearing the flooded engine and having to pull start it several times started working. Then the engine jammed and we gave up and got peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. All of that JUST so that we could tow the tractor to the shop and begin to try to fix THAT. Also we need an air compressor to get the broken truck started. You can start to get an idea of how rich and complex the web of broken things is out here. To be fair the environment is quite harsh. If something isn't broken because it's clogged with layers of dust then it has probably succumbed to being thrashed about in the bush by cattle or drunken backpackers. Sometimes both.
Also i have started planning my escape from this place. I saw the news last night and it proved to me that there is actually a whole world out there. The forbidden lands beyond the boundary fences are actually populated with 7 billion people! Who would have thought.
Also speaking of the outside world; i don't mean to throw politics into this blog but props to our President for finally and actually speaking in favor of equal rights for ALL. Now, if he just decides that off shore drilling is a pointless waste of the environment and decides that he is a bigger man than to need a super PAC to fight his battles for him, i may actually consider voting for him. As far as congress is concerned i'm going to vote third party until they are at least old enough to learn to share. That happens when you're about 3 or 4 years old right? BUT that's enough of that. I don't get the news much out here besides the Australian budget debate, (them too? go figure) and everyone here has been Danish or Kiwi anyway so not much talk of the US happens at all.
And now i have customers so i will write more later....again....
Ok and now it's even later. Don't you just love how time works on the internet? Anyway i think i was talking about how i'm planning my escape from Delmore. I'm taking suggestions for things to see in Australia besides Uluru. I'll probably spend a few days in Alice Springs getting used to hot showers and ready access to diverse food and supplies, then i'd like to do some hiking around the area.... there are tons of places to do that. I'm pretty sure that i want to spend my birthday in August on the beach. Cairns or Port Douglas just north of it i think. But before that i'd like to see Kakadu National Park and Darwin. Then i'll have a bit over a month to see the rest of the coast. mostly Sydney and Melbourne. ...... I still don't know. Then there is New Zealand. But that's a whole other beast. There is so much to see over here i may have to do a return trip!
By the way we finally got the air compressor working and the tires were too full of holes to fill up anyway.
r ju gonna make buk wit dis ?
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