Posts by Jeremy Andrew
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The good news is this will be digitally archived ... for future generations to wonder at
Let me be the first to say to those future generations: Hi! Sorry about the weather, but the V6 was just too much fun to give up.
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"Woohooo!, Yeah, play us another! Do you know the Rime of the Ancient Mariner?"
"No way man! do the Charge of the Light Brigade!"
"Sod off, play something recent, how about Song of Myself?"
"Call that recent, you old fogey, what about something local? Some Baxter or that Quordle Oodle Wardle one?" -
Its when it hangs around for a couple of days and turns grey slushy and stinky that it looses its allure
I think Russell was alluding to something that doesn't hang around so long. Think Kate Moss, a razorblade and a mirror...
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Not that NZ is necessarily much better - I recall in the past few weeks a swathe of news stories about how the folks down Dunedin way had never seen snow before & didn't realise how slippery ice is.
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I really don't miss dot matrix printers.
I've been using 'puters since the family's first Vic 20 back in the early 80s. There's not much I'd say I miss about any of them - vague sense of nostalgia aside.
The thing that really changed the face of the home computer is when they started coming with their own monitor, not using the family TV. That's when using the computer became much more of a personal activity than a family group thing.
That I kinda miss.
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some of the NZD prices quoted for food in above post are way off reality
I think you'll find the NZD prices were just translations of the USD prices for comparison, not the prices of comparable products in NZ.
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Then there's the weirdness which becomes a normal part of life with you barely noticing it.
The first time your wife calls you Dad, while the kid isn't in the room.
When you sit down & realise you can't actually remember what you used to do to fill in all that time that's now taken up with parenting - what does a Saturday morning without a soccer game or two look like?When you stop and realise that you've suddenly been posessed by one or more of your parents, and they're talking to your kids - "Eat your pumpkin, it'll put hairs on your chest". I spent years promising myself I wouldn't make my kids eat stuff they didn't like!
The sudden urge that comes over you late at night to phone your parents and apologise.
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It passes. It all passes.
I certainly hope it does!
I agree - everything that goes into the sprog passes through. Hence your inpromptu redecorating spree.
Babies have their moments, but you get much more value from other people's babies - that way you still get sleep and you can hand them back at the first sign of a loaded nappy.
However, once they appraoch a year or two old, and display some personality and can react to all those books you'll be reading them, they are much nicer to have around. I can see the attraction in adopting youngsters at about a year old - and I'm not that one that gves birth!Still, there's all the wonderful landmarks in a small life:
the first real smile when you realise that the other ones really were just wind.
The first night of uninterrupted sleep (under the new definition of uninterrupted = >5hrs).
The first steps and first words are overrated IMHO, but the first time they finish a verse of Hairy Maclairy that you're reading them is a sure warm fuzzy.
When you come home from work and a little voice screams "daddy!" as the owner attaches himself to your leg.