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Morena everyone, I hope you have a good day..
Christmas is over here, as are all the boxing day sales, so hopefully it'll be a quiet day for a lot of us today.. Our boxing day sales are more chaotic than shopping on chrisymas eve, it seems to be a day where a lot of folk buy their pressies now as they're a lot cheaper than before christmas.. I must admit it's nice not hearing the noise of constant traffic passing my place either going to or coming home from town after the boxing day sales..
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Morena everyone, I hope you have a good day..
I was going to take a laptop outside and work out there in the shade, but it's a bit to breezy to have all my notes lying round on the ground, that's okay though, I'm less likely to get things done if I'm outside, there's a few things to get done inside, it's easier getting to those things if I work inside this morning..
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Morena everyone, I hope you have a good day..
I've just been getting some dishes done and the washing put on and deciding if I want to do anything speciaal for new years eve or not, I've got several films on my portable hard drive I haven't seen yet, no doubt there will be a few films on TV as well, we usually have a big fireworks display put on at the beach by our city council on new years eve, so thought about going to that as long as I can suffer all the drunken party goers there, I may see what the weathers like on the day and if I'm up for it I may get a ride from a friend to see it all.. What's your plans for new years eve?
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Morena everyone, I hope you have a good day..
It seems that once christmas day hit things have been very quiet here, there's a lot of tourists in town as usual at christmas, but not as much traffic on the roads, perhaps with most businesses shut for the holidays travelling salesmen aren't travelling and other businesses are shut, so no one going to and from work, most folk try to get the work days between christmas and new year off if their businesses are open, it feels strange having so little traffic about this time of morning, usually the mums are shopping and paying bills and such now before getting back home to do the last of the chores..
It's new years eve tomorrow, so no doubt there will be a lot of parties on and fireworks being set off, I think our city council is putting on the fireworks at midnight on the beach to welcome in new year, I hope no one drnks and drives and seeing in the new year is safe for everyone..
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Morena everyone, I hope you have a good day..
It's new years eve and I was expecting the shops to be busy this morning, luckily it was about normal when I got there at 8.45 a.m. They are open tomorrow though, just on reduced hours so folk likely aren't panicking to much, it looks like today and tomorrow may be a relaxing time here seeing I don't have anywhere to go tonight and there's no urgent chores to do now..
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Morena everyone, I hope you have a good day..
A happy new year to everyone, I hope the new year is good to you and yours.. My new years eve yesterday was very quiet, no traffic on my street last night and no loud parties or fireworks, at least if there was parties didn't hear any, no doubt the bars and clubs were busy though..
Now its the 1st of the new year it's time to follow up on any new years resolutions, I'm going o give mine an honest try even if I end up falling flat on my face, lol.. I guess I need to set reasonable goals, or at least acheivable ones..
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Morena everyone, I hope you have a good day..
I hope any new years celebrations went well with everyone and he heads aren't to sore this morning.. I've got a lazy day luckily, my arthritic old hands are giving me grief, so it'll be a slow quiet day here I think..
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Morena everyone, I hope you have a good day..
It'd sure be nice to have air con at present, we've just had 3 days of temperatures over 38 degrees, today looks like being the 4th day, there's no breeze so we can't siy outside in the shade to cool down a little, I guess we should count our blessings though with the Australians having so many bushfires and getting record breaking high temperatures as well..
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Morena everyone, I hope you have a good day..
I was just thinking we'll be getting all the kids about until early February, school holidays started early December for the summer, no doubt a lot of mums will be getting their patience tested for the next month, the joys of being a parent, lol..
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Morena everyone, I hope you have a good day..
Well, the temperatures dropped from a balmy 38 degrees every day to 22 degrees at present, as a result I've just put a jersey and warm shoes on, it's mid summer and we normally get very settled hot dry weather now, maybe there's some truth in the global warming thing.. With it being sunday I'm hoping for a relaxing day, especially as my eyes are giving me trouble at present..
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Morena everyone, I hope you have a good day..
I've just been finishing a coffee and thinking of the poor Aussies, we're getting the tail end of their high winds here in NZ, this wind will be making it a lot harder to put out their out of control fires.. Theu've had at least 2 years of droughts over there, now the fires, and over christmas too, there was a lot of folk that'd lost everything by christmas, we think times are hard for us at present too..
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Morena everyone, I hope you have a good day..
Well, the shoppings done and put away for another week and the bills are paid so enjoying a cofffee and a rest before lunch now.. We have another windy day here, I'm hoping the wind has stopped in Aussie, it must be making life even harder for the firefighters and all the affected folk over there, heres hoping they get on top of the fires soon..
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Morena everyone, I hope you have a good day..
I'm not sure why, but I seem to be busier than usual offline these days, not helped by age and taking a bit longer to ger things done, I'm also thinking about a move to another town, that has me checking a million thngs, sending emails and awaiting replies about a possible move, still have to find out about swapping the power and internet so I'm not offlineto long if I move, it's all seeing me with a lack of hours in a day, lol..
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Morena everyone, I hope you have a good day..
Well, I've been in my place so long I'd forgotten how much there is to get sorted out, all the shifting power, internet the list goes on and on, I'm slowly gettigf through the long list of things to find out about so I know what has to be done closer to the day, it's taking time seeing I'm having to rely on emails to find out things, at least the power, internet and home help should be fairly straight forward to do when the time comes as the same companies are where I'm planning on moving to.. The expensive thing will be shifting all my furniture etc as that's trucked down and has to go on the inter island ferry too.. There's no being bored at the moment, lol..
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Ahiahi everyone, I hope your day's gone well..
Well, I thought I'd get a bit done online today, I only had a doctor appointment at 10.30 a.m. but he was 40 minutes late so my morning got stuffed, all I got done before going out was to answer about 30 emails, most of this afternoon saw me trying to get someones computer going, unfortunately it's over 10 years old so getting beyond help.. Seeing it's the weekend tomorrow I should get a quiet day or two..
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Morena everyone, I hope you have a good day..
It's a fine warm morning here, I may take a laptop outside my back door shortly and work out there in the shade rather than stop inside in the heat, my place gets the morning sun in side from just after sunrise this time of year,so by 9.00 a.m. it's getting pretty hot inside even with all the windows open.. Once the washings done and pegged out I'll move outside with coffee and laptop hopefully to be left in peace, lol..
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We got a 37 degree day yesterday, it was still 28 degrees at 1.15 a.m. this morning, as a result this old man didn't get to sleep until after 2.30 a.m. so I'm feeling a bit washed out this morning seeing I was awake again at 5.00 a.m. which is late for me, I was up by 4.00 a.m. when I was a head chef, it's proving harder than thought to wake later after some 45 years of getting up so early every day.. At least tpday is a quiet day as it's sunday, if the good lord could rest today, then we can too, lol..
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Morena everyone, I hope you have a good day..
After getting a 39 degree day here yesterday it didn't cool down enough to get to sleep until around 3.30 a.m. this morning so this old fella is feeling a little tired at present given I was awake again just after 5.00 a.m. I'm glad it's shaping up to be a quiet day today, hopefully I can sneak a poppa nap after lunch if it's not as hot as yesterday..
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Well, getting the shopping and picking up my multitude of meds from the chemist was the easy bit this morning, putting the shopping away and getting all my meds sorted and in their spots so I don't miss taking anything seemed to take longer than getting everything and getting home, things are all in their rightful spots now so a rest and coffee at present before lunch.. I may sneak a poppa nap after lunch seeing it's cooler today, the heat here lately has lasted well into the night, so this old man hasn't been getting as much sleep as usual it's usually at least 2.30 a.m. before it's cool enough to sleep these days so a poppa nap seems a good plan..
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Well, after yesterdays efforts and being so busy this old mans aches and pains are playing up, now the rubbish is out, the dishes are done and a load of washing is on I can slow down and take it easy today.. Unfortunately I'm not one to leave jobs unfinished, that now has a habit of coming back and biting me on the bum the next day because I've usually done more than I should've, better that than having more to do the next day though..
I have been panning a move back to the south island, that's proven more time consuming than expected with sending emails all over, then not getting clear answers or having to ask more questions because more information has been given and not explained clearly, a pity I'm not able to hear on the phone as I could ask for ckarification straight away if unsure about something, all good though I'm making headway slowly but surely..
Where's sissy with the coffee and cake? I feel like plenty of both at present..
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Morena everyone, I hope you have a good day..
I had hoped for a quiet trouble free day today, sadly events have conspired against me this morning, hopefully things wi be caught up with by lunch time so I can sneak a poppa nap after lunch..
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Morena everyone, I hope you have a good day..
Well, I'd just sat down for dinner at 6.30 p.m. last night and the desktop restarted after the updates, that got a disc clean and defrag while both laptops got updated, it was about 11.00 p.m. by the time I finished, at least things are up to date again.. On the down side it looks like support for Windows 7 is finishing, I got a screen full of message about support stopping after the Windows 7 laptop was updated, if it is the case I'll upgrade it to Windows 8.1 seeing I have the software for the office version, I hope support for Windows 7 hasn't finished now, IMO it's far better than either 8.1 or 10 so fingers crossed..
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Morena everyone, I hope you have a good day.
Another dull cool dau here today, that'll see me staying inside and dressed like an eskimo, I;m wondering if there's any truth to the global warming thing with such changeable weather, it's mid summer and we should have fine settled hot weather now, but the last several summers have been very unsettled and up and down.. On the upside I've got plenty to do, so no chance of boredom over the weekend..
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Morena everyone, I hope you have a good day..
Another sunday is upon us already, it feels like it should still be christmas, it's a bit scary how fast the time goes these days, I guess being constantly busy sees the time pass faster, I tend to be doing things even while watching a film on TV, I'm noy one for sitting idle I guess, never have been, time enough to rest when we're in the wooden box eh..
I may take a look at the AlJazeera news shortly and see if there's any new news about Trump, the last I saw was that he had Bill Clintons prosecutor defending him in his impeachment trial, the guy lost the case that time, that makes me wonder if he'll lose this case too..
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Morena everyone, I hope you have a good day..
I seem to be late on this morning, I did get online by 8.00 a.m. but found around 35 emails that needed replies, those are done no as are the dishes and dinners on cooking, and the washing is about 16 minutes from finished, it's just gone 10.00 a.m. so not bad for an old man with mondayitis, lol..
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