Woefully incomplete, sorry. And late too. No excuses.
LOCAL NEWS
A man was charged with assault this week, for a crime he committed in 1979. The arm of the law may be long, but it does not appear to be particularly fast.
Meanwhile. a 15 year old who killed two people while driving exceedingly recklessly has had three months detention and was not even charged with manslaughter.
A bus driver failed to notice hitting a pedestrian on Dominion Road, the pedestrian died. The bus driver did stop and get out of the bus but did not "see" the man lying on the ground. Mind you, how did the pedestrian not see the bus coming? And how could he have been hit if not at the front? (was the bus going backwards?). It all seems very odd.
Another bus driver got distracted and took his passengers down a 35 metre bank on an unplanned basis. He may be in a bit of trouble.
Local music label Dawn Raid closed it's doors this week, upsetting a few people. Hardly the end of the world.
A police dog bit a three year old girl. I think he got distracted.
Two dogs in Murapara did not want to be outdone by the police dog so they mauled and killed a 56 year old woman. The dogs did not live to see another day more than the woman. Is capital punishment of animals right? Especially when their owners are complete pillocks you have to wonder who the guilty party really is. I look forward to a discussion from Brett on the topic.
Rumours of a common currency have resurfaced. Not sure it could happen because we could not have a separate interest rate mechanism if that happened (because people could just borrow in the cheaper country and invest in the higher interest country).
WORLD NEWS
The Virginia Tech was saturation viewing, voyeuristic and hideous. Meanwhile approximately 87 people commit suicide every day in the US, 199 die from diabetes, and 1792 from heart disease. Every day. Makes all the news about 33 dying (arguably from one grandiose suicide) seem excessive, doesn't it? Incidentally, Virginia has just under double the population of NZ and more than three times the number of murders, not that much worse, you could argue.
Meanwhile, one bombing incident in Iraq knocked 139 people off and we got very little on it. Somehow that doesn't seem right.
The Kaz II, a yacht, was found off the coast of Australia with nobody aboard. The motor was running, as was the laptop. This suggested that it had only recently been abandoned. However, GPS records showed it had not been steered for nearly a week. All very strange, life jackets still on board.
REAL SPORT
The only real sport this week was Rory's training for the U15 trial and the trial itself. He worked pretty hard during the week but some aspects of the trial he felt didn't go well. We had a billet stay with us on Saturday night and had to be out at Sacred Heart at 8am on Sunday morning (which was a bit of a struggle). We got news this morning that he is not in the 30 man training squad. I think I would say I am surprised but a little relieved. Not sure what he is thinking, not sure he wanted it that much. Very hard to tell, either way, what he thinks about it.
Katie Goodin had her first soccer game on Saturday. Diana and Hannah went to see. Katie scored two goals and their team won (not sure of exact score but think was 8-0 or something).
No soccer for Hannah, her team had a bye, we couldn't find a game for her to help out with either.
SPORT
The America's Cup Louis Vuitton challenge started with a very small whimper with the first four days lost to no wind. Then Team New Zealand lost their first race. No racing day six, and they won their first race on day seven. Not exactly riveting stuff.
Friday night wasn't such a good night for NZ Sport. The Kiwis lost to Australia in League, Team NZ lost first race in Valencia (oops), and Black Caps lost to Aussies in World Cup cricket. All were quite convincing.
Highlanders beat the Waratahs 26-25, Hurricanes lost to Crusaders, Blues lost 22-33 to Stormers, Chiefs beat the Sharks 35-27.
Man U drew 1-1 with Middlesbrough (bollocks), only saving grace is that Newcastle wrestled 0-0 with Chelsea. Arsenal 2-2 with Spurs, Liverpool beat lowly Wigan 2-0.
MY SAD LIFE
It was Sasha Bamberger's birthday on Friday, she is now four.
Hannah and Diana saw a lot of the Goodins this week. They visited the factory on Monday, and enjoyed it. I accompanied them on Thursday and walked Pippy on Takapuna Beach, which was a nice change of scene and as close as we got to a holiday over the school holidays. Then on Friday, Pippy brought most of the family over to walk on Meola Reef with Hannah and Diana again. Finally, Diana and Hannah saw Katie play her first soccer game on Saturday morning.
Charles is over here at the moment, saw him briefly with Kathryn and kids on Friday.
We had lunch with Mum on Tuesday, finally making it out to the new café. It was good, sat out on the balcony in the sun.
I had a bit of a do on Friday night to celebrate the completion of the number portability project. It was okay, but I think I would rather have been at the pool.
Diana, Rory, and Paul went to the Red Hot Chilli Peppers concert on Sunday night. Hannah and I decided not to go, didn't desperately want to go and $250 odd bucks for the tickets seemed like a waste. Instead, we went out to dinner at Prego, and had a very nice time. The restaurant was full kids (there was one table that was adults only, they call it "happy hour"). This did not diminish our experience. We also went shopping in the morning. In one shop, I think there were two pairs of shoes Hannah did not try on (seriously, she tried on nearly all of them, and they all seemed to be her size, you know, the sample ones).
My backup laptop died on Sunday night, it is pretty sad. We may have a little memorial service for it. Don't know the cost of replacement screen but suspect cheaper to buy another one, which I cannot justify.
Promise to try harder next week. That's all folks.
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