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#3445755 19-Dec-2025 19:38

Senecio:

Signed off work today for my last official day for the year. But what's really making me smile is that its also my last regular commute in Auckland traffic. On Monday morning (at 3:30am!) we load the car up and head south to start a new adventure in Nelson.

Congratulations, I hope the new South Island life suits you and your family extremely well. :)

However, BE EXTREMELY CAREFUL - a 3:30am start will have you way off peak performance, and it seems like you may be planning a long day's drive to the Cook Strait ferry, which starting at that time is frankly flirting with disaster. Share the driving; stop for rest and a driver change hourly; and if you get yawny & blinky you're too tired, so stop for a twenty-minute sleep.

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#3445819 20-Dec-2025 07:25

PolicyGuy:

Congratulations, I hope the new South Island life suits you and your family extremely well. :)

However, BE EXTREMELY CAREFUL - a 3:30am start will have you way off peak performance, and it seems like you may be planning a long day's drive to the Cook Strait ferry, which starting at that time is frankly flirting with disaster. Share the driving; stop for rest and a driver change hourly; and if you get yawny & blinky you're too tired, so stop for a twenty-minute sleep.

Cheers for that. Well prepared for the trip but we will also be taking it very easy with lots of breaks.

The 3:30am start is to give us 11hrs to make an 8hr trip and we'll be sharing the driving with lots of stops. I'll take the first stint as I'm often up @4am but even then the last week I've been going to bed earlier and earlier each night. We missed out on getting a cabin on the ferry but we did book into the premium lounge to be a bit more comfortable. I can also sleep anywhere at anytime so I plan to get an hour or so snooze on the boat to be slightly refreshed for the final 2:15hr drive from Picton to Nelson.

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#3446018 20-Dec-2025 15:31

Unlike physics and technical subjects, I was rather unremarkable in chemistry at school.

So I am all the more delighted that, decades later, I have come to appreciate the excellent properties of pure bicarbonate of soda and citric acid on our cookware. All of our stainless steel pots look like new – without any obscure miracle cleaning products of dubious origin and scrubbing. This may sound insignificant, but it greatly enhances the culinary cooking morale when everything is sparkling clean again for the next use.

Now I just have to break it gently to my wife. 😁

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#3446026 20-Dec-2025 16:20

Getting a replacement wedding ring. after 45 years my original ring became too fragile to wear. I did learn that gold is very expensive right now.

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#3446028 20-Dec-2025 16:46

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#3446293 22-Dec-2025 11:01

Man impersonating police accidentally pulls over mufti cop car

Whoops! 😁

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#3446478 22-Dec-2025 18:44

Behodar:

Man impersonating police accidentally pulls over mufti cop car

Whoops! 😁

Could the impersonator be one of those sov-cit types?

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#3446704 23-Dec-2025 17:03

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#3446789 23-Dec-2025 23:41

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#3446808 24-Dec-2025 08:03

Yesterday in the office I was only interrupted by Finance bods three times, so I had my most productive day of the year.

Imagine if I was that productive every day? Would be insane.

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#3446948 24-Dec-2025 16:40

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#3446962 24-Dec-2025 17:46

I'm posting here coz I couldnt find the TV episode thread.

But it still works 😀

Watching the new Robin Hood, I'm up to episode 4 and Sean Bean is still alive!!

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#3447168 25-Dec-2025 18:56

Upgrading the wireless router at my folks' place up north to an AC-standard model. No more signal dropouts or range issues.

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#3447176 25-Dec-2025 22:47

eracode:

The TV series The Paper, by the makers of The Office US, is about a bunch of no-hopers working on a small-city newspaper.

One of the no-hopers is an Italian editor who has delusions of grandeur - but poor English.

In the TV trailer, when one of the guys keeps criticising himself and running himself down, she tries to support him and says “Oh, don’t be so self-defaecating”.

Cracks me up every time.

Like Kath and Kim - along the lines of '....... when I grow up I want to be effluent' !

Most of the posters in this thread are just like chimpanzees on MDMA, full of feelings of bonhomie, joy, and optimism. Fred99 8/4/21

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