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Gotham was decided less ‘batty’ when we were there for breakfast yesterday. Apparently a bunch of batman lawyers stomped in for a visit and said that they had to tone down all the bat stuff because they were breaching copyright or something. So the bat light has gone, the batman photo show, the bits of batman merchandise and the batman and friends-themed table numbers. I think there’s still a wee sign saying ‘Batman is currently in: Austin, Texas’. Hmmmm, seems a bit rank really.

If you happen to be passing Superfino this week at breakfast time, and indeed decide to stop in for breakfast, and order toast with raspberry jam – it’ll be the Mister’s jam! He gave a jar to Amy yesterday as they’ve just started serving breakfast there and she showed us their range of specialty jams. The Mister thought his deserved a place in the line up. He can’t wait to hear stories from her next week of diners who said “Gosh this is great jam, what is it?”

I didn’t have a date scone for lunch today – I know I know – something must be wrong! Well, it is … my niggley throat thing hasn’t gone away, well at least it’s not getting any worse but I am sticking to a regime of honey on toast whenever I can get it so I had that instead. While a Nikau we had the displeasure of sitting next to a rather haughty woman who definitely expidited our departure … she ordered the green salad off the menu and when it came decided she was not happy with her choice:

Friendly waitress: here’s your salad m’am.
Woman: oh. It doesn’t have any beetroot in it.
Friendly waitress: I’m sorry m’am, did you order a side of beetroot?
Woman: no. I ordered the Salad of the Day off the menu. It should have beetroot in it.
Confused waitress (taking a menu being handed to her) and pointing: our Salad of the Day today is a Green Salad m’am. Would you like a side of beetroot?
Woman: no! I want a salad with beetroot in it. Why would I order a pile of green leaves for lunch? That’s not a very substantial lunch.
Poor waitress: would you like me to pass it back to the kitchen to have some beetroot added to it?
Woman: yes. Then I would get what I was expecting.

WTF? She ordered a green salad and then had the audacity to tell them a ‘pile of green leaves’ was not satisfactory? The whole mood around the bar was decided grim after that so we left. Sheeesh.

Interesting. I was just poking around the ERMA (Environmental Risk Management Authority) website (where I used to work) and in the time since I started the management group has pretty much completely turned over (quite a feat for a government department one would think) and what’s more is now almost all women (ditto on the feat!) The structure was slightly different when I started but I’m pretty sure it was all men, and now it’s 4 women and 2 men (yes, including the CEO).

Bit of a hooha in the NZ Herald over the weekend about the Police having ticket quotas (or not). If they want to get people running through stop signs then 2 great places for this would be the T-intersection of MacDonald Rd and Galatea Rd near Te Teko and the cross-roads of Abel Smith St and Cuba St in Wellington. Just terrible.

Watched a video on the web yesterday of a panel of US companies in the accounting/personal finance space (god, that could almost be considered work, yikes it’s creeping into our Saturday lives) to see how closely competitive they are to Xero. The panel was discussing all sorts – their main points of difference, what they’re doing to earn their customers’ trust (it’s financial information they’re storing after all), where they see themselves going, what they think will happen in the world of business online vs business hand-to-hand in a more traditional sense. Interesting stuff. Aaaaanyway. In the mix, a couple of real knob words – as usual I suspected they were made up but turns out they’re not although these guys were not really using them in the dictionary-defined sense, so they did sound kind of wanky.

Prosumer

A device or appliance that is between the consumer and professional models.

Disintermediation

The act of removing funds from savings banks and placing them into
short-term investments on which the interest-rate yields are higher.

Someone the said the other day in our MMM (Monday Morning Meeting) that there was a man drought in Wellington and after doing a quick survey outside the supermarket this evening I’d have to agree (not that I’m in the market for a man, obviously). I really hate doing the nip-in-after-work run to get a loaf of bread and milk (even though I love the fact that it’s possible and enjoy the almost daily fresh bread) so because I wanted to walk all the way home with the Mister tonight instead of parting ways when he goes into the supermarket I waited outside while he went in. And watched everyone coming and going and I have to say, there were really only 2 pretty good looking guys in normal clothes around my age … and I think they might’ve been together. Hard to say what was ‘wrong’ with everyone else, sneakers with suits, strange hats, odd geek-style walking with trousers swinging above their ankles, too small coats buttoned up to their necks with a straining button popped open in the middle, day-dreaming iPodders and I have to say a fair few mumbling to themselves! The Mister is so lovely and normal.

P.S. the Mister said I’m such an elitist.

Someone thanked me for my astuteness today … so before feeling completely complimented I thought I better have a little check just to make sure I was indeed being complimented (I was) and found that another similar word to use in its place was the very cool sounding sagacious. Assuming I’m pronouncing it correctly in my head!

Synonyms: wise, sage, discerning, clever, intelligent, judicious, acute, sharp, keen

I don’t want to taunt those who can’t be at home with their coffee machine (or wife who makes them coffee) but I have to say the ristretto lattes (or piccolos if you’re a Mojo drinker or bongos if you’re a L’Affare drinker) that I’m making at the moment are incredible. Taste So Good.

Or maybe they just taste good because there’s nothing nicer than sitting at your own kitchen table in the peace and quiet, with the door open and fresh air and sun streaming in, tapping away on your keyboard with homemade coffee and bikkie. Plus have saved myself about $25.

Why is it tomatoes and potatoes but not videoes?

I wore my velvet jacket to work today – I don’t like to wear it much in case it gets scuffed – silly really – I’ve had it for years and hardly worn it. Aaaaaanyway, what is it about velvet and pregnant bellies? Everyone seems compelled to touch!