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In Tauranga now, flew up after work. Flight relatively good, although delayed at the airport waiting for new luggage to be loaded. And I not only got confused by the new self checkin kiosks (I'm used to the old ones, okay?), but got complimented by the baggage watcher for putting it on the conveyer belt correctly (wheels at the back).

It's currently raining and my parents decided to make room for me in the storage room rather than put the tent up in the wet. While making a bed on the mattress on the floor for me, water was discovered dripping down the inside of the back wall and from there onto such important items as pillows and packed boxes of books - including the Biggles first editions, carefully wrapped in tissue paper by the movers. The Biggles books are fine, other books got a bit damaged. I'm not sure if I'm sleeping in there or on the couch tonight. Either is fine.

Work was insanely busy today, but I managed to finish at 5.00pm (only the WCC billing letters got sent out today, the rest can wait until late January) and do two settlements, including my second edealing. Edealing is awesome, except when it's a complex dealing and one has to wait for LINZ to check it and then email you a week or so later to say the transfer has been successfully completed. Still, good to do. And PJS did the running around bits so I could type up narrations. Next year, he will be more organised with narrations!

Have ended up with a sore ankle, since at some point today the tip of the heel on one of my sandals came off, so I've been walking around unevenly all day. I'll either take the other heel tip off or get rid of them, not sure which yet.

Didn't bring up much reading material - Beginning Operations by James White, which is the first three Sector General books; the November and December issues of NZ Lawyer; and the November issue of the Property Law Section bulletin, which I read on the plane. Getting odd looks about the latter items, but I've been looking forward to reading them, haven't had time at work and while I might argue that it's professional development, it's actually that they're interesting. Good thing there are now lots of books lying around though.

Had to install MSN on my parents new computer, which runs Vista and the latest version of internet explorer. Having tabs is good, the rest a bit odd and I'm not sure I like it. Do like the wireless keyboard and mouse, though.

Lovely to be in Tauranga. Have been swimming. The fiancee is lovely. Very hot and muggy. Good to see granparents and cousins and everyone behaved. Carol service fun. Busy tomorrow.

Bed now.