Well this is a turn up for the books, today it is actually raining. Yes, really raining. I know because it took twice as long to get to work today as the denizens of Perth crawled along in their gigantic off-roaders, scared witless. They follow a bus, bus stops, traffic stops. Car turns right, eveyrone stops coz he hasn’t the savvy to pull into the median strip. Lights change, wheels spin, throttle off-engine stalls. Our new mass transit suburban railway takes thousands off the road from the southern ‘burbs meaning the freeway has been clear at 7:30 in the morning ever since it opened. Today it was stationary as far south as the eye could see and probably all the way to Rockingham. Thank God we don’t get snow here. I heard that it did in fact snow in Kalamunda in 1967, I think they just got back to normal. Still, some things are just the same, petrol jumped 10c a litre overnight despite a 18 week low in the oil price and CBA put the mortgage rate up 5 basis points above yesterdays reserve bank rate rise of 25 basis, notwithstanding that they all announced non-RB related rises between 5 and 10 points a fortnight ago. Banks 2 Us Nil.