Hello from the Chorus Forrest Hill Exchange. I'm in Auckland with Julian (Jules) from work, we drove up from Napier yesterday morning at 5am to get here to do some work. It's not very exciting work so I won't bore you with the details. Anyway as part of coming up on Monday I got all the stuff ready to renew my Australian Passport. Thought I'll just walk into the Passport Office while I'm here and renew it. Sarah did some checking and, long story short, turns out you need a booking to renew your passport these days. And bookings are all booked up until April, about 2 days before we have to travel. Oh shit.
Anyway Sarah, bless her to bits, managed to find a random open spot in Wellington on Monday coming up. So guess where I'm flying to on Monday? That's right, down to Wellington to attend my appointment to hand in my piece of paper, my old passport and my photos and get a new passport. It's always when I feel like I've just managed to get things under control and I know what's going on, life throws some fucking curve ball like this at me again and now I've got something else to stress about. Nevermind all the stress and hassle getting the pool landscaping right, that's an ongoing saga too. It seems that Monty didn't do a very good job of the concrete around the base of the pool, so some remedial work has to happen there. Plus a few other things. I know I shouldn't bitch and really, life's pretty good but I just hate that it seems I've always got at least 2-3 things in the back of my mind I have to stress/worry about. And I thought I had this passport thing all sorted out, but no. I rang them a few times a month ago and not once did a single person say anything about having to book in. Maybe they just brought the system in, I'm not sure, or maybe it's always been there and I forgot? I don't know. I'm sure I didn't have to book in last time but that was 10 years ago and my memory isn't the greatest.
Anyway, so that's what's been happening the last few days. I still need to write about the weekend and Sarah's birthday at Cape Kidnappers which was nice, though sadly the weather was utter garbage.
I better get back to work, there's stuff to do, we still haven't had breakfast and it's just generally busy.
Tim
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