I ticked the wrong box

AMC convinced me to do this on my last night in Auckland. We went uptown from my hotel and found a games arcade that had photo booths – the ones where you can overlay graphics and text on your photos. The instructions on the machine were poor, and we ended up getting something we didn’t intend to – we got photos on card.

We really wanted sticker photos, so we went to another video games arcade that had like 25 of these big photo machines – it was crazy. We couldn’t figure out which ones of the big machines would make stickers, but we found 3 smaller machines by the entrance, and took 2 sets of sticker photos.

The medals reference was for another machine we saw – it would etch your photo onto a piece of metal – I assume to be used as a keyring or something…

They are super-cheesy photos. Great.

I’m now living in Newbury, Berkshire, England. I arrived at Heathrow at 6:25 or so this morning, and now I’m here in my new place. It’s real nice.

I’m very nearly there. I received Entry Clearance from the British High Commission in NZ here today, so that’s cool. Now I just need flights sorted and I’m gone. I’m hoping to leave Christchurch in a couple of days (less than 48 hours), have a couple of nights in Auckland, and then wing my way to sunny Newbury (via Heathrow Airport). I hope to hear back soon on how we’re going to sort these flights. They are provided as part of my transfer, and of course, I get to go business class. And I’m a platinum level frequent flyer, and my points are about to expire – so I’m hoping whichever member of the OneWorld alliance I fly with has the good sence to give me a first class upgrade – you know, for being a good customer

I just bought a beautiful alarm clock. I wanted a small clock, that I could take travelling, and it needed to be an functional, yet fantastic piece of design work. So, I was out with AMC + Jenna and stumbled across this fantastic device. It was designed by flemming bo hansen in 2002, and is made by Rosendahl.

It has adjustable snooze, and has a backlit LCD (only when you press on the top) so it won’t keep you awake with the light at night. It’s a bit pricy, but I consider it a design icon, and it met all of my criteria that I had in mind.

I found out tonight B&S are playing in Melbourne tomorrow night, and the night after, and then they’re going to Sydney, and then Brisbane. Had I known this in advance, I would have been more than happy to fly over to Australia to see them. Why oh why don’t they come to New Zealand?

No matter, soon I’ll be in England and will see them easily (I hope!).

safe and complete. I’m quite happy – very professional movers.

Now just got to wait for a letter from VF and the UK Government and I can apply for my entry clearance. What a long drawn out process.

…I prefer the mystery of the anonymous subscriber. It’s nice to know who is interested in what I have to say, but the mystery is more fun. Of course, that isn’t to say that my readers shouldn’t feel that they can’t make themselves known I’d love to hear from you.

been going very well for me at all. I’m moving out of the country soon, and have got rid of virtually everything in my house. Including, pots, pans, plates, cups, cutlery, fridge + freezer. So, I can only make food here that I

1. add hot water to
2. grill
3. bake

And for the last 2, that’s as long as they come in their own containers.

I’ve been eating out for around 3 weeks now, I’ve been trying to eat healthy, asian style meals with heaps of vegetables, no added salt or fat, but I’m just not sure of the nutritional value of them. Oh well, should be back on track next week I think.

…is going to be quite easy to achieve. As part of my relocation, I get shipping allowance. The allowance is for a 40’ (yes, 40 foot) container to be shipped from NZ to England (which is just about as far as you can actually ship anything) and 30 days storage. Now, I want to ship 6 pieces of furniture, 2 boxes of books, and 3 boxes of other stuff to Christchurch (about 800 km as the crow flies). I feel like I’m wasting an opportunity to ship a massive container, but I’ve got nothing that I can’t fit in a suitcase that I want to take… Maybe I should hire out the space, and ship cars for people.

So, this should be easy because someone else is organising it all! I just have to fill out a form, they come around and pack up all my stuff, and put it on a truck, and then I see it in Christchurch next. How exciting!

Hey, I just realised I mixed metric and imperial measurements there… Why haven’t the shipping industry caught up to the rest of the (civilised) world? And why does my mac persist in telling me that it wants things spelt the American way, even tho the language is set to Australian English (there is no NZ).

My USB controller on my “movies” drive crapped out, so I went and got another one. Anyway, I’ve now got my media split between the 2 drives – all video on one, all music on the other. It’s great. I’ve just got some photos to organise, and my hard drive is officially cleaned up.