Warmish, but not quite there

So much for a 30 degree day. In Viewbank, which is just across the river, it only reached a top of 26 degrees. Now if we were in the buearu of meteorology, we'd call this an accurate estimate. Apprently, they call it an accurate forecast if its within 5 degrees of the forecasted top/bottom. Thats a 10 degree range. Its like saying, "oh yeah, umm.. tomorrow, its going to be between 20 and 30 degrees". If you're pondering whether you should wear shorts or a skirt in that kind of weather, then it doens't help. Its especially bad if you've got an early start, and can't wake up in time to see whether it'll actually get there or not. Not so much of a problem in summer when its at least 30 degrees everyday, but at times like this, its pretty bad.

Sometimes they're early in their forecasting, and the storm you were expecting at night just happens to come by before you've cleaned up your BBQ. Other times, they're late, and the beach trip you were planning on going to after the storm had passed has to be delayed because the storm hasn't actually got there yet. Tomorrow's forecast says we're expecting a top of 32. While its true that 5 degrees in either direction is definately shorts/skirt weather (or even short skirt weather =) ), the forecast for the day after is wet. I'm just hoping that they're right about the timing, and that it actually rains on Wednesday instead of Tuesday. I don't have uni for that long tomorrow (i finish at 11am), but it'd be nice if we didn't have to go home while its raining and smell a stinker.

I suppose you can't really blame them though... meteorology, by its very nature, is an imperfect science. Jeannie, hopefully your Mr. M will be able to do a much better job when he graduates. Where did he go by the way?

I only started uni at 2 today. But I got up earlier to finish my tute work and finish off my part of the SAD assignment. Printed them off, went to the restaurant for lunch, then drove to uni. I parked really far, because they were doing road works around some parts of uni, and I couldn't find a parking spot very easily. Ah well, at least it was cheap, only $2.40 for about 4 hours or so. Class was pretty boring as usual, Lillian was loud in our legal tute again, but she was part of the SSLC (student something liason committee), and was doing a survey. We were meant to write down what we thought of the subject. I thought I'd be diplomatic, and I said something along the lines of "Felt that students were not all getting their fair share of speaking time in tutorials". For those of you who haven't been reading since the start of the blog, Lillian is the extremely loud one which spurts out useless comments to almost every question and answer. I wonder if she'll pick it up. Probably not, she seems rather brainless.

Oh yeah, I also figured the networks project won't be as easy as I thought it would be. We kind of missed some of the parts. It wasn't very clear, or obvious.

Anyway, took Eric home afterwards, ate dinner, which was some really nice fish, and came home. Gotta do some networks project later... laterz!