Entries from August 2004 ↓

Man I hate those jiggling adverts on www.stuff.co.nz when you’re trying to read the news. It’s hard enough reading online without have jumping and boinging smiley faces or stick figures in the right hand margin. Yet reading the good old paper newspaper just gets newsprint ink all over your hands and clothes – how’s a girl to get good clean news?

I have decided to try out a new discipline, although some will think this is nothing but the norm for me! When crossing the road at junctions controlled by lights I am going to wait for the green man. Even on very quiet roads where it seems you have to wait ages, I am going to do it. In this life where we’re always busy and always moving I think it will be very nice to just STOP for 30 seconds and look around and just be still.

Saw a few movies last week: I,Robot (very cool and the futuristic car was designed by Audi; Whole 10 Yards (not a great sequel – fairly dumb humour and I was a bit distressed to see my macho hero Bruce Willis in a sometimes pathetic role); 13 Going on 30 (great chick flick based loosely on the movie ‘Big’ with Tom Hanks where Jenna wishes she was 30, wakes up and it’s 17 years later). Had to make a couple of large Excel templates at work and discoverd that a) you can track changes in Excel (although it behaves differently to Word – better in some ways as it doesn’t at all interfere with the text) and b) can’t make a ‘master’ sheet like in Visio where one ‘layer’ can sit underneath the others thereby one change to it changes all occurances on all the other layers where they’re linked to the master.

Not once have I seen photos or television footage of Donald Trump wearing an orange tie. With his ginger locks you’d think it’d be a goer. Perhaps orange is not the colour of the rich and powerful.

Experienced another world yesterday afternoon when I went to a Metallica documentary – doing the bit of the dutiful partner of course! There were certainly some hardcore fans there with long greasy hair and black Metallica t-shirts – including the guy that was perusing the gun catalogue! That concludes our stint at the film festival this year. At the other end of the scale we went to a Dutch film ‘Twin Sisters’ (about German twin girls that meet up at the age of 70 after being seperated at aged 5 and raised completely differently – one harbouring Jews and the other married to a German soldier) where there was a definite smell of moth balls and we felt rather young! Very good movie though, I have the novel (one of my mother’s good for the soul gifts) which I have been struggling to finish so it was good to see the movie – good to see a different view of the effects of war – more poignant that blood and guts. Went to Capitol for dinner a couple of times last week too – it’s still our favourite restaurant with consistently good food (currently I’m on a spinnach, mash and gremolata bender) and service. Actually, while looking to see if Capitol had a website, I found this shocking example of bad grammar – you’d think on marketing material more care would be taken – a site promotiting their venture capitol service.