LOCAL NEWS
Donna Awatere-Huata, the woman who ripped off her fellow maori but has been forgiven by many of them, is now going to tell her story from home detention. Why would anyone want to hear it? If she gets paid for her story I think my brain will implode.
The local employers were concerned about Australia deciding to come over here looking for new public servants. They are hiring 7,000 more people. That is a worry, why would they suddenly need that many more?
New Zealand-born NRL player Tevita Latu made headlines punching a young woman in the face at a gas station and breaking her nose. The NRL have already deregistered him and he may not be able to play league ever again, he is 24. He had been drinking. All sorts of debate has raged (with stories about the league player who deliberately tried to induce a miscarriage on his pregnant girlfriend and manslaughtering boxer Soulan Ponceby).
Another similar incident reported last night, Tana Umaga slapped Chris Masoe in a bar with a borrowed woman's handbag after Masoe allegedly punched another patron. This seemed to have happened somewhere near the end of an all-night commiseration session after the Hurricanes lost the Super 14 final. Tana swears it wasn't his handbag.
Much debate continued about Mark Ingles not helping some dying climber on Everest. Edmund Hillary had his say. I think it is nobody else's business, we weren't there. Comparisons to rescues at sea are irrelevant as giving assistance on Everest can kill the rescuer easily. I feel a bit sorry for Ingles, coming home and being harassed about not rescuing someone when he had achieved something and was suffering from frostbite and is likely to lose the ends of a couple of fingers and possibly bits off the ends of his leg stumps (he lost both legs above the knee to frostbite about 20 years ago after being trapped on a mountain, Ruapehu I think.
WORLD NEWS
There is trouble in East Timor, we are sending troops.
Haven't heard a thing about the Chinese miners.
An earthquake on Java island, near Yogyakarta (which I have never heard of until now), has killed heaps, latest number is 4600, it was about 100 the first time I heard about it and continues to grow. I think that is called fatality inflation.
REAL SPORT
Hannah had no water polo this week. Her soccer team was playing the top of the table team. They were down 0-1 just before half time and at full time it was 0-2, however after double secret extra time it was 0-4 (I was not impressed with the timekeeping by their ref, it was rubbish). Hannah's team has had no subs for last two games with three players off. We have been using a ring-in who struggles a bit. It was Hannah's first game at striker with Lily-Rose and they actually did very well in the first half despite not scoring. They kept play in the opposition half a lot. She went in to goal in second half, and was hammered but made a number of good saves, she was pretty pissed off about letting three in, but she made no mistakes (almost let one dribble over line but stopped it).
Rory refereed the first half of Hannah's game. He handles it pretty well, apart from wanting to be paid.
Rory's junior school team played on Sunday night, they were 3-3 at the end of the 3rd quarter but lost 3-5 in the end. I was the time clock (I couldn't beep very well). Rory scored all three goals for his team. They blew tons of chances, people were greedy.
Rory is training for water polo three times a week at the moment, two are for the Pan Pac tournament.
SPORT
Crusaders predictably beat the Hurricanes in a very foggy Super 14 final 17-12. The spectators could not see the game.
England won the test against Sri Lanka.
The Indy 500 was this morning, Nzer Scott Dixon led now and again but got black-flagged (which does not mean he got sprayed with fly spray) for blocking. He came sixth.
The French Tennis Open has started.
The All Whites lost 0-2 to Hungary this week, then recorded their first ever win in Europe by beating Georgia 3-1. Holland beat Cameroon 1-0 in Rotterdam, German beat Luxemborg 7-0, World Cup preps are continuing.
The Warriors now need to win 10 of the remaining 12 games to make playoffs. For them, the season is over already.
MY SAD LIFE
I haven't had time to have a life this week. I suspect this is the sort of week that people like Penny, Ross, and Kathryn regularly experience. I think you are all bonkers. I had days where my time was committed to a tight schedule starting from between 6am to 8am and ending around 8:30pm. It's not any fun. Nothing went wrong, everything went as planned, it still sucked.
Diana also had a week of fuller days (whole day instead of half day working), which makes it tricky fitting other things in. That day I went to Wellington she had to drop Rory off to swimming early so she could get back in time for Hannah.
Found out last night that my friend Matt and Kristy are now engaged, they did the deed in Italy. The circumstances were pretty geeky, best not discussed here. Even Rory thinks it is way too geeky.
Saw Bob Batenberg this week, bumped into him when I was waiting for Hannah at St Lukes. He said he has seen the Goodins.
The Bambis visited us on Sunday afternoon, as did Gavin and Allan briefly.
I presume Jack and Claudi made it home to Stuttgart in one piece.
Hannah seems to be growing at the moment. She has a "social" on Thursday night at school, I can't wait.
Forgot to mention the customer service failure of Wendy's Old Fashioned Burgers Friday week ago. Hannah and I stopped to grab something at the drive through, which took ages as heaps of people had the same idea. They forgot to include the fries and one of the burgers, or a spoon for the frosty (a sundae-like thing). To make matters worse, the receipt not only showed we had ordered what we thought we had ordered, but they overcharged us 50c as well. I was very unimpressed. Paul said it happens to him reasonably frequently. Koos once said something about how they manage to take the only good thing out of fast food (as in doing it slowly), but Wendy's seem to be trying to take the food out of the equation as well.
Paul moves in to his house this coming Saturday. Rory will be helping. He is planning to visit his parents once a week for dinner and tie it in with a trip to the pool with us, but he keeps forgetting to tell his Mum.
INTERESTING FACTS FROM THE WORLD OF 1886
I continue to read through these encyclopaedias. We looked at a map of York with Nanny the other day, where she was born and we found where she lived (a place called Dringhouses, very close to York itself, probably a suburb of it now). I was also reading about San Francisco, before the big earthquake of 1906 of course. There were no bridges across the bay, and Montgomery Street stopped about three blocks short of Market St. The wharves only numbered around 20 or so.
RANDOM ACTS OF POSTAGE
It seems Heidi is the only one that read this bit a few weeks ago. Despite this, I have attempted to commit a couple of other random acts of postage, one of which is being ably assisted by someone who will remain nameless (I nearly typed rename maneless, silly really). Be warned that you may receive a semi-anonymous package in the post. At the very least I expect you to let me know if you receive something dubious in the mail.
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