Weather not great today.
LOCAL NEWS
The government opened the books this week, and announced an eleven billion dollar surplus. This is the second highest in the world, not per capita, second highest full stop. I suppose it is good news, much better than a deficit. If the waste was reduced it would be more like thirteen billion, I reckon.
The audit report on the election spending was finally released and although all parties are considered to have transgressed, the Maori Party over spent $54 and the Labour Party managed over $800,000. National only came in with $11,000.
Nasty things are afoot in a Christchurch hospital with three elderly people dying from necrotising fasciitis.
There was another double homicide in west Auckland, this time in Te Atatu.
Winston Peters has disappointed sensible voters by announcing he will stand (yet again) at the next election. He has also announced a new series of bribes to appeal to grey power (free jelly meat and mobility scooter subsidies or something). You would think after being ditched by Tauranga that he would get the message.
WORLD NEWS
North Korea have joined the nuclear weapons club. All the other members condemned this, of course. I expect that North Korea have already drafted their statement frowning upon the next country to detonate their first nuclear weapon.
Then we got news over the weekend that Australia are contemplating the use of nuclear power. To be honest, I really thought they already had it. Not sure how they generate their power, it's not like they have masses of rivers for hydro like we do.
REAL SPORT
Rory's school team lost 2-9 to Westlake B on Friday night, there was barely enough players, no subs. Westlake is loaded with Northsport players, they are pretty good across the board. Rory got one goal but it was not pretty.
Well, Rory is in 14A team, Hannah is in 14C team. It is as I have foreseen. Hannah did okay in her trial but she was only there one night (because of camp) and I really didn't think the B team would be a good place for her as they play Div 1 and she has a shot at being a started in the C team.
Rory was pretty happy with the result in the lactic acid test (five sets of four laps). It turned out that the test involved 3 minute intervals, he had done a few at 2 minute intervals so 3 minutes seemed easy.
Rory's team had a game on Sunday against Rotorua, they won 15-3. Rory scored four goals, and they were all good quality centre-forward goals. The centre-forward basically sits in front of goal with a defender climbing all over them, it's very hard work.
SPORT
Chelsea beat Reading but lost two goalies in the process, both getting concussed, Bolton beat Newcastle 2-1. Man Utd beat Wigan 3-1, Ollie scored one. Arsenal beat Watford 3-0, Liverpool drew 1-1 with Blackburn.
The Silver Ferns lost to Australia in the first game and won the second, the decider is Tuesday night, I think.
Wellington beat Auckland soundly 30-15, and Waikato beat Otago 44-15, they play each other in the final.
The Kangaroos beat the Kiwis (League in case you aren't sure) 30-18.
MY SAD LIFE
Very quiet week in the house with Hannah away at camp. Rory was at the pool every weeknight and so there was basically only one person in the house on any given night (I had Wednesday off). It got noisy again on Friday night.
Hannah has been quite social, off to movies and other houses over weekend. Rory had a fellow troglodyte over on Sunday.
Took the Pajero to the pool on Saturday and picked up the kayaks from Gavin's on the way home. Was a bit worried about it overheating so stopped in at Dave's (Paul & Roger's Dad) to see what he thought about it. Had to stop on motorway, to check the kayaks because they were moving around in the wind. Made it home eventually.
Gavin and Yana have acquired a puppy, a Labrador but seemed pretty fluffy for a Labrador, no name yet, a female.
Happy birthday to Paul, 39 today. We went out to dinner with him on Saturday night.
Rory refereed at an intermediate tournament on Sunday after his game, so had to return to the pool to pick him up. I think my car just knows which way to go.
Been swimming pretty regularly lately, usually three or four swims a week, which isn't bad. Going to be possibly more now that club polo is in full swing, one or both kids have trainings Monday to Thursday with games dotted Friday, Saturday, Sunday. Knocked off 50 lengths in about 27:30 which is good, I want to do it in 25. My heart rate was 144 when I finished which is in a good place for that sort of effort.
Work continues to be quite busy, should be like that for a little while yet. So much for the theory of going to work for a rest.
ADVERTISEMENTS, A SAD PIECE OF STATING THE OBVIOUS
Okay, there are some that say some pretty futile things in their attempt to make the world buy their products?
An advert for antiseptic soap:
"He exposes himself every day" (to bacteria, but there is a loooong pause, and it just sounds wrong)
"You can tell you've been to Autel Kitchen Appliances"(jingle)
Really? Because they give you a receipt or perhaps a t-shirt that says "I've been to Autel Kitchen Appliances" And so what if you can tell you've been there?
"A tea that listens to your life"
Oh. So the other teas can't listen, or they can but choose to ignore you?
TEN YEARS AGO
Back then, I still remembered that Kelly's (a dog we had, but Gavin adopted, who died about a year ago) birthday was 6th October. We bought a gas barbecue. I can't believe I agreed to that. I hate barbecues, what was I thinking? Or perhaps I didn't know I hated them then. I wonder if it was the beginning of it with numerous events without an apron where my best shorts would get covered in grease and I would stand there burning perfectly good meat in the rain. The Goodin brothers attended the barbecue's inauguration with their wives and we played petanque (we had a petanque court until we added on to the house). Gavin was re-writing the end of his book, now going for the record for the most read book never published.
Ah well, work beckons.
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