So, I spent Saturday morning at a service for a friend ( Read more... )

... and hadn't found out from facebook, I came 5894th, out of 12,500, with an official time of two hours, four minutes, and nineteen seconds ( Read more... )

So, it's been interesting ( Read more... )

So, yet another year goes by ( Read more... )

I thought people might be interested in what I'd been up to lately.

Plus I need to rant about it a little. If you are upset by ranting or techspeek, now would be the time to turn away. *grin*

( Last week, I got up to this... )

So, over the weekend, the Kohanga Reo o Ngati Ranana had their tenth annual fund-raising Hangi[1], which was, amongst other things, painful, hard work, and a roaring success.

( Whoops. I knew I forgot something... )

... despite the couch being incredibly uncomfortable, I'm sleeping better than I have been in my bed.

Funny how that works.

Bleurgh ( Read more... )

I like boundless optimism.

I especially like the wet, mushy "splut" noise it makes when it runs headlong into cynical reality.

Nuts.

Ah, yeah. Tornado is this great kid. He loves the sink in the bathroom - anything with water, but especially the sink. In fact, he loves it so much he decided to leave it most of one of his front teeth. :-/

Pictures in the usual place. At least, once I get it organised.