Kelly Te Huna

Category: Rantings

  • New bowling gear

    As mentioned in a previous blog, my wife and I recently purchased and fitted some a couple of new bowling balls. My wife got a 14lb Hammer Jigsaw, which is the latest ball from Hammer. Meanwhile, I purchased a 15lb Brunswick Siege, the latest ball from Brunswick. We were gonna take our balls to the…

  • From the mouths of babes

    It’s funny that we often laugh at the things children say. We laugh because a lot of the time, the things children say are either way out of context or are just plain hilarious. Listening to a child explain the wonders of Christmas to us, or even having them explaining the meaning of life can…

  • And the world keeps rolling on…

    Well, much has happened in the last month. I have completed my 4 – 6 week contract with Frontier Nursing Services (FNS) and have just been offered another 250 hours of work. That is going to keep the coffers well stocked for the next couple of months, at least. On top of that, a friend…

  • Reflections of myself

    I’ve blogged on here a number of times about some of my experiences here in the US. Some good. Some bad. Some neither here nor there. Just yesterday, I was sitting at lunch with a friend and he asked me something that I’ve never really stopped to consider before.  He said something to the effect…

  • Updates from Hazard, KY

    It’s been quite some time since my last post, but much has happened in that time. By far the biggest news is Lilyana is now a year old and walking around, making life a whole lot more difficult for Jennifer and I. Unfortunately, she has inherited our penchant for wanting to examine everything we come…

  • Employment update

    Over the last month or so, work has been pretty good for me. I’ve managed to get through a couple of reasonable projects, one is about to wrap up and I’m currently working on an ASP.NET based Facebook application, which is new to me. Admittedly, the application isn’t really a stretch because I’m pretty much…

  • Racial tensions

    It’s been very interesting entering the US and being exposed to the US at the organic level, ie. experiencing what US citizens experience first hand, rather than looking at it from the outside. Now, New Zealand has its fair share of racial tension. Almost 200 years after the fact, many Maori still feel robbed and…

  • Summer League: 28 May 2009

    This last week was an absolutely miserable effort on my part. After weeks of staying in close to 600, I finished this week with a measley 504. I was having problems get any kind of reaction out of my ball. I think I need to get it resurfaced again. I need to start taking real…

  • Dealing with older browsers

    After working in the web development industry for the last 6 years or so, dealing with older browsers that lack decent support for CSS and Javascript is something I face and deal with on a near-daily basis. Why near-daily? Well, I do a lot of Server side development which tends to be browser agnostic. Dealing…

  • Lily’s first steps

    At the grand old age of 47 weeks, 2 day, 2 hours and some 17 minutes or so (ie. at about 4.29pm, May 19, 2009) Lilyana took her first unaided steps. We’ve been waiting for her to take her first steps for a few months now, because she’s been able to pull herself up on…