ur team spent the day out at Kaiapoi, at the Tuahiwi Marae, learning about the history of the Ngāi Tūāhuriri hapū and a bit of tikanga Māori. As it was being held on a marae, we started off with a pōwhiri, then after morning tea we broke into groups to learn how to put together…
o the cake surprise didn’t exactly didn’t go to plan. For a start, we forgot that Lucy-Jane was working off-campus with one of our content providers this morning. So there we were busy plotting how to get her out of the office for a few minutes at the end of our Monday morning meeting so…
idn’t get round to grouting the mosaic today after all – when I read the instructions properly and saw the bit about having to clean the tiles 12 hours after you grout them, I decided to leave it until next weekend when I could actually manage that without having to get up early tomorrow morning…
or a change, this weekend arrived with nothing written into my diary. It actually left me feeling slightly at a loss this morning – I seem to have had something planned every weekend for months, so not having to work around being at some particular place at some particular time felt weird. But I quickly…
EISMIC has been shortlisted for the NZ Open Source Awards, so we’ve been invited to the awards dinner in Wellington. None of the bosses are available to go, so today they asked if I’d like to go in their place, and take one of the team with me. So I get to go to a fancy…
I’m feeling particularly uninspired for things to write about tonight, so it must be time for a gratuitous photo of Parsnips: She’s quite scary in extreme close-up! (But isn’t the texture in her eyes cool?)
enerally, I try to be a nice person. I even try to be polite to telesales people – it’s not their fault they have an irritating job to do, and they’re being paid a pittance to do it. But I’m afraid I fail when it comes to Sky TV telesales. They call me at least…
oastmasters tonight, and my fifth prepared speech, which means I’m half way through the first qualification, “The Competent Communicator”. Each speech is supposed to focus on a particular skill, and tonight’s was on using body language. I was instructed to pick a topic that would let me use lots of body language while talking, so…
ad dinner last night at a Vietnamese restaurant in Fendalton with a few of the women from Toastmasters. Our original plan had been to grab a quick dinner then go to a movie, but the conversation (and the meal – seriously good food) turned out to be much too enjoyable to rush, so we cancelled…
Lytteltonwitch asked if my mosaic was going to be a cat. No, just a random swirly pattern, but if you squint your eyes the right way it might be a cat’s tail… It may look complete, but actually I didn’t have enough of the yellow tiles to finish the sides: Plus of course it still…