20 July, 2008

Good holiday. The week in Auckland was excellent, if a bit full on a times. Caught up with friends and family, was offered a job, bought some clothes, ate too much food, almost got an Illicit tattoo and covered a lot of ground in the process.

Tried out the bikes that are kicking around central Auckland and booked using a mobile phone. Was pretty cool and reminded us of biking around Japan – same sort of bikes. There’s something pretty cool about ripping around, ringing the little bell. We took the cycleway out to Mission Bay so it was all pretty gentle. Had a chance to get out to NextSpace and Right Hemisphere for a look around. Pretty cool stuff and was nice to be offered work there. The cost of moving to and living in Auckland was our biggest block on that one. Saw a really cool tattoo at Illicit. One of the SwitchBlade images drawn by Martin Emonds but had a day of eating too much and was feeling pretty crook when I went in with the eye to getting it. The thought of needles was a bit much so aiming for next time (without the buffalo wings).

Back in Christchurch and getting ready for school again. Had a good few days in the garden between rain and got a few things sorted out. Illicit are closing down here so they are having a mean sale. I guess I’ll have to get my clothing started soon with them gone. Got some good clothing though.