Over the last week I’ve spent a good chunk of time sorting out doing work for Serah’s aunt, as well as having several meetings with various clients and a bunch of people. I spent time with Dad and Dace doing work stuff as well as having meals and generally hanging out. I had my hair trimmed with Harry the barber in Merivale, which I hadn’t had done since I was in high school and had short hair. Was good to chat with him and hear his inimitable advice and manner, as if nothing had changed in the intervening years. As a strange twist of fate would have it, Mum has actually become coffee-mates with Harry the barber – she kept saying hello to him on her daily walks (since she lives down the street) and it just kind of went from there. Go figure, huh?

Anyway, Wednesday was Daniel’s birthday, so I went over there to see him and give him his gift from Anastasia and I, which was a satchel with “Hentai Inside” written on it as a parody of the “Intel Inside” logo. This was especially perfect because his mother Jan had absolutely no idea what it meant. ^^

This week I had coffee with Mike Smith, dinner with Andrea and David, dinner with Grandma and Grandad… it was a busy week. I had coffee in Cashmere with Robbie, as he was down from Wellington, where he’s been busy studying at Vic. We also spent a little bit of time in at the Dux having a couple of Ginger Toms. It was great seeing him again, I’ve really missed him while I’ve been away.

I also spent some time watching anime and hanging out with Daniel, which is something that I regularly did before leaving the country and certainly missed while I was away. While there are always anime fans of similar inclination wherever I go, there’s no one who’s quite the same as Daniel and nothing like it when the two of us get together. ^^