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[threemonkeys]

As I was leaving the house this morning I contrived to drop my cellphone about 10 feet onto concrete and it went flying in pieces. To my relief those pieces fitted together and despite a couple of dings it still appears to work. So I headed round to lobelet's place to pick him up for a trip over the hill to Martinborough. I was looking for an excuse for a drive to get back in the habit - too many days in the garden and driving become just that bit harder and I have a long drive in a couple of weeks. lobelet has never been to the Wairarapa, so a plan was formed. The plan came together pretty well. It involved a visit to Martinborough Vineyard where I topped up my dessert wine stocks and a meal at the Martinborough wine centre where we could sample beer from the local brewery and have a nice meal with which lobelet could have extra caterpillar with his salad.

Back home I finished watching the DVDs of Blakes 7 season 4. I have not watched this season for many years and I have it in my mind that this season isn't as well regarded as the others. But I really enjoyed it. It does have a different energy than the other seasons - more relaxed and prepared to have more fun with the show. These DVDs have a much better set of extras that previous seasons. The beeb are not exactly good at extras, so it was a welcome surprise.

Good day.

Comments

[thoatherder.livejournal.com]

You semi-retired people get all the fun!

All I get to do is delete 10,000,000 files (whee!)

Oh and later today I might get to do this:

cd /
rm -rf *

But I better make damned sure I'm on the right box.

[threemonkeys.livejournal.com]

I don't know about all the fun - I always wanted to do rm -rf but never had the opportunity. Well not without getting into a lot of trouble anyway :-)

[lobelet.livejournal.com]

I've done it twice.

Once because I wanted to see what it felt like (it felt good) and once because it was 4.50pm and I wanted to go home for tea and I was in a hurry.

Guess what? I didn't get home for tea. It was a hell of a good test of my client's backup procedures (fortunately they had good backups).

[lobelet.livejournal.com]

Great day. Lousy caterpiller. Perfect opportunity to buy the wedding present wine. Eighteen months ago (as we speak) Robin and I were give $100 (Australian) as a wedding present and explicitly told to buy NZ wine with it. So that's what I did.

Robin thought it was a great idea and insisted on a photograph of the bottles so we could send it to the person who gave us the present.

A wonderful day, which I thoroughly enjoyed.