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Toys 2K16: Report
I turned 40 this year. I mention that only because it’s worth noting that either directly or indirectly, my age drove my toy purchases up – not, I think, in a vain attempt to recapture my youth, but more because as of this year ID(officially)GAF. I make a good keep. I bought a place to live. I…
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Welcome to T17
It’s official – Tederick.com has been migrated to WordPress, receiving its first new look n’ feel in more than half a decade.
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Tatttooo: if she be worthy
I waited thirty years to get my first tattoo and seven more to get my second; tattoo #3 follows #2 at a hair-raising 15 months, and was also the shortest inception-to-ink turnaround in my life. If Tumblr is to be believed – and this will be a story of Tumblr, among other things – I…
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The GODFATHER Trilogy on Boxing Day
Wherever possible I do a marathon of The Godfather trilogy on Boxing Day. I’ve been doing it since the DVD boxed set came out, so at least ten years, maybe more. I converted over to blu-ray like a good boy when that became an option. I suspect I’ve missed it for the last few years running, but once…
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Tat 2
On March 2nd, about exactly a year after I took off for New Zealand, I hitched a streetcar over to Kensington and got some Dwarven runes carved into my leg. They mean “decide,” or something close enough to it; I fooled around on the internet with various rune generators for about ten minutes a year…
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The stars in your eyes
Auckland – The fellowship is broken. Dave has taken Chris II overland to Auckland, while Demetre and I have chosen to attack it from the sea, which worked so well for us in Wellington. The ferry runs from Coromandel to Auckland in the evenings, a barnstorming run across the strait under a waxing moon that…
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Cathedral cove
Coromandel – As we moved through the North Island we found a more and more commercialized, tourist-ized New Zealand; I must admit that this did not leave me in any great hope for the remainder of our last week here, as we approached the Mecca of all Lord of the Rings tourism – Hobbiton –…
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Running with blood on our knees
Rotorua – We’re clattering down towards the end of the road, and every cell in my body can feel it; that juuuuuust-pre-exhaustion of a well timed marathon. We’re ticking the last of the boxes in the North Island, but nowadays when we make friends with other tourists, we’re the ones giving advice rather than taking…
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In a hole in the ground
Napier – We have found ourselves in a bizarre town (to be fair, on a Sunday afternoon) which seems to shut down completely a couple of hours before sunset. Napier is all decorated in an Art Deco style which only amplifies the 28 Days Later vibe of wandering around the downtown core as the sun…
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The way is shut
Lake Ferry – Our Mount Doom hike has been scuttled, because the Tongariro crossing is in permanent nastiness, weather-wise, for the next several days. This has left a rather gaping crater in our final week in New Zealand. We’ve ended up in Lake Ferry – a bleak stretch of sand out near the pinnacles, where…