Arguably, my own view isn't always particularly discerning, as many of you could readily attest.
LOCAL NEWS
There has been lots of news about a teacher that was a convicted sex offender. There's no detail about the offence, it was a while ago, but I am not sure where I stand on it. He's teacher 15yo girls, and to be honest, they can stick up for themselves from what I have seen. I suppose that they can't really tell the kids about him, but in some ways I wonder if that might be a good idea.
We had a few fatal car crashes, a quad bike death (tragic loss of a fun loving son, you know the drill). Just your usual sort of thing.
Some motorcyclist died while competing in a timed hill climb event. There was no mention of whether he was beating the winning time.
Some young girls were hit by a train and hurt when they leapt to avoid the said train. I can't help but wonder why people aren't calling for better supervision of children, etc. They don't seem to be blaming the train, which surprises the hell out of me.
The wharf strike at Auckland has continued, with the workers who labour 26 hours a week for a mere $91,000 now being made redundant (and getting up to a year payout). This, not being good enough, was motivation for them to block rush hour traffic this morning, not sure who feels more supportive of them as a result, I would love to meet them and learn their views on euthanasia for the criminally deranged.
Former All Black and current (temporarily) administrator Jock Hobbs is in hospital for what sounds like it is the last time. Funny, nobody seems to have bought his story for the women's magazines.
There's been a bit of noise about an New Zealand woman who's husband has taken their children to Algeria and she can't get them back. It all sounds exceedingly dodgy (he took the whole family back there on the pretext his father was ill, he wasn't, he took all their passports, and held them captive, the woman escaped but left her kids behind, which seems odd).
There's been a bit of noise about New Zealand cricketers involved with match fixing. I don't really get it, because a) you would think that most punters would know better by now, b) you would think that most bookies would know better by now, c) what happens if a punter fixes something and a bookie fixes something that goes contrary to the other "fixing". There are, after all, two teams in most matches. And finally, d) New Zealand are crap and anyone betting on them to win anything must know something, or have way too much money, in which case why don't they just donate it to someone?
They reckon reported HIV cases in New Zealand are dropping. I didn't notice any ACC statistics this week, which is disappointing. I suppose, given that you don't contract HIV deliberately (well, not very often) then perhaps this could be considered accidental. Oh, and after I wrote this I saw an article about a woman that won compo from ACC for the stress of her lover was HIV positive. Couldn't have asked first? Couldn't have used the usual precautions? Nope. ACC is there.
WORLD NEWS
I know I shouldn't laugh at the misfortune of others, but sometimes it is particularly hard not to. The case of a Sri Lankan man, for example, who was setting a record for being buried alive. The problem was, when they dug him out he wasn't alive any more. So now they don't know how long he was buried alive before he was buried the regular way. Technically, he was alive but unconscious, so he was still alive, but they could have saved a lot of bother if they just left him buried.
Joseph Kony 2012. I shouldn't say anything, but this guy came out of nowhere, a nasty Ugandan man who gets kids to kill their parents and then join his army. He put the infant back in to infantry, and created sooo many memes and jokes in such a short time. The man is a legend. And yet, according to some he was kicked out of Uganda years ago, so the whole thing is a total joke.
I did put this on Facebook, but this is an utterly insane corkscrew, and very very cool: http://youtu.be/31cl8Obftdg
Things in Afghanistan don't seem to be going too well for the Americans, I suppose killing 16 villagers is considered rude. Given the view on destroying the Koran, I love the idea of cladding Humvees and soldiers in them.
The Republican primaries drag on. I saw a bumper sticker that said "America - don't re-nig 2012". Very nice.
Apparently Iraq has a new sport, killing Emos.
The USS Enterprise is on it's last mission. It is a 50 year old aircraft carrier. I think it is being scrapped, which is a terrible shame. I would love to see it.
The solar storm was a non-event of non-biblical proportions. The guys on the ISS didn't even get super powers.
REAL SPORT
Hannah's volleyball team beat Kristin on Wednesday. My junior boys lost 5-15 to Mags B but they had a few A players in the team.
SPORT
Lionel Messi scored five goals in a Champs League game this week, the dude is awesome. I watched the video here a couple of weeks ago - http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=9S7hlL4sJek
The Black Caps lost the first test to SA. Not sure why I mention this because it isn't really news or noteworthy. They are nowhere near the class of the South Africans, and to think otherwise is simply delusional.
Man Utd beat West Brom 2-0 thanks to that Rooney person. Swansea City missed a penalty but somehow scored at the other end of the game to beat Man City 1-0. Chelsea squeaked past Stoke 1-0 in the 93rd minute 1-0. Sunderland got a valuable 1-0 at the expense of Liverpool. Spurs lost 0-1 to Everton. Man Utd have squeaked past City to lead the table now with daylight coming third, Spurs are well behind then Arsenal and Chelsea 4th equal.
I didn't hear anything about the Super 15, although I heard Kevin Mealamu got a bottle in the back of the head during the game against the Bulls.
Local sportswoman Valerie Adams now holds every major title in the shot put.
MY SAD LIFE
I spent the week dealing with the ever more complex obstacle course at Western Springs Lake as they built more stages, toilets and stalls for Pasifika on Saturday. It takes them about 2 weeks to set it up, which seems bizarre. It is on for one day only, doesn't seem worth the bother.
Hannah has thrown herself completely into the shave for a cure thing, and is grinding away at her target. She is planning to sell the right to shave her head on trademe now, which may draw some attention. She wore sandwich boards on Queen St on Saturday and three of them raised a further $400.
Diana and Hannah finished their pattern making course at night school, it was only four weeks.
Charles donated (although I suspect it might have been Steph) to Shave for a Cure, Hilary Barry (a TV3 newsreader) donated half as much as Charles. She is about two weeks away from doing the deed. If you want to, the link is here http://www.shaveforacure.co.nz/view_event_profile/5792.
Speaking of Charles, I see it is Steph's birthday on Friday, hope you have the gift sorted dude.
Meanwhile, on top of this, she has found someone for her food tech project, a lady called Philippa who is opening a bakery in Grey Lynn, she has met with her a couple of times and Philippa seems to be streaming considerable amounts of data into Hannah by email and verbally. It's good experience for Hannah, so fingers crossed.
On Friday night, water polo was at EGGS, so Diana came with me and we went to One Tree Hill and walked up it from Sorrento, only took half an hour. There were tons of sheep wandering around and getting in the way, and plenty of sheep poo also.
Saturday, because of Pasifika, getting anywhere was logistically challenging. We dropped Hannah off at a meeting with Phillipa, went to Lake Pupuke for coffee and watched some newbie divers and a woman feeding her toddler to the ducks. Then we came home and attacked the garden a fair bit.
I still haven't fired up the 3d printer but I did do some fiddling and I think I am going to have a crack anyway. There is a little slope on the base plate but it is about 1mm the entire range of it so it isn't a lot and I am not certain how I can readily fix it.
Diana and I watched an interesting documentary called The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia. I don't really approve of reality show nonsense, but this was oddly compelling, I think we understand hillbillies a little better now. Not sure if that is of any use at all, but there you go.
On Sunday it was a bit wet, so we went to the movies. Diana saw some Marilyn Monroe thing and me, Rory, Koos, and Gavin saw John Carter and it was pretty good, I think. Certainly didn't deserve all the buzz about there not being any buzz.
Rory just posted on facebook that he got round of applause from a group of old ladies (probably over 30s) on a bus. Diana wants to know why. I just hope he remembered to wear pants.
Diana is having the book coven here tomorrow. Trying to think of somewhere to go.
And with that thought, I shall leave you all in relative peace, until next Monday NZDST…
12 March 2012
8 March 2012
Double standards, weather wise, and Hannah is going to shave her head for cancer.
LOCAL NEWS
Local man Bret McKenzie won an Oscar, so there was no escaping that news. I still disagree with awards in sport and show business. Until we have dentists, teachers, and panel beaters on the red carpet then I think we should boycott such things. Someone edited his Wikipedia entry and every time his name was mentioned it said "Bret Oscar Winning McKenzie", but they fixed it.
That tosser Kim Dotcom wanted to have $220,000 released per month for living expenses. That would pay for a charter plane out of the country, pretty easily, I suspect.
February 29th upset EFTPOS machines in New Zealand and Australia, pathetic.
There was a fuss because five kids were locked in a van while their parents were gambling. If they were in a queue at the bank, nobody would care. Good thing they weren't filming porn or something. What if they locked their kids in the van while they were delivering food parcels to the poor or doling out soup in a soup kitchen? Bet nobody would care then.
There seems to be increasing amounts of industrial action. The Auckland port is still largely shut and the Australians are threatening to mistreat any vessel that does business in Auckland with scabs. Affco locked out meatworker and had people standing around doing very little (so, a normal day, with slightly less risk of personal injury).
It was announced that Christchurch Cathedral is officially knackered.
Nasty weather that drenched NSW came to the North Island for a change of scenery, pretty windy and wet on Saturday. Apparently "weather bomb" is an actual measurable phrase in weatherology (meteorology is the study of meteors, how could it be anything to do with weather?).
Some crazy woman that secretly was pregnant, gave birth on her own, and then smothered the baby and kept it in a wardrobe until it was discovered 40 days later turned out to have done pretty much the same thing a couple of years before. These kind of people need to be sterilised. She also should become a midwife, sounds like she knows what she is doing in the delivery department, as long as she can not smother them afterward.
A skydiver that was part of the half time entertainment at Eden Park injured his leg in one of a number of rough landings due to swirling winds.
Some wine swilling snobs are whinging about an ad for beer that suggests in the 80's men had to drink wine because the beer wasn't very sophisticated until DB Export Dry was invented. Pathetic.
The Raspberry Pi computer made the news here. It's been around a while, it kind of surprised me in that a computer that small has been around for a long time, just not as connectable or cheap, I suppose.
The Auckland Mayor is doing an incredibly good job of getting himself voted out very bloody fast. Every view he takes seems to be the opposite of common sense. I just hope we find a clear candidate to take over that is not certifiably insane.
An 8 year old boy was driving around Wellington in an SUV this morning, wearing pyjamas. He hit a few cars and walls, which isn't really atypical of the average incompetent SUV driver if you ask me. Not sure if the clothing makes a lot of difference, but adds some colour to the whole thing. (Blue, in case you are wondering).
WORLD NEWS
There was a fire on a sister ship of the dreaded Costa Concordia, not a promising trend. Sounded pretty grim for a couple of days without power or water. Very Lord of the Flies.
There was a low volume shooting at a school in Cleveland. Isn't it oddly inconsistent that America seems to be the home of the bully and yet it is also a place where handguns are reasonably accessible. It got me thinking though, in places like Sierra Leone, do they have random shootings at schools and stuff (if they actually have schools) given that it feels like kids are born with AK-47s or RPGs in their hand…
Auto-correct on an iPhone caused an emergency at an American school when "gunna" was changed to "gunman" in a text from a student there.
Monkee Davy Jones has died, I think that means they need to lose one more before they are in the same position as the Beatles. On the good side, it was better having their music on the radio that Whitney's. I think it was coincidence that the episode of Modern Family this week that screened in the US included the lines:
Man A - Hey
Man B - Hey
Man A&B together - We're the monkeys.
(they were dressing up as Wizard of Oz flying monkeys). It made me laugh, anyway. So did the speculation as to whether he would be buried in his own locker.
Gavin noted that the New Zealand press was all about weather bombs and "it was like a war zone, trees were snapping like twigs" {news flash, trees ARE big twigs}. Meanwhile, 30 odd people died in the US from twisters and stuff and nobody really cared here.
Nice bit from NewsThump - a dress wearing 73 year old unmarried celibate man spoke out against gay marriage. Just because the Cardinal has no clue what he's talking about doesn't stop him. Plenty of people on that particular train, friend.
Legendary artist Ralph McQuarrie died over the weekend, at 82. To be fair, I kind of thought he was dead already so I won't pretend I am particularly sad. He designed a lot of the Star Wars characters, weapons, and people (like Vader) and a ton of other stuff.
REAL SPORT
My junior boys lost 4-7 to St Peters B on Friday night. Hannah's volleyball team lost both games this week, but one very narrowly.
SPORT
Jamaica beat the All Whites 3-2 on Wednesday night. I did consider going, but didn't. Only 15,000 actually did.
The Black Caps kept losing to the South Africans, no real surprises to any sane intelligent people. This, of course, means the media didn't expect it at all.
Fulham smacked Wolves 5-0, Man Utd managed a 3-1 away win over Spurs, Sunderland had a draw against Newcastle, Liverpool lost 1-2 to Arsenal, Man City beat Bolton 2-0, Chelsea lost 0-1 to West Bromich Albion, so Roman Abramovich bought them with the change he had in his car's ashtray.
The Warriors lost their first game of the season, the Blues lost their second. In fact, there were three games at Eden Park in three days and the home team lost each time. The Highlanders beat the Crusaders, I think.
MY SAD LIFE
I didn't get billed for any excess consumption from my ISP, I was pretty surprised, but what the heck. I got another four days free this week. While my IP phone continues to occasionally cut out mid conversation, I will take everything I can get. I also discovered my call waiting functionality has been disabled. I am not happy.
So, a few days back we gave Diana heaps for clicking on something on Facebook from Jackie, who had clearly been somewhere dodgy. Rory did especially. So then on Wednesday, we all got emails from "Rory". Turns out that a while back he changed his hotmail password because of the same problem, but he decided to change it back to the old password and BANG, all the spam started flying again. Who's the noob now?
Tuesday night I went to a manspace meeting, it was pretty scary, but I met a couple of guys who were fiddling with their own version of a reprap 3d printer, was vaguely useful and relatively interesting.
Friday was a pretty big day for me, went to Hamilton, tooted meaningless fake support to the locked out workers at Horotiu, meeting at 9am, back home by about 2:30pm, then went to polo, home by about 5pm, saw a P-lab bust going down on Meola Road on the way home.
Hannah did a lot of cooking this week. A birthday cake for someone, some cookies, éclairs, and two lots of bread. Not sure whether it was stress baking or procrastibaking. Either way, there was plenty of mess.
As I noted on Facebook on Saturday, I really have to stop putting my dirty laundry in the rubbish bin. A) it makes the rubbish bin smell bad, B) it creates concern and worry for anyone who observes the behaviour, and often that includes me, and C) I am running out of socks....
I redeemed myself later in the day by fixing Hannah's computer. With a vacuum cleaner…FTW!
Then a bit later still, I forgot where I left my gherkin. I think on balance I didn't win on Saturday.
Diana and I went out on Saturday, because despite not being home much on Friday, I just needed to get out for a while. We went to Bluebird Café for some serenity, and that boosted my levels considerably. Then we went in to the city, and fought with a parking meter. This time, my tool of choice was a pocket knife, and I won, sort of. We managed to force enough change into it to get just over an hour parking, but more would have been nice. We walked past the new art gallery, and would have gone in if the parking meter hadn't been so uncooperative. We went to a shoe store, Pat Menzies, my favourite shoe store for some considerable time (I seriously wonder if I own any shoes that didn't come from there now, I think one dead pair of crocs and my dog walking shoes would be all). Diana ended up assisting an Indian guy who needed shoes to match his suit for a wedding (turned out it was his wedding, later on). I got some new plastic shoes for poolside. On the way back, I got some new jeans, two pairs, and nearly bought a suit but we ran out of time (so, council, your fascist parking machinery prevented me from visiting the $120m art gallery upgrade and one of your retailers missed out on selling a suit, how's that working out for you?).
The whole parking experience helped inspire me, alongside Diana's $100 battle with the insurance company, and I think I have resolved to start fighting back. I intend to start shit stirring very soon (after I hit send on this).
Rory's first week at Uni was decorated with contrasting visits to Sciences and Arts faculties to change things. Science is particularly fast and efficient, and Arts requires all forms to have a photo of a rainbow attached. He has stolen Diana's ebook reader, she seems remarkably okay with it so far.
My friend Matt, plus Kristy and Michaela were supposed to be doing a run thing for cancer on Saturday night but it was cancelled due to the weather, which actually wasn't that bad, and by Sunday we had a very crisp clear day (with a good bit of wind, but who's complaining).
On Sunday, Diana and I went to Devonport, visited the craft market (which was mostly pretty gay and feeble) and had lunch in the sun by the water.
Hannah is shaving her head on March 27th. She is selling her hair and donating the proceeds to Shave for a Cure, a cancer charity. She is selling the hair, which is pretty damn long, and donating that also. I don't think hair is worth very much, you can't really make a living growing it. If you wish to donate you can here (you can leave a message and your name, even a $1 gets you that (maybe even less), would be awesome if some of you could) http://www.shaveforacure.co.nz/view_event_profile/5792
It would be really cool if you could leave messages, especially where in the world you are from, that would be neat.
I am hoping to score some matching beanies from Lothlorian, once I know how many at her school are doing it, so far I think about ten.
Oh well, I can't think of who I haven't managed to offend, so I will stop anyway with the thought that if I haven't offended you by now, it's probably because you're not very important.
Local man Bret McKenzie won an Oscar, so there was no escaping that news. I still disagree with awards in sport and show business. Until we have dentists, teachers, and panel beaters on the red carpet then I think we should boycott such things. Someone edited his Wikipedia entry and every time his name was mentioned it said "Bret Oscar Winning McKenzie", but they fixed it.
That tosser Kim Dotcom wanted to have $220,000 released per month for living expenses. That would pay for a charter plane out of the country, pretty easily, I suspect.
February 29th upset EFTPOS machines in New Zealand and Australia, pathetic.
There was a fuss because five kids were locked in a van while their parents were gambling. If they were in a queue at the bank, nobody would care. Good thing they weren't filming porn or something. What if they locked their kids in the van while they were delivering food parcels to the poor or doling out soup in a soup kitchen? Bet nobody would care then.
There seems to be increasing amounts of industrial action. The Auckland port is still largely shut and the Australians are threatening to mistreat any vessel that does business in Auckland with scabs. Affco locked out meatworker and had people standing around doing very little (so, a normal day, with slightly less risk of personal injury).
It was announced that Christchurch Cathedral is officially knackered.
Nasty weather that drenched NSW came to the North Island for a change of scenery, pretty windy and wet on Saturday. Apparently "weather bomb" is an actual measurable phrase in weatherology (meteorology is the study of meteors, how could it be anything to do with weather?).
Some crazy woman that secretly was pregnant, gave birth on her own, and then smothered the baby and kept it in a wardrobe until it was discovered 40 days later turned out to have done pretty much the same thing a couple of years before. These kind of people need to be sterilised. She also should become a midwife, sounds like she knows what she is doing in the delivery department, as long as she can not smother them afterward.
A skydiver that was part of the half time entertainment at Eden Park injured his leg in one of a number of rough landings due to swirling winds.
Some wine swilling snobs are whinging about an ad for beer that suggests in the 80's men had to drink wine because the beer wasn't very sophisticated until DB Export Dry was invented. Pathetic.
The Raspberry Pi computer made the news here. It's been around a while, it kind of surprised me in that a computer that small has been around for a long time, just not as connectable or cheap, I suppose.
The Auckland Mayor is doing an incredibly good job of getting himself voted out very bloody fast. Every view he takes seems to be the opposite of common sense. I just hope we find a clear candidate to take over that is not certifiably insane.
An 8 year old boy was driving around Wellington in an SUV this morning, wearing pyjamas. He hit a few cars and walls, which isn't really atypical of the average incompetent SUV driver if you ask me. Not sure if the clothing makes a lot of difference, but adds some colour to the whole thing. (Blue, in case you are wondering).
WORLD NEWS
There was a fire on a sister ship of the dreaded Costa Concordia, not a promising trend. Sounded pretty grim for a couple of days without power or water. Very Lord of the Flies.
There was a low volume shooting at a school in Cleveland. Isn't it oddly inconsistent that America seems to be the home of the bully and yet it is also a place where handguns are reasonably accessible. It got me thinking though, in places like Sierra Leone, do they have random shootings at schools and stuff (if they actually have schools) given that it feels like kids are born with AK-47s or RPGs in their hand…
Auto-correct on an iPhone caused an emergency at an American school when "gunna" was changed to "gunman" in a text from a student there.
Monkee Davy Jones has died, I think that means they need to lose one more before they are in the same position as the Beatles. On the good side, it was better having their music on the radio that Whitney's. I think it was coincidence that the episode of Modern Family this week that screened in the US included the lines:
Man A - Hey
Man B - Hey
Man A&B together - We're the monkeys.
(they were dressing up as Wizard of Oz flying monkeys). It made me laugh, anyway. So did the speculation as to whether he would be buried in his own locker.
Gavin noted that the New Zealand press was all about weather bombs and "it was like a war zone, trees were snapping like twigs" {news flash, trees ARE big twigs}. Meanwhile, 30 odd people died in the US from twisters and stuff and nobody really cared here.
Nice bit from NewsThump - a dress wearing 73 year old unmarried celibate man spoke out against gay marriage. Just because the Cardinal has no clue what he's talking about doesn't stop him. Plenty of people on that particular train, friend.
Legendary artist Ralph McQuarrie died over the weekend, at 82. To be fair, I kind of thought he was dead already so I won't pretend I am particularly sad. He designed a lot of the Star Wars characters, weapons, and people (like Vader) and a ton of other stuff.
REAL SPORT
My junior boys lost 4-7 to St Peters B on Friday night. Hannah's volleyball team lost both games this week, but one very narrowly.
SPORT
Jamaica beat the All Whites 3-2 on Wednesday night. I did consider going, but didn't. Only 15,000 actually did.
The Black Caps kept losing to the South Africans, no real surprises to any sane intelligent people. This, of course, means the media didn't expect it at all.
Fulham smacked Wolves 5-0, Man Utd managed a 3-1 away win over Spurs, Sunderland had a draw against Newcastle, Liverpool lost 1-2 to Arsenal, Man City beat Bolton 2-0, Chelsea lost 0-1 to West Bromich Albion, so Roman Abramovich bought them with the change he had in his car's ashtray.
The Warriors lost their first game of the season, the Blues lost their second. In fact, there were three games at Eden Park in three days and the home team lost each time. The Highlanders beat the Crusaders, I think.
MY SAD LIFE
I didn't get billed for any excess consumption from my ISP, I was pretty surprised, but what the heck. I got another four days free this week. While my IP phone continues to occasionally cut out mid conversation, I will take everything I can get. I also discovered my call waiting functionality has been disabled. I am not happy.
So, a few days back we gave Diana heaps for clicking on something on Facebook from Jackie, who had clearly been somewhere dodgy. Rory did especially. So then on Wednesday, we all got emails from "Rory". Turns out that a while back he changed his hotmail password because of the same problem, but he decided to change it back to the old password and BANG, all the spam started flying again. Who's the noob now?
Tuesday night I went to a manspace meeting, it was pretty scary, but I met a couple of guys who were fiddling with their own version of a reprap 3d printer, was vaguely useful and relatively interesting.
Friday was a pretty big day for me, went to Hamilton, tooted meaningless fake support to the locked out workers at Horotiu, meeting at 9am, back home by about 2:30pm, then went to polo, home by about 5pm, saw a P-lab bust going down on Meola Road on the way home.
Hannah did a lot of cooking this week. A birthday cake for someone, some cookies, éclairs, and two lots of bread. Not sure whether it was stress baking or procrastibaking. Either way, there was plenty of mess.
As I noted on Facebook on Saturday, I really have to stop putting my dirty laundry in the rubbish bin. A) it makes the rubbish bin smell bad, B) it creates concern and worry for anyone who observes the behaviour, and often that includes me, and C) I am running out of socks....
I redeemed myself later in the day by fixing Hannah's computer. With a vacuum cleaner…FTW!
Then a bit later still, I forgot where I left my gherkin. I think on balance I didn't win on Saturday.
Diana and I went out on Saturday, because despite not being home much on Friday, I just needed to get out for a while. We went to Bluebird Café for some serenity, and that boosted my levels considerably. Then we went in to the city, and fought with a parking meter. This time, my tool of choice was a pocket knife, and I won, sort of. We managed to force enough change into it to get just over an hour parking, but more would have been nice. We walked past the new art gallery, and would have gone in if the parking meter hadn't been so uncooperative. We went to a shoe store, Pat Menzies, my favourite shoe store for some considerable time (I seriously wonder if I own any shoes that didn't come from there now, I think one dead pair of crocs and my dog walking shoes would be all). Diana ended up assisting an Indian guy who needed shoes to match his suit for a wedding (turned out it was his wedding, later on). I got some new plastic shoes for poolside. On the way back, I got some new jeans, two pairs, and nearly bought a suit but we ran out of time (so, council, your fascist parking machinery prevented me from visiting the $120m art gallery upgrade and one of your retailers missed out on selling a suit, how's that working out for you?).
The whole parking experience helped inspire me, alongside Diana's $100 battle with the insurance company, and I think I have resolved to start fighting back. I intend to start shit stirring very soon (after I hit send on this).
Rory's first week at Uni was decorated with contrasting visits to Sciences and Arts faculties to change things. Science is particularly fast and efficient, and Arts requires all forms to have a photo of a rainbow attached. He has stolen Diana's ebook reader, she seems remarkably okay with it so far.
My friend Matt, plus Kristy and Michaela were supposed to be doing a run thing for cancer on Saturday night but it was cancelled due to the weather, which actually wasn't that bad, and by Sunday we had a very crisp clear day (with a good bit of wind, but who's complaining).
On Sunday, Diana and I went to Devonport, visited the craft market (which was mostly pretty gay and feeble) and had lunch in the sun by the water.
Hannah is shaving her head on March 27th. She is selling her hair and donating the proceeds to Shave for a Cure, a cancer charity. She is selling the hair, which is pretty damn long, and donating that also. I don't think hair is worth very much, you can't really make a living growing it. If you wish to donate you can here (you can leave a message and your name, even a $1 gets you that (maybe even less), would be awesome if some of you could) http://www.shaveforacure.co.nz/view_event_profile/5792
It would be really cool if you could leave messages, especially where in the world you are from, that would be neat.
I am hoping to score some matching beanies from Lothlorian, once I know how many at her school are doing it, so far I think about ten.
Oh well, I can't think of who I haven't managed to offend, so I will stop anyway with the thought that if I haven't offended you by now, it's probably because you're not very important.
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