Hello from the ever sunny location of Napier. It's been a lovely couple of days down here in the sun, though it's started to blow its tits off in the last 24 hours. I keep hearing things going "crash" outside, which doesn't sound too good! It's probably just someone's gate or something though.

We drove down on Christmas Eve, after setting up the house with all the super burgler protections. The lights come on using timers, the TV auto turns on for a couple of hours at night. I have control of the stereo from here I can turn music on and off as I please. I also have setup a webcam that detects movement and will send me a text when it detects movement. It's a bit crude as it keeps detecting large changes of brightness as movement, so there's been quite a few false alarms. But overall it's...

Merry Christmas everyone! Hope Santa brings you lots of presents.

I had an idea on Monday that today I'd setup a little cafe at work for a laugh. Make some coffee for people, spread a bit of Christmas cheer and save them the $4 it costs for a coffee down the road.
One of the other guys in my team decided he wanted to help as well, so he got his wife to bake some Christmas cakes and brought in some biscuits and other bits and pieces.
Sarah chipped in with some artwork and we were ready to go.

I lugged the coffee machine into work, got it heated up and laid all the cakes etc out and waited for the few customers I thought might turn up for a laugh.

Woah! I was making coffee non-stop for an hour and a half. I was pretty sick of it at the end I tell you, making 35+ coffees on a...

Sarah got her cast off yesterday! This is excellent news! Now it's the road to recovery, with exercises and being very gentle. She's back in a moon boot, this is moon boot MkIII now. This one looks like a good solid one that hopefully won't fall to pieces like the last couple have.

Got up in the middle of the night last night and while walking past Tui's bowl of food I saw a huge slug in it trying to tackle a cat biscuit. No wonder she sometimes turns her nose up at the remaining food in the bowl, there's slug juice all over it. Poor cat.

The weather has really packed up here the last week. Muggy and raining. Shithouse combination! Hope it gets better for Christmas.

Friday! Finally.

Tim

Gawd it's a hot day here today. It's been raining a lot, but it's just so muggy and horrible. Easily the worst day since we've moved in, I hope it doesn't keep up!

I've made it so you can log into Tim's Diary using Facebook. edit: And since removed it as it breaks something else! You'll still have to login to your Tim's Diary account once, but when your Facebook account is linked to your account here, you can just login using only Facebook. One less password to care about and as an update it'll use your Facebook photo when you post comments etc.

Speaking of photos, here's some from the Vector Christmas party!

Tim

Woohoo! In a DIY miracle, I managed to fix the shower. This is a proud day for the Harman name.
Sarah and I headed to the hardware store yesterday and purchased some silicone and a stanley knife. The silicone to reseal the door and the knife to cut out all the old silicone. Cutting out all the old stuff turned out to be the hardest part of the job, it's impossible to get set silicone out! I spent the better part of an hour removing all the old cruft, finally it seemed clean so I cracked out the silicone and put everything back together.

That's it! Getting the door installed back into the shower was rather tricky but after a bit of tweaking with a screwdriver, it all fit into place. Woohoo! We can shower again without flooding the place.

So yes, any normal man wouldn't blink at this task...

I would feel I had done you wrong if I didn't share this video with you.