The ride-along on Friday night was heaps of fun - everything from someone failing to give way (to the cop car, duh...), drunken friendly neighbours trespassing, overly loud parties, drunk drivers, disqualified drivers, learner drivers, no warrant or reg, kids throwing stones at people, to a convoluted domestic where we ended up having to draw ( Read more... )

The registration on my car was about to fall due, so I've ordered myself a Christmas present.

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I keep meaning to post here, but I've either been too busy, or too tired after being too busy, to post, and it's just been easier to post one liners on Facebook.

There was a rather big fire in Titahi Bay on the 21st that had me busy - providing welfare to evacuees on the first night, then a nine-hour day of fire-fighting the next day, then some ( Read more... )

There are some things that you never want to end, but unfortunately reality intervenes and it's back to whatever happens to pass for normal life in my neck of the woods. Bit of a downer after an awesome week...
Kaikoura - the Seafood BBQ was closed! How frickin' rude! One of my main reasons for going there, and it was closed! There were seals.
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Another one? Greebo, you shouldn't have. No, really. You shouldn't have. At least this one was consumed in the hall.
Hit two rabbits on my way home from gaming last night. My week for dead things, I suppose.

December is an expensive month. On Saturday I spent $520 on 4 new tyres for my car ($130 each, down from $195 each), and $106 on cat food (10kg sack of Maine Coon-sized food). I need a new warrant of fitness next week (hence the new tyres), and then next payday I have to get my ferry tickets for getting to Canterbury Faire, so there goes another ( Read more... )

Dammit, I've had the hiccups on and off all day today.
Cripes, I can't believe it's almost December already! Doesn't time fly when you're having fun... Are we doing Thanksgiving again this year?

December

• 2-5th - North Island EMO conference, Rotorua. Trevor is complaining because I somehow managed to score the "superior" room at the hotel. Cat will ( Read more... )

Ow. The price of petrol has gone up 15c a litre since I last filled up my tank... Nasty.

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Got back from day 2 of my induction tour (including a visit to the wastewater treatment plant - peeewww!), to find that there was a Nissan X-Trail parked out front to take for a spin. Entrails, extrails... It's a bit smaller than the utes we've been looking at. The weird thing was it was an automatic. I haven't driven an automatic in quite some ( Read more... )