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1961	High = 76°F. Babe Ruth - beat McClay 19-4 in what was my best game ever and coincidently Signe and Terri were watching. Struck out 14 of the 21 outs. One inning I struck out the side on 9 pitches. Pitched a 2-hitter. And I hit my only Grand Slam.
1966	Kincy's at 3PM, we went to Holiday to get supplies, then left my car at Spring Lake where we picked up sleeping bags. He drove us to the farm in his car. Got there at 8PM and guess what - no animals. Set up camp and ate supper in the dark. Drove to North Redwood to call his parents - used the old "collect call to Mrs. Marshall" scam.
1967	My first Honeywell check of $141.17 is ten times that of my Holiday Inn.
1972	We walked over to Deve's for supplies. 5000 stamps [ed. - must have bought them to trade with boys] arrived and I sorted them all over the livingroom floor.
1975	Klyberg's rental house and spent two hours scraping it. Home for lunch then two more hours scraping on a stepladder. Went to softball practice. Don had to leave to sell sell a car. Shelby and her mother took off leaving us with Brad Wilson and 3 girls. I ripped a thigh muscle early on and spent an hour limping about.
1976	John Holgate and Brian O'Toole (DJs at Hauraki) gave a talk to 5th form classes. Arrived with 2 minutes to go for first session. They gave me the latest American Top 40 album set and a copy of Shoestring Pirates. The DJs stayed for lunch (turned down a cup of tea in favor of a beer at nearest pub) with me and I had a great time. David Smithers stopped at the school and I showed him around. He brought me home and stopped in for a visit with Gail. Cost of living pay rise of $14 or $6.88 after taxes. Jack Gillan brought over the transformer he made but the points weren't "American".
1980	M - Mom went with her Welcome Wagon group to "Twin Cities Today" show. We watched and got a photo of her. Went to Target's Dollar Days sale. Big crowds and people going out with cartons of toilet paper. We got 16 rolls and a lot of household items. Tom Kelley called and said that StPaul Cos had contacted him. We talked for an hour. At 9PM a call from StPCos came and they offered me a job.
1985	Su - Trish, James, Dot and Russell visited. Sanders came with gifts for David - mouse treadmill and water feeder.
1988	OZ trip: Dubbo to Moree. Go to Trip Report
M - Day 7 of our 3 month journey around the world. See 1997 Trip Photo Journal.
2000	F - Trish visited. We walked down through Spring Valley development. Many calls from Doug who is trying to get ZFREE on David's computer.
2003	Up at 6AM! Gail to Auckland Surgical Centre where Dr Tristain de Chalain removed a 400g lump from her upper left arm in 62 minutes for a theatre charge of $1621. Meanwhile, I slept for 3 hours in the waiting room. Easy peasy, just like that we were home at 11AM.
2008	Up at 8AM for the tilers who laid as many whole tiles as they could, so we need to skirt around the edges to get from A to B. Five minute visit with an orthopeadic surgeon who said my shoulders are not worth an operation. Its just old age, but in my case 10 years before normal. Have to take it easy and not make things worse. At the bank I was being served by Ngwhai and when Val showed up she said: "Hi John". Ngwhai was surprized and asked why she called me that. Val told her we were friends. I told them they could call me Jone, and then that my real name is Joannes. Ngwhai asked what was the most common way I was addressed. I said: "Sir".
2014	M - Walked around the Mount with Kathy and Mike. Took photos of an Italian family and they took one of us. Coffee at Coffee Club and home for lunch. Played Survive a few times before a late supper (Jules Taylor 2013 Rosé).
2017	F - Left for Papakura at 2PM. I got to Russell's at 5:10PM - not home. Put on jacket (12°C), sent a TXT and read out back. When it got dark at 5:30PM I went back to the car and phoned Russell. He was working until 6PM and wouldn't get home until 6:15PM. Got to "Manu Vatuvei" stadium in time to watch under 20s lose 22 - 4. The big boys lost to Penrith's real men Brucie 34 - 22 in their usual display of standing around. Needless to say, Russell very upset. The usual 13,067 on hand and no big send off for "The Beast".
2018	Sa - Kathy and Mike back for lunch with a Squealing Pig Rosé and a few more hours of chatter.
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