It's Tuesday morning and I'm in Tauranga for work. Big day of meetings ahead, or probably really just one Uber Meeting. We'll see. Arrived last night after a stop in Rotorua to replace an XFP in a switch that was giving a lot of errors. At least replacing the XFP fixed the problem. We're staying at a place that looks like it used to be (or still is for a bunch of them) apartments for people to live in. Greg's room has a shower that looks like it's setup for a disabled person. Anyway it's a place to stay.
Had a good weekend, mostly spent catching up on 10 years of gardening. We cut down all the branches on the big fruit/plum tree in the washing line area, and then on Sunday (Mother's Day!) Sarah got into the wooden "thing" next to the Greenhouse and cut all that right back. It looks so different. I took two trailer load of greenwaste to the tip, both of them packed down to the brim. The second load it took me 10 minutes to fully unload it was so jammed packed with branches etc. Both areas look so much nicer though - we'll have to try and just keep on top of it on a much more regular basis and then we can just put the greenwaste into the greenwaste bin instead of having to hire a trailer to get rid of it all.
Also on the weekend took the kids to Anderson Park again - this time they wanted to take Walkie Talkies so I sat there while they kept sending me messages on them. After a while they got bored of that though and just gave me the Walkie Talkies and went back to playing. Then I went to the Supermarket and gave me a Walkie Talkie so they could talk to me while I collected a few groceries. Beth was especially proud of her loud Walkie Talkie annoucement "Listen to my Juicy Fart!" just as I walked into the Fruit and Veg section at the Supermaket. I had to sort of point at the Walkie Talkie so that people didn't think I'd just loudly annouced my Juicy Fart as I walked into the Produce. Anyway. It was pretty funny.
Sunday we went around to Peter and Mary's briefly for Coffee and some Pasties to wish Mary Happy Mother's Day, oh not after a quick bit of Drone Flying with Theo. He finally rememered he has a drone and I charged it all up for him on Saturday. It takes more skill to fly than his old one but he really got into it on Sunday, but we had to leave to go see P&M so we didn't get to finish playing with it too much. Maybe this coming weekend we'll get to play with it a bit more, I'm glad he likes it.
Sunday also I went and collected a cheap $40 Guitar Stand that Sarah found on Facebook Marketplace. So now our 3 guitars (my two and Theo's) can sit on it. Much better than having them lying around everywhere. Theo still seems to really enjoy playing his guitar which is great, it's good to see him sticking at it.
And finally last night Sarah spent about 2 hours by the looks of it (I was here in Tauranga) removing nits from Beth's hair. She had some a few weeks back and Sarah got rid of them all, but they appear to be back again. And with Beth having such long hair it's a mission to clear them out. Hopefully this might spell the end of them but until we can figure out where they're coming from it's hard to know.
Anyway I better get up and get ready for the day, I've got to meet Greg down in the lobby in 30 minutes and I'm still in bed.
Tim
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