Saturday, August 16, 2025

Jellyfish?

We’ve had sparkling clear days all week but that’s meant it’s been super cold, snow on the hills and frost in places it usually doesn’t settle. I finally got a good photo of the space jellyfish imprint on my window at work. 

This is on the eighth floor so after much discussion space jellyfish seemed the most reasonable explanation. (It’s actually the imprint of the glass lifting suction system but for obvious reasons I’m sticking with jellyfish)

Saturday, August 9, 2025

Satisfying

For the last six weeks we’ve been chugging our way through the next join on our big weaving project. Today it’s done!  This is always a moment of great satisfaction, only eight more to go, thankfully getting shorter each time. 



Saturday, August 2, 2025

Be A Lert

The massive earthquake on the east coast of Russia made us into a nation of lerts. We practice the emergency notification system every year but this one was for real. 

Luckily being at work on the 8th floor and nowhere near a boat we were officially fine. 


Saturday, July 26, 2025

High Tech

I had a little leak in my kitchen, then a bit bigger one, then a really big bucket on the floor one. The builder is finally happy that he’s got it sorted so I now have a hole in the ceiling and a high tech moisture detection system installed. 

Yup, paper, thin diary paper to be specific. The tiniest bit of moisture is going to show and if it’s still intact after the next rain we’re good to go for plaster and paint. 


Saturday, July 19, 2025

New View

I properly started my new job on Monday and it comes with an amazing view. I’m on the top floor of the new building and we can see it all: weather, planes, trains, cranes, ferries and traffic. Here’s a sample from Monday (with moving box)


and Friday 


Saturday, July 12, 2025

Blessing

Last Tuesday morning about 200 people gathered at 5.30am to bless our new archives building.  It was dark and it was very cold but by Wellington standards it was perfect, no rain despite the forecast and no wind at all. 

Staff start moving in next week, including me!  We’ve had our orientation tours which included a trip to the basement. They showed us the bike storage, drying room etc, etc but I was much more interested in getting an up close look at one of the base isolators. 

36 of these make it one of the most seismically resilient buildings in the country. 

Saturday, July 5, 2025

All Change

Since last November we’ve been going through a change process at work. It’s been long and it’s been tough but as of last Tuesday we’re in our new structure. For me that means a new job which I’ll start properly this week, exciting and terrifying in equal measure.