Gimme some info about building a house

Nailed is a great website for anyone wanting tips on the building process. Everything from renovating to building new.

We’re currently building a house on the back of our section…

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… and nailed has helped us gain knowledge about the contractual and council issues we’re facing.

Latest enhancement to Availabuild

The Availabuild diary feature is now optional.

Current subscribing tradespeople get to decide whether they’d like to keep displaying their schedule throughout the site or just have a web presence with no diary.

Subscribers can simply log in to their profile and turn the diary on or off.

Note that all diaries that haven’t been updated for a month have
been turned off automatically.

Subscribers can re-activate their diary feature at any time. Previously set dates will remain intact.

the stand-up economist

Yoram Bauman PhD. This guy is a genius. Makes economics funny and easy to understand, (like someone else I’ve read).

The Wairarapa … what a gem*

I was glad to have a day off yesterday and headed over to the Wairarapa for a surf.

A couple of kilometres before Ngawi, (the infamous fishing village) there’s a couple of good spots. One in particular was pumping yesterday… Dee Dees. I’ll post some photos as soon as i’m able.

For most of the surf I was out on my own and couldn’t help thinking about that shark film ‘open water’ I watched a few weeks back. Aarrrgh!!! It was so annoying having that in the back of my mind. I wish I never watched it. Being 200m offshore in the middle of nowhere with only green ocean and baby seals around was isolating enough. Yeah, I was starting to second guess if that seaweed off yonder was in fact a ….. shark or my mind playing tricks on me. Yes, the mind does play tricks. Ah well, everything changed when a couple of other guys came out. All of a sudden I felt bullet-proof again. As if to think sharks don’t eat when there’s 3 humans to choose from… only one… or maybe there’s security in the fact that the odds are better?

Anyway, the day was a pearler and again reminded me of how much i take the Wairarapa for granted. It’s a gem, and super close.

write something

Gee, i’m feeling pretty un-inspired to write at the moment.

I guess i’ll just write something. Something.