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| 1960 | Drew a picture of Grandma. Mom brought me to bowling where I had 137, 105, 108 and 121 after league. |  |
| 1961 | High = 30°F. No school - Immaculate Conception. Went to 7AM Mass and walked home with Schindler and Baden. Painted wood in basement and put up curtains. Bill and I lost to Rogers 12-10 and in "horse". My typewriter came back today [ed. - must of needed repairs, eh?]. Babysat at Breths (made $1) - Bill beat me 605 - 225 in 500. |  Jim Baden |
| 1962 | Sa - High = 21°F. Watched "Ali Baba and His 40 Thieves" and "Souls at Sea". | |
| 1963 | No church - 5" snow. Watched Vikings 10 - Colts 41. Painted windows trim. Talked to Steve. | |
| 1965 | Number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100: "Turn! Turn! Turn!" by The Byrds. |  |
| 1966 | Bought Good Thing by Paul Revere and the Raiders and Coming On Strong by Brenda Lee for 77¢ each and Paul Anka's 21 Golden Hits lp for $2.79 |  |
| 1969 | Hawaii: Details in Peace Corps Journal. | |
| 1970 | Peter left today for Qomea, so David and I did some rearranging of furniture as I will be moving back in. He is making a rope ladder for the bed that he moved up above his desk [ed. - I duplicated that in 1987 when we put David's bed over his desk]. Card with note from Gail. |  |
| 1971 | Prize giving. Wheeler (PC head man) and wife came up for Prize Giving. I sat with them in the chapel. Joe Gibson (Head of Ed) gave a nice speech to the point. Dux - Taniela B, Prox - Joeli T, Drama - Loruama, Cadet Baton - Mesake L, Jakeway Trophy - Seru M. Afterwards we went to MacDougalls Joe told us about his trip to Europe that featured many exciting and funny tales. Met the Commissioner Central, Filipe Bole. Down to magiti and sat with Whites who were drunk from Murph's. Singh yelled out "Speech" at a most inopportune time. Very moving with several speeches. Talked to Gukilau about attending university in the States. I had Ghetto chained in the kitchen and Tipou got through the screen door and got to her. Turns out that Tipou is Taru's dog. |  Bole |
| 1972 | Letter from Heasley. Whites came over at noon and I took some family shots. Then came again in the evening and we made a tape to Woody. Letter to Paul M. |  |
| 1973 | Up at 8AM. Mike made breakfast for us and an interested sparrow. Drove to Rotongaio Lakeside Motor Camp (Loafer's Paradise) and decided to camp there. Decamped and then went through town. Bought smoked glasses, fruit, a book and a miniature croquette set. Set up and had lunch and played croquette on the beach. After a nap, Gail and I walked along the shore to "The Point" about 1.5 miles. We ran into some Maori netting whitebait. Kathy whipped up some chili for supper. Mike hooked up his radio to the wire fence for great reception. He showed me that you could also hear it through a screwdriver held to the fence wire. Played 500 under Coleman light until 10:30PM. We could hear the possums during the night. | 
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| 1976 | Certificates were handed out at assembly. At morning interval we had cake and sandwiches, speeches and gifts for the departing teachers. Oversaw the cleaning of C-block halls. Got Christmas cards from Margaret Baker, Patricia Fuge, Delwyn Hamilton and Julie Garrick (who also gave me a handkerchief). In the afternoon we had prizegiving. It was a bloody hot day and I wore my suit for the first time this year. Patrick Walsh, an ex-All Black, was guest speaker. Mrs Quigley told me that I had straightened out and had gotten down to the children's level at last. Greenhill brought over the last of his stuff for storage. Gail went to a Tupperware party at Liz's. Te threw a big wobbly over the refrigerator and getting a drink. |  Julie  ex Patricia |
| 1977 | Th - Wore my suit. Last session of textbooks with 4T/4U girls. The 3S boys gave me a sign: "The only guy in the place who knows what he's doing" with a fellow sitting on a toilet. Jacquie Lodwig gave me a card and a bottle of wine. Cards from Nadine, Patricia and Yvonne Vercoe. Lovely feed at interval and many "going away" speeches. Then certificate awards. Cleaned lockers in C-Block. Then signing yearbooks. Jr Prizegiving: Precious McKenzie was the guest speaker. He gave Patrice F a kiss to the audience's delight. Brian Alvis and I held hands during the procession out. Had nice chats with Mrs Park, Catherine, Mrs Devcich and Rosalie's sister. Also with Mrs Fuge. Home for coffee with Maureen Pendergast. |  Precious  ex Patricia |
| 1978 | F - Last day of classes. (Cards from 4H girls, Marcelle Keown and Denise B). Certificates awarded at assembly. Had 6 girls working on textbooks Pd 2 and 3. Prizegiving after lunch. Pat Booth, journalist, was guest speaker. Talked with Ngaire, Mrs Pickford and Mrs May. Williamsons back from Australia and Frances dropped by to say hello. We went to the Benson's for the evening. |  Denise's |
| 1980 | M - My first day at Physicians, Surgeons and Dentists (PSD). John Eliason spent an hour telling me how things go. Then Doug Siems introduced me to everyone in the unit. Weibel pointed out a structure fault in my Phase 2 so I had to fix it for him. Free lunch for me and my sponsor and we picked up enough desserts to give to the unit. Began SPF exercises. Went up with Curt to find his desk. Tim gave me my first assignment - fix up a program and to check the daily runs. Sandy brought me all sorts of equipment. Card and letter from Hoffsis. Letter (pg 1 pg 2) and card from Fornusek. | |
| 1981 | T - Dorothy was caught speeding in Woodbury - 54 in a 40mph zone. Her first time and she was upset. Paul beat me again in gin. Gail gave me curry in roti for lunch and I gave one to Lesser. Letter from Ian. | |
| 1983 | Th - CISC course in morning given by Weible. Letter and card for Simpsons. Kids set up the Christmas tree in rec room and decorated it. Scraped snow from roof. |  |
| 1984 | Christmas cards from Hoffsis and Bill & Shirley. Letter to Dianne S. Went to the new Oakdale Outlet Center and had a look. Got a sundae glass for Dick. Then to Menard's where I got a plastic gas can [ed. - still using it in 2011]. At C.O.M.B. I got a harmonica for for Ne, a dice cup for Dick and Bureaucracy, adventure game for the Apple IIc. Watched end of Vikings worse loss ever 51 - 7 to San Fran. Put plastic on outside of the ranch slider. We looked at slides. Latest craze = flavored popcorn. |  |
| 1985 | Chris called in the middle of the night - Gail talked to him. They have new furniture. I sent off a letter in reply. We drove to Victoria Park Market which turned out to be a great place. I picked up Goofy soap, bubble bath and party hats. We got a shirt "Patience Tester" for Sophie. Ne bought dried flowers for gifts. Found a neat store with spices galore. Drove across the bridge to get to Lake Pupuke where we ate lunch and watched sail boaters and windsurfers. Then over to the other beach for 91FM swim competition. Gail sunbathed, but it was me who got a burn. 991 ping pong balls were released from a helicopter into the lake - too far out for our kids. Mazzah gave out the prizes, then Prime Minister Langey gave out swim trophies. Zipped home to go to Alderson's for Trish and my birthdays. Played pool, they gave me Talking Heads "Little Creatures" LP. After baba cake we looked for Halley's comet. | 
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| 1987 | Took charge of a few internal problems and stepped on a few toes. Had my first "freeze" confrontation with Dennis Preston. Met with Kevin Tansey to discuss training needs - let Ian sit in to see how he goes. Birthday card from Bette and Frank. First Christmas box from mom. |  |
| 1988 | Home from work to find four long letters from Mom - one for each of us and a Christmas card to go with each. I did a reply. David's last day at school and he brought home his report card - excellent. |  |
| 1989 | Stewart who I hired in July was in for induction. Picked up Ne who is back from week camping at Raglan. Chat with Mary B who is off to Sydney to help her mother (hip op), so our traditional Christmas gatehring is cancelled. Yardwork. Christmas card from Lees. Pat Benatar's Best Shots album came ($15.59). Hooked up the VCRS so now we can tape to channels and watch a third. |  |
| 1990 | Letter to Gail. Set up Christmas tree. Went into Auckland with Mike and Alex. Stopped at a publishing house - met Alan Dick, Radio Pacific sportscaster who puts Mike's articles into magazines. Then it was Quills (on Kyber Pass) for 9 bottles of wine for $138 and then Glengarry for four more at $56. Ne and I zipped to KFC to find they were out of hot wings. James Mitchell and Su arrived with an excellent Corbans '89 Cab Sav. After a tour of yard I did some pork on the barbeque. Ne made scalloped potatoes for the first time. Ne went to a boy's birthday party at 7:30PM and came home at 9PM when they began to drink, smoke, do drugs and get promiscuous. David showed the guests "Crime Wave" video game. I showed them my cereal box collection. James thought he had me when I said I can find anything in any of my collections within minutes. He wanted a cigarette ad which featured a shark. I came up with a Camel ad which had a photo of a shark on the reverse page. And that was sufficient to amaze him. Afghans and coffee until 12:30 when they left. | 
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| 1991 | Wine headache so easy day cleaning up after the party. Letter to Schauers. | |
| 1992 | Letter to Joyce. Brought Nicola and Ne to Manukau. I went to K-Mart and got Space Crusade boardgame for David. Removed paint from kitchen windows. | |
| 1993 | Renee had spaghetti on toast for breakfast and it was an eye-opener for Dad. Went to Wai-o-Tapu and joined a crowd at Lady Knox Geyser. Ranger poured soap into it and the reduced surface tension builds to an eruption. A long time walking through craters and on lakes. Dad doesn't believe these things can exist (he lacks a basic scienific education) and finds it hard to accept that these things happen. Georgie Pie for lunch. Souvenir shopping for a couple hours. A soak in the spa and we were off to Kingsgate at 6:30PM. 80% of gathering were Japanese tourist groups. We sat with odds, bods and sods. Met a fellow from Oregon who had spent a year in Brisbane. An Italian couple - he an engineer for Fiat and had been in China teaching Italian. Dad ordered a Steinlager Blue thinking it would be that color. Food was buffet and Dad loaded up way too much before he got to the meat, used the wrong utensils, dropped things but managed to eat. Had a pavlova for dessert. The floor show was entertaining (photo). When rain came there was a leak hitting Ne. Home at 10PM and played dominoes. |  Waiotapu  Wai-O-Tapu  Show more photos |
| 1994 | All day in B1 getting Macs ready for staff to take home over summer break. I had to stay on until 4:30PM helping Corrine Koefed print her resumé. Letter from Cheryl H. Letter and card from Jim F. Letter and card from Lynna. Pruned arch hedge. Turned compost and sprayed trees. Letter to Jane. Jason over to watch Cool Runnings. |  ex Lynna |
| 1995 | F - At Countdown a bottle of coke that was vertical on converyor belt was jerked off, hit the floor and exploded. [ed. - I have always put bottle horizontally since then]. Steven Munro on a till there and he came over, gave me a hug and said that his grandmother is going to make a full Goofy (I had asked for a bust). Letter to Jerry and Opal. Planted roma tomatoes. TP here. Small turn out but fun. Played 2 games. | |
| 1996 | Su - Letter to Ne. Gail walked with Dale to a craft show at Bloodstock. Second coat onto beams. We called Ne in Arizona. Whites over with a walking stick for my birthday - fancy, expensive one. We played Guiness Book of World Records game. | |
| 1997 | M - Letter to Dad. Saw Dr Gordon who said I don't need hearing aids. | |
| 1999 | W - email to Fab. Letter to Mom. Harris did a prostate probe and he put me onto cholosteral pills. ecard from Wrights. Card for Kaitanis. Ne on a catwalk for Katies. | |
| 2000 | F - email to Breeze. Went to Pak 'n Save in Pukekohe for the first time. Then Hill and Stewart where Roché sold me a breadmaker (toaster thrown in). Warehouse where I got RISK for David and Game of Knowledge for Ne. Ian and Elaine over for a swim. Gave Ian thermal socks (he leaves for Scotland tonight). Stopped at Emery's - gave Chris a CD-Atlas, "Oh Deer" pooper to Roseanne, Kiwi Santa to Ann and Golf Nut to Russell. TP at Houghton's. |  ex A/R/C |
| 2001 | Gail treated Trish to lunch at Wrights Watergardens Café, and lucky to do so since she hadn't booked a table. Meanwhile David A.'s computer is rebooting non-stop... Letter to cousin Mark and card for Hayson. Spent day cleaning and rearranging my room. Cribbage and Ian walked over for a cuppa. Last Grand Prix race of the year. | |
| 2002 | Up at noon again and so tired. Vacuumed the pool. Whites came by for a swim with Gail then we played a rubber of bridge (Su and I won). Spoke to Berthe. Few games of pool with Gail. email from Hoffsis with a link to a story about Frank. | |
| 2003 | Up at 7AM. email to Rosalie and she shot one back. Back to bed until 10:30AM. Card from Benson who are back from Canadian trip. Couple hours at McKenzie's and I finished the inventory. Then couple hours at Smiths' where the modem wouldn't work in the new computer. They gave me "Extremely Goofy Skateboarding" CD game for birthday/Christmas. Just missed out on 4th straight skunk at cribbage. Headache all day and it just got worse so I went to bed at 8:30PM. |  |
| 2004 | email from Paul via Monique via Steph that Karen is bleeding in her brain and unconscious for ten days now. Brought Ne to WINZ to have forms looked at and then an appointment for independent doctor needed. Turned out that we could get in today. So cancelled Brundell and off we went. First to Emery's to help her do more printing. Gave Chris US$10 note for Christmas as they are off tomorrow for US then England. We had our visit with Dr. Naidoo. I picked up some gift vouchers at Farmers and a microphone at Dick Smith. Home to find Elaine who braved the 20°C water and went for a swim. Eloise called to say that Ne sold two paintings. Won the cribbage game. After supper I got our to try to vacuum the pool but suction plate is cracked. So I did a little yardwork until rain came. Letter to Jerry. | |
| 2005 | Cards and letters for Chris (CP), Yukiko, Noriyo and Shranko. Did laps. Brought Ne to Dr Shieff for her 15 min chat. Then we went shopping for artsy/craft things and gifts in MCC. Home to find Elaine and Gail swimming. Won the cribbage game (8 in a row). Drizzle stopped any outdoors work. Called Peter A, back from England and Hungary, and doing well with his video work (most improved for Auckland club). | |
| 2006 | Made a MalleyGram of my 60th. email from Brenda. Card for Emery and a letter/card to duFresne. Lousy so went to bed until 3PM. Won cribbage game. email from Audrey. Gail went to Giselle ballet with Joan. I went to Papakura Art Gallery to install a UPS. Russell and Ann's canopy roof now up at back of house. I drove us to Wendy's where we ate (had the Christmas burger), then they drove me to Mike's for TP and I forgot my goodies in my car. email from Jim F. |  |
| 2007 | Card and letter to Schauer. Crashed for a couple hours. Up to find Gail and Elaine swimming. So had a visit over coffee. Lost cribbage game. email from Brenda - honeymooning in Chile/Argentina. And then it was to bed for a couple more hours. We gave up on Doom. Shifted dressors and desk into David's room. Then watched Pulp Fiction. | |
| 2008 | email to Tom Breviu and a letter to Inez. Zipped over to Pukekohe to buy 7 bags of salt and straight back to put one into the pool. Hung out and took in Gail's washing. Washed a garage door. Weeded the gazanias out front. Card from Tom Wandersee. Ne went to a podiatrist. Lucky to avoid being skunked. |  |
| 2009 | T - Up early and off to Thames with David. Seventy minutes to get to the Kopu bridge (work on new one has begun).
We had time to kill, so we went through Goldfields where David bought a pair of shorts. Checked into the Coastal Lodge and our older cottage. After lunch we headed north to
Coromandel and just got to the Driving Creek Train in time to have a ride to a lookout building, The Eyeful Tower (diagram of track). Altogether about an hour going up and down. From there we drove along the gravel backroad to Kennedy Bay.
But we stopped by Lucas Lookout and drove part way up the service road (scraping the bottom more than a few times) that led to a trig. Gail managed to hike up the remainder of the road to the relay towers. David and I spent an hour or so along a mucky trail to another lookout,
but I couldn't make it, so we turned back to pick up Gail and return to the car. Then the hour long drive back to Thames for supper. I lost the cribbage game to Gail and then taught David to play it.
The netbook could see the motel wireless but it was too weak to do anything. MORE PHOTOS |
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| 2010 | W - Up at 5:30AM to get cuzzies to the airport at 7:15AM. Home for coffee and emails to Brenda and Sheen, then bed until Gail woke at 1PM wondering where she was to bring Ne's car for WOF. Card and letter from Tom W. Card from Bev (called her - off to Perth). Lost cribbage when Gail came home. Tried out the repaired ride-on in the back paddock. Finally fixed the large table umbrella. Vacuumed the pool until hose got clogged. Began removing arbor vitae by back door. Did a little weeding until supper. Watered plants then in to iron while watching TV. Called Irene - father in sad shape after massive meds for shingles. | 
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| 2011 | Th - Cards and letters to Trish and Emery. Turned new garden patch and removed bush roots. Won cribbage game. Crackers and an easy to drink Seifried '10 SavBlanc before going to Le Café Taste of Asia with Ne and Colleen. Watched Undercovers. |  |
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