Photos: 2002 Sept - Dec

Gothic Vampire party
Cartoon characters party
British Comedy party
New Years
+ other untitled events
http://pics.livejournal.com/marsden_online/gallery/0016e9z9

Operation Warlord - a battle to decide the next Dictator
[Historical note - IIRC the battle was supposed to happen on the Saturday, before the British comedy party, but the weater didn't co-operate. As the sucession was therefore 'determined' by a four-way duel (and a little backstabbing) at the party, the battle could be considered just a formality.]
http://pics.livejournal.com/marsden_online/gallery/00168fwp

Photos: 2008 Operation Bivalve

(Naval exercises)
http://pics.livejournal.com/marsden_online/gallery/0017614h

Shit shit shit

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10549889

A husband and wife and another man were the people killed in a motorcycle collision east of Christchurch yesterday afternoon.

Police named the three as Martyn Hartley, 48, Kaye Hartley, 35, and Nigel Hannington, 44, all from Christchurch.

That's Kaye who I used to go out with, whose wedding I attended earlier this year.

Shit shit shit shit.

Emotional crash immenent!!!!

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Edit:
The shower was running when I saw the article anyway, so I continued with that after calling my parents, and trying K&M's place just in case.

Waiting for tomorrows paper, which will probably have the death notice, before trying to hit the old workplace grapevine. I have very few contact details for anyone, but I know Kaye typically kept her work friends and family very separate and someone has to put the word out. The place is probably closed over the break and anyway a lot of people don't work there any more.

I keep catching myself thinking 'It could be another couple from Christchurch with exactly the same name and ages who ride a motorbike' and stopping myself.

I'm going to call another couple of people for the sake of making human contact, then hope there's something on TV.

Ahh, here we go - progressing from 'numb' to 'crying'

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( photo for those who think they may know the couple )

Snarl

Y'know, I'm with TesltraClearSaturn because their offerings are on balance better (if you're on the fibre).

But it's 9:45 at night and there's still an R18 message blocking out the mindless violence I want to watch on the second movies channel. It's annoying enough when it happens during the day - fuck it, I pay extra for those channels. I should be able to watch them. Sky itself doesn't block them , why the @$&* does Saturn?