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August 5, 2004 1:33 am General

It’s been a busy couple of weeks since getting back from Europe. While the trip home was great and it was wonderful to see friends and family again, it did concrete a few thoughts I’ve had in my mind for quite some time. Firstly, I have no strong urge to return to Europe for a while yet. Dublin was the same place I left 11 months ago and all the reasons I had for leaving were still there. The office was as quiet as ever, with more and more people either working remotely on a permanent basis, or working half the week at home. This hasn’t really adversely effected the team to any great extent, although there is a much stronger emphasis on communication, that we all seem to be coping with pretty well. Secondly, is that my feelings for Carolyn haven’t changed, and I’m anxious to spend more time with her. Both of which, combinate in a desire to extend my VISA. Fortunately Sun, and in particular my boss, have been ultra supportive which has been awesome so it’s now just a matter of shifting some paperwork around. New Zealand definitely feels like home and Sun continues to feel like my family [nothing to do with having 2 brothers also working for the family].

Pleased to hear that Patrick is planning on extending his VISA too.

Since returning from Europe, the skiing season has been in full swing. A couple of months ago we all bought boards, bindings and boots, and got a season pass for Mount Hutt, just over an hour by car from Christchurch. I’ve been up there 3 times now and have had a heap of fun. Last Tuesday I had a pretty off day, wiping and eating snow every couple of minutes. It’s an amazingly frustrating sport, and without fresh snow it becomes immeasurably harder. After a few hours of making zero progress, I packed up early, convincing myself that this sport wasn’t for me. It’s pretty amazing how a few falls completely shatters your confidence and you forget what technique you’ve previously learned. Today, I still hurt.

My iBook suddenly decided to die. I brought it down to MagnumMac in the hope that it might be covered by logic board repair extension program. Fingers crossed – otherwise it’s looking like a 800 or 900 dollar repair bill, and I’ll have to seriously think about buying a new Mac instead and running the iBook through an external monitor [although that might prove problematic trying to run the Debian partition].

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