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Is our in/out temperature measurer broken or could it really be as warm outside as it is inside? 23 degrees at 10am?

Someone in our office said yesterday “Can someone blog about something other than the iPhone?”

Clearly I’m not a *real* blogger if I don’t post something about it. So here goes.

What is all that stuff for anyway? An no buttons? Eeee-uuww the screen will get so greasy. Gross. My phone rings. With a normal “Ring. Ring” kind of sound. I answer it. I can make a phone call by dialling the number (the workflow for finding a number in the address book is so frustrating it’s just easier to keep that brain alive by actually remembering someone’s phone number and actually pressing the keys). I can send and receive a text. It doesn’t even have a little display panel so that I can see who’s calling and thereby screen calls.

I’m sure as with all these gadgets, if I had one, I’d probably use it and become a music listener, downloader, phone emailer etc but for now I’ll just let everyone else who really appreciates it gush and fight to be the first to get one. And then everyone will want to touch it and experience buttonless heaven. Eee-uwww. The fingerprints.

My brain sides are uneven on the side of preferring function to form. Our new desks at work are very styley – dark brown ‘wood’. However, they heat up in the sun and are very hot to lean on and act as a little heater in an office that’s aready fairly hot with sun streaming in; and they show up every greasy finger print … not that I have greasy hands … just general touch marks.

Will have to think about this one for a bit but I think I get it …

That introduces essential clauses while which introduces nonessential clauses.

Examples:

“I do not trust editorials that claim racial differences in intelligence.” 
 We would not know which editorials were being discussed without the that clause.

“The editorial claiming racial differences in intelligence, which appeared in the Sunday newspaper, upset me.” 
The editorial is already identified. Therefore, which begins a nonessential clause. 
 
NOTE: Essential clauses do not have commas surrounding them while nonessential clauses do contain commas.

Source: http://www.grammarbook.com

Got challenged!! By the defence. After a huge delay following the first ballot we were taken into the court room at about 11am. I think I was about the 4 juror called up but I’m not sure if it was my clothes (opted for jeans and jacket this time), expression (vicious face looking down the barrel at all three lawyers), the accounting book that someone may have spied me reading in the waiting area, whatever it says about me on the electoral roll that the lawyers all fossick through when you’re name is called or my refusal of the bible as a crucial item to support me in being fair and honest, that caused them to challenge me. May have been an interesting case too – 8 counts of using funds that were due to the IRD inappropriately.

So, that’s it. Wonder how long until I’m called next?

I surreptitiously snapped this picture at Fuel WT this morning. How do these young guys keep their trousers up?? They have no hips. Gotta love those Jockey scants … <eyeroll>

Aaaaand off I go for my 2nd stint in 2 years. The first time (day 1, day 2, day 3, day 4) was relatively harrowing, wonder what will happen this time?

When at Capitol the other night I got to wondering about the lighting in public bathrooms – the light in the Capitol bathrooms is very dim. Like so dim it’d be hard to see any drips on the seat. A couple of other restaurants I’ve been to have adopted the same approach. I wonder if it’s because one’s complexion looks all matt and smooth without the aid of hard fluorescents to show wrinkles and unevenly applied make-up and rogue hairs and wiggly bits and therefore when checking yourself out you think you look especially good and attractive and more sociable and therefore decide to stay out longer and drink more hence the establishment makes more money off you. Under the harsh reality of fluorescents one would certainly think twice about subjecting one’s dining companions to any more time that socially polite!

And lighting in dressing rooms is a random thought for another day…

I understand there’s a second New World Metro now – just opened at the Railway Station today – very good idea. It’ll do well.

In this world of medical advancement I always find it strange that there are far more diseases and allergies around than there were way before our modern times. Or is it that we just didn’t know about them back then? I guess now that people can fly between countries rather than walk means that the world wide spread of things like aids and bird flu, that probably did exist all that time ago, can now spread on a global scale. And we know about all this stuff because of so much global media.

This morning the office conversation was about someone’s friend with a toddler and their difficulty in finding a suitable birthday cake to take to creche for the toddler’s first birthday party. Apparently the creche (and this is common) has all these rules about what kids are allowed to take to eat – whether for parties or in their lunch boxes every day: cakes and baking must be free of eggs and nuts, and a wheat-free alternative must be offered; no peanut butter sandwiches are allowed for lunch – even if your kid is not allergic to nuts, peanut butter is not allowed to be in the creche breathing space. This seems oxymoronic in today’s world where a lot of parents seem to work whilst raising children and don’t actually stay home baking like my Mum did.

In then end the toddler’s parents sent them off to their first birthday party at creche with an eggless, nutless, un-iced fruit cake from Common Sense Organics. Yum. Poor kiddies.

As a kid I remember eating and drinking everything! Including the sand in the kindy sandpit (whether it had dogshit in it I don’t know … and dogshit was entirely possible because back then the kindy was not fenced with a 6-foot high concrete wall topped with barbed wire with a security guard out front). And so far I’m not allergic to anything and am pretty healthy (mental health aside!!)

Why has everything changed so much?