Jul 8
Final Band Concert.
It’s all done and dusted for now, we’ve finished our concert; and whilst I remain hopeful that we will do well, we still have a LOT of work to do! Apparently if you have a broadband connection, and you feel like staying up wierd hours (depending on your time zone) you can even ‘watch’ us playing in the contest on Friday, Saturday and in the Band of the Year Contest on Sunday ‘LIVE’ streamed over the internet…. no pressure then eh?
The link is here >> Hi there I’m a LINK!!? you’ll probably need to register or something to get started, but then you’ll be able to see what all the fuss is about!
…me? I’ve never been so nervous in my entire life. Not because of the band contest(s) but because I have FOOLISHLY agreed to give ice-skating a try for the first time in my life, whilst there, be afraid be very, VERY afraid!
No CyberismsJul 6
Weekend Over??
Jeepers, where did the weekend go…? Might have something to do with the massive amount of rehearsing with the Brass Band, we fly down to Christchurch next Wednesday to defend our current title, which is huge stuff for us, because if we manage to pull this off, we will be bring an A Grade band back to the capital of New Zealand - sweet!
Yesterday we rehearsed from 12.00 (lunchtime) through to 6pm!! Hardcore! Leaving me just enough time to go and catch the All-Blacks anihalate (spelling?) the Springboks (sorry Rach) 
Today started rather lazily for me, with a lie in followed by laundry, and a bit of pottering around on the computer (I suppose this is the modern evolution from pottering around in the garden shed??) followed by - yes you guessed it, MORE brass band rehearsing, you see we are running a concert/open rehearsal tomorrow night; ready for the big stuff next weekend….funnily enough a friend of our conductor wanted to record us for a film, we had to sound like a school band, apparently we were naturals….o.O
Me confident for Christchurch? Course I am!! (gulp)…
In other news - very unsurprising I have heard nothing from my local MP. Whom I wrote to via email regarding my council tax ‘fiasco’, I’ll let it ride for a further 28 days after which. I guess his stance will have been made clear….”who cares about the little guys after all?”
Hope everyone out there had a great weekend, and heres looking forward to a very POSITIVE week ahead 
Jul 4
My Unconcious Mind’s Sense of Humour!
OMG!!! I’ve just finished watching a DVD - I wasn’t sure what to watch this evening, so I went for a random pick out of my collection, which turned out to be ‘Independance Day’ - and guess what date it is today?!!!?!
DUH!
I promise I didn’t realise it was the 4th July until after I finished watching the DVD….
All I can assume is my unconsious mind was well aware of the date, and thought the irony wouldn’t be wasted on me!
In other news…I am off to watch my first live game of Rugby at the Westpac Arena (amiably known as the cake-tin) tomorrow evening, with the All Blacks (New Zealand) yay!! Versus the Springboks (South Africa) in the start of the Tri-Nations. This should prove to be a very interesting game! Of course I’ll be supporting the local team 
Jul 3
Geek Newsflash!!!
I was shown this at work today, and thought the need to share it on my blog!? It would appear life imitating art has struck again with the current developments going on at Washington University, as tested by rabbits! So it must be true!
Imagine a contact-lens with a built in circuit board, and lights, that could super-impose information on top of what you see….enhancing your vision with holographic information, or enhanced outlines of common landmarks, well that applications are endless! Anyhoo the link is here >> Hi! I’m a LINK << Go see!
In other news, less than a week till the New Zealand Brass Band Nationals!!!?!! ….and one more exclamation mark for good measure… !
No CyberismsJun 28
Can’t be bothered writing a post today…
…so, make you own post up folks….go on!! Knock yourselves out =p
3 CyberismsJun 28
Latest on my particular ‘pickle’
I promise…this post isn’t a moan I just simply wanted to share that I have recently emailed my local (recently appointed) MP with regards to the situation I currently find myself in.
So, lets see if a little bit of polite political dialogue can ‘actually’ achieve positive outcomes eh?
Watch this space!! No wait… this one >>>> [ ........ ]
No CyberismsJun 27
Good Start to Weekend
The Lotto over here is a little different to the UK, and me being the Geek I am, prefer to dabble only when it is offered in an online format, which it recently has been, there are three games, ‘One Big Wednesday’ which is a combination of money and assets - such as shiney new car etc… Then there’s the Saturday Draw, which is broken into three sections; $1 million lotto, $16 Million Power Ball, and $300,000 Strike. Finally there’s a daily play called Keno, prizes vary upto $1million depending on how much you stake, if you stake the minimum of $1 the max you can win is $250,000 not bad huh!.
Me being me, I entered tickets in all of these games last night for a bit of fun, and for my first forray into the NZ lotto world - Keno was drawn today, and I doubled my money straight away!!! with a whopping $8 win for matching 5 numbers =p
This calls for a celebration, I think some wine is in order!
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