Jan

I’d rather have that than my dog that likes to jump 6ft fences and bolt 😅

Thankfully my second dog came with recall, because the first dog is a Houdini with a stubborn refusal to return after escaping.

NZD is weak as piss at the moment, so that won’t help us with imports.

Powershop is a subsidiary of Meridian Energy. I was with Powershop for a few years until I found out that Meridian was $50 cheaper a year for us, and I didn’t have to bother buying packs all the time. My rate was locked in for 2 years, so I must be due to get punched in the tit by my power bill.

I’m teaching him to be honest, and keep an open dialogue with us. This is especially critical to us since he had suicidal thoughts at the age of 7.

I’m not, but if I was, that would be a red flag.

Proud of our 13yr old son for having open dialogue with us that a kid his age showed him he had a vape at school. Also, WTF. I was hoping he would naively get by a bit longer before being exposed to this shit 😫

I brought this up with my host mother and her physics teacher friend had apparently told her there was nothing to worry about, because we weren’t downwind of it. Nice of her to give me a head’s up about it 😒. And also, that didn’t make me feel any better 😫

This. There was an emergency shut down due to high levels of radiation detected outside air vents, at a plant near the town I was in, when I was there in 1999. I only found out about it because an English language paper wrote about it a few days after.

I’m not jealous, not at all.

But you would be entertained, nonetheless.

I carry a bit of cash now, just for this purpose. Twice last year I had people ask if I could spare a few dollars for petrol when ai was filling up myself.

I thought it was crap.

I didn’t look at other currencies, just AUD.

How many months until you get to review the Mazda CX-6e?

No idea what he said, but I could listen to him talk all day 😂

AUD is currently the strongest I’ve seen it against NZD in the nearly 3 years I’ve been tracking it. Great for my income, since I’m paid in AUD. Not great if you’re going to Oz on holiday though!

My eldest black cat refused to move so I could make my bed tonight, and then got angrier and angrier as I proceeded to make the bed on top of her. Bloody cats 😅

It does. I found out by accident the other day.

Some fuckwit just let off fireworks close to my house. How the hell do they still have some left?!?!

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He butchered an Aussie saying.

The Aussies called, and they want him to stop butchering their saying, which is, “We’re not here to fuck spiders.”

Happy birthday!

The second #kakapo chick of the #kakapo2026 breeding season hatched this morning: Hine Taumai-A1-2026 on Ako's nest on Te Kākahu. We transferred the egg from Anchor two nights ago. This is Ako's first-ever chick, which is just a few hours old in this video. #conservation #birds #parrots

You have to get access to it via their parent company, which is what WeatherWatch does for their live observations. No idea on price though.

Ah, well I scanned shit so quickly I only remember one claim because it was traumatising.

How come you got the see the fun stuff?

Ha! It would definitely do that.

How’s are you coping with the wind noise? Three years ago in Cyclone Gabrielle, the biggest thing I remember was how tiring it was hearing the constant wind, and feeling on edge.