First glimpse at new addition

We’d like to share with you all some great news!

KIM IS PREGNANT!!!

That’s right, number two is on the way and we couldn’t be any happier.

I must admit it was some fine work on my behalf. It was a game of two halves, full of ups and downs and full credit to the other team, they put up a valiant effort but in the end we managed to slip one past the goalie!
As of today we are just over 13 weeks, so already over a 1/4 of the way there. That was easy!
Kims’ due date is around the 24/25 of June 2009

Here are our first set of scans of the little one, now just under 7cm in length.
These are hot off the press from Wednesday 17 December, 2008

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My New DELL PC

After waiting since the 1st of October, my new DELL PC arrived last Wednesday the day before my parents arrived, so only just got a chance to tidy up the desk and take a few photos of the new 24″ widescreen LCD monitor tonight.

Check out the photos below, isn’t she a beauty?

First Week at DRTM

Or Destination Rotorua Tourism Marketing as the full name…

Well, it’s been an exciting week.
Monday was the first day of induction, where I reported to HR for my initial registration etc. Then myself and another new council staff employee were given an overview of the entire Rotorua District Council. It was then off to the Rotorua Tourism office, where I was given an overview of the office, met the team and ran through some of the basic systems in place. I then sat down with Sarah (who I was replacing) for an overview of the processes currently in place.
That pretty much lasted the rest of the week, just getting to grips with the new system, file structure and processes.
They have a network drive with a Terabyte of storage on it, with only 5GB of room left. Now that may not be much by today’s standards for some of you, but when you have to find one file within all that, it can get a little daunting.

I’m really looking forward to the challenge of revamping www.rotoruaNZ.com.
That will be one of my main initial tasks, along with updating all the listings on the website currently.

I’ve posted an image of my new business card and a couple of photos from my new office.

New Words for 2007

• SALAD DODGER
  An excellent phrase for an overweight person.

• SWAMP-DONKEY
  A deeply unattractive person.

• TESTICULATING
  Waving your arms around and talking bollocks.

• BLAMESTORMING
  Sitting round in a group, discussing why a deadline was missed or a project failed, and who was responsible.

• SEAGULL MANAGER
  A manager who flies in, makes a lot of noise, craps on everything, and then leaves.

• ASSMOSIS
  The process by which people seem to absorb success and advancement by sucking up to the boss rather than working hard.

• SALMON DAY
  The experience of spending an entire day swimming upstream only to get screwed and die.

• CUBE FARM
  An office filled with cubicles.

• PRAIRIE DOGGING
  When someone yells or drops something loudly in a cube farm, and people’s heads pop up over the walls to see what’s going on. (This also applies to applause for a promotion because there may be cake.)

• SITCOMs
  Single Income, Two Children, Oppressive Mortgage. What yuppies turn into when they have children and one of them stops working to stay home with the kids or start a "home business".

• SINBAD
  Single working girls. Single income, no boyfriend and desperate.

• AEROPLANE BLONDE
  One who has bleached/dyed her hair but still has a ‘black box’.

• PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE
  The fine art of whacking the crap out of an electronic device to get it to work again.

• ADMINISPHERE
  The rarefied organisational layers beginning just above the rank and file. Decisions that fall from the "adminisphere" are often profoundly inappropriate or irrelevant to the problems they were designed to solve. This is often affiliated with the dreaded "administrivia" – needless paperwork and processes.

• GOING FOR A McSHIT
  Entering a fast food restaurant with no intention of buying food, you’re just going to the bog.(Loo) If challenged by a pimply staff member, your declaration to them that you’ll buy their food afterwards is known as a McShit with Lies.

• 404
  Someone who’s clueless. From the World Wide Web error message "404 Not Found" meaning that the requested document could not be located.

• AUSSIE KISS
  Similar to a French Kiss, but given down under.

• OH – NO SECOND
  That minuscule fraction of time in which you realize that you’ve just made a BIG mistake (e.g. you’ve hit ‘reply all’).

• GREYHOUND
  A very short skirt, only an inch from the hare.

• JOHNNY-NO-STARS
  A young man of substandard intelligence, the typical adolescent who works in a burger restaurant. The ‘no-stars’ comes from the badges displaying stars that staff at fast-food restaurants often wear to show their level of training.

• MILLENNIUM DOMES
  The contents of a Wonderbra, i.e. extremely impressive when viewed from the outside, but there’s actually naught in there worth seeing.

• MONKEY BATH
  A bath so hot, that when lowering yourself in, you go: "Oo! Oo! Oo! Aa! Aa! Aa! ".

• MYSTERY BUS
  The bus that arrives at the pub on Friday night while you’re in the toilet after your 10th pint, and whisks away all the unattractive people so the pub is suddenly packed with stunners when you come back in.

• MYSTERY TAXI
  The taxi that arrives at your place on Saturday morning before you wake up, whisks away the stunner you slept with, and leaves a 10-Pinter in your bed instead.

• BEER COAT
  The invisible but warm coat worn when walking home after a booze cruise At 3:00am .

• BEER COMPASS
  The invisible device that ensures your safe arrival home after booze cruise, even though you’re too drunk to remember where you live, how you got here, and where you’ve come from.

• BREAKING THE SEAL
  Your first pee in the pub, usually after 2 hours of drinking. After breaking the seal of your bladder, repeat visits to the toilet will be
  required every 10 or 15 minutes for the rest of the night.

• TART FUEL
  Bottled premixed spirits, regularly consumed by young women.
• PICASSO BUM
  A woman whose knickers are too small for her, so she looks like she’s Got 4 buttocks

New Video Posted

Well, if you haven’t already subscribed to the Adrian Hodge.com video podcast then you wouldn’t have been aware of the latest video posted into the video gallery of our little monkey man, Joshua.
Titled Screaming, Mad Dad, this video is sure to bring a smile to your face.
I added it to the top of the scrolling thumbnails (the selection window on the right had side of the video player).
Click the image below to link to the video gallery to watch the latest addition now.