I type this from my new office, from within the house, facing South.
LOCAL NEWS
The people that inflicted injuries on a three year old were concerned about being filmed in court because they fear for their lives in prison. Awful, how could the system let them risk their lives like that? I mean, a three year old wouldn't be scared when put in a drier, would they? I hope they all become the playthings of Mr and Mrs Big who are "in" with the warders.
Then, on Friday, little Nia (the three year old with a strong affinity with wet washing) died. The charge of manslaughter was added.
Controversy at the pie of the year competition when the supreme award was a vegetarian pie. The expected riots from farmers did not eventuate.
Wednesday was the 100th anniversary of the scouting movement.
News this week that office laser printers release micro particles that are worse than those released by cigarette smoke.
The Birgit Brauer murder case ended, the defendant was found to be guilty. It was then revealed he had 65 previous convictions. Not sure I agree with the withholding of the background of scumbags like that. But even more perversely, the entire population is now expected to forget this information in time for his next trial (and let's face it there is a good chance of that).
A 57 year old man found beaten to death in Foxton was also unmasked as a molesterer since he was 17. The man arrested for it pleaded not guilty.
Nasty accident when an unmarked police car hit a pole at a pedestrian crossing, felling the pole and in turn felling a pedestrian.
National Party Leader John Key spoke at their conference and made a gaffe by promising to lead the next Labour Government.
Been a bit of a fuss about country of origin of food. Many people have been particularly upset about peanut butter coming from China (which is a little odd because I understand they grow a bucket load of peanuts).
WORLD NEWS
The bridge collapse over the Mississippi river was very nasty in Minneapolis, although casualties seem to have been quite low.
The outbreak of foot and mouth disease in Surrey, England, has them all paranoid in New Zealand.
REAL SPORT
Hannah only had a Sharks game on Friday, against Rangeview, the only team in Div 1 they had not yet played. They played reasonably well, but can do better, and won 7-4. Hannah had to mark Emma, a club player who made it to the final 30 or so for National U15 girls selection (not bad for girl turning 13 this year). Hannah did very well to reduce her effectiveness and managed to score one screamer of a goal.
Soccer was postponed due to weather. Now it looks like half the team will be missing for next week.
Rory had a 16B club game, against the B-team from the club who's C-team they drew with the week before. It was a little scratchy but they won 6-4. Rory wasn't having a good day, but he worked hard.
SPORT
Hawke's Bay upset Wellington 8-6, Auckland beat BOP 41-3, Tasman beat Manawatu 33-10, Otago beat Northland 23-20, North Harbour defended the shield against Taranaki 19-13, Canterbury won 52-13 over Counties Manukau.
The Warriors drew 31-31 with the Roosters, despite playing golden goal extra time.
Manchester United beat Chelsea in the Charity Shield, 1-1 at full time, winning on penalties. This signifies the beginning of the UK football season.
MY SAD LIFE
Well, Tuesday came, Rory turned 15. The package I was tracking from UPS was stuff for his birthday, but of course he never reads these emails so he had no clue (he does receive them).
Got a couple of interesting responses about my sequence of squares, including the mathematical proof from Charles, which goes like this:
(x + 1)^2 - x^2
= (x + 1)(x + 1) - x^2
= (x^2 + 2x + 1) - x^2
= 2x + 1
= x + x + 1
= (x + 1) + x
q.e.d
I am not sure what is worse, the fact that he did it, the fact that I understand it, or the fact that one of the Dads I talk to at the pool during the week did the same thing off the top of his head on Monday night on the back of his bookmark (he is an economics professor so not entirely surprising).
We had a quiet dinner for Rory's birthday on Thursday (even though it was actually on Tuesday). Such is the state of our timetable that Hannah did not join us for the dinner, and I barely made it (Hannah had two soccer trainings on Thursday night, see below). Priya attended, and brought a cake. Nanny and Granny were also there.
Hannah and Miranda Chase trained with the Div 1 women's team on Thursday night, less than an hour after regular training. They both enjoyed it, they now want some of the equipment that the women have (like goal poles and little stepladders). Hannah scored three goals in the game at the end, she was very happy. She was also happy when she got a letter about under 13 rep trials for Soccer 2.
The cancellation of soccer gave us much more time to get things ready for the party on Saturday. Finally removed one of the desks in the sleep out and put it in the new office, along with the safe (which I have kicked about five times today so far, so it has to move), and other bits. We had a few issues around DSL and phones, and Rory did useful things like take the vacuum cleaner out there, leave it there a while, then return it (turning it on isn't required for it to have done something useful).
Saturday night was the night of the sleepover for Rory's birthday. We gave them some beer, not a huge amount, a dozen stubbies among eight kids. At one point Hannah, quite appropriately, asked "Are they drunk, or just stupid?". This was, of course, an impossible question to answer because if they were drunk they would have been drunk AND stupid, they are always stupid. At 2pm a mother arrived to remove two of them, who had not informed or asked anyone about them staying. We were woken regularly by nocturnal visitors to the bathroom (they don't actually sleep at a sleepover, you see). As previously stated, teenagers just don't come with a "silent mode".
On Sunday, we were pretty knackered, I continued to try to sort out the new office while Hannah was working on learning her speech for school. Took a break by taking a walk to Western Springs and back with Diana, Hannah ran there and walked back with us. Rory slept. Hannah delivers her speech today in the first round, she was getting a little stressed, she really didn't need to.
Some time this week, Rory will sit the theory test which makes him a learner driver. Oh god.
I really need to sort out a few things. My PC currently has 14 excel docs open, 15 word documents, five browser tabs, and 7 emails. I think I need to finish some things. Alongside this, I have already been out to Rory's room five times, I think, to get blank DVDs, my phone, hooks for cables, iPod (the battery on mine is thoroughly dead, lasts about 3 songs now), power pack for iPod (guess why), and I know I have two more things to go and get but I have forgotten what they are.
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