– My partner, Colette, and I are wrapping up four months in Wellington, New Zealand, this weekend and preparing to spend two weeks touring New Zealand’s North Island by car before we travel across the Cook Strait via ferry to the South island and then by train back to Christchurch.
– I’ve really conceived a love for Wellington. What a vibrant, beautiful and pleasant a city it is. We’ve been over most of it on foot and by bus these four months. We’ve sat in on Parliament’s question and answer sessions, visited endless coffee shops and restaurants, hosted a few friends with us, made use of the libraries, theaters, free concerts, talks and various cultural and ethnic street events.
– Another event that transpired during our time here was that Colette wrapped up 12 years with the New Zealand Ministry of Justice and is now a free agent.
– And yet another event was that it looks like I will finally be paid out for the apartment I lost in Christchurch in the February 2011 earthquake there. And that money, when it arrives, will augment my income nicely and give me a bit more flexibility which is never a bad thing.
– While I’ve been here I’ve been digging into programming iPhone and iPad apps and I’ve come up to speed nicely. In fact, just today, I bid my first job to write an app.
– That’s the news.
– Cheers from New Zealand, my friends,
-dennis