The pool shed finally got installed this week. Now the equipment can be properly sheltered from the wind, rain, dirt and all that sort of stuff. Next up is to dig a trench so that power can be provided to everything properly. Most of that work is already done, but there's a few more bits and pieces that need to be done to get it all sorted. At least I don't have to have a minor heart attack anymore each time it rains, worried that the chlorinator has been left uncovered. It never was, but I always had a little panic what if it was? It would be a major suckhole to have to buy anyone one of those, they're not cheap apparently!
Got knocked off my bike the other day. Well, more technically I rode into a car door that someone decided to throw open at me in the bike lane. I managed to get a fair bit of brake on before impact. The impact made me fall onto the road which is never good, but I did a commando roll LIKE A BOSS back into the bike lane. I ended up with a fairly bruised shoulder, a gash on my leg and a really funny bump on the top of my foot. All of which have healed up, or are still healing up. I was fine though. It was the one day I wasn't wearing my bike gloves because they were extra stinky so I'd put them in the wash the night before and they weren't yet dry. Amazingly I didn't seem to land on my hands, or if i did, it was slow enough because they didn't get a single mark/scrape on them. The car that hit me was a stupid looking ute with a hood ornament and big stupid wide tires. I could/should have filed a police report I suppose but they never do fark all so I didn't bother. I mean I was fine, just a tad cut up and sore. So yea that was a bit of excitment.
I took the car out to Hastings last week to get a full service etc done on it. Then I had to rush back to get Biscuit to the vet. The vet said he's fine, but like me he needs to lose a bit of weight. He was 29kg and he needs to be more like 22-23kg. So he's been on a bit of a diet since then, much to his annoyance I suppose, and I'm trying to take him for more regular/longer walks. In fact as soon as I finish writing this diary entry I'm going to take him for a nice Saturday morning walk up along the paths to burn off some dog energy.
Last weekend we went up to Mount Maunganui for a little getaway. Plus Sarah did the swim around Leisure Island, a 1.25km swim. The house Sarah booked was really nice, big place with a nice area for us to all hang out, decent bedrooms. 2 x 2 bunks for the kids to hang out in (we met up with Ben and Di and their kids). Had a good time really, we got there Friday night and Sarah cooked everyone dinner (pasta). Saturday morning we took Sarah down to her swim event and cheered her on as she finished. She did a great job, but she said she'd have done better if it wasn't for the major leg cranks she got pretty much once she got around the top of the Island. Once the swim event was over we headed back to base, then walked down to a cafe to get some lunch. Then the boys and the kids went back home for a couple of hours while the girls went shopping, then we went to the public Hot Pools for a nice little swim before back home for dinner. Then seesh Holiday over before it began it seemeed, we packed up and left the Air BnB and went into town. Trying to find a park was even worse than it usually is in MM, there was a TriAthalon on and all the road were closed. Eventually we found somewhere and took the kids on a bouncy thing we'd seen the day before, they all had a great time bouncing up and down. Then we got a massive icecream, before the familys had to say goodbye and we all headed home again. Once we got home I went and picked up el' flabbo from the Doggery.
And that's been about the extent of the exciting things happening. Oh Sarah's picked up a new contract for a few hours a week, she flew down to Wellington on Wednesday/Thursday to meet them and discuss more about it. My work's busy, but going well. I discovered SecureCRT in the last couple of weeks, not really sure how I've managed to work the last 20 years without it, but hey. It's certainly made my life easier. I got Greg to buy me a license for it because I wasn't going to pay the USD $179/$250NZD for it.
Right I better go and take Flabbo for a walk!
Tim
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