Friday Post

It’s Friday the 1st of October today here in New Zealand and I have to admit that I’m feeling a bit “odd” - can’t explain it – I just am.

I took this photo this morning. It must be spring as this cherry blossom tree in our front yard decided that it’s time to be a bit of a “show off”

Enjoy the picture and enjoy your weekend.

Reflection:

Tomorrow marks a year to the day that I started my blog and it’s time to look back and ask myself – Has it been what I thought it would be?

I think that it has been a wonderful journey and I’ve enjoyed every minute of it. I’ve had moments of sadness, joy, confusion and excitement – it’s been quite interesting reading back over many of my posts from the past year. I’ve got 4 followers (wohoo!!!) 1 being my wife.

I started this for myself and I’m just happy that I am able to write down my thoughts and experiences.

I follow a few blogs and have done so religiously since before I started my own blog and this has been so much fun and very rewarding. I feel like I know these people and one day, I hope to meet some of them. Isn’t this the way we humans are wired, to go out and explore and find new experiences?


Things I have learned about myself:
- I am not infallible and I need to cut myself some slack. Nothing taught me more about this than my knee injury this year.
- I can do whatever I put my mind to.
- I seriously need to surf more, travel more and work less.
- I am so lucky to have the wife that I have – she “gets” me and that’s really cool.
- I can live through a 7.1 earthquake but my nerves have taken a beating!!!

Things I have learned about others:
- Friends come and go but the special ones’ remain right by your side through thick and thin.
- I do not suffer fools and man, are there some fools out there?

Things I’ve learned about blogging:
- It’s great fun
- Big “ups” to Surfsis, Julie, Tall Guy Surfing and One little Tri Girl – you guys are all awesome and I thank you all for allowing me into your lives
- Stuff you write today will be totally different tomorrow.


Take care all and I look forward to the next 12 months.

Steve

This is the link to the video montage of Earthquake pictures from my home

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STWFsijfy4A

This is a picture montage of our city - veer surreal

I've removed the link as it was the wrong one

Wow - what a weekend

Here is a bunch of photos from around the city - amazing that no one was killed !!

I'm sitting here in the office and we're getting big aftershocks - the last one was 4.6 - feeling very uneasy.

Here's a list of what has happened today and these are just the aftershocks

The main shake was at 4.35am and was registered at 7.1

Reference Number: 3366544
NZST: Sat, Sep 4 2010 8:54 pm
Magnitude: 4.6
Depth: 15 km
Details: 20 km south-west of Darfield


Reference Number: 3366503
NZST: Sat, Sep 4 2010 7:03 pm
Magnitude: 4.6
Depth: 20 km
Details: 10 km west of Christchurch


Reference Number: 3366499
NZST: Sat, Sep 4 2010 6:54 pm
Magnitude: 4.3
Depth: 12 km
Details: 10 km south-west of Christchurch

Reference Number: 3366492
NZST: Sat, Sep 4 2010 6:38 pm
Magnitude: 3.8
Depth: 12 km
Details: 20 km south-east of Darfield

Reference Number: 3366490
NZST: Sat, Sep 4 2010 6:35 pm
Magnitude: 3.8
Depth: 5 km
Details: 20 km south-east of Darfield


Reference Number: 3366457
NZST: Sat, Sep 4 2010 5:07 pm
Magnitude: 3.7
Depth: 10 km
Details: 20 km west of Christchurch

Reference Number: 3366452
NZST: Sat, Sep 4 2010 4:55 pm
Magnitude: 5.4
Depth: 10 km
Details: 10 km south-west of Darfield


Reference Number: 3366450
NZST: Sat, Sep 4 2010 4:48 pm
Magnitude: 4.3
Depth: 15 km
Details: 20 km south-west of Christchurch

Reference Number: 3366445
NZST: Sat, Sep 4 2010 4:33 pm
Magnitude: 3.9
Depth: 2 km
Details: 10 km south-west of Darfield

Reference Number: 3366375
NZST: Sat, Sep 4 2010 1:49 pm
Magnitude: 4.0
Depth: 20 km
Details: 20 km west of Christchurch

Reference Number: 3366340
NZST: Sat, Sep 4 2010 12:18 pm
Magnitude: 4.0
Depth: 12 km
Details: 10 km east of Darfield


Reference Number: 3366329
NZST: Sat, Sep 4 2010 11:52 am
Magnitude: 3.9
Depth: 5 km
Details: 20 km west of Christchurch

Reference Number: 3366310
NZST: Sat, Sep 4 2010 11:12 am
Magnitude: 5.3
Depth: 12 km
Details: 10 km east of Darfield

Reference Number: 3366305
NZST: Sat, Sep 4 2010 10:58 am
Magnitude: 3.9
Depth: 5 km
Details: 20 km west of Christchurch

Reference Number: 3366288
NZST: Sat, Sep 4 2010 10:17 am
Magnitude: 4.4
Depth: 5 km
Details: 30 km south-west of Christchurch
Reference Number: 3366241
NZST: Sat, Sep 4 2010 8:15 am
Magnitude: 4.7
Depth: 9 km
Details: 20 km west of Christchurch

Reference Number: 3366230
NZST: Sat, Sep 4 2010 7:56 am
Magnitude: 5.2
Depth: 7 km
Details: 20 km west of Christchurch

Reference Number: 3366227
NZST: Sat, Sep 4 2010 7:52 am
Magnitude: 4.0
Depth: 5 km
Details: Within 5 km of Darfield

Reference Number: 3366215
NZST: Sat, Sep 4 2010 7:13 am
Magnitude: 4.6
Depth: 9 km
Details: 20 km north-west of Little River

Reference Number: 3366213
NZST: Sat, Sep 4 2010 7:07 am
Magnitude: 4.7
Depth: 25 km
Details: 30 km west of Christchurch

Reference Number: 3366198
NZST: Sat, Sep 4 2010 6:33 am
Magnitude: 4.3
Depth: 5 km
Details: 30 km south of Christchurch

Reference Number: 3366196
NZST: Sat, Sep 4 2010 6:23 am
Magnitude: 4.3
Depth: 5 km
Details: 10 km south of Darfield

Reference Number: 3366187
NZST: Sat, Sep 4 2010 6:04 am
Magnitude: 3.9
Depth: 60 km
Details: 10 km south of Christchurch

Reference Number: 3366184
NZST: Sat, Sep 4 2010 6:01 am
Magnitude: 4.6
Depth: 11 km
Details: 30 km west of Christchurch


Reference Number: 3366182
NZST: Sat, Sep 4 2010 5:55 am
Magnitude: 4.6
Depth: 5 km
Details: 30 km west of Christchurch

Reference Number: 3366177
NZST: Sat, Sep 4 2010 5:46 am
Magnitude: 4.3
Depth: 20 km
Details: 30 km west of Christchurch


Reference Number: 3366167
NZST: Sat, Sep 4 2010 5:26 am
Magnitude: 4.9
Depth: 5 km
Details: 30 km west of Christchurch
Reference Number: 3366166
NZST: Sat, Sep 4 2010 5:26 am
Magnitude: 4.8
Depth: 5 km
Details: 30 km west of Christchurch

Reference Number: 3366157
NZST: Sat, Sep 4 2010 5:06 am
Magnitude: 4.8
Depth: 15 km
Details: 30 km west of Belfast

Reference Number: 3366155
NZST: Sat, Sep 4 2010 4:56 am
Magnitude: 5.3
Depth: 8 km
Details: 30 km west of Christchurch

7.1 earthquake

Holy shit!!!!!!

Time right now 12.46pm, we were shaken awake this morning at 4.30am with a 7.1 quake in our city Christchurch. This was centred 30km to the west of the city and I kid you not - the house shook for over a minute. It shook so hard we could not stand up, had to crawl to a door frame to wait it out.
Very scary indeed, we had aftershocks of 5.6.

Family all fine, no damage to our house but freaked the shit out of us and our puppies. No power or water.

Will keep you posted