The Tuesday with quiz night

 Hi,

I believe I failed to write a blog yesterday. Wow. How odd. But it was a different morning routine at work to usual. We had a mihi whakatau for a new person starting and it was such a great way to start this new chapter in my work's direction, internally. Goosebump stuff. Especially when I heard Myra do the karanga. Wow.

PT time Tuesday morning

I show off my guns!

Work iced latte with Helen

I had a busy day after that at work. Had an urgent piece of work surface up. So it is all hands to that. Shaping it up to see if we can nail it!

And it was Melbourne Cup. Work had a sweep so I bought two horses for me and Mike for $2 a horse. No idea of the horses. Pulled out #2 and #15. So assumed 15 was a donkey and gave it to Mike. Hahah. Both of them were far from the winning post. I could see the jockey on my horse had the experience not to push his animal when it was obvious it would have no hope of a finish. So that is good.

Work shows the Melbourne Cup for me. My horse is still running

At Mean Doses quiz

Walked to Mean Doses after Mike and Janine's run. Andrew and Kara joined us. And the combo was a winning one.

And we won!

Our joker round was the last round - Geography. And we were a few points adrift of the leaders when we hit the penultimate round. But the leaders had played their joker already. And when we got a good score in a tricky geography round, it was going to be close. 3 teams had this round as their joker.

But it was tricky. And we actually did the best in that round. We got 9 right. Which, to be honest, I did not pick because it was tough. And not really geography, really.

The scores came out, with added drama for tension from Dave, and we were in front by 4. Woot! Bar tab for us for next time.

Got an Uber home with a very nice chap. And home to bed.

Up for a bike ride in and Spin after work I hope.

Take care.

Love,

Angela

The Wednesday with a spontaneous quiz night

Hi,

What a crazy day.  Spin bookended my day - 6.30am with Flo (always good!) and 5.30pm with Josie.  Great fun.

I did get away with Joycie for a takeaway Machete iced latte.  Mmmmm.  It was so good sipping at that when I got back to my desk.

Iced latte with Joycie - in my keeper cup

May the force be with me

Hurtled out to Microsoft to support a guy in my team presenting NZBN fun.  He did so well.  Mike was in the audience.  Rami did a introduction and we observed a minute silence for colleagues killed in Christchurch.

Nailed it!

After work I went to spin - and then Mike convinced me to come and help him in some spontaneous quiz at The Churchill.  We were a team of two and I got there at the end of Round 2.

After some fun rounds, we ended up in second place and scored $50 and a 2for1 meal voucher.  The team that beat us had 10 punters in the team, so their winnings amounted to very little in comparison once they split their winnings.  Hahahah.

Nailed that too!

Ubered home listening to some crazy stories from the driver (some woman that lived in Karori pinned a destination in Palmerston North.  He tried to clarify - she insisted.  Turns out she was astonished when she looked up and they were in Pukerua Bay.).

Fell into bed.  Slept like I was in a coma.

What a great woman - and we're going to see her again in May.

Nice day today.  PT session with Quentin killed my arms.  They feel like long wet noodles right now.

Have a fantastic day.  Toby is off to see Captain Marvel tonight.

Love,
Angela