Kiwi - GKPE - General Ramblings (4)

somethingsimple wrote in post #4962400
well - IM BACK so you dont have to!
im not back back, but dialup here is almost as fast as bb at home (for some weird reason) and my hosts go to bed early so that leaves me about 3 hours to kill every night LOL

You just can't relax and have a holiday... :P

lil_miss wrote in post #4962407
You just can't relax and have a holiday... :P

you dont get it - this IS how i relax
i already did my 11 days away with no internet this year... not doing that again

anyhow i have some really cool moonrise photos to post (soon when i edit them)

somethingsimple wrote in post #4962400
oh yuk, looks like ill be crashing all the under 30s do's from now on, all that stuff bores me stupid

Haha ... sorry your 2 young for the over 40s camp as well

somethingsimple wrote in post #4962409
you dont get it - this IS how i relax
i already did my 11 days away with no internet this year... not doing that again

anyhow i have some really cool moonrise photos to post (soon when i edit them)

All right - settle Gretel. Just winding you up... you made a big scene of "leaving" but you're technically still here thats all

weka2000 wrote in post #4962411
Haha ... sorry your 2 young for the over 40s camp as well

lol im ALWAYS going to be too young to sit around and talk about that stuff - age has nothing to do with it

lil_miss wrote in post #4962415
All right - settle Gretel. Just winding you up... you made a big scene of "leaving" but you're technically still here thats all

yeah i didnt think i was going to have any time to go online this weekend but since my hosts go to bed at sundown (young baby wakes early) looks like i have free evenings some days

man i LOVED the drive down - it was REALLY fun and such beautiful scenery everywhere, kept wanting to slam on the brakes and stop for shooting but couldnt always (trucks up butt etc). had 2GB of mp3s to listen to / sing along with, had a ball and the kids enjoyed it too
its clear and fine here, no wind... who knew? LOL
it sure is brown though, standing hay everywhere and a lot of dead trees on the way down too, that was unexpected

somethingsimple wrote in post #4962421
yeah i didnt think i was going to have any time to go online this weekend but since my hosts go to bed at sundown (young baby wakes early) looks like i have free evenings some days

man i LOVED the drive down - it was REALLY fun and such beautiful scenery everywhere, kept wanting to slam on the brakes and stop for shooting but couldnt always (trucks up butt etc). had 2GB of mp3s to listen to / sing along with, had a ball and the kids enjoyed it too
its clear and fine here, no wind... who knew? LOL
it sure is brown though, standing hay everywhere and a lot of dead trees on the way down too, that was unexpected

and where exactly are you?

Wazza wrote in post #4961861
Have got my farewell party tomorrow night, preparing for that. David & Liz are coming, plus both the Matt's may show up... (if I can handle both.. )

Anyway, I've lived away from stereos and music in the past year. Any recommendations of good music I may have missed recently?

lol I might come wazza, finish work at 8:30pm. But im going away to my mates batch on saturday morning at 8am :O But yeee. Do we bring a box of beers? whats the arrangements for drinks. What area is the party in?

akiwi wrote in post #4962237
I have the feeling that you should aim more for something with customer contact. You seem to enjoy talking. I take it this job is as a machine operator printing photos?

Yeah your right. I was not thinking straight today. Things have taken a good turn. I have got good contacts with my recruitment agencies. And one of them tried to get me a sales coordinator role at the herald (APN). That has been filled. But the boss there said there is a role as a sales consultant at APN, herald. And there long term plan for me is to make me an account manager.

So I said hell yes im keen so we'll see how it all goes.

On the next GKPE meet could someone let me use there flash and teach me how to use it. I feel like using one for a night. Please

naqs wrote in post #4962443
and where exactly are you?

just north of feilding - maybe about 5mins out of town
its really beautiful here - remember how i was saying a few days ago that i miss the empty country hills and farms - well ta-dah! view from this house is exactly that

fanks kirst for being kitteh-mama again... this time YOU eet choccies LOL

Mediation wrote in post #4962445
lol I might come wazza, finish work at 8:30pm. But im going away to my mates batch on saturday morning at 8am :O But yeee. Do we bring a box of beers? whats the arrangements for drinks. What area is the party in?

Yeah your right. I was not thinking straight today. Things have taken a good turn. I have got good contacts with my recruitment agencies. And one of them tried to get me a sales coordinator role at the herald (APN). That has been filled. But the boss there said there is a role as a sales consultant at APN, herald. And there long term plan for me is to make me an account manager.

So I said hell yes im keen so we'll see how it all goes.

On the next GKPE meet could someone let me use there flash and teach me how to use it. I feel like using one for a night. Please

If I'm there, you're more than welcome to use mine. However I won't be able to show you how to use it

lil_miss wrote in post #4960070
Our 17-55 went in on 30th January and HASNT EVEN BEEN LOOKED AT!!!!! GRRRRRRRRRRRRR I rang them and abused them today after getting told last week that things are taking 15-20 working days to even be looked at. Today is WORKING day 17. Apparently now its finally being escalated or so they say. Not to mention I dropped it off at Photo Warehouse on the 24th of Jan and it took a week to get to Canon

We used the service form with everything exactly as they wanted it, including Visa for the inspection prepayment, and delivered it to Canon in North Shore.

I would never trust the performance, or the inter-company relationships, of a dealer.

I couriered a 17-85mm lens to Canon, with the form on 5 Dec.; inspection charged on 7 Dec., repaired by 14 Dec with new focussing motor.

My daughter's 17-85mm failed at the same time, but she managed to get it serviced while they were closed for Christmas!

Using the right form, prepaying and not having an intermediary that Canon has to work through seems to increase the likelihood of fast processing. You may well be right on the warranty question - they don't improve the revenue-earning performance of the technicians.

well here's one of my moonrise photos - after running the length of the house to grab the bigma i only had time for 2 photos before it cleared the hills, but still happy with some of my others too

handheld 1/200 sec, ISO 3200, f/5.6, 40D + bigma @ 313mm
colour/saturation not enhanced, noise reduced in sky area

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Nzshrimper wrote in post #4962354
so Stuart Island for a honeymoon then...

It would be nice to at LEAST go to aussie.

Nzshrimper wrote in post #4962363
*CHCH MEETING ALERT*
chch guys. tomorrow morning sunrise at the pier.. looks like it should be a good one. anyone keen..

yes Sancho that includes you your 40d needs a run.. be at NB Pier at 6am - to 6:30 am sunrise at 6:56 am be home by 7:30 in time for work.... or back to bed.

Hmmm, I have a late one tomorrow night.... could be a goer though.

somethingsimple wrote in post #4962400
well - IM BACK so you dont have to!

WOHOO! *hug* - Did you get me a t-shirt?