House Under Contract
Great news! The house in Colorado is under contract, they inspect tomorrow morning, and then hopefully it’s smooth sailing to closure. This is it: if it falls through, I’m renting it out. …
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House Under Contract
Great news! The house in Colorado is under contract, they inspect tomorrow morning, and then hopefully it’s smooth sailing to closure. This is it: if it falls through, I’m renting it out. …
Home Sweet Home
Back in New Zealand after nearly three months away. What a lot of culture shock there was, both in leaving and returning. Leaving: it’s so easy to return to the US, yet so hard. The traffic was …
NZ Expanding Immigration
NZ Herald reports the government wants at least 47,000 skilled immigrants and will recognize skills in applicants from India and China for the first time. I love that the desired professions include …
Budget
Six months back in the country, I’ve formed some opinions about where NZ is lacking. I was interested to see how the budget would address what I’ve identified as the country’s …
School Update
In the past month or more I’ve been working hard on making sure William had a good experience at school. I talked to his teachers to make sure that they were keeping their eyes open for bullying …
NZ Internet Use
There were 1.24 million active internet subscribers in New Zealand between March and September 2005 (NZ pop = 4M, remember) 70%, or 869,300, were modem users Total residential internet penetration was …
What Makes a Good Day
Today was unsatisfactory. I worked a solid 8 hours, packed in the email, made a coworker laugh, and made significant progress towards a goal. So why, at the end, do I feel blah? I was so knackered …
Valentine's Day
We took William out of school for the day, drove down to Auckland, and went to Kelly Tarlton’s World (like the Monterey Aquarium) and then to a buffet for lunch. Very luxurious, but you have to …
Tuis
The tuis (TOO-ees) sing outside my office window and it’s fantastic. Here are some pointers to tui sites: Kiwi Wildlife Tours audio of birdsongs, White Heron Tours tui sounds, Wikipedia entry on …