The 1000 Day Holiday

well, if you count:

A yes or no answer from:
My boss & workmate agreeing to let me take friday off work & not help with a major upgrade on saturday.

I’m not sure why I am feeling so positive. I guess because I want it to happen so badly.
Its a bank holiday monday - so that would make a 4 day weekend!

Jamie kindly keeps reminding me EVERY WEEKEND how good the snow is, txting or calling me from the mountain.

Fingers crossed, I will have a YES tomorrow! Tickets are still reasonably priced too! ~350 return!
Dreaming of Ruapehu…
And I will defiantely do the crater lake walk - I want to see it, to say I was there x weeks before one of the largest natural disasters in NZ’s history repeats itself. Tangiwai Disaster

How likely is it to happen?
“Since March 1999 the level of the crater lake on Mt Ruapehu has risen 52m and is now 96% full giving cause for concern for an early lahar - Volcanic mudslide…

The crater lake has a 7 m high wall of ash atop its rim and with the current water level 1.9m below the rim, scientists predict that at current water inflow rate of 5,300cu m a day a lahar could be expected as early as November.” March 04 - summary from Stuff.co.nz article

Full threat analysis - Ruapehu Lahar Residual Risk Assessment. Oct 2002
Quite interesting reading.

how many days am I up to now with no speaking?
I’ll have to get the calendar out!

Latest TXT msg:

Pls remember that u live with other ppl. Turn your music down or off. It sounds like satanic neo-nazi music

Oops, didnt see that message for 1 1/2 hours.

And Rob Zombie isn’t neo nazi!

Wicked Gig,

Got a few pics to post tomorrow.

It was great to see the 2 DJ’s from J5 Actually improvise and do crazy stuff!

Ever wondered where the closest public toilets are? (while simultaneously having access to the internet?)

Wonder no more.

The National Public Toilet Map of Australia is here.

No you can get the most time efficient release of your waste possible. Unless of course you are at work/home and theres a toilet closer, which is hopefully a lot nicer then the above!

I must say, We owned the game 100%

With statistics like:
Terrirory: NZ 81% to Aussie 19% in the first half

A ruck and maul count of some 140 to 35

Party season’s in full swing, the skiing is great, sex and drugs are plentiful. So what could be wrong with Queenstown life?

On the plane approaching Queenstown airport, hungry young men in beanies crane their necks for first glimpses of snowfields.

At this time of year, the Wakatipu is a world of white, breaking into darker shades as new subdivisions are carved on the outskirts of town.

Beckoning below is fun central, Queenstown in the thick of July, the biggest party in the country every night.

It’s a town where on a Monday you can do a pub-crawl with scores of others, where on a Tuesday night you can party with 240 young seasonal workers packed into the Buffalo Club.

And a town that can undo the unwary: where the free-flowing sex and drugs mask disease (mental and sexual), abuse, financial strain, relationship breakdowns and provide a layer of social pressures on the town’s youngsters that are a world away from the familiar realities of small-town New Zealand.

At this time of year, with the increasingly popular Winter Festival still fresh in hungover minds, the permanent population of around 15,000 is swollen by an average of 8000 visitors a day.

Many are having the time of their lives in the 140 bars – and counting – which provide round-the-clock revelry.

As one breathless Brisbane 21-year-old said after a week of skiing and partying: “You’ve got to give up sleep to deal with everything.”

It’s not just teenagers. A barman surveying the older Monday night crowd says: “It’s a bit like never-never land.”
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What would one do without it?

Afternoon all.

I’d like to share with you all a disturbing event that came to light in the change rooms this afternoon. When going to don my shoes, I discovered that one of my black dress socks had disappeared.

Now, I’m a subscriber to the view that you should give first offenders a chance, so I’m willing to let this one slide. Let’s just say I won’t ask any questions if the sock in question is placed in the FY lost property bin by the end of this week. Normally I wouldn’t bother, but this sock was my grandfather’s, and now I’m walking around like an early-80’s Michael Jackson (with white sports socks); and just remember kids, white on black is a major fashion risk.

So if you are currently luxuriating in a bit of sock-on-sock action, I’d appreciate it back.

I swear I should have documented when this started. Because now I’m just guessing. But I know the Hermit hasn’t spoken to me in over a week.9+ Days 13 Days 23 Days 30 Days!

And shes not speaking to the Leprechaun either. And T is never here, so its not likely shes talking to her!

It is really quite a strange experience, she walks in, looks around the corner to see if anyone is home, even if she makes eye contact - nothing is said. She will then proceed to her room, or even sometimes cook dinner - again with nothing said.

Maybe she feels obliged to stay since shes on the lease. hmm.. A post it note would hopefully suffice in clearing that confusion

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As an aside, I woke up the whole flat this weekend. I didn’t come home Sat night and my stereo was set to alarm @ 6.30am. It was set loud enough to bug everyone in the flat ( oops )

Funny the different way people deal with a dilemma like this.
T, said she got up, and repeatedly banged on the door, but didn’t want to come in, just in case I was ‘entertaining’. Then the Leprechaun’s ‘friend’ came out of the bathroom and T was like

Are you from THAT room?!?!

T did mention she went back to bed, put the pillow over her head, but ended up humming along as she liked some of the tunes

The Hermit sent me 2 txt’s 15mins apart. The second saying I have been

very selfish and inconsiderate person of late!

then the Leprechaun got up, knocked on the door a couple of times. And figured I had either died of an OD, or simply wasnt here.

Viola! empty room.. tee hee hee
T & the Leprechaun both had a giggle about it after - wouldn’t know about the hermit, since haven’t talked to her in ages!

Jurassic 5 & Scribe!

Bledisloe Cup - We are gonna kick the Aussies asses! bring it.. haha

Wouldnt mind going to the snow either….
Was meant to go this weekend, but couldn’t get a ride. And then Jamie rings me from one of the lifts on ruapehu - telling me the mountain is calling for me.

Biartch!
However a gooving good night was had at MPB. Pics here

Japan sounds like the go for January, rather than Switzerland.. never know, it might be the kick off point for my round the world trip

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