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Most excellent!
The almighty Johnsons are returning! TV3, you rock! -
excellent customer service, there!
We were on slingshot while we were at the rental. ADSL with no phoneline. Endless problems with it. And their support staff are so tied to their script it would take twenty minutes each call to convince them I had, in fact, rebooted at least once, and yes, I was quite sure I hadn't changed anything, and yes, I did realise that if they came out to ( Read more... ) -
Right then, Qantas, back to work!
If I didn't have a personal stake in this, I'd say I was disappointed that Joyce's gamble seems to have paid off. As it is, I'm hoping they can get flying quickly and we can get the parental units here as planned on Thursday.
Maybe it will all go pearshaped for him in 21 days, and he'll end up getting the proverbial firing squad he so richly -
well, eff you, qantas!
My parents are supposed to fly out on Tuesday, with Qantas.
I had already vowed never to fly Jetstar again - I think this will expand to cover the entire business. Bastards. -
Bah. Humbug!
Story on Stuff today - a big bakery has jumped the gluten-free bandwagon. Because, I quote, 1 in 100 NZers are gluten intolerant.
Yeah. Remember the stats I worked on lactose intolerance? One in five, potentially? Bah!
If only they'd opened that story up to comments! If only! -
well, we have our priorities right, then?
Two stories from today's news. The government is intervening to keep 'the Hobbit' in New Zealand. At the same time, a family of 'untouchables' face the horrific choice of leaving their three young children behind in NZ when they are deported, or bring them to live in a slum in India without access to education and health care - because they're NZ ( Read more... ) -
land of the long white cloud
had to stop the other day and take this picture out over the harbour:
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I swear "people" are getting stupider
From the 'it hurts, the stoopid' files:
The truck this morning with the following displayed prominently on the side: "Dont't drink science - you don't know where it's been". (I quite like Phoenix drinks, but my lord that's dumb).
And due to the vagaries of supermarket specials, I am currently taking 'organic magnesium' tablets.
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crafty cids
today's been a day of kids. we had a nice sleep-in, and then got the bead box out to sit around in our pyjamas with coffee (in m case) beading away. I was mostly dismantling old and broken jewellery that's been sitting around for yonks, all good, repaired a few things which was also good, but got some made and got started on the crochet-project. ( Read more... )