As the second proper week of the year, I think things are returning to a more level of normal.
LOCAL NEWS
There was an attempted baby abduction at Middlemore, in South Auckland. As normal, they got all paranoid after that.
The Rena slowly sank but not from the news. They now reckon it will take two years to sort out and detritus has been appearing all over the place. I really don't get why they couldn't somehow refloat it and tow it away from trouble quickly, it ran aground back in November.
Some New Zealand born person in Perth is fighting deportation, because he reckons his family will be a bad influence on him. He was arrested to beating some small time drug vendor in Perth. Hasn't the bad influence horse already bolted?
Another week, another major downpour for Nelson.
The Auckland Port continues to sink into the poo.
A man went ballistic when Wendy's got his lunch order wrong in Lynfield. He destroyed things and it took five police to detain him. Would have been quite fun to see. There appears to be two stories as to what happened, but Wendys are bastards so I am siding with him. He is banned from the Lynfield Wendys now, but still allowed to go to others. I wonder how the staff at the other branches feel?
In Tauranga, a man set fire to himself by smoking while he refilled his lawn mower, who'd have thought? ACC told us that 3450 similar accidents were reported last year and cost $10m. Apparently a similar thing happened to a guy while siphoning petrol. Sheesh. If cellphones are "dangerous" around gas stations, then wouldn't cigarettes be really dangerous?
Meanwhile, a pregnant woman in Rotorua got the bash from another woman. Probably the father's wife or something.
Some woman is selling the chance to tattoo her arse on trademe and the bidding is well up into the thousands. Good grief.
Drownings this year is up to about 10. A canoeist got washed away down the Whanganui River.
Meanwhile, a man was killed by a train, and a body was found in a Wellington drain. A wedding guest was killed, probably in a drunken stupor, out on the road outside the do in the early hours on Sunday morning. Don't drink and walk, ever.
Some old golfer got two holes in one in one round, but his total wasn't pretty. Seems kind of typical of golf, really.
A fire in a motel turned out to be a meth lab accident, motelier wasn't too happy, and seemed a little uneasy about it - like he knew bloody well what was going on. The retards came back the next day to get their stuff and got arrested.
WORLD NEWS
I forgot to mention an article on what your facebook profile photo says about you. Apparently a quirky shot means you are staying true to the pre-spam generation, whatever that means. It seems that most options are uncool. Your kids, your pet, an action hero, an arty shot, a drunken moment, you name it. With 700 million out there, they are all cliché…
Eric Cantona wants to be President of France, that would be cool. Maybe Zidane would be cooler. Is it better to have a head butter or drop kicker as President? In retaliation, David Beckham wants to become king of Narnia (according to News Thump).
While CES (Consumer Electronics Show) was announcing cool stuff at regular intervals, there was a study released that says we drive as bad when we are sick as we do when we are drunk. Interesting concept.
Top Gear has managed to offend yet another third world country by telling the truth about them, this time it is India. Can we just take it as read that they will be offensive about wherever they go and move on?
The cruise liner in Italy made the news a lot until we heard the only New Zealander on it was okay. Last I heard eight were dead, no three, wait five, and about 40 missing.
The euro seems to be still bouncing all over the show.
SPORT
Turns out there was another test between Australia and India, but by the time I heard about it Australia had already won by an innings.
Swansea City beat Arsenal 3-2, good grief. Worse still, Blackburn were down to 10 men after 22 minutes and still beat Fulham 3-1. Chelsea squeaked a 1-0 over Sunderland, Liverpool drew 0-0 with Stoke City (why bother to show up). And Man United managed to beat Bolton 3-0, despite that fool Rooney missing a penalty.
MY SAD LIFE
It was relatively quiet this week, while Hannah was away. She took my Wifi 3g to stay connected, so she could not email us in style. Still only used 400Mb out of 2Gb on it, but it has been so useful.
Hannah got her NCEA results on Thursday, earlier that I thought, the results were largely as expected and hoped - she passed with Excellence, and got the excellence endorsement in Accounting, and Art Design. She had hoped to get it in others, but I think she is pretty happy with the result.
Rory fills his drink bottle nocturnally, apparently. And about 4am one night this week he filled it from the garden hose. He did have the foresight to check it before he drank from it and found a weta in the bottle, which some of us knew had been living in the end of the hose. Near miss, there.
Rory was proud, he made the front page of Reddit with this "rage comic": http://imgur.com/UWH06 He continues to administer his LOL forum, which continues to gain in popularity.
We had dinner with the Bambis on Wednesday night at Prego for Bambi's birthday. We saw actress Robyn Malcolm there. We always see some actor or some "luminary". We had dessert at café Cezanne down the other end of Ponsonby Road, and it was pretty good.
Diana installed Office 2010 on her computer because I refused to. I had to use it later in the week and it sucks completely. I really don't get why people want it.
We had Maddie and Kim over for dinner on Saturday (Kim being Rory's mother in law).
I have reconnected with Skyrim world. I hadn't touched it for about 10 days, but Rory's absence for work has made it possible. I have enjoyed it.
This may explain why it feels like I haven't achieved a heck of a lot this week, but I did actually have work and I was reasonably busy with it. I had lunch with Peter (my business partner) on Friday at Bluebird, a bit of tranquillity every visit, I just love the peanut sauce dish they do.
One thing I have achieved is an improved system for dealing with inbound videos, I am sure you are all very pleased to learn of this. It will save time and be safer.
Meanwhile, Mum was off around the north island visiting siblings again. So on Sunday she got a cat. But don't tell anyone, it's an illegal immigrant.
Sarah went off with the family on her birthday, sounds like she had fun. She went on a ferry, but not to Rangitoto….(she's never forgiven me for that, I don't think)
Young Thomas is off in a school holiday program this week, learning to program in iOS for iPads and iPhones etc. Should be very cool. I am a little jealous.
Today is Joe's birthday, well, tomorrow I suppose because it is still the 15th in Texas, assuming I send this soon, which is less than certain.
Times up, I am really going to send it now.
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