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1961	High = 81°F. First day of classes - Mr. Newstrom gave me a ride and I got there at 7:30AM. Brother Augustine for biology. English is Mr. Elsenpeter, who rides a bike to school. Latin - Mr. Stasik who has 95% of his stomache removed and has to eat all the time. Quiet Brother Daniel for Geometry.
1968	Steve and I had breakfast in Big Fork. It was raining so we didn't get much done around the lake property. Played cards with his cousin, Dale, in the evening.
1970	Oti woke me up at 7AM looking for my meat order. Jim and I walked down to Deve's. After a small breakfast Hoffsis and Perrys left on the 10:30AM bus.
1974	Mailed off my first Christmas card for the year. Aldies over to drink coffee and beer until midnight just chatting.
1976	Heather brought us to see Gail - Te was shy of Gail. Fran stopped in and we all saw Renee. Aldies came over with supper and Doug brought me to see Gail.
1977	Brought Ne to Lavington hospital for grommets ($16 theatre charge). Sat around for an hour with other families and met couple (Derek) who live across Thorsing's road from us. When she went in we had coffee and cookies in a waiting room. Nurse told us we could leave. So we went into Auckland. I bought a bike ($160). When we went back we found Ne in the arms of Matron. Apparently she had held her for the whole time and Ne wouldn't let anyone else hold her. One other nurse was complaining because she hadn't had a chance to hold her. One of the mothers there had said that she was beautiful - first time anyone had used that word, its usually 'cute'. The drugs wore off and she was very cranky and hungry (hadn't eaten since yesterday) and wanted to be held. So we took turns all day.
1984	F - Cobb & Co in Manukau for drinks in bar and meal. Jones' and shared an excellent '79 chianti by Castello di Querceto. They really added onto the house. Kids are big. They were burgled so they have a lot of new electronics.
1985	Sa - Let the kids babysit themselves as we went to Carthew's on Ponsonby Road. Jeff and Terri Beals, Sue and Richard Spencer, Dave and Belinda Clarke guests of Alan and Nola Dougall as thanks for the PC vendor work. Nice atmosphere complete with a trio of musicians who were excellent. "Beaver" showed up late and sand a few songs, then some guy took over the piano and played some "mean' tunes. Meanwhile, I was putting away the wine (Christian Brothers Semillion) while listening to Belinda tell us dog (Jake the Alsation) stories and chatted with Nola about Rosehill. Had rabbit kidney lamb sweetmeats for entree and a veal dish with fruit dessert. Dave consumed beer after beer and put down a couple Brandy Alexanders and got loud and brash (more so than his normal brashness).
1990	Gail called to say that the operation cancelled again and now she will miss out on Dallas and Austin. Chris came with White Castles photo. He brought us to Waltons to change our train tickets. Wanted to get $500 cash. Tried drive-in window, then had to go in and they still wouldn't cash my personal check. Had to get Cottage Grove Branch to fax over my signature. Brady and Bob were over for supper. Had an excellent Mondavi '88 Gamay. We brought Mom to the Twins game. Her first time in the dome (video). Twins won 2 - 0 over Cleveland (ticket stub).
1997	Su - Day 62 of our 3 month journey around the world. See Texas Photo Journal and New Mexico Photo Journal.
1999	T - Jim Botto, a ypoung Brit teaching at Sandspit, over for a meal. Very good '95 Brown Brothers Everton and a good Corbans '98 Muller-Thurgau.
2002	Day two and more rain; Trip Report
2007	We crammed 6 of us into the car: Russell's brother, Ross, Mike, Dean and Chris. Ross and Mike from the country said that they wouldn't see as many cars in two years as we had on the motorway to Mt Smart. So the 29,000 fans may have the biggest crowd they had been in. We got there two hours before kick off so we watched the Barter Cup game, then Papakura youngsters beat Te Atatu South. Main match was scoreless at half-time, the Warriors were hard done by ref Archer and lost 10 - 12, in what should have been a win. Then we waited in parking lot an hour to get out, which meant that I got home at 12:30AM.
2012	F - Gail picked Colleen up to drive her to our new house. Colleen wondered why Gail continued around the island... Brought her here for cappucinos.
2013	Sa - Vicki and Morris came for a couple hours of catching up.
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