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ouch

Marc — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 08:15:43 +0000

Play football at lunchtime and have this happen. It makes for fun walking…..

off again

Marc — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 02:57:17 +0000

Yet another Labour Day public holiday missed because of travel to Australia. I worked out that I have had one Labour Day public holiday in the last six years because I’ve worked for companies based in Australia and they don’t have the same holidays and seem to organise things for this week

Here’s what I’m up to over the next month:

Sunday 26th October – Fly to Sydney for a sales conference in the Hunter Valley
Thursday 30th October – Fly back home
Wednesday 5th November – Fly to Sydney with Vic to watch the Phoenix play
Saturday 8th November – Fly Back home
Thursday 13th November – Fly to London
Sunday 16th November – Fly from London to Prague for a technical conference
Thursday 20th November – Back to London for a few days
Monday 24th November – Fly from London to home
Wednesday 26th November – Get home! yay!

Phew………

badaling

Marc — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 08:18:03 +0000

Cool! I’m sitting here watching the cycle road race at the Olympics and the cyclists are going through a place called Badaling just outside of Beijing. That’s where I visited the Great Wall of China in ’91. I even recognosed the carpark after all these years

phew

Marc — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 09:23:24 +0000

I’ve finished (at last) reading James F. Hamilton’s Night’s Dawn trilogy all in one go. Six volumes each at more than 600 pages in paperback form! Naturally I read it on my Sony Reader and what a great read it was!

It was a strange series mixing sci-fi with a lot of afterlife/spiritual threads mixed in. The 3600 odd pages flew past and the the ending drew all the different story lines together brilliantly.

happy birthday to me :)

Marc — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 08:39:16 +0000

42 – that’s how old I am today!

My day has been spent “working from home” and looking after a sick wife and 3 year old – to be fair it was quite nice looking after the family.

Besides my new MacBook Pro Vic bought me a harmony universal remote that I can program on the PC. The boys also bought me a Wii Fit which Max and I had a hoot setting up tonight I’m a very lucky man…

Not so lucky is the fact that I’m off to Melbourne for another week on Sunday

new toy

Marc — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 20:02:44 +0000

I’ve moved to the dark side! This is my new toy – 15″ Macbook Pro. I’ve had it 12 hours and am still trying to figure out how to do the basics but am enjoying the un-learning/learning process.

results

Marc — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 06:54:11 +0000

This was a great weekend for football (soccer) results:

My masters team won 1-0 for our first win of the season
Max’s team won their “little dribblers” game 6-1. He also bought his first set of boots.
The Phoenix won an exhibition, Chinese earthquake charity match 6-2. Vic and I took Max and Elliot along for their first Phoenix game – Max enjoyed it and Elliot was over it in about 20 minutes

Max and I also had a great bonding moment this afternoon as we sat there cleaning our boots together…..

brainf*ck

Marc — Fri, 30 May 2008 07:10:28 +0000

I’m absolutely knackered after 4 days of training and having to use my brain.

The first few days were HBDI related with the second day being particularly hard work. We then took what we had learned and did two days of presentation skills training. Out of it all I have three DVD’s showing a meeting and two presentations. They should make for interesting viewing, maybe even for Vic!

That’s all really – I’m in the Air New Zealand lounge in Melbourne looking forward to getting home. Unfortunately the flight doesn’t get back to Wellington until 12:20 in the morning

you know you travel too much when….

Marc — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 07:55:51 +0000

…. you get invited to your national airline’s coporate golf day!

When you ask how it is you were invited they say, and I quote from the email, “We invited you as a high level frequent flyer and also from our records we were of the understanding that you were a keen golfer”

C’mon March 28th

busy

Marc — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 07:23:20 +0000

So one of the reasons that I stopped blogging is that I was so busy. In the last few months the company that I work for has gone from three staff in-country to one, me. What this has meant is not only has my workload increased but my travel has increased as well. The original plan was for me to travel to Auckland two days every week to manage the business up there. Great in theory but it’s ended up being three days often and even four days at time. To give you some idea of what Vic has to put up with this is my travel coming up:

Next week 8th-12th October: Not too bad – Auckland Thursday and Friday

The week after is where it starts to get fun On Thursday I fly to Auckland and spend Thursday and Friday on my normal Auckland stuff. I stay Friday night so that I can get up early to fly to Tokyo (a nice little 11.5 hour flight) Mon-Wed is spent training in Tokyo and I leave on Thursday to get back to Wellington on Friday afternoon.

Sunday afternoon (yep, 48 hours later) I fly to Sydney so that I’m there for Monday morning and the start of a three day sales meeting. Wednesday afternoon it’s a flight from Sydney to Auckland and after two days there it’s back to Wellington on Friday evening.

So as you can see things are a bit hectic…….

Even so I’ll try to keep up the blog, even if it’s just to point out interesting things I find on the web