Still Busy

Still flatout with the end of the Rotary year, sadly another big funeral today, SeniorNet AGM due etc etc etc.

TVNZ: I was contacted to see if I could arrange a person to be interviewed for a SeniorNet publicity piece on TV1 and also arrange for them to film a class in action. As it happens we are having a morning tea for the tutors on Friday so they are going to come after that has finished. We will need to tidy up the rooms first. We are also going to have a morning tea for the other tenants but we have run out of time so will probably have to have it some time after the Term has started .

Boy Racers: More killed in Invercargill and the parents appeared on TV defending them. They claimed the dead driver never sped - although quotes of friends in the DomPost disputed this - and that he bought a high performance car because that was available. He could have bought something else - its not compulsory. I am pleased the Police spoke out and pointed out that in most cases the family and more likely the friends always place the blame elsewhere - never with the speedsters.

Dinosaurs: I had never thought of it before but on 'The Panel" on Radio NZ - broadcast about 4.15 each afternoon - one brought up a point. He wondered if some of these films of the stone age featuring dinosaurs with people may be an insidious ploy by the American Evangelicals who don't believe in evolution and claim humans and dinosaurs existed side by side.

Jet Star: I see that they avoid a $2-00 per person levy because they are registered in Australia. With a couple of million passengers a year that is some saving. They defended it by saying what they were doing was legal - but again the tough question - is it ethical - wasn't asked. It seems the Government will have to change the law.

Bad paper: Bought the usual Tuesday DomPost for the TV Guide last week. On getting it home there was no TV Guide. Sudenly reading it the news seemed old - they had sold me Monday's paper.