You can guess what he’s famous for…

Well, it’s been a wee while since I updated, as various people have reminded me, so I thought I would write something despite being well past my bedtime. (For those laughing, I will be getting up at 6:20). The most stand-out thing that happened this week was going to the beach yesterday, which was fantastic, with awesome weather, soccer, swimming and I didn’t even get sunburnt. However I did manage to obtain a rather large gash in the bottom of my heel, courtesy of a large chunk of glass that I stood on when I jumped out of the car to go grab Baz at his place, resulting in large amounts of blood, mostly on his floor. We repaired the damage with a kitchen towel and some electrical tape, which lasted till we got to the beach (Taylor’s mistake for those interested) at which point it fell off. I decided to ignore it, which resulted in the cut filling up with sand which I then had to attempt to wash out once I got home (mostly successful). Anyway, you’ve probably had enough of me describing my wounds in graphic detail, so I’ll stop…

I got a bigger swiss ball on Saturday too, which I sat on all day at work today and don’t feel any worse off, apart from it rubbing most of the hair off the back of my legs.

Ooh, before I forget, Baz and me came up with the idea of a social club beach day/evening. (Take note Mark) or possibly even just a bunch of us going to the beach straight after work for a bbq. We were trying to figure out how to beat the weekend crowds, so we thought organising it for a Wednesday would be best. (The social club beach day that is).

Anyway, bedtime… And I may update you on the draughts results tomorrow if I remember, although they aren’t too flattering.

Week 5 is the current week and no I don’t know why there is a big gap at the top

**update** I got rid of the gap! The key is to put all the code for the table on one line, otherwise there will be a newline added for each line of the table.

But a little game called halflife 2 which has just come out means that I have no time to tell you about it all. I will, later.

Well, Thursday to Thursday it’s been quite a busy week. Thursday night we had basketball after work. I decided to bike to work that day (which I hadn’t done for a wee while) which meant that I had to bike to basketball, which would have been pretty cruisy except that I was trying to keep up with Baz resulting in me being severely stuffed by the time we got there. However, I recovered enough to play in the end. On the way home I was thinking about going to bed early to get up for work, when I suddenly realised that Friday was a day off!! This was quite a revelation really, considering I’d known all day, but it didn’t actually sink in until that point which kind of made my day.

I spent most of Friday playing games (Dawn of War specifically) which was a fun way to spend a day off, if not entirely productive. A group of us watched Pride and Prejudice in the evening which (despite the mockability of this statement) I have to say I enjoyed. As Adam put it - it is very well done, but about such a stupid subject. 5-6 hours about girls trying to find a husband…

Saturday was good too, a reasonably relaxing morning (sleep-in followed by a bit more gaming and then talking to flatmates (and Adam)). Then Megan left, never to be seen again until next week and then I went to our class reunion, which consisted of a casual game of soccer (I was goalie for quite some time, allowing me to lie in the sun for most of the game) and then a delicious spit roast dinner, which I ate a lot of, - this was helped by the relatively small number of people who turned up.

The large dinner was quite fortituous as Sunday was our Navs oversight team planning day for which we had decided to fast, so stocking up the night before was definitely a good thing. It was at the sister Eveleen retreat house in Sumner, which had some fantastic views out over the sea. The funniest part of the day would have to be when Ayley, Tim and Me were waiting by the car when we were leaving and I mentioned that it might be a bit difficult for Lynton to get his car out from where he was parked and Ayley responded by saying that the people walking up the hill looked like they were leaving which would be bound to make it easier. This probably would have made it easier if it hadn’t been Lynton and Annette. When I got home I decided I wanted fish and chips so ate way too much of them, feeling sick afterwards. Dave actually refused when I asked him if he wanted me to get him some, which came as quite a shock.

On Monday my new mouse arrived. I have to post a few pictures…

Photo of mouse taken with flash

Photo of mouse taken without flash

Photo of mouse taken in the dark

Tuesday was halflife 2 day, which ended up costing me an extra $80 due to me absent-mindedly speeding down Riccarton Rd. on my way to Baz’s place to get my copy. Good on the NZ police for their vigilance. Once that was all sorted I headed back home to play it, and yes it really is as good as they say! The graphics, physics and story are awesome. The people are very cool, as they have realistic facial expressions and you can see the glisten in their eyes and sometimes they even blink (something I noticed yesterday). Oh, I almost forgot… Megan (at work) came back from her holiday in Fiji and I almost recognised her.

Wednesday we put on another “cake” day at work for our team, which went off well, especially the vegetables, which the vegetarians were very appreciative of, - given their absence in the past. I should probably explain that we have converted cake day into more of an assorted yummy food day. More halflife 2 in the evening, where I was introduced to the joys of the airboat.

Today we had our quarterly company BBQ at lunchtime, and some more basketball fun in the evening.

Daily diary signing out

I have updated the international dutch draughts championship of the world score table. I can’t be bothered writing a new table every time, so I’ll just try to keep the old one up to date. I am considering making a new post for it though which I will permalink from the sidebar.

Megan left on Friday, Emily left today. Now I’m effectively all alone. I say effectively, because Dave is still there for another week, but seeing as I work 7:30am-4:30pm and he works 3pm-11pm, and given our relative sleeping patterns, I don’t actually see him.

Oh well, I should be alright. Going out for tea tonight, and I’m sure Mark will have some kind of house warming party when he moves into his new house on Friday… Also, have many food in the fridge, including (but definitely not limited to) 5 half blocks of butter.

Found out that I’m not completely home alone this week, because Dave has finished work.
We had our Navs oversight team end of year dinner yesterday, prepared by Annette and it was amazing… Full 3 course meal with lots of stuff I don’t know the name of but will try to describe anyway. The starter was garlic bread and some kind of salmon and watercress paste rolled up thing - very tasty but hard to describe, surrounded by baby tomatoes and green stuff. The main was a filo pastry smoked chicke and pumpkin and various extras pie, baked/grilled/yummy potatoes, honey glazed carrots and some greens - I remember asparagus and cucumber. (correct me if I’m wrong anyone who was there who reads this). The dessert was these awesome chocolate baskets full of fruit and vanilla and almond ice cream. All accompanied by some great wine. Then we had some after dinner mints thoughtfully provided by Ayley. I managed to come away not feeling like I’d eaten to much which was good, as that doesn’t often happen to me when there is yum food around, which made everything even better.

Dave ran off to Nelson with Gwyn