There just isn't anything worthy of being the subject, again. It is disappointing really.
LOCAL NEWS
Bill Clinton visited and was in the news a lot. Yawn.
Government Minister David Benson-Pope has attracted yet more stories of inappropriate behaviour. I think there comes a point when apparent abuse of a position of power becomes a convincing argument for someone to not be in a position of power.
A Chinese couple were bailed after being arrested for manufacturing P (they had enough raw material to make $15 million worth of P) because it was their first offence (in this country). They seem to have disappeared. Wonder how much the bail was set at? If they leave the country, they can't be convicted (I don't think). Interesting concept. Get bailed for first offence and leave before you are convicted in a series of countries.
A list of top ten fine defaulters has been released, some owe more than a million dollars. One wonders why anyone ever pays fines. Also not sure if the worst payers should be considered the top ten. Shouldn't they be the bottom ten?
Former National Party gnome Michelle Boag used the Rescue Helicopter to fetch her passport. She paid them $4000 for the privilege. Quite bizarre. I thought sending a taxi to get it was bad enough.
Two New Zealanders were caught up in an art robbery at a Brazilian museum, but they wee released by the thieves without injury.
Local kids are texting each other about International Wagging Day on 27th March. It hasn't made the news yet but they want it to. I don't know why.
WORLD NEWS
A New Zealand guy has been charged with contributory negligence with the Polish building collapse. Not sure why people managing a building are somehow responsible for the design and build of a building that can't handle a bit of snow.
Iraq seems to have some problems internally. Let's hope GW doesn't offer to help.
REAL SPORT
Rory had three games this weekend. Two were against a Canterbury team that toured Auckland for the weekend.
They won 10-6 in the first game, was 6-6 at one point, but they won fairly easily. Not so easy in the second game, final score 10-9. Rory scored two goals in each game. We watched both the girls games too, they won one and lost the other in extra time, which was very intense and exciting.
The senior school game on Sunday night was not so close, they lost 3-9 to Takapuna. A Takapuna player decided to find out whether Rory dresses to the left or right. Not impressed.
Rory has now scored the first goal for his team in four games in a row. Not that I am counting.
Rory and Hannah have a water polo training camp this coming weekend.
SPORT
Haven't really been paying a lot of attention. I think we won the third ODI, Nathan Astle made a spectacular catch, which I haven't seen. He also scored 118 not out, which is pretty good.
The Blues won their first game in Super 14, just, 21-20 over the Reds. Crusaders won, again, over the Sharks 22-20. The Force are not doing well, lost to Chiefs 9-26, Highlanders beat the Cheetahs and Hurricanes recorded their third win against the Cats 29-16.
I think the winter Olympics are finished today, thank goodness.
Liverpool beat Man City 1-0, poor old Sunderland lost to the Brummies, Chelsea won again. Man Utd beat Wigan 4-0 in the Carling Cup final, not sure what the Carling Cup is, must have been something else before.
MY SAD LIFE
Stopped doing cricket this week and started doing softball. Hannah is in the interschool softball team. Spent Sunday oiling a softball glove and cleaning soccer boots. My uncle Chris has supplied us a glove of Siobhan's (Thanks, Chris, we have two pairs of soccer boots being prepared for you in exchange). We fortuitously had linseed oil in the garage, my hands still smell of it. Interestingly, cloths soaked in linseed oil can spontaneously combust.
We saw Gavin. Three times. In one week. He must be bored. He starts a new old job today.
Diana told Rory to have a shower on Sunday. Then she worked out he hadn't had one since Thursday (due to water polo and cocktail parties). Then Hannah goes "well, actually..," (she hadn't had one since Thursday either).
Paul is continuing to visit open homes, he keeps taking Diana. I am wondering if they are having an affair.
Went mad and sort the garage out a fair bit on Saturday. Brought the box of photos inside. Been sifting through them. Gave Mum a couple. Gave Gavin a few. Paul wanted to burn one from about 1990 I found. Diana wanted to burn lots, so did I. Found lots of Trouble, our first cat, and Turk, my dog.
As part of the Canterbury water polo thing, we had a boy stay with us Friday night, Jay. He was very nice. We didn't see a lot of him because we got home after 9pm and took him back to the pool by 8:15am.
Koos is back from Hong Kong, been back for a week. He leaves for Hong Kong today for two weeks. Julie and Melissa have replaced him with a dog called Lucy. Funny, me and Diana did the same thing with Kelly when Koos left for UK in 1990. We now know two dogs called Lucy (Jacqui's dog is also Lucy).
Hannah has swim sports tomorrow. Rory had athletics last week, did okay (4th in 100m, 2nd in 400m).
Sophie, aka Cujo the killer beagle, is two years old now, so I guess that means she is 14 in people years. I am not sure if she is more or less mature than Rory.
I ordered a new camera, it still isn't here, it's not fair. Was due Friday. Conversation with Jono earlier this week:
Jono: Cool, what sort?
Me: D20.
Jono: What are it's specs?
Me: Dunno, better than Paul's one though.
Jono: Oh right, that's all you need to know.
Interesting thing this week. Diana says to me "Guess what Rory was doing at school today." So I replied, facetiously, "Setting fire to someone's trousers?". I was right. Someone had brought a magnifying glass to school. Then on Sunday morning, Rory asked what time his game was in the afternoon. I said I didn't know, but asked if he was trying to arrange a meeting with the mystery text girl now known as Ciara. He was. That was two from two and he is starting to get scared that I can read his mind. Nothing better than a bit of fear to keep the boy behaving.
The textual relationship continued over the weekend. He still hasn't met her, and she could actually be an African dwarf male aged 78 and living in Dunedin. The house is more peaceful when his phone isn't vibrating every two minutes.
THOUGHT OF THE WEEK
It occurred to me that saying "F*&k me" is actually better than saying "Well, I'll be buggered." if you think about it. Most people don't, I will admit (think about it, I mean).
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