The Long Walk

This weekend Anisha and I prepared ourselves for our trip to Hahei on Tuesday. On Saturday, I picked up Anisha from the Auckland Domestic Airport at 5:30pm.

I bought a Digitor Digital Photo Frame from Dick Smith Electronics. It cost me $140 and displays photos from Memory Stick, SD Card, and MMC flash media. It's only 7 inches in size. It pretty much a budget model. It does however come with a remote control.

It plays MP3's and Videos as as well. In my tests, It balked when I tried to get it to play video with greater then 25 fps in it. I know that Phillips has a much higher quality unit available at twice the price. I'll consider this my entry into the digital photo frame arena.

I tried and failed to spent the $40 Harvey Norman gift voucher that Charlene and Nick got me for Christmas. Harvey Norman has digital photo frames, but I didn't like the design of the two models they had on offer.

On Sunday, we went to Countdown to get the food we need for the trip to Hahei. The food bill came to around $200. We did some preliminary preparation of everything we needed. We plan to buy the milk, bread, and eggs when we are in Hahei.

On Sunday night, Anisha and I went for a walk to my old house.

Additional Information: Hahei is an attractive beach fringed with pohutukawa trees and drifts of pink shells at the northern end. Offshore islands provide something of a breakwater, making this beach ideal for swimming, boating and fishing.

Out to the Movies at Home

On Friday, Anisha and I rented out the movie Hot Fuzz from Blockbuster. It was a comedy, of which the humour did not agree with Anisha. We planned to hire out a Playstation 3 and a movie along with some games, however it appeared that Blockbuster at The Hub does not rent them at all. I was quite disappointed.

Anisha ordered Pizza Hutt and I ordered Wendys. It was takeaway night after-all. I was surprised that Anisha's pizza only took 15 minutes from order to being ready.

Today, we went for a walk to the Botany Downs Town Centre. Anisha got a haircut and did some shopping. I had a look at Harvey Norman and Dick Smith Electronics. Harvey Norman was offering a SanDisk Cruzer® Micro USB Flash Drive for NZ$60. When pressured, the salesman would only knock NZ$5 off the price. We then walked home through the park, observing this funny looking cat as seen in the included photo.

We went to INC technologies so I could pick up a new USB Flash Drive. I picked up a 2 Gigabyte SanDisk Cruzer® Titanium USB Flash Drive for NZ$50. This was far better value that what was on offer at Harvey Norman. I also picked up a Microsoft Wireless mouse, just like the one I have at work! It was listed at NZ$65, but was sold to me at NZ$55.

We came home and Anisha helped me with some much needed cleaning. Thanks Anisha, you're a star! We played CSI: Dark Motives again tonight. Unfortunately, from case number two the text was all in French! after looking up a support article on the Ubisoft website, we found that this in fact was a bug, and there was a fix posted. We downloaded the fix and the problem was resolved. Quite a disgrace to release a commercial product in such a fashion I say.

I went and returned the DVD we had rented, and bought Anisha a Cornetto.



Useless Information: All of the officers in the Confederate Army were given copies of Les Miserables by Victor Hugo to carry with them at all times. Robert E. Lee, among others, believed that the book symbolized their cause. Both revolts were defeated.