It’s very cool how I can tell my laptop where the other monitor is in relation to it to make dragging from one monitor to the other as smooth as possible. In my office at home the monitors don’t sit exactly side by side – straight across horizontal drag from one t’other – but rather the second monitor sits slightly back and up – bottom left to top right horizontal drag. So instead of going across to the side of my laptop screen and up, I can go straight up to the right on the diagonal by telling my laptop that’s where the other monitor is. Cool!

Interesting. I was just poking around the ERMA (Environmental Risk Management Authority) website (where I used to work) and in the time since I started the management group has pretty much completely turned over (quite a feat for a government department one would think) and what’s more is now almost all women (ditto on the feat!) The structure was slightly different when I started but I’m pretty sure it was all men, and now it’s 4 women and 2 men (yes, including the CEO).

Bit of a hooha in the NZ Herald over the weekend about the Police having ticket quotas (or not). If they want to get people running through stop signs then 2 great places for this would be the T-intersection of MacDonald Rd and Galatea Rd near Te Teko and the cross-roads of Abel Smith St and Cuba St in Wellington. Just terrible.

Finally managed to get to the Supreme Factory in Hopper Street, beyond the upper end of Cuba Street – I guess it’s not such a new location for them any more – it’s just taken so long to get there. Actually that’s a lie – they have a cafe attached and we’ve tried to go there a couple of times but they close at 3pm weekdays and aren’t open weekends. I thought I’d stroll up there today to get the beans instead of the usual jaunt to the Woodward Street store. Quite a cool little cafe there – definitely an interesting walk to take the parents on when they’re next in Wellington.

It’s at that end of Cuba street that you find the darndest things. Today I had a nosey around a new shop called Minerva – turns out it’s a textile book shop – every kind of book on quilting, sewing, patchwork, applique, making new clothes out of old and a few knitting books. I think they’re a distributer for a quilting magazine as they seemed to have quite a production line of envelopes going on out the back. I even found a book on tatting – I didn’t realise people still did that! However, it seems they do because the book was first published in 2002! Tatting is that stitch knotting thing you do to make doilies and lace like my grandmother used to.