Aaron: America has some benefits

25 August 2010
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I don’t know if it was because I was staying the San Francisco area (hippie, organic food and greenie central of the US) but contrary to what I had expected in my head, I totally LOVED San Francisco and the wider bay area in general. Not to say that I thought I would hate it, I just didn’t expect to love it as much as I did. Good weather, fantastic food from jalapeno poppers at a diner style restaurant/cafe place to mexican, ethiopian, burmese and white miso ice cream, good people no disasters all made it a fantastic 7 days in the states.

There are many people and experiences I will remember from our week there which I could list…

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By Aaron on 25 August 2010 at 9.00 am
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Aaron: The road less travelled.

14 August 2010
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As of the weekend, we have arrived safely in San Francisco in one piece – and both sighed a breath of relief having had a manic couple of weeks which saw (between the two of us), the release of an album – with its associated gig, a masters thesis completed, quitting of two jobs, selling of cars, a court case (me vs. a bad driver), saying goodbye to 13 nieces and nephews plus 6 siblings plus parents and friends, selling the cars and packing up our entire lives.

Needless to say, it was all quite intense!

Tahiti was absolutely amazing (and amazingly expensive too, a can of coke costs around 4 dollars), but wasn’t without its drama as I came…

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By Aaron on 14 August 2010 at 9.00 am
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Aaron: The end is nigh

28 July 2010
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After months of planning (some of it in secret) I’m all but ready to grab my passport and run out the door to my seat on Tahiti Nui flight TN102 to Papeete, then LA and then Montréal!

Needless to say, I’m rather excited about this prospect (especially given the looks of the image to the left and my 1 week stay there) but I still have this nagging bug around the whole diabetes aspect of it all. It’s not enough of a worry to deter me from stepping on the plane by any means but it does create a heck of a lot of extra work. I was packing on Sunday avo so that I got a feel for just…

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By Aaron on 28 July 2010 at 9.00 am
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Aaron: Speechless.

17 July 2010
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A good friend of mine has been running a shop on Dominion Road for the last ten years and as you can imagine, has seen it all. Dominion road is one of the more colorful neighbourhoods in Auckland with a good mix of people including a few undesirables, the weirdos, funnies, friendlies and everything in between.

I’m sure she thought she had seen pretty much everything that Dominion road had to show her by now but on Wednesday, in came someone that tried her patience in a totally new way!

My friend runs a recycled fashion boutique and said customer had come in to sell some shoes. Just as this potential customer arrived though, said friend was in the throes of…

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By Aaron on 17 July 2010 at 7.00 pm
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Thursday Poll: How many times a day do you test?

15 July 2010
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Do you have a question you’d like to see a poll on? Contact us and let us know your thoughts.

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By Aaron on 15 July 2010 at 10.00 am
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