Did you know that a number of our libraries have sewing machines you can use? my.christchurchcitylibraries.com/sewing-overl... ^MT

Booking my work hours for the next month with the cricket schedule open in another tab, reluctantly having to accept that I can't take all of the tests off.

Goodness, the new AI VR system has used a cedilla. It's not correct, but nonetheless, Good Trying.

Kia ora e hoa mā. I'm pleased to announce that I'm coming out of retirement to take up the role of Chief of Staff role for the Green Party in Parliament (think Malcolm Tucker, Leo McGarry). I'm not moving away from Te Tai o Poutini, but just now going the process of setting up a 2nd home in Wgtn.

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Firework bans win out over gender politics: NZ First say its bill banning private fireworks sale is replacing its definition of a man and woman bill in the biscuit tin.

I find it really strange that I have arrived in a place where two of the things that significantly affect my workload are the AFL Grand Final and the Melbourne Cup.

Every time I put flowers from my garden in a vase, I hear my mother's voice in my head saying, "Oh, for goodness sake, let me do it."

I’m sorry you think I “ruined” your Gatsby-themed party by sleeping with your wife and dying in the pool.

Ōtautahi folks: does anyone have a contact for a mobile coffee truck/cart that could do a 7.45am gig for 15 people in Kaiapoi on Tues 18 Nov? Coffee Skillz is fully booked. Your help is much appreciated!

Anyway, we need some joy, so here's the Egyptian foreign minister being given a Lego Pyramid by the Danish foreign minister.

We had a few amusing transcriptions of "Waitākere" from the old VR software, but the new one's "White Achilles" is... a new low.

Can someone ask Simeon Brown how shoving prefabs in carparks is going to help with the "eight months so far" this patient has been waiting for a basic CT scan he can't have treatment without, making the specialist appointment he just had a complete waste?

Hey, guess what makes kids miss out on quite a lot of school? Having fucking measles.

My extremely neurotic cat is hiding under the bed and I am really looking forward to us banning backyard fireworks.

Oh Lordy. Min has brought home a mouse. In someone else's mousetrap.

Did a little impulse buy at the garden centre. #cottagecore

Saw a new GP yesterday. We were talking about my uveitis and screen time and I said, "I'm a transcriptionist," and his face lit up and he said, "A medical transcriptionist?" When I said yes, honestly, I have never seen a stranger so happy. Then we went off on a long tangent about hospice care 1/2

Oh lordy. Yesterday, my company started using 2FA. Today, the 2FA system has crashed. The only people who can access files are the people whose reaction to 2FA was to just stop logging out of the work software. So, if you'll excuse me, I have work to do...

My mother and grandmother were part of the letter writing campaign that saved Star Trek TOS. This photo was a thank you from the Star Trek folks and is an heirloom of my house.

As an indication of how I am at performing femininity, I just stood in my otherwise empty lounge and yelled, "Nah, that's pitching outside!"

FFS. I am, as we have established, super white, and I wrote a column about my "aunties", who were no biological relation to me at all, 13 years ago. publicaddress.net/up-front/the... and there was a lovely discussion about found family in the comments, because EVERYONE understood that use of "aunt"

I mean, fucking hell, it’s like having a toddler.

Um, this clinician claims the patient's injury has been aggravated doing overhead activities on a broccoli farm. Is this some newfangled type of broccoli I was not aware of?

This is currently my top advice for using the NZ medical system. Ask your practitioner if they're using AI to transcribe your patient notes, whether to transcribe their dictation (bad) or to generate a transcription from listening to the consult (appalling). If they say yes, ask them not to.

The cat would like me to stop yelling. 🏏🇳🇿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

WOOOOOO! 🏏🇳🇿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

I have really nice plans for today, assuming it does not rain at the Mount.

I haven’t even started it yet.

Just had to ask my Australian coworkers how to spell "firey", as in "a firefighter".

"Oxford commas are a sign you write with ai" I will find such a unique way to rip out your spine that they'll make a movie about it

Miraculously, the nest of baby (I think) tauhou above my porch in the enormous rose bush has survived this week of wind.

Dealing with a report with very dense, technical language this morning and I swear my brain just clogged and went "Nope, no more of this."

Perfectly comfortable. Totally fits.

All day I've been thinking, I wonder who's bowling into the wind tonight.

Here it comes...

The West Wing is now just the Wing.

Today in "Dear god, seriously?" Catan the tv series.

One of my coworkers is a NZ Iranian. She just ran across 'mooted' as in 'suggested' and was confused because she thought it meant 'irrelevant'. Me: 'Moot' is irrelevant, like a cow's opinion. 'Mooted' is like a cow's suggestion. Her: Sends back a Joey gif because she GETS THE REFERENCE.

Still running across new things at work, to my delight: "Honeymoon Palsy occurs from another person sleeping on and compressing your arm overnight. Saturday Night Palsy occurs from falling asleep with your arm hanging over the armrest of a chair... 1/2

This weather reminds me of a phrase often used by one of the older observers I knew at MetService: “It’s blowing like forty bastards”.

Today is my older son's birthday. He is 30. WTF, etc.

"But soft! What light through yonder window... BRAKES!"

Yeah, when your very heavy green bin slips on the step, probably don't stop its fall with your upper inner thigh. #ow

This sign @glopan.bsky.social spotted made me laugh

Goodness. For some reason, for the first time ever, the in-game ads on my phone have started trying to sell me sex toys.

The bad news for the second innings is that it is tipping down at my house. 🏏🇳🇿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

One nice thing about the preliminaries before an England-NZ game is not having the most embarrassing flag. #🏏🇳🇿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Forgot to mention, I had a nasty moment walking through the Square yesterday until I realised it was just three people all pointing at something up high with their right arms.