I'm back home after my trips to Melbourne and NZ. My worst-case scenario of not being able to see Supernatural until I got home* didn't come to pass, since I was able to get my download quota increased by staying an extra night at a motel. They normally only offered 50MB/day with extra time being quite expensive. I was surprised at how quickly I ( Read more... )

I'm going to New Zealand next month for my hoofcare recertification course and had two same-price options for accommodation ( Read more... )

( A few pictures of other things I did with my free time in New Zealand )

I have four days to do fun things in New Zealand following my hoofcare recertification course. This morning's fun thing was the "Lost World" cave tour near Waitomo ( Read more... )

After my hoofcare recertification near Christchurch in New Zealand I drove north to Kaikoura to go whale watching. This was my reward for slogging through Moby Dick in emma_in_oz's book club last year.

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( That's New Zealand, in a strong NZ accent, as seen on a billboard at the airport. )

I'm off to New Zealand for work tomorrow morning.  Not, unfortunately, the all-expenses-paid kind of work trip, but rather the painful pay-for-everything-yourself self-employment kind of trip.  I'd been mostly thinking of it as an expensive hassle until I did a search for information on the town I'm going to (Te Aroha, pretty name!) and learned it ( Read more... )