Bursting Tyres and Other News

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A bit of adventure last week at work. As I was traveling to George Fisher mine my left hand side steering tyre blew apart! Scared the shit out of me as it went with a huge explosion that left my ears ringing for a couple of hours. So there I was stuck on the side if the road on a 43 degree day, 50 something on the side of the road I reckon, waiting for support to come and repair the damage. We have no spares on the truck itself. Good times!!

Cyclone Yasi that was due to hit the Isa was a big fizzer as there was a bit of rain and moderate winds. Nothing really. All the locals here were flood/cyclone proofing the town and a couple if the local mines shut down and sent the men home. That's unheard of pretty much in the mining world.

We have 2 weeks to go until we are out of work again. Looking forward to it after spending 10-12 hours a day 6 days a week at that job. Trace is over the cleaning job for now as well. We both look forward to seeing what we are going to do next, bit exciting really. I am going to get my forklift ticket before we move on as it will compliment the truck driving job nicely.

That's it for now. Back to the cleaning of the van in preparation to leave!! :-)