here aren’t a huge number of bright sides to living in a seriously damaged city, but one of them definitely is the excitement of seeing repaired buildings and brand new buildings opened. Harvestbird and I got to see three today, all within the space of a couple of hours. First was Cunningham House, the Victorian…
‘m feeling pretty proud of myself – I actually managed to write a little javascript app that works! Doesn’t do anything particularly useful, but that can come later 🙂 The more important thing is, it won me a challenge set by one of my workmates. Because we’re all at different levels of ability as far…
arvestbird taught me a new word at lunch today, “Nokay”. It was invented by one of the mini-Harvestbirds, and apparently it means “No, I’m not going to do what you want me to, but I’m going to be really sweet and polite about it so you don’t realise I’m actually being defiant”. Harvestbird reports that…
ne of the (many) things I really love about my job is the cool people I get to meet. Yesterday afternoon, for example, I had a meeting with Julia Holden, the artist who painted the Wish You Were Here series of billboards that were displayed in Auckland, and now Wellington. She was telling us about the…
while back I supported a kickstarter for a game called Machine of Death (based on the excellent book of short stories of the same name). The kickstarter succeeded, and the game was duly produced and sent out, with a request from the creator (who writes the Wondermark comic) that people send him photos of the…
ast night my Toastmasters club had a mid-winter outing – dinner at the Old Vicarage in Halswell. It was a really fun evening (and a wonderful dinner – Akaroa salmon and caramel steamed pudding) – we had a big square table in a private room, and conversations flowed around and across the table. I’m really…
ade a small start on a biggish project. Mostly it involved just checking my stash and measuring and counting and calculating stuff and generally making plans, so no pretty pictures to show for it. But I made a start, at least. Actually, my biggest problem was deciding what to do – all semester I’ve been…
ell, so much for all the things I kept telling myself I’d do as soon as I was finished with studying for the year. All that time when I had no time for anything but work and study, I was so looking forward to having the time to read real books, and do massive craft…
y birthday party baking went really well – the bread dough rose and baked up beautifully, the cake and eclairs were suitably chocolatey and decadent (even if I did slightly mess up the icing on the eclairs by getting a little bit too experimental and forgetting that adding orange zest to give it an interesting…
I know it’s not quite July yet, but I handed in my final assignment on Thursday (it wasn’t due until next week, but I didn’t want to have to work on it this weekend, so I put in a bit of extra effort during the week (luckily my boss is supportive and kindly turned a…