LOCAL NEWS
Police named their susped and then they finally arrested and charged someone for the murder of Birgit Brauer. Her name continues to be pronounced in many ways. At least they have the guy.
Four missing hunters were found alive. I reckon people should get charged for being searched for.
Some thieves returned the ashes of twin baby boys that were in some luggage they stole. Scumbags with morals, amazing.
A guy went to a bad taste party dressed as a suicide bomber. They party went to a nightclub and he ditched the bomb in a bin so he could get in. That sparked a bomb scare, the got the EOD out and everything. Police said they might charge him, but I am not sure if he did it innocently. Let's face it, a real bomb would not be made to look like a bomb.
A violent storm cut off power to homes in Auckland. Some are still without power.
WORLD NEWS
Nasty earthquake in Pakistan.
People got buried in a mudslide in Guatemala. Shame Dr Ropata isn't there to help.
Ronnie Barker died this week. My favourite joke from him is this:
In the news tonight, a midget fortune teller has escaped custody. Police say there is a small medium at large.
He was a great comedian, certainly one of the best.
SPORT
Auckland lost their Ranfurly Shield match against Canterbury. BOP slaughtered hapless Northland (who have not won a game in about three seasons).
The cricket World XI seems to have been a build up to a big fizzer. The Aussies won 3-0. Silly idea, I reckon.
No premiereship games, no idea why.
MY SAD LIFE
I spent the week saying "yep, I am fine, under control". By Friday I realised that I was in denial and the last hour or so before I left for the airport was pretty frenetic. Got there okay, got to SF okay.
Don't remember mentioning that my car was cleaned out of change by some bugger one night while parked at home. They checked out the garage too, but didn't take my power tools or anything important (so far as I can tell). Now lock my car at night, which is a right pain.
Gavin's little friend is now due in about two weeks.
Rory got banned from texting yesterday because he had done more than 200 in one day (it gets really annoying, I don't blame Diana at all).
Hannah has been emailing me a bit, which is really nice. Diana too. Rory hasn't without being forced to. He goes on camp for four days tomorrow. Diana is expecting a very small grocery bill this week.
Played puzzle pirates with the kids from here, that was really cool. Makes it seem less distant.
Done a few touristy things, went to the computer museum in Silicon Valley, which was cool. 5Mb hard disk the size of a washing maching, that sort of things. Old Apples, and so on. Went to a robotics convention, also interesting.
Hard core packing the apartment today. Need to make space, big time. Believe me, there isn't much right now. I have accused Paul of being a hoarder (I can hear Diana making a comment involving pots and kettles about now).
Yes, Diana, I have remembered to buy a toothbrush and I have eaten some vegetables and fruit. Well, I will. I promise (the fruit, I mean).
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