Now let's be realistic

This month I've got a magazine issue I want to concentrate on editing, a convention to go away to and, probably most importantly, I don't care about my current work in progress. So I'm having a 2 week break from novel.

It's not that I'm avoiding writing on it. I typed up a bit at today even, but when I looked at it tonight, I just couldn't get up the enthusiasm to do any more work on it. So it's plain silly pushing forward when there's no enthusiasm. It's just going through the motions and that doesn't make for good reading.

The well needs refilling (a rather apt analogy at the moment).

I intend to spend the next two week getting some non-fiction down, looking at (setting our bar high here ;) another novel, fiddling with short stories, editing and READING.

50,000 / 100,000 (50.0%)

Although, I think it's past halfway. There's less to happen than has already happened.

Rain, rain, go away, no wait!

Accidently clicked on 9 am weather bulletin page on the BOM site. Seems in the 24 hours prior to 9 am we'd had rain.

0.2 mm.

Someone spat in the direction of the rain guage? Is that even worth recording?

What I was looking for was their "media release" for May. Launceston recorded 5 mm of rain in May. Which is 0 inches according to Gussy and 0.2 inches according to Botty. I think I agree with Gussy.

(The total for the year is 53 mm and the "normal" is 148 mm)

So does this mean an unnaturally dry winter, to compensate for last year's rather wet winter? The Hydro (the power company) are muttering about a lack of water in their dams & it seems the coal-fireed back-up power station won't be economical when the gas pipeline from the mainland is connected. Can we forecast price rises for the near future?