{"id":216893616,"date":"2012-01-22T00:10:14","date_gmt":"2012-01-21T11:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/?p=216893616"},"modified":"2012-01-22T00:10:18","modified_gmt":"2012-01-21T11:10:18","slug":"the-feds-are-in-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/?p=216893616","title":{"rendered":"The Feds are in town!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A day of variety. \u00a0Awoke to learn that we seem to have some\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/news\/article.cfm?c_id=1&amp;objectid=10780142\">naughty neighbours<\/a>. \u00a0After a quick tea, hooked up and checked over our trailer before taking it to the vehicle inspection station for its periodic <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nzta.govt.nz\/vehicle\/warrants-certifications\/getting-wof\/index.html\">WOF<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"100_1114.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/100_1114.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"100 1114\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Took a bunch of stuff to read as the queue is always a long one on Saturdays. \u00a0Upon arriving, I was surprised to see that there was no queue &#8211; until I remembered that this is the weekend of the annual local\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kumeuhotrodshow.co.nz\/\">hot rod show<\/a>. \u00a0While\u00a0the roads were choked with cars as always, clearly no-one was getting theirs tested, judging by the large number failing checks at the police check point down the road.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"NewImage.png\" src=\"http:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/NewImage.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"NewImage\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Back home in record time and after fruit salad and coffee, I set to and tackled the &#8216;honey, do!&#8217; list of tasks requested by SWMBO. \u00a0For the record this included:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Resurrecting the non-functioning turbine head on our Dyson vacuum cleaner. \u00a0Having fiddled with, disassembled, reassembled, tested,\u00a0disassembled again,\u00a0disassembled some more, cleaned, dried &amp; re-lubricated the brush &amp; drive components and reassembled again, I fixed the thing. I take my hat off to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/James_Dyson\">James Dyson<\/a> and his design engineers &#8211; not only is the vacuum the best we&#8217;ve ever had, it is user serviceable and therefore flies in the face of the &#8216;cheaper to buy a new one&#8217; mentality so prevalent these days.<\/li>\n<li>Repairing the grip of the expensive salon-grade hairdryer.<\/li>\n<li>Glueing a Dr Scholl&#8217;s heel file back together.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"IMG_0568.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/IMG_05681.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"IMG 0568\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After providing a quick lesson in how to use sandpaper to a crafty daughter making a wooden wall hanging, I jumped on the Brompton to run last night&#8217;s DVDs &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Tree_of_Life_(film)\">The Tree of Life<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Oranges_and_Sunshine\">Oranges and Sunshine<\/a> &#8211; back to the store before heading to the library to scoop up a requested book for SWMBO and Brad Meltzer&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bradmeltzer.com\/novels\/book-of-lies\/book-of-lies.aspx\">The Book of Lies<\/a> for me.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"NewImage.png\" src=\"http:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/NewImage1.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"NewImage\" width=\"300\" height=\"444\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Following lunch, I took the smallest and a friend to see <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Adventures_of_Tintin_(film)\">The Adventures of Tintin<\/a>. Great fun and technically brilliant but always felt like it was tailored to favour the 3D version with heaps of in-your-face action and, with its linear plot and set pieces, maximise the spin-off game potential.<\/p>\n<p>Later, after a brief read, a longer nap and a fish supper, we decamped to the home of Canasta-playing friends on a whim when SWMBO decided she wanted to learn to play the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canasta.net\/\">game<\/a>. \u00a0Whether it was because I&#8217;m tired, was sober due to being the designated driver or simply not the most motivated of card players when it comes to longer games, I struggled from the first hand. \u00a0Even with the patient coaching of my mate Paul, I found it hard to match the enthusiasm and growing skill of SWMBO who was under the tutelage of Paul&#8217;s wife Tracey. \u00a0That said, we somehow won.<\/p>\n<p>Back home and with a glass of red wine consumed, I&#8217;m off to bed and to delve into the darkness of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teddekker.com\/2009\/03\/10\/adam-2\/\">Adam<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A day of variety. \u00a0Awoke to learn that we seem to have some\u00a0naughty neighbours. \u00a0After a quick tea, hooked up and checked over our trailer before taking it to the vehicle inspection station for its periodic WOF. Took a bunch of stuff to read as the queue is always a long one on Saturdays. \u00a0Upon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,259,22,25,442],"tags":[617,634,630,635,629,160,631,395,633,632],"class_list":["post-216893616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-family-friends","category-film","category-life","category-online","tag-brompton","tag-canasta","tag-dotcom","tag-dyson","tag-fbi","tag-new-zealand","tag-piracy","tag-police","tag-ted-dekker","tag-tintin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216893616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=216893616"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216893616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216893618,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216893616\/revisions\/216893618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=216893616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=216893616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=216893616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}