I will be doing that as of approximately 5.50pm NZST on Thursday. I’m travelling to Auckland to be at the Raw show at Vector Arena on 3 July. I am super excited. Tomorrow, I’ll be able to say that I’m going there tomorrow! 
After 10 years of the “joys” of dial-up, we’ve finally gotten broadband internet at home and it is so much freaking better!
I downloaded the new version of Firefox and that took a minute. On dial-up, it would take at least three hours, often longer. I can finally finish downloading the album I purchased on iTunes last year.
I’m going to have a freaking ball!
I’ve finally uploaded three pictures that I took at the All Blacks v France test match in Dunedin on Saturday night. I took a lot of pictures and got some video as well but I won’t be uploading the video any time soon because they’re huge size wise and they’ll take forever and a day to upload on our sucky dial-up connection.
The first one was taken just before kick-off, the second one is of the Selwyn Ballet (a Dunedin tradition) and the third one is of the French team warning up before the game. It was a nice night – not at all cold like the last time I was at Carisbrook for a game. That time, it was 2°C at kick-off and it got down to -5°C during the game. At least, the beer was cold!
The All Blacks lost but I’m putting that down to wearing my All Blacks shirt at the game. The last time I saw the All Blacks play France in 2003, I wore my French shirt and the All Blacks won. Maybe that’s telling me something…
Skinning a site is hard work, I’ve decided. I haven’t actually done it for quite some time so there’s nothing like throwing yourself in the deep end by deciding that your newest fanlisting (The Karate Kid Part II) will have seven skins.
I’ve completed four of them so far and have been busy testing them in a dummy folder, just to make sure they’re working alright before uploading them to the actual fanlisting folder. Having said that, I’ve been checking all of them in the two browsers available to me (Firefox and Internet Explorer) for compatibility and so far, everything seems to be going fine. I’ll admit that things are a little out for Internet Explorer but it’s not my browser of choice anyway. I also have to put up with my ISP’s “I’m not going to load anything but once you close your browser window, I’ll actually start working again” moods which seem to happen with some degree of regularity, usually when I’m trying to upload something related to one of the fanlisting’s skins.
Today is definitely going to be an indoors day, as we’ve got strong wind as well as heavy rain. So I might just spend some it watching The Karate Kid Part II for the umpteenth time and finish the skins that I haven’t yet started on!
You know sometimes you go shopping without the intention on purchasing anything specific? I’ve done that a couple of times recently in the same shop!
On Monday, I was looking at the DVDs and saw Edge’s DVD, A Decade of Decadence, sitting in a very unusual place. I thought right then and there that I was going to get it. It’s a 3-DVD set but so far, I’ve only gotten through the first one!
A couple of weeks previously, I purchased all three Karate Kid movies for $12.99. These were movies that I loved watching when I was younger and I was really wanting to see them again. And have I watched them again or what?
I then decided to see whether there were fanlistings for any of the Karate Kid movies, saw that there was one for the first movie and joined. I then applied for the fanlisting for the second one once I’d noticed that there wasn’t a fanlisting for it and I was approved. It is now up and running here. I am planning on making a few skins for that fanlisting and I’m mentally working on them now!
