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Off to Sydney for the rest of this week with work – have a good week y’all

From my office window today

Do you remember this entry I posted a while back about my friend Jamie and how he was killed in a hit and run?  The story gets even more tragic 🙁 My friend Martin sent me an email yesterday and this is an excerpt from it:

Basically, Jamie and his girlfriend were at a party and had a row; she stormed out. Jamie got a call from her ten minutes or so later saying that she thought she was being followed; so Jamie told her to get to somewhere public and generally in view, he would come and collect her. So off he sets to find her, whilst he’s looking for her, one of his drunk mates decides that Jamie has been gone a bit long and decides to go and look for him in his van. He’s driving along, drunk…sees Jamie, pulls over to pick him up but being pissed loses control and runs Jamie over. He realises what he’s done, drives off and attempts to torch the van; next morning the stark realisation hits him and he hands himself in to the police.

Just so bizarrely wasteful.

Seeing it’s winter we thought we would buy Max his first raincoat…… it’s a bit big It has a massive Buzz Lightyear on the back – unfortunately they don’t make them in XL 🙁

And he’s teething again (eye-teeth this time) We’ve had five mornings in the last week awake throughout the night when he cries out in his sleep and then up at 05:30 🙁

8 days since my last entry!  Why? Probably because life is so busy it’s boring – know what I mean?

In (my) family news my brother is now living in Heidelberg, Germany! He’s working in a tattoo parlour and has been there for about two weeks.  How about an email bro!? Also in the last week or two my Mother has sold her house and is moving in the next few weeks.  She’s been there about 20 years so it will seem quite strange for me to visit her somewhere else (and very strange for her I guess)

The house is coming along.  All the interior walls are lined and the bricks have been delivered and are due to be started tomorrow.  Vic and I have informed the developers of all the interior colours, carpet etc and we might be in within 8 weeks!

Easter was a busy time for us. It’s not that we had loads planned, it just felt really “full” I worked for 3-4 hours on Friday and then Saturday night saw us at a friends 50th birthday party.  It’s funny how as the years go on the party milestones change.  We’ve had three birthday parties in the last three weeks – a 40th, a 50th and a 60th.  I must be getting on!

We left the party at about 22:30 which was just as well because Max was up at 04:45 the little bugger!  I got up and changed him and put him back to bed hoping that he’d go back to sleep….. no chance 🙁 I got up and told Vic to go back to sleep.  Max and I went downstairs, had breakfast and played while waiting for Vic to wake up.  08:15 she slept to!  It’s probably the best lie-in she’s had for months

Sunday was spent chilling out (and I had a 2 hour nap in the afternoon) and then around to my Mum’s place for dinner.  She’s selling her house and it will probably be the last time she entertains in the house that she’s lived in for the last 20 years………

More work on Monday and then here we are on Tuesday – it goes so fast 🙁

Obviously very tiring to wee Max as well!

Got woken up by a few earthquakes last night!  Here are the details from geonet’s recent earthquake page.

NZST: 2004 Apr 03 01:20

Mag.: 3.8 Depth: 30 km

Within 5 km of Upper Hutt

NZST: 2004 Apr 03 00:46

Mag.: 3.4 Depth: 25 km

Within 5 km of Upper Hutt

NZST: 2004 Apr 03 00:10

Mag.: 4.6 Depth: 30 km

Within 5 km of Upper Hutt

NZST: 2004 Apr 03 00:09

Mag.: 4.6 Depth: 25 km

Within 5 km of Upper Hutt

NZST: 2004 Apr 03 00:03

Mag.: 3.9 Depth: 30 km

Within 5 km of Upper Hutt

sheesh!