2008-09-27 Well... Great!

Overwhelming popular demand. Nothing I can do about it. Got to oblige. Resistance is futile.

But only weekly. To quote the guy from Planet Retcon: If you have half as much fun reading this as I had writing it... I win.

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Summary of Sascha's visit

Monday:

marc@airport: 8.50am. sascha@airport: 9.00am. perfect. coffee. back to work.
after work: Sascha not there. but! he washed the dishes. AND vacuumed the kitchen floor. I'll keep him.

Later Cookai (sushi and sashimi in spades) and Pak'nSave, then Black Sheep and red wine. mandatory for first time visitors.

Tuesday:

Normal day at work for me, Hector's dolphins for Sascha. Sounds rather unfair to me, but given that he knows his way around Christchurch already better than I do, he deserved it.

Last Japanese class this year. Arigato gozaimashita. Sayoonara.

Wednesday:

The washing machine is broken (or at least displays a suspiciously high water level and makes an awful sound), so Sascha went on an odyssey to find a place to wash.

In the evening we were planning to go to a karaoke bar. After a brief glance through the window we decided not to go in. Being the only people in a bar is weird. So we went to play pool right across SOL square. It's been a while since my last game, and Sascha was much better already. Good thing we didn't play for money.

After six or so rounds of pool and three or so beers each, we moved on to an Irish pub. Live music. I had no idea that Eric Clapton's Wonderful Tonight featured a bad ass ugly witch. Guinness does that to the ears.

Back home alone with five beers in my belly and yet another proof that Sascha's super power is to pick up girls faster than anybody else.

Thursday:

Surprisingly enough, I wake up before my alarm clock (thirsty!) and decide to shower at Jade. Before I leave the house Sascha is already awake and dressed. Is he made of coffee?

I'm not really complaining about the showers at Jade. I'm glad they have them. But was it really necessary to have the light switch on the outside?

Sascha spent his day at Willowbank.

Fish and chips in the evening. Yet another mandatory thing for everybody who comes to New Zealand. Speaking of New Zealand. Unsurprisingly, Sascha didn't like Flight of the Conchords. But he enjoyed Pushing Daisies, so plan B worked out fine.

Friday:

wakeUp();
goto work;
work:
while (!Time::okayToGoHome(Time::now()))
    work();
    /* busy waiting, as "sleep()" is deprecated in combination with "work()" */

Saturday:

Sascha leaves the house at seven thirty in the morning to go on his 14 day round trip through New Zealand.

Can't. blog. must. sleep.

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Oh hey, wanna know how I spent the cold cold New Zealand winter? I curled up in my bedroom and while I shivered away the time I made this and this.

If you find that exciting then you my friend are a class A nerd. Congratulations.