Steven Perich

Oh - me and Laura went to NZ with Jem!  We started in Auckland, I showed Laura where I grew up, then we went across to spend a night in Coromandel and down to Wellington via a bunch of cool places.  Now all we have to do is go somewhere I havent been before…eg Thailand <drool>!!

One thing I tried to do was “get the most” out of my relatively crappy Canon A530… Have a look at the Photos tab above, I am uploading a bunch of them to Te Facebook albums as I speak (all starting with NZ2008) There are many that were taken with Laura’s low-end Nikon point and shoot, and Jem’s Samsung P&S too.  There were also several others that were way too grainy because I thought I was the f’ing man by putting the ISO levels way up to compensate for lack of light and more that were taken with slow shutter speeds and no tripod…which I’m not gonna upload.

Obligatory tasters:

Well it’s that time of year again - we all make that migratory journey to Bunnings to stock up on various things - heaters, those absurd gas heaters for outdoors areas that greek people seem to love, and anything else for that matter that keeps you warm.

Last year I was determined to install some insulation in my roof but never got around to it. See my house is only 5 years old but for some reason the wog-guy-next-door-that-built-all-6-of-these-units-and-seems-very-dodgy completely skipped installing any form of goddamn insulation in the walls or ceilings of these damn places.

Isn’t that illegal? Yeah I thought so too.

Anyway, it seemed like a job to get my father in law to be (hopefully? hmm!) to help me out with so we did the Bunnings thing and came back with 5 bales of R3.5 insulation batt things to stick in the roof upstairs, since it always seems to be cold up there.

Those things seriously irritate my skin!  I was wearing a dust mask, glasses, a jumper and jeans and gloves and sweet Jesus and mother mary I was itching like a bad case of the crabs.  The bad news is that we only got about 1/2 of it done - because of the ducts that the energy-sucking central heating / evap cooling in the roof getting in the way.  So next weekend is “finish off weekend” where we get to contort our bodies into small spaces they aren’t supposed to go to get our friendly-looking but dermatitically challenging wads of fluff into every nook and cranny!

Next post, I’m going to bitch about why I dislike my neighbor.  Hope he doesnt read my blog!