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Well, I had a pretty great weekend. We had an extra bonus day as well due to Canterbury show day on Friday which was pretty sweet.

But anyway, first things first! On Thursday night I went to see Serenity with a bunch of guys from work and it really was all that. I just realised that I missed a whole weekend from my blog… Here’s the update on that:
Went to end of year leadership team meeting for Navs, where we had the best lunch ever! There were smoked chicken spring rolls, asparagus rolls, frozen grapes, chocolate strawberries, lemon muffins, sushi, mini pizzas and more. It was almost a week and a half ago now, but the delicious flavours come back to me even now! Then I went round to Gordon’s place where a LAN was happening (weather was awesome, as per normal) and played on Blair’s laptop for a while, while he went and got lunch. I then went for a power bike ride to Sumner (My heart rate monitor tells me my average heart rate for the hour and a half it took me to get there and back was 162BPM) and then the Navs end of year party, where we had some fireworks and lots of conversation and some food, which I mostly resisted. When I got home (reasonably late), I watched the first episode of Firefly, the DVDs of which I borrowed off Mark at the LAN. On Sunday I watched the other 13… I did manage to pick up my bike from the party location and go to a BBQ in between, but other than that, it was pretty much solid all day. Firefly is the series that the movie Serenity is based on, so I felt I should watch it before we went to see it on Thursday and became completely hooked very quickly.

Anyway, back to weekend just been… Just before I went to see Serenity, I got a txt from Craig asking if I wanted to go waterskiing, and I did, which I duly did on Friday and Saturday at lake Aviemore with Craig, Adam and Andy. We camped out in style and had our fair share of adventure, which I should possibly not elaborate on to protect the innocent… Suffice to say that We paddled the boat for a while for no apparent reason on Friday afternoon, and raced back to where we were camped through hail, thunder and lightning on Saturday afternoon (amongst other things). On the actual waterskiing front, I think I improved somewhat and looked less gammy on two skis (I did get up first time which is always good). Also I managed to get up on the wakeboard and accidentally did a 180 because I didn’t know how to turn… Then I fell off. Craig also did his first 180 on the wakeboard, and like me, fell off. Then I kept trying to do 180s every time I got up, somewhat/completely unsuccesfully, when I should have probably been concentrating on turning properly and actually learning how to stay up on the thing.

I got home to find that Mike had acquired a couple of American girls, which I met on Sunday morning. We went to the beach (North Beach). I met the others there on my bike. Mike managed to convince one of them to eat some seaweed and we introduced them to the concept of a compulsory swim… Lots of fun. It poured down with rain after we got back, so we got some DVDs and made pizzas. Watched Flight of the Phoenix and The Castle. The castle was intended as a bit of a social experiment as the girls really like Napoleon Dynamite and it’s kind of an Australian equivalent. They liked it, which was impressive, given it’s apparent track record with clueless international audiences.

I went for another random bike ride last night and tonight, we had Captain Ben’s followed by a bit of ultimate frisbee and then a lot of singstar, of which I now have the 80s iteration.

Then I decided it was really about time I updated my blog with a real post… Here it is, enjoy?

Edit: If you go see Serenity, it is not essential to see the Firefly series first, but it gives the characters a whole lot more history when you see the movie and makes it that much cooler. Incidentally, the movie is currently sitting at #196 on the top 250 movies of all time on IMDB…

I promise to do an actual post soon, as I did do plenty in my weekend to post about… 🙂 In the meantime, you may notice some google text ads placed (hopefully unobtrusively) around my blog. Normally I’m not really pro-ads, but if you see something you’re actually interested in there and click on it, it could help pay the costs of having the website, which is always good. 🙂

Currently it seems to be displaying lots of food recipes… I’m not quite sure where that came from. I thought it was supposed to be relevant. 🙂

I noticed it was displaying ads for some Australian sites and for smilecity.co.nz, so I stopped it doing that. as NZ is not Australia and I don’t think anybody’s website with a smilecity ad on it can really be taken seriously… Most annoying banners ever.

Oh, and if you really object, The adblock extension for firefox is your friend…

If you like squirrels, this video clip is definitely worth a watch… It’s zipped, and about 953kb.

The Don – Don Amaretto went to a poker night last night with Boris, Frankie Four Fingers, Feral and Scarface. Whilst he had a great time, he’s not so glad that he had to come to work today… And is unsure of his status with regard to strong liquor and cigars. He distinctly remembers photos being taken, but will have to track them down, although it could be in his best interests if he doesn’t.

Well, the rest of my birthday was pretty sweet too. I talked to my sister and my parents on the phone and we had an awesome bbq tea, as well as a fine corona, a pina colada and a wee dram of fine Scotch whisky.

The weekend was a little lazier than the previous one… I went for a good solid rollerblade on Friday night though. On Saturday I bought Eyetoy Kinetic for the playstation and got a new wheel for the back of my bike, which should hopefully put paid to the spokes breaking all the time.

I had an appointment for a fondue dinner at 6:30 with the youth group, which was a little jeopardised when I noticed it was 6:25 after Mike and me had been playing EK for about an hour or so… It is a lot of fun and also quite a solid workout. I did make it to the fondue which was great. Good food and great people to hang out with.

Sunday afternoon I started my 12 week fitness program which is the main part of the EK game, which means I have to do regular sessions with it from now on. I also finally finished watching the first season of Lost. Ready for the second now…

Yesterday night I went out and played pool with Merodie and Craig. Twas Craig’s last night in Christchurch which is quite sad. 🙁

Well, the reason I actually thought of posting. Went to get cash out of the cash machine this morning and was told the machine had a temporary limit of $400… I soon found out why when I walked away with a wad of 40 $10 notes in a most annoyingly fat wallet. I may go and change it at lunchtime.