The 1000 Day Holiday

Let a Thousand Reactors Bloom

Explosive growth has made the People’s Republic of China the most power-hungry nation on earth. Get ready for the mass-produced, meltdown-proof future of nuclear energy…

Interesting Read.

Oz Snow Adventures Bus this time.

Screw Driving. And it wil be interesting, hopefully a real bus party on the way down.

Rocking.
and heres hoping for Spring conditions! I havent been boarding in a tshirt for ages!

So I managed to pull it off.

Booked tickets Thursday afternoon, went out for a few, finished packing 2am. Airport @6.30.
4 hours sleep

Checked in with the old work on arrival, to try and drum up some consulting business.
Then it was time to party!

Met up with Allister, Dave, Becky, Felicity & Shane
Bounced around some of the pubs.
Ang was in town and correctly guessed I would be found downstairs at Jet post midnight!

Decided to party the night away, and got Allister to pick me up from town 5am to head directly for the snow.
0hrs proper sleep

Met up with Jamie, Dave & Janet at the snow. Had a good day boarding with some large snow flurries but overall good visibility. A little bit hard off piste.

Margarihtas, the Lodge & Powder Keg at the Ohakune Junction were the venues for the evenings entertainment.

Powder Keg was full of Ponsonby Milf’s, and a good nite was had.
5Hrs sleep

Perfect blue sky day Sunday. Awesome day was had, apart from Kirsty getting severly concussed on the last run of the day. Wearing a helmet and all.

Its quite crazy how invincible we think we are.

On the way home was keeping an eye out for Becky, as everyones phones seemed to be flat.
Managed to spot Becky & Iain on their way thru Taihape to the snow. So caught up over a couple of beers.

Back to Wellington…

Monday was the day of Wellingtonism’s
Started the day with breakfast at Fidels. Some unsucessfull shopping was broken with Krazy Lounge;Krazy Fries.. mMmmM

Then managed to at least buy some stuff, and squeeze in another meeting with my old work.

Before hitting Matterhorn for some 42 Below cocktails.

Pushed onto Hede for some very good Japanese.
Shane, Ang, Antony, Becks, Alisha, Allister, Christine, Vince & Madeline made for a great evening.

4am off to the airport; wow. I can’t believe I fitted it all into 4 days.

Hit the wall last nite, another 22 hour long day finally breaking me.

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.