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All up ons

Its an old one, but im still all up ons the strongbad techno
email. And the lastest Teen girl squad is
commendably mental.

We went to this restaurant last night. Its on Jackson Street in Petone,
near the Dutch shop if you know Petone. And it was really really good. The
most authentic Shanghainese food we’ve ever had in NZ. Donna said its
exactly how she remembers it from her year in Shanghai.
The prices (as always in a chinese restaurant) are more than reasonable, and
the portion sizes are excellent.
Heartily recommend it.

Well that’ll learn me

Don’t try to upgrade your blog software on a friday afternoon, especially
not on April the 1st. Its all gone a little mental, im working on trying to
sort it out now.

UPDATE 2005/04/01: Fixed

Right its back to normal now

Brrrr its cold

According to my thermometer its 7 degrees celsius outside at the moment. And
there is supposed to be a cricket test against Sri Lanka in Wellington in 2
weeks. Maybe thats NZ crickets plan, since they are playing so badly, they
have decided to freeze the Sri Lankans and beat them that way.

del.icio.us

Ive been playing a bit with del.icio.us a
social bookmarking tool. You can see my bookmarks here

Would you like some ranch with your ranch?

Ranch dressing, whats up with that? It seems that ranch is the new ketchup
apparently you can (and people do) put ranch dressing on anything that is
remotely close to being called food. I’m not entirely sure what the
fascination is, I mean its fine on salad, but dear god do you have to
smother your steak in it?

Back in NZ

Well we are back in NZ after 23 hours of airports and airplanes. Luckily
only 3 hours and 10 mins were spent sitting next to the spawn of satan, and
his ineffectual father.
You know Air New Zealand is getting crappy when United Airlines is more
pleasant to fly. I don’t know what their strategy is, offer the crappest
service at about the same price as everyone else, is what it seems like. And
you can call it a Frittata as much as you like, its still just a shitty
small omelette.

But apart from the unpleasantness that is modern air travel, (dont even get
me started on NZ immigration) it was a pretty good trip.

Off to Costco today

We have a big list of stuff to buy from Costco, hopefully its all there.
Then its back here for Laurel to work on her assignment a bit.
Overheard quote of the day
“Maybe someone wants to, maybe someone needs to, maybe someone already has.
But someone is definitely going to kick your ass one day”

TelstraClear Suck

You all know this, but I was just reminded of it. While waiting for Laurel
to have a shower I was browsing round on trademe.co.nz and I get far better
performance from the DSL connection here in Fullerton CA, than I do from my
now depeered broken internet Telstra connection at home in NZ. So Im
physically about 6000 miles further away, but with a much nicer connection.
There is nothing to say except that sucks.

Going to the Outlets

Well we are off to Ontario California today, to go to the Ontario Mills
Outlet Mall. 200 plus stores of low priced pretty much anything you could
want to buy. Luckily there is a 30 theatre cinema complex there as well, so
when I get bored of shopping I can leave Laurel to it and go watch a movie.
Theres an Auntie Annies soft pretzel stand there as well, so Im set.

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