Almost to Canada

Well I hop everyone's having a good weekend. Down here we're back in Auckland after our trip. Everything went great. We ended up spending time with Rachael's family down in Timaru for our last day. Luckily the camper van rental company 'accepted' the state of the van when we dropped it off, so there were no extra charges.

Good News! After dealing with the Canadian Consulate in Sydney, Australia, we believe Rachael has finally been approved for her Canadian residency! It is pretty painful dealing with them, as I have had to wait FIFTY-SEVEN minutes before talking to someone. That's right!, an hour on the phone to the embassy before reaching a human. Well after sorting things out with them, which is a very slow process, I finally received a letter requesting Rachael's passport. We just pray that they receive it Monday, process it and send it back before Friday. If all goes well, then we'll be on a plane on June 5th.

We'll miss Ashley's birthday by a day, but she won't even be around, as she's on a tall ship in the pacific then, and most likely we'll pass over her at 30,000ft.

So it's only a waiting game. At least there's a few things that I can do for the week. Lots of possible computer jobs. Thank God for linux.

BloodToll - If you're into FPS Games, check this out. A multiplayer, online tournament game based on the OS 'Cube' engine that installed cleanly (Well almost cleanly) on both my linux laptop, and Rogers Windows XP machine. Even runs quick on lowered NZ broadband speeds. Neal says that the game's tuned to allow players on dialup play head-to-head with broadband players, and the tournament stays fast-as for all.

Anyways, keep in touch. And if you know a clean way for Postfix to use Spamassassin (SQL Userprefs, BayesStore, etc) without being dragged through maildrop, then definitely keep in touch.

Regards,
Josh