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Update - Red letter days - 26th October 2004
Posted Oct 25, 2004
When I last did a journal entry (the other day) Jim was planning to tape and watch the Brazil Grand Prix... Well, as any F1 fan will already know - Juan Pablo Montoya won! 
!!! I heard a strangled scream of joy fromn the sitting room where Jim was watching, headphones in, so as not to disturb me (it was 05.00-08.30 on a weekend, so give me a break!
) Anyway, what matters is, Montoya won! Schmacher didn't win, and to be honest, starting from 18th position, even he'd have been hard put to it, to have done it again, even with his usual tricks...
Oh, and also, he got a letter on Saturday, Jim won the first of the scholarships he had applied for for next year. So, things are definitely looking up. Praise God, even the endless rain has stopped (for 5 minutes.)
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The year has gone by more quickly than I did expect - 24th October 2004
Posted Oct 24, 2004
I will be glad (or will I?) when it really is over. Talk about the Year of Hell! (Star Trek Voyager 
) Today has been warm and humid, and we haven't (yet) had the predicted rain. It *always* rains on Labour Day, always has since 1980 (the last time I got sunburnt! 
Justin Hayward is singing 'Forever Autumn' on our stereo, and I've just been reading fascinating stuff on the Phillip K Dick website (Exegesis.) Amazing! What to do, what to do? No doubt, he wondered that himself... I am reading the David Gemmell book, 'The Legend of Deathwalker' and the PKD book 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep' - I am hooked!
I am told it's just started raining. Now *there's* a surprise! (Not) November 2nd is not far away now, in fact, it's scarily close and the effect on the whole of the world is going to be huge. I predict that we'll be waiting with bated breath for a result, and there will be considerable sickening innuendo and spitting in the air, in the immortal words of Rick Wossname in Muscle and Fitness. Now, the 'Moody Blues' are singing 'The Voice', a song which is actually very optimistic. A little known fact - Johnny Farnham released a very different song called 'The Voice' in the same year, 1986.
I'm so excited about the Brazilian Grand Prix. Juan Pablo Montoya qualified second, and with his skill he should be able to pull off a win, or at least a podium finish. Anything that sees someone other than Schumacher in 1st place is all to the good... *I* am not getting up at 05.00 to watch it live, oh no, but my 
son is...
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Chaff cutting - 10th October 2004, Audi Quattro and Volvos
Posted Oct 10, 2004
Wow, I am overwhelmed with indifference... I just found out from my son that Michelle Mouton won the Pikes Peak hill-climb in 1985, driving an Audi Quattro. This is the same son who is eating Green Onion 
in my ear and sounding like a chaff cutter.
I had a birthday during the week, but I don't want to mention the number. It's over 40 and under 60. Funny, I never thought I'd feel that way about it, but at least I have nary a grey hair, unlike certain sisters of mine.
Sad news - John Howard (Coward) won the Australian Pretzeldency, but glad news, John Banks lost the Auckland Mayoralty. Woo hoo! 
Must have some 
and 
... following my wholemeal bap with avocado and iguana filling. Oh, yummy!
Oh, and by the way, Babylon Five rules!
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Feeling down... 5th September 2004
Posted Sep 5, 2004
*That day* rapidly approaches... It's Nettie's 21st and it is a day in which, in 2001, everything really *did* change forever! Three years, and look what's happened since, although, as we all know well now, Iraq had exactly nothing to do with the events of 911.
The Russian school siege in North Ossetia is over, and it ended badly, but there was really no other way it could end. I was in tears reading about it in our local Sunday paper - those poor scared kids! Why on 
do people do things like that? What do they think they are going to achieve?
I want so bad, to be able to talk to Garth about all this, but of course I can't. (Or I could - but he can't talk back, so where's the point?) From where he is, he knows it all anyway, he knows more than I do, about all the things we had questions about, and discussed - just this time last year, I remember sitting with him, feverishly speculating and *saying* "When we die, we'll know"... It didn't occur to me then that it might be of very little importance, when you're taking the long view... Outside linear time, as he used to say, said, about God - to be compared, he said once, with the Wormhole aliens in Deep Space Nine, in their experience of time.
I had disturbing dreams last night, and I've felt out of sorts all day, still queasy with the 'flu. The music we are mostly listening to now is: The Moody Blues compilation. My current personal fave - 'The Story In Your Eyes':awesome!
Jim beat his friend with a longsword, at Auckland Sword and Shield. He is really made up about it. They have a girl with a digital camera there, preserving certain things for posterity. 
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News and stuff - 29th August 2004
Posted Aug 29, 2004
In memoriam, Lindsay Mark Pedlar 1953-2004. I heard that Lindsay, known as "Wedge" (and I'll never know why he had that nickname) died on August 18th, in Rotorua.
I have a photo of five of us - my boyfriend at the time, my brother, me, and two of my brother's friends out at a nightclub in 1980. Now two of us in that photo are dead - my brother and Lindsay.
It is sunny, but cold outside 
and I have been here on h2g2 too long (as is often the case these days.) Yesterday, we went to the University for a courses and careers day, which was and got what seems like 4 million brochures. People kept giving me pamphlets on studying theology. Is God trying to tell me something?
Jim went out to ASS (Auckland Sword and Shield) and practised some mediaeval fighting techniques. What fun.. and now it's back to the Mathematics for him. What a name for the club, though! Donkeys are fine, but imagine if we were in America?
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