Tomorrow will mark 4 weeks since I arrived in New
Zealand. I know I haven’t blogged much
lately, and I’m not sure why. But here
it is Saturday night, and I’m home watching TV and now writing a bit.
Today was great. I
went to the Auckland Art Gallery for the exhibit called “Light Show.” I’ve been wanting to go, and it ends
tomorrow, so I made it down today. I
absolutely loved it. I won’t try to
explain it using arty terms, but it was multiple installations using light as a
sculptural and/or structural medium.
There were a couple of pieces that I thought were silly that could have
been conceived and executed by anyone (the
nominal three were long florescent tubes – one, then 2, then 3, mounted vertically - and that was it). But most of them were so creative. One of them formed what looked from the front
to be a three dimensional sculpture created with light and fog. Another used strobe light to stop-action
water, so that the droplets appeared frozen.
I was so enthralled by most of the pieces.
After that, I had a coffee and cookie, then went to the
Warehouse store to buy more kitchen stuff, then came home, took a nap, cooked
dinner, and now watching TV.
Earlier this week – I got my scooter! Yay! I
really, really, love riding my scooter.
I took a nice ride to Mission Bay, which is east of downtown Auckland,
and then further to Achille’s Point.
Beautiful views. As I was
preparing to leave Achille’s Point, I saw some people who had just discovered
that their car window had been broken out.
So, crime does happen here too, unfortunately. (No, I did not expect that crime was
non-existent here, but it is a smack in the head to see it).
I completed my third week of work. Still going well, learning more every day
about the software I have to maintain.
It’s a huge code base, so I have to keep reminding myself to not expect
that I will know it all anytime soon.
The best I can do is just dive in and keep trying.
Tomorrow is Sunday.
The bike store close to my apartment is having a sale, so I’m going to
try to go there and look at getting a bike.
Their sign says “50% off entire store!”
Yeah, we’ll see.
And still don’t have internet in my apartment. But at least the installation contractor
called me on Wednesday. I guess I’ll
need to make some calls on Monday to see what’s up.
