Jun 30
This post was written by Marc in the category(ies) House
Hi all 
Just a quick entry to let you know that we are in and slowly getting settled. Comms is still an issue with the home phone installed but the business line (and broadband) cocked up by Telecom – the work was ordered at the same time with the same person and they still managed to get it wrong! 🙁 I managed to get a dial up connection working though and here we are……..
The move itself went pretty well with the rain holding off for most of it. The guys that moved us were really careful and everything seems to have made it without any damage. All our furniture is in and the place looks even bigger (which I didn’t think was possible!) I was worried about various things being cramped up but we have loads of room.
That’s all for now – I’ll post photos of each room once we have things even vaguely put away.
Jun 26
This post was written by Marc in the category(ies) House
It’s Friday afternoon and this is the last post before I pack up the PC and get it ready to move.
Hopefully the money is whizzing between lawyers so we can settle and take ownership of our new house – if not I’ll let you know The telecom engineer doesn’t come to the new house until Monday so it’ll be at least 4 days before the next post (quicker than the recent track record of posts suggests you say 
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Max has been a bit unsettled the last few days with all the packing etc. so hopefully he’ll be OK.
See you soon
Jun 24
This post was written by Marc in the category(ies) House
Updates have been/are going to be sporadic at best over the next week or so. We have two days before we take ownership of our house and three days until we move so life is a bit mental.
House news:
? The carpet went down yesterday and the day before. They ran out of carpet so we have 8 bare stairs. The rest of it looks nice though!
? The driveway was poured today but we can’t drive on it for 5 days. This means that the movers will have to lug all our heavy shit an extra five yards…..shame
? We now have power and gas to the house – just as well really.
? The kitchen appliances turned up today and should be installed tomorrow.
I think that’s it – sorry if it’s boring for you but it is our life at the moment.
Jun 21
This post was written by Marc in the category(ies) Max
Over the last week or so Max has taken a real interest in cleaning his own teeth. We bought him a little plastic step so that he can join in
Jun 21
This post was written by Marc in the category(ies) House
The pictures in the extended entry show what two days of work get you – a new floor!
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Jun 21
This post was written by Marc in the category(ies) House
Man, I am absolutely knackered!!
We are less than a week away from moving onto the new house (YAY!) and Vic and I, with the help of my Dad yesterday, have spent the last two days from 09:00 until sunset laying wooden flooring in the family room and kitchen and damn it looks good I have some pictures but can’t be arsed going upstairs and getting them……. maybe tomorrow.
In other news I did two things that I haven’t done for a while.
1) I gave blood on Thursday. The first time in about 4 years and my 38th donation.
2) I paid for some software! MS Office 2003 Standard for $199! A bargain and it just goes to show that if software is reasonably priced then I’ll buy it
Jun 17
This post was written by Marc in the category(ies) Site News
The way that the CSS for this layout reacts to the various pMachine forms (in testing) is really starting to piss me off.
I’m definitely going to do some work over the next week to get it cross browser compatible so expect change of some sort………
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Jun 15
This post was written by Marc in the category(ies) News
Another far to short weekend over unfortunately 🙁
Highlights of the weekend? Going to our friend Brent’s 40th birthday party on Saturday night. There were five babies there with four of them being two sets of twins! The great thing about the night was watching the All Blacks thrashing world champs England 36-3 in the Rugby. YES!!
Then on Sunday evening we got to see Shrek2. Funny, funny movie. The thought and detail that went into some of the gags was amazing (keep an eye on the shop names in Far, Far away land!) If you get the chance, and enjoyed the first one, go and see it – it’s even better.
The cool thing is we got to see it in the private studio theatre at Weta Digital (the people that did LOTR) It’s a great little 120 seat theatre with the best sound I’ve heard (as you’d expect) and all the popcorn, soda and sweets were free
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