Welcome to this week’s casual kōrero thread!
This post will be pinned in this community so you can always find it, and will stay for about a week until replaced by the next one.
It’s for talking about anything that might not justify a full post. For example:
- Something interesting that happened to you
- Something humourous that happened to you
- Something frustrating that happened to you
- A quick question
- A request for recommendations
- Pictures of your pet
- A picture of a cloud that kind of looks like an elephant
- Anything else, there are no rules (except the rule)
So how’s it going?
Bought my tickets to go visit my family in September. Spending that much always freaks me out even though I know I can afford it
Exciting! If you need to apply for an NZ passport, do it now, they used to issue them in a couple of days and now it’s a couple of months!
Are you having a nice long visit or just a quick trip? I’m assuming overseas since people don’t usually freak out over buying a bus ticket. Usually.
Thanks for the warning. Luckily my passport is good for several years yet. It’s gonna be weird going from early spring to early autumn though.
Haha yeah, but autumn can be nicer weather than spring in a lot of places so hopefully you get a weather upgrade.
Yeah should be warmer and drier
We’ve got a huge power outage up here in the Far North, seems there’s a Transpower problem cutting off power to the whole of the Far North.
Luckily we have a UPS for Internet until the battery runs down.
Edit: It’s still off after 2 hours. Apparently a transmission pylon tower collapsed, no further info, but oh boy, this will likely take a while to fix I suspect.
Edit2: Power came back on after around 5 hours.
Just had a wee a shake in Christchurch, only 3.4 but quite close to where I am and relatively shallow. Was a noisy one too, had the heartrate going for a little bit! Ick. I don’t like these reminders.
Survey on the boat is supposed to be this week but there is a weather system developing off the coast and it’s bringing high winds and rough seas. Not very conducive to a haul out and sea trial so we may have to delay it to the following week, which will push back everything else with the purchase and getting on board. Ah well, they say you shouldn’t sail to a schedule, I guess you shouldn’t try buying a sailboat to a schedule either!
