On Saturday morning, in my usual hungover, horny state I updated my online dating profile to see if I could take advantage of some of the boys in town for Gay Ski Week.
This morning I’m up early for a swim and I’ve had no response to my profile at all!!!!
Turns out I didn’t add any of the photos and didn’t ‘save’ the new blurb about me. Aggghhhhhh.
It has since been updated and I’ll be sure to keep you guys posted on what I get up to.
Here are some more photos from the Christchurch Earthquake. I have been hearing now first hand just how devestated the CBD district is. University was supposed to go back this week but has been put back at least a week, the CBD is under a sunset to sunrise curfew and ALL Christchurch government offices are closed.
Someone told me this quake was worse than the Haiti quake – I didn’t believe that so I checked it out. The Haiti quake was 7.0, 25km’s from Port-au Prince and 13kms deep. The Christchurch quake was 7.1, 40kms from the CBD but only 10kms deep (the closer to the surface the worse it is from what I understand). Just goes to show how lucky we are to live in a 1st world country that nobody died (230,000 died in Haiti) and although there is destruction and it will take time to rebuild, life goes on.
Last night I ended up getting a call from a mate of mine and walked around to his place to play some pool.
Ended up being a pretty late night and I walked home about 4am, then I checked some emails and checked the servers and the house started rocking!!! It wasn’t very strong but it was enuf for me to get up and out of the house. I didn’t think too much about it and went back to bed.
I had a couple of hours of sleep and I was up at 8am to go for a ski with a relative of my mate. While I was in the shower he called me saying he is on his way back to Christchurch. Feeling just a little hungover my brain could not figure anything out until he, slowly, explained about the 7.1 magnitude quake. His mothers house had been pretty much destroyed. Thankfully she just moved and they hadn’t sold it yet. I gave him a buzz this arvo and he told me that if anyone was in the house they’d be a goner.
There is even a curfew in place in Christchurch. Good thing that thus far nobody has been killed.
When I was in Christchurch a couple of months ago I stayed in a hotel on Manchester St….
Today I’ve get to chill out in Sydney before a mid afternoon flight into Christchurch.
A friend of mine in up in Christchurch and will give me a ride down to Queenstown on Saturday morning (5hr maybe 6hr drive). Should be fun having a night out in Christchurch…. a city where I know nobody. I’ll go out and see if I can get into some trouble for sure.
Saturday night some friends in Queenstown (old landlords of mine) are having a BBQ for a New Zealand vs South Africa rugby game so it should be fun to catch up with some friends I haven’t seen in 12 months.
As soon as I get a postal address over there though I need to buy some new speedos – the sand has gotten into my favourite black ‘Spank’ speedos and my Aussiebum’s are a little too small for me. I’ll be buying some that I can do some lap swimming in so nothing too floral and I’m not sure I’m game enuf to wear anything as small as these guys…..
