Category: Random

So I got up at 5am today and sneaked around the house showering and getting dressed without waking Kahurangi or Laurel then walked down the hill to catch the 5.45am bus. Now the bus stop is right next door to the Island bay pie shop, in which the days pies were being baked. Consequently by the time the bus arrived I was starving, so when I got off at Newtown to change buses I went into the local Chinese bakery and fried chicken shop (don’t ask, it’s Newtown) to get a donut and a coffee.

While I was sitting at the bus stop I met the man who invented computers. He sat down beside me and was chatting and asked what I did. When I said I programmed computers he said. “I think I invented them, I was thinking one day, if we can have typewriters we can have computers, and now look they are everywhere”. He then bummed a dollar off me and went to buy a coffee.

Newtown, you gotta love it.

“I don’t believe in those psychics eh, the one who came round here was a bloody dick” On the ‘Sensing Murder’ show which is all about psychics ‘solving’ crimes.

You can’t resist a 7 year old girl selling chocolate bars to raise money for her school camp when her sales pitch is. “I thoroughly recommend the Top Deck bar, its a superior chocolate experience.”

I had to buy two of them after that.

You can read the article here

Yesterday on my way to meet Mason and Russ to work in the Newtown Library, I walked past one of the many Chinese restaurants in Newtown. It was closed and had a sign letting people know that.

Due to some reasons we will be closed until the 17th.

I was glad to know they weren’t closed for no reason, but I’m now curious what the reasons are.

And today was one of the more crazy days. I ended up jumping on a train and heading 1.10 hours north and then sitting in a cold machine room watching raid arrays build.

I actually do know some karate, but it’s been a long time.

So I was meeting Russ at the library this morning, but It didn’t open until 10am. So I had a nice NZ breakfast, a steak and cheese pie and a double shot latte.

Pretty crap photo but.

I got this at the markets by the Rialto.

I started feeling poorly on Friday afternoon and by Saturday was quite fluey, but some Echinacea and a lot of sleep seemed to get rid of that.
Then last night NZ lost the yachting, but won the rugby.

And today had a great brunch, then some read some bizarre blog posts indirectly about Koha. Which I’m not even going to get into, because it would just add fuel to what in my opinion is an utter non issue.

Weird weekend