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1960	Number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100: Teen Angel by Mark Dinning.
1961	High = 45°F. Played 21 with Bill and Sandra. After Mass we went to Dairy Queen. Basketball all afternoon with various people: Kincy, Steve, Bill and Sandra. Played with Squeaky in the garage. After supper it was back out for more buckets with Sandra and Kincy. Snowball fight; Kincy and me against Sandra, Angie, Signe and Lyn. Kincy and I listened to Signe playing her trombone; she had her hair changed.	Lyn
1963	Started volleyball in gym. I am in the top ten for algebra in the whole school of 1640.
1965	Oil change cost $6.73.
1971	Biology lab taking shape - the wall to the tuck shop knocked down. Jemesa has moved it into the prefects' room. So after school we stole some of that scrap wood to use for the play. Taniela B. planed and Joeli T. made triangles for flats.
1973	Landmovers are reshaping the land across the road and there are big changes daily. Lorraine gave me three more albums to tape. Woodwork class where I began building a bookcase. Mogford was impressed with my ability to draw the plan. 5 others in the class. Brought home the knickknack stand I made.	Dave
1974	Sent a telegram to Christchurch about our uniforms. Modelers' club after school. Went to girls' basketball practice. Rollo and his gang had a game and then I took shots. Finished reading Doystevsky's Devils - bit a vague ending. Taped Wolfman Jack on 1ZM, but I think it is an imitator. Gail went to a PTA meeting. 52 rubbish bags were delivered - one per week for the year. If we need more we can buy them at grocery store.
1975	Supervised a 4th form Engineering Theory class. Des D's class where they were trying to work out pi. Dropped in on Graeme's class. Sat in on a slide show of Oxford, NY by Kathy Morris. Two more 7th formers have quit because of Middleton. Spent afternoon with project students. Basketball AGM: Jack President, Bev Reid Secretary. Rudy and Neil on committee. Neil Statistician. David's first tooth broke through.	Ewen
1976	6ths listened to 6 different radio station tapes. Anna came for help with surds at lunch.
1978	Letter (pg 1 pg 2) to mom. Gail rode her bike to work.
1979	M - Gail bought me a radio ($17) at McKenzie's that I will use at school in my office.
1980	W - No hot water. We were going to walk to Knott's Berry Farm but bellhop said he was driving there at 12:30PM, so we went for a walk around a residential area. Got there (ticket) and went on the Timber Mountain log flume and it was a big splash. Then the Calico Mine ride, and haunted shack (visual tricks distorting gravity made me dizzy) and we all had a go at the shooting gallery. Beary Tales was a good ride for the kids. They liked bumper cars (Wheeler Dealer) best and the Tijuana Taxi ride almost as much. At the farm the goats tried to eat us. Then the kids went on a carousel that was pulled by a donkey. David went onto the log flume a few more times before we left. Courtesy Car brought us to a shopping center where we had supper at a Big Boy. Shrimp!!! Root beer, Mountain Dew, Rocky road and strawberry pie for dessert! Called folks to tell them of our arrival. David couldn't sleep so he and I stayed up in the bathroom where he did mazes and I listened to KEZY.
1981	Th - Gail had an interview at Carver. Paul skunked Curt and me. Listened to the Gophers get knocked out of NIT by 9 points to West Virginia. Scribbled with kids.
1982	F - Bob Tisdell told us to change the CSP file to March. Lesser had missed doing it last Dec causing last night's blowup. Doug wore a tie for no reason.
1983	Sa - David went to Northwest Airlines with Cubs for a tour of a plane and a hanger.
1984	M - The lady who called substitute teachers asked me if she could speak to my mother. I told her that she lived in another city.
1985	Went up to Otremba's - he was apologetic for having missed the syphilis tests for NZ. New nurse couldn't find a vein in Gail's arms. Called Des Chapman at NZ Steel and found that he had chosen CAT and it would cost us $5000 for our share. I told him it was way out of line with other quotes.
1986	Alan told me to arrange for interviews of those canidates which I liked. Went to lunch with Prasad. Discussed the food likes and dislikes of countries. Installed dBaseIII for Robert Cram. David wrote a good poem likening the sea to a cat. Currently being harvested from our yard - apples, pears, peaches. feijoas, passionfruit and goosberries.
1988	Video St Mary's Gala. Skydivers. Bought Formula 1 and Formula 500 boardgames, a lot of SF books, "20 Solid Blasts" album and Stay Awhile by Dusty Springfield for 50¢ each. Chatted with Yearburys (her leg killing her and Jacko told me about WWII days in Pacific). George Hawkins complemented our David and told me I should call his brother, David, who is filthy rich these days. Bumped into Aldersons, Lia, Nicola Todd (I begged a lolly off of her). David and Dwyane helped out at the White Elephant stall. Jackie had cut her hair way back and she was a real handful as Whites stuck it out for the whole day waiting for the raffles (they didn't win anything). They came over, kids went to the pool (now has a dome) and then we played croquet. McDonald's for supper.
1990	David passed his written driver's test (only one wrong), so he can drive now.
1992	Mailed the pillow that Gail had made for Joyce. Got a letter from her - having left hand knuckles done. Got skunked twice at cribbage. Chinese takeaways and then a walk.
1993	Tore off garage window trim and the shed door overhang and rebuilt the window. Saw Purvis about sore on my nose and he lanced it. So I went downtown with a large bandage on my nose. Cabby had removed some of JellyBean's fur so I added struts across the bottom of the cage. TP at Ann's.
1994	Put Māori onto computers. Ne babysat for Mike Jackson, friend of Ann and Russell.
1995	Whites when Ne came home from work. After supper we played bridge.
1997	W - Helped Fabiola find a Bolivian newspaper on the Internet. She was skipping P.E. and pretending to be doing an art project. Spent an hour after school with Japanese girls planning for the weekend.
1998	Th - Set up a computer in E block office. Doug over for alphabetical Scattergories.
1999	F - Senad (with a Goofy from Singapore) and Titania came at 1:30PM. Went to Karioitahi and were the only ones surfing. Tide going out but we got good rides. Lunch on windy beach and then home and into the pool. They stayed for supper. TP at Emery's.
2000	Su - Gail is making a swan at stained glass class. Japanese Grand Prix and Ian won his only race of the year. From Laure.
2001	Ne and I picked Chieme H. up at King's, brought her to Papakura and showed her where Yuki had lived and Rosehill College. We were using the Japanese dictionary often as her English isn't very good. Went to New World to show her pickled onions, since we couldn't translate that. Met Trish and Scruffy there and also had a quick word with Steven M. who Chieme thought was a cool dude. Chieme was quite positive that she wouldn't go surfing, so we went to Maraetai for lunch on the beach with the seagulls and sparrows. Chi is very funny and we managed to have a lot of fun even if the words didn't make sense. I called her a Teletubby because she makes cooing noises and wavered between yes and no often, so that we never really knew if she understood the question. Home at 5PM to meet Gail and visit for a while and then I brought her back to Melissa and Jason. Card, letter and an email from Schwitter. I sent an email to Yuki describing today's activities with her sister.	not Chieme
2002	Rescued a frog from the pool and moved it to the pond where it hopped about the lily leaves before wandering off. Pool laps and over to Emery's for 4 hours of vertical texting and backing up. Picked up my Warriors season pass. Gail went to Pukekohe notary only to find out that Joyce had it all wrong about who signs the document.
2003	Made a Beavis & Boof-Head card for David A. Laps. Aldies to give David his card and visit before getting home for coffee and cribbage with Gail. Was able to actually beat David at snooker.
2004	Gail skunked me at cribbage! Picked up Ian and brought him to Irene's for TP. Was a long hard slog with British questions.
2005	Ne and I watched Duplex. Watched Warriors 24 - Brisbane 12.
2006	Card for Bob N. Did 40 laps. David, Gail and I went to mini-Whites for a bbq and to see Matthew who is over for the week. A little tennis ball cricket. Shane Oliver with his fiancé, Rachel, came later as did Tima. Stayed out in garage away from perfumey house. Watched Murder at 1600.
2007	Five hours at Brundell's, backing up files. Home for supper and then I skunked Gail. email from Taina who was snow-bound in Phillie and asking me to tell her sister that she'll be a day late flying into Auckland.
2008	Ne came home for the afternoon. I did laps - water no longer warm. Physio where Heather tried to massage out a couple knots. Susi informed me that Ian McFadyen died on Saturday. Picked up the mower - $45 because a bit of dirt in carb.
2009	Gail took a taxi at 6:30AM to Middlemore. Ne back from chiropractor with results from x-ray: 21% improvement in neck and 30% in back. I drove to Middlemore and got to Ward 11 at the same time that Gail did from her operation. We could see the right leg bandaged. The metal was removed and they debrided the wound. Boh was very helpful and got Gail a supper - she arrived too late to have one ordered. Apparently someone left and they had an extra. Gail was starving having not eaten since yesterday. I had Burger King on my way to Emery's to give them the sports radio and photos of James.
2012	M - email from Nigel F with photo of his son. Won cribbage games. Photos from Heasley.
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