I'm back again this year doing fundraising for men's health. I'll post a photo this weekend, however I thought that I'd get the invitation requesting a small donation out and see what comes back. Thanks again to all those that donated last year. All you have to do is go to: http://www.movember.com/nz/donate Enter my registration number: 191413 And the rest is up to you. Thanks and have a good day...... Hi All, During Movember (the month formerly known as November) I'll be growin a Mo. That's right I'm bringing the Mo back because I'm passionate about men's health and the fight against prostate cancer. Why... Every year in New Zealand 2,656 men are diagnosed with prostate cancer and about 600 die of the disease, making prostate cancer the second largest cause of male cancer deaths, after ... read more

My first photo to ever be in print was published today in the NZ Herald. Attached is the link to the page. On Monday I'll know if my photo is entered in the final voting for top photo. The link is: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/feature/story.cfm?c_id=1501478&objectid=10476493 On Wednesday some of my photos are being displayed at a local opening of new photographers in NZ. Work is full on. Recently I've been working on a geothermal powerplant project that is located in Chile. hope you get to check out my photo. Cheers ... read more

It's been a while since I've had anything of significance to mention here. It was a holiday (Labour Day) weekend so I took Friday off from work and made a long four day weekend in Rotorua. Rachel and I headed out early Friday for the scenic drive (long way around) to Rotorua by way of Mt Maunganui and Tauranga. Friday we did a short tour of the small and relitively uniteresting downtown of Rotorua and met up with friends of Rachel's that were passing thru to Taupo. Saturday was a proper tourist day. Visited one of the better geothermal parks and took the longest walking route available. Asked a tour guide a legitimate question and got a stupid answere. Then off to a sheep farm show that was more comical than informative and then last to ... read more

I'm only making this entry because I heard the funniest thing on the equivalent of your 10pm news. New Zealand news tries hard enough to make itself purposeful, let’s be honest there is just so little news worthy events they’ll do almost anything to fill in 30minutes. Well tonight they hit new low (high) of pointlessness. Picture this: New Zealand anchorwoman, the camera cuts away to a news story decidedly American (American accented male commentator, hick’ish group of guy’s staring up a pine tree at a bear they just tranquilized, debating how to get the bear down. Next scene, said hicks stacking up empty boxes from an alcohol store at the base of the tree, all of a sudden you hear a limb crack, hicks look up and then scatter as the bear cartwheels vertically down ... read more

I figured I'd been here for a year and had been talking about walking coast to coast but have yet to act on that talk. I met with Rachel and headed down to her office to print out a map of the walk. I would have gone it without a map, but that's just not for everyone :-) The walk took us from downtown, up to Albert Park (University of Auckland), the Domain Park, Mt Eden, One Tree Hill park and down to Onehunga Bay. We covered a distance of more than 16KM One of the best parts of the walk was deviating from the map and discovering the Queen's residence (one the rare occasion that she comes to NZ). Get back to Auckland proved tricky. The free customer bus from Dressmart didn't come to take ... read more

I'm getting behind on these entries so I'm just going to start tossing photos up here and let you figure it out for yourself. This Bachelor Party I organized from New Zealand. We had a poker dealer come in and entertain the guys for the night. No, there were no dancers or crazy drinking at this party. Night went off without a hitch and was the last restful day of my time state side. ha... read more

In the fashion of all good barbeques the weather was uncooperative. We had some of the worst wind and rain of the year that day. No worries moved the party inside and partied on. Had an eclectic group from work, IEP and kiwi friends. The big show was to be the fireworks but ended up to be a big much ado about nothing. Marcos and I had just warmed up and used about a third of the box’s contents when the overzealous New Zealand police arrived in their van. They swooped in like the DEA on a Columbian Drug Lord’s villa. The police van sped down Parnell Road with the side and back doors opened and six officers jumped out of the van before it had even come to a stop . They quickly infiltrated ... read more