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Immigration New Zealand Assholes!

Immigration New Zealand today decided to raise their fee for applying under the skilled migrant category from $800 to $1400 effective July 30th. That gives me two weeks today to get the last of my documents in or incur a $600 fine. They should take everyone who makes...

Last week of work for the boss

My boss at the Ministry of Education is now on his last week and everyone seems to be pushing the panic button before he leaves. It is pretty funny as long as you can keep your head down and avoid the finger pointing. However today my luck ran out as I have to attend...

Matt’s send-off

Matt came to Wellington on Sunday to take care the last of his affairs before heading home to Vancouver. We went into town and bought some souvenirs for his family, had a coffee at Starbucks and walked around with our cups as a status symbol, then started...

Foamy

Georgia got me hooked on Foamy, a funny squirrel character who has a lot of squirrelly wrath, a funny way to spend a bit of time. http://www.illwillpress.com/vault.html

Matt is heading home

For those who don’t know, six Canadian soldiers were killed on the 4th in a road side bomb in Afghanistan. One of the soldiers was a close friend of Matt, whom he made executor of his will. In the next few days Matt will be driving up to Wellington to drop off his car...

Canada Day

There was a party on Saturday at my house (again) for Canada Day, all my friends came around and we had some good times. I managed to find some Labatt Blue at the local supermarket, it is a shame they didn’t have Kokanee, to drink the night away with. There was a wide...