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1972	Suva with Whites. Picked up my passport and a few books at PC office. We took our Nanking meal to Ivan's new place in Toorak. Its beautiful.
1975	Drove to Marshall where Gail got info on university summer courses. Had a picnic there. Stopped in Clarksville, but no houses for rent. Back in Dawson we saw Claire Halton about any farm houses for rent - none. Helped Don put a vanity in to one of his rentals. Then he showed me his car lot. After supper, he drove around Dawson for half an hour looking for players for the softball game. His team lost 13 - 2. He said that he and Shelby are getting divorced and he'll buy a bar in Bellingham.	Zak
1978	Sa - Masons gave me a ride to Onehunga Rec Centre for the Auckland District Secondary Schools basketball tournament (draw). Lost to Northcote 75-59(summary). We had the largest number of supporters. Brought Julie B over to babysit. Picked up Leslie and Nigel Mason on way to Onehunga for a great game against Selwyn which we won 72 - 60 (summary).
1980	T - Went to visit dad at Penne Realty. He gave the kids Easter candy.
1995	TP at Selwyn Church fundraising for the scouts. We came in first and we chose a teddy bear as our prize. Gail won a 2-up game (bottle of bubbly). I tried my luck playing hole-in-1.
1997	T - Gene B called to organize things for the Minnesota wedding with Angi.
2000	F - Skunked Gail. Ian over for coffee. Upwords with Ne and Gail. email from Woody: Taina addressed UN (speech) and met with NZ ambassador.
2004	Brundell's for the day downloading and backing up the 1500 photos from his Japan/China trip. Then we took photos of him and his plants to be on display on his trip to China next week. He stopped in after yoga and we worked on photos.
2007	Went to Warriors game - they lost 2 - 4 to Storm's second string team. Big cheers when Vatuvei caught the ball. Tried a butter chicken curry at the game. Pre-game set by Billy T K Jr and he was greating doing covers of Santana, Stevie Ray Vaughn and AWB.
2008	Helped Dee's father, over the phone, get his email from Spain. Mike surprized us with a visit and a bottle of St Hallett '06 Shiraz Grenache that was on the dry side with good fruit.
2010	Th - email from Rene who had spent afternoon with Gail. Into town to do see Antoinette who is now our bank manager. - turned out that she is Hank Habraken's daughter. I played basketball with him in the early 70's.
2012	Su - Heasley called from Auckland where he was set Analyn up to live for 3 years while he is back to Philippines.
2014	T - Got to hospital at 1:15PM and drove around the whole complex a couple times before I parked illegally in the lower lot. So late to Outpatient. Told nurse why I didn't fill out the form for the flow rate test, so she got Dr Westenberg to see. He drew a diagram and tried to explain what is going on. We agreed to do a bladder pressure test, under ACC since Public doesn't do it.
2021	Th - 55 minute walk to Sandhurst. Gail and Ne got the first Covid dose. AFL: Suns had an easy win over Hawks. Watched Tomb Raider and C B Strike: White Lethal.
2022	F - email from Kelley after 5 years. email from Newsy (wet time in OZ). And more heavy rain here today.
2023	Sa - Scythe, Lost Cities and Wingspan. Ne left and we had Turkish for supper with a fantastic Passage Rock 2020 Sisters. We did the San Marino Formula One which David led from the start and won with Gail coming second. My cars came in last. Set a record for spin offs. We had a Mousse for dessert. Then a couple games of Finca. David I played Architects of the Colessium.
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