Welcome to today’s daily kōrero!

Anyone can make the thread, first in first served. If you are here on a day and there’s no daily thread, feel free to create it!

Anyway, it’s just a chance to talk about your day, what you have planned, what you have done, etc.

So, how’s it going?

  • @[email protected]
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    810 months ago

    Late night for me last night - LandSAR exercise, bringing a stretcher with a mock patient out from up a river. Out in the dark, lots of river crossings - great fun but a bit late for a school night! Zzzzz

    • ColonialSpore
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      510 months ago

      That’s frigging awesome.

      I salute guys (and girls) like you who do this kind of stuff.
      I hope I’m never one of your customers, but it’s good to know there are people like you.

      • @[email protected]
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        410 months ago

        Aww Cheers. It’s a fun group to be part of. I’m part of NZ CaveSAR as well - they are a seriously impressive group of people. I’m always left in awe whenever I’m around them. Fearless.

    • @LSDpoem
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      310 months ago

      Sounds really rough. Would a swale work?

    • @[email protected]OPM
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      310 months ago

      On my trip to the Tasman the other week, I don’t think I saw a green blade of grass anywhere on the drive from Blenheim along SH63.

      Down Wellington way we’ve had heavy rain just often enough to keep things alive, though the veggie garden needs a bit of a water occasionally.

    • @[email protected]
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      210 months ago

      Damn really? I’m a bit further down and we’re looking greener than we usually do at this time of year. Next time I see rainclouds I’ll tell them to head up to you.

  • @[email protected]
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    310 months ago

    Back to work, ho hum. I thought I’d catch up, instead I had a 2.5 hour morning workshop and a 2 hour afternoon workshop and an hour meeting after that and now my brain is nope.

      • @[email protected]
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        210 months ago

        By “swim” I mean float around vaguely in the ocean. I saw an big fish jump straight up into the air quite close to me.

        Like, it wasn’t just a silver blur like they usually are. There was a moment at the height of the jump where I could see all the details of the fish (eye, mouth, fins, scale pattern).

        • @[email protected]OPM
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          210 months ago

          That’s awesome! When I was a kid we sometimes used to go to the breakwater in New Plymouth at dusk and watch the fish jump out of the water (I have no idea why they did that, maybe that was a good time for sharks to hunt?).

          • @[email protected]
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            210 months ago

            Or kingfish, hapuka… that sounds cool, regular fish jumping shows!

            Have to admit after a few fish jumping yesterday I had a brief moment of thinking hang on why exactly are good-sized fish trying to escape, but then I remembered sharks don’t really want to eat humans.