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1960 Lucan for Bernie and Janice's wedding in a small country church, Our Lady of Victory. Over to Bernie's new house in Jerry's new car. After dinner in the new school Steve and I walked around town and went to Burtzel Café (owned by Janice's father) and played basketball with Gordie (my father's cousin). Had a snack then looked at the gifts. Bernie took us to see the inside of his house. In the evening we went to a lounge and I played bumper pool with Angi. From there to a hall where I danced with Angela and Mom.
1981 Th - Afton for a lunch celebrating Georganne's engagement. Went with Cathy and Larry C in Tim's car. Followed Strom and went all over getting there. Had "chopped serloin" which turned out to be hamburger. Walked over to Selma's where I got a bubblegum ice cream cone. Ne made a list of the food that she wants to eat. At supper when she put out tartar sauce I said we don't need it. She said we did for the fish sticks thinking she would get everything at the first meal.
1983 Sa - Got to High School parking lot at 9:15AM. At 9:30 the boys and 9 other parents got onto the bus which then sat there until 10:40AM. Got to the dome way after the 11AM start of the baseball clinic. Seated at top in left field. Saw Stroms and Mennes. Clinic was waste of time and then we had to sit with these squirrely boys for an hour before the game began. David bought a batting glove. Twins lost 8 - 6 to Red Sox. Jim Thommes gave us a ride from school.
1988 Found a tie for $2.99 at Mt. Wellington Maxi-Mart [Grand Opening in 1986] closing down sale.
1989 Two hours at the ModelEx in Henderson. Mostly trains and miniatures with some very good Meccano gizmos in action. Gail and Ne got bored within an hour.
1990 David and I went to ModelEx in Henderson. Got there in time for a cannon salute to officially open it.
1991 Purvis not happy to see me again complaining about flu that antibiotics don't help.
1993 Fellow at 3 Guys told me there was a job for me in the butcher department (must have thought that I was unemployed since it was 10AM and I was shopping).
1994 Waitakeres with Whites and dogs. Lunch at Whatipu. Walked to Paratutae Island (or a really big rock at low tide) where I climbed a little. Great views to the South. Out to Ninepin Rock with its lighthouse. Over to Cutter Rock. About 2 hours but very tiring with all that fresh air. Bridge until 9:30PM.
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2001 Ne, Gail and I went to Berthe's to play sjoelen even though it wasn't New Year's Eve. Its a strange Dutch game where the contestants must wear their shirt inside-out photo. B had best round with an 80 and the rest of us managed to hit 60's. Someone at door, Berthe says: "Its my cook" and she was right. Martin had come to invite B to a chicken curry that he had whipped up. Berthe rustled up supper (via her other cook at the Chinese takeaway); she did warm up cherries in the microwave for dessert and made us coffee once Renee showed her how to do it. We had a game of Upwords and it was close up until end with Ne winning by 2. Commenting on the morning's frost, we heard Berthe say the "estuary" was frozen. Turned out that she said "ashtray". Home to put a modem into Roche's computer, but couldn't get CDROM or sound cards to work.
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Berthe

2002 Digicam arrived so evening spent figuring out how to use (actually it will take a couple years).
2006 Gail's trip to the movies ended at Kingseat when the radiator blew. Her rescurer got AA who towed the car to Waiau Pa. David picked her up (I was at Warriors).
2008 Physio in the new building on Martyn with heated rooms! Steve told me that both shoulders are gone forever. Complete tears in the tendons that won't mend with time nor operation. So we will attempt to re-train, with exercises, the remaining tendons and muscles to pick up the load.
2016 Sa - Off to Papakura. Heavy holiday traffic coming out of Auckland. James back in OZ and Russell back from Alaska/Canada. We got to the stadium in time to watch the ISP game, which Warriors won over Magpies. Main event against Broncos who fielded 4 tired Origin players and Warriors had best game of the year winning 36 - 16 (Highlights). Asked Peter if had put extra starch into the uniforms. No wind so it was a foggy/smokey drive home.
2020 Th - Day 23 of Level 2. Got in a rain shortened 30 minutes walk. Stopped on way out to chat with Kay about her rock garden. Bumped in Pete on way back and he invited me over to look at photos of his antique cars.
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