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Post by peter » Thu Dec 29, 2005 8:38 pm

it's so quiet... everyone must be on holiday.
Am I the only one who has to work through? I'm not complaining, city traffic at this time of year is fantastic, and when you get to work in the quarter of the time it usually takes and park right by the front door (well, I do that anyway) and find no new emails on your work PC, and spend the day playing Need For Speed Undergound 2 on the LAN... anyway,

did anyone get a MX5 for Christmas?

Peter
DRGN1
and if you're travelling North - I thoroughly recommend SH16 to Wellsford - didi it twice last weekend, no cops, friendly traffic, and a steady 99.5 all the way (allowing for road conditions and other users of course!)

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Post by KSCRIM » Thu Dec 29, 2005 9:00 pm

I got some nice shiny LOUD RED air horns. I'm working through also.

Kevin


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Post by KSCRIM » Thu Dec 29, 2005 9:00 pm

I got some nice shiny LOUD RED air horns. I'm working through also.

Kevin


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Post by MX5PWR » Thu Dec 29, 2005 9:21 pm

Hi Peter, no you are not the only one working - I am as well. Saw Eric West on
TV 1 news from Rarotonga as their s and other passangers luggage had not
arrived with their flight and was 4 days late. Still I would rather be in
Rarotonga with no luggage than at work!!


No I didnt get a new MX5 for Xmas even after many hints.

All the very best for the new year.

Nigel

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Post by MX5PWR » Thu Dec 29, 2005 9:21 pm

Hi Peter, no you are not the only one working - I am as well. Saw Eric West on
TV 1 news from Rarotonga as their s and other passangers luggage had not
arrived with their flight and was 4 days late. Still I would rather be in
Rarotonga with no luggage than at work!!


No I didnt get a new MX5 for Xmas even after many hints.

All the very best for the new year.

Nigel

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Post by peter » Thu Dec 29, 2005 9:31 pm

I'll nag Eric for a holiday report when I see him next - he should write one for the magazine. Hopefully the sad rental NA MX5s have been replaced with NCs!

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Post by Grant » Thu Dec 29, 2005 10:16 pm

To help you get that new MX5, perhaps you need more pay!
Check this out:
http://www.payscale.com/?src=G55e
Quite interesting to see how your pay compares with others. It does
calculate for New Zealand.

Get those air horns installed, Kevin. Great for testing the acoustics of
tunnels aren't they Peter!

Grant.
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FIX A PC

Grant
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Post by Grant » Thu Dec 29, 2005 10:16 pm

To help you get that new MX5, perhaps you need more pay!
Check this out:
http://www.payscale.com/?src=G55e
Quite interesting to see how your pay compares with others. It does
calculate for New Zealand.

Get those air horns installed, Kevin. Great for testing the acoustics of
tunnels aren't they Peter!

Grant.
Red 2006 NC Tiptronic
FIX A PC

Grant
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Post by Grant » Thu Dec 29, 2005 10:51 pm

I'm experimenting.
I sent a message earlier (just before the previous one of mine) as a
response to Peter's that didn't appear here on the list. When my next
message did get through, I re sent the first message. The re sent one hasn't
appeared either. I must have said something naughty! Curious to see if this
gets through.

Grant.
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Grant
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Post by Grant » Thu Dec 29, 2005 10:51 pm

I'm experimenting.
I sent a message earlier (just before the previous one of mine) as a
response to Peter's that didn't appear here on the list. When my next
message did get through, I re sent the first message. The re sent one hasn't
appeared either. I must have said something naughty! Curious to see if this
gets through.

Grant.
Red 2006 NC Tiptronic
FIX A PC

Simon Lord
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Post by Simon Lord » Thu Dec 29, 2005 10:51 pm

Well that was inetersting. Made me convinced that there is no point working
for other people and you're much better off owning your own business. And if
you want to do that. visit my website for a great range of franchised
business opportunities!

Having got in with a shameless plug (it's funny, the lunchtime of the first
Monday in January is always when our website gets the greatest number of
hits), though you might enjoy this renminiscencce of the NC from a Scottish
journalist friend...

"Let me tell you about some highlights of the last twelve months.

For a start, there was the Most Uncomfortable Motoring Event Of The Year.
Without a shadow of doubt, the lead contender here is the introduction of
the new MX-5. I believe that Mazda first revealed this car to the media on
an international launch in Hawaii. Nice idea. I'd like to go to Hawaii one
day. The reason I haven't been already must surely be that my invitation
from Mazda was eaten by the pterodactyl which attacked the office flunkey as
he or she was making his or her way to the mailbox. There can be no other
explanation.

Be that as it may, there was some recompense in the fact that I was invited
to the UK event, which was held in Cornwall at the end of November. If you
really must hold a press launch in the UK at the end of November, Cornwall
seems a reasonable place to do it, since it's as near to the equator as
you're going to get without all the inconvenience of crossing large bodies
of water, and there is therefore a sporting chance that the weather might be
half-decent.

Unfortunately, as you may know - as you quite definitely know if you live in
Cornwall - all hopes of clement weather were dashed when the noble county
woke up one morning to find that about a trillion tons of snow had fallen on
it. Mazda MX-5s are not especially good in snow, but this problem paled into
insignificance when compared with the bizarre driving tactics of our fellow
road users (many of them seemingly intent on burying themselves in the
nearest snowbank) and the inability of the authorities to cope with the
situation.

We should have left base camp after a leisurely breakfast and being nicely
back in time for afternoon tea. Instead, I sat in the car for sixteen hours,
three of them at a complete standstill. As a result, I am now as familiar
with every bolt and stitch of the MX-5's interior as if I had fashioned them
with my bare hands."

Happy New Year!
Simon
97 SR Ltd (sparkle green)
Email: simon@franchise.co.nz

Simon Lord
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Joined: Fri Sep 22, 2006 1:09 pm
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it's so quiet....

Post by Simon Lord » Thu Dec 29, 2005 10:51 pm

Well that was inetersting. Made me convinced that there is no point working
for other people and you're much better off owning your own business. And if
you want to do that. visit my website for a great range of franchised
business opportunities!

Having got in with a shameless plug (it's funny, the lunchtime of the first
Monday in January is always when our website gets the greatest number of
hits), though you might enjoy this renminiscencce of the NC from a Scottish
journalist friend...

"Let me tell you about some highlights of the last twelve months.

For a start, there was the Most Uncomfortable Motoring Event Of The Year.
Without a shadow of doubt, the lead contender here is the introduction of
the new MX-5. I believe that Mazda first revealed this car to the media on
an international launch in Hawaii. Nice idea. I'd like to go to Hawaii one
day. The reason I haven't been already must surely be that my invitation
from Mazda was eaten by the pterodactyl which attacked the office flunkey as
he or she was making his or her way to the mailbox. There can be no other
explanation.

Be that as it may, there was some recompense in the fact that I was invited
to the UK event, which was held in Cornwall at the end of November. If you
really must hold a press launch in the UK at the end of November, Cornwall
seems a reasonable place to do it, since it's as near to the equator as
you're going to get without all the inconvenience of crossing large bodies
of water, and there is therefore a sporting chance that the weather might be
half-decent.

Unfortunately, as you may know - as you quite definitely know if you live in
Cornwall - all hopes of clement weather were dashed when the noble county
woke up one morning to find that about a trillion tons of snow had fallen on
it. Mazda MX-5s are not especially good in snow, but this problem paled into
insignificance when compared with the bizarre driving tactics of our fellow
road users (many of them seemingly intent on burying themselves in the
nearest snowbank) and the inability of the authorities to cope with the
situation.

We should have left base camp after a leisurely breakfast and being nicely
back in time for afternoon tea. Instead, I sat in the car for sixteen hours,
three of them at a complete standstill. As a result, I am now as familiar
with every bolt and stitch of the MX-5's interior as if I had fashioned them
with my bare hands."

Happy New Year!
Simon
97 SR Ltd (sparkle green)
Email: simon@franchise.co.nz

Grant
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Post by Grant » Thu Dec 29, 2005 11:12 pm

I am self employed as well as having casual employment with Downer
Engineering. Hardly casual lately though with upto 60 hours and 1600km in
the (5 day) week. I work for them as I enjoy what they want me to do. The
money's better doing my own thing but computers all day every day would
drive anyone nuts!

Grant.
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Grant
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Post by Grant » Thu Dec 29, 2005 11:12 pm

I am self employed as well as having casual employment with Downer
Engineering. Hardly casual lately though with upto 60 hours and 1600km in
the (5 day) week. I work for them as I enjoy what they want me to do. The
money's better doing my own thing but computers all day every day would
drive anyone nuts!

Grant.
Red 2006 NC Tiptronic
FIX A PC

Peter Vullings

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Post by Peter Vullings » Thu Dec 29, 2005 11:24 pm

I'm also self employed - computers all day every day too :). Does drive me
nuts and I made the decision not to touch them between Christmas/New Years.
Yet here I am :D

Hello everyone BTW. I'm a prospective MX5 owner waiting to happen...

Peter Vullings

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Post by Peter Vullings » Thu Dec 29, 2005 11:24 pm

I'm also self employed - computers all day every day too :). Does drive me
nuts and I made the decision not to touch them between Christmas/New Years.
Yet here I am :D

Hello everyone BTW. I'm a prospective MX5 owner waiting to happen...

Simon Lord
See my 5 and raise you.
See my 5 and raise you.
Posts: 98
Joined: Fri Sep 22, 2006 1:09 pm
Location: Albany

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Post by Simon Lord » Thu Dec 29, 2005 11:45 pm

Me too, Peter, me too, but the emails have to be checked...

Make buying an MX5 your new year's resolution. Bought mine 3 years agio and
never regretted it for a second!

Simon
97 SR Ltd (sparkle green)
Email: simon@franchise.co.nz

Simon Lord
See my 5 and raise you.
See my 5 and raise you.
Posts: 98
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Location: Albany

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Post by Simon Lord » Thu Dec 29, 2005 11:45 pm

Me too, Peter, me too, but the emails have to be checked...

Make buying an MX5 your new year's resolution. Bought mine 3 years agio and
never regretted it for a second!

Simon
97 SR Ltd (sparkle green)
Email: simon@franchise.co.nz

MadMaz
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Post by MadMaz » Sat Dec 31, 2005 3:54 pm

Hi Everybody

Just like to wish everyone all the best and have a very Happy New Year. Many
thanks to those MX5'ers who kindly sent me very valuable advice during the
latter half of this year - it's been much appreciated.

Have whipped my runabout and it's trailer into shape for the New Year (getting
the trailer WOF proved real fun) but the sea conditions in all the Hauraki
Gulf's channels are not looking very friendly over the next week. The fishing
will have to wait...

Cheers
Mark
Firm Believer in 98 Go Juice - Go for it!

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Post by MadMaz » Sat Dec 31, 2005 3:54 pm

Hi Everybody

Just like to wish everyone all the best and have a very Happy New Year. Many
thanks to those MX5'ers who kindly sent me very valuable advice during the
latter half of this year - it's been much appreciated.

Have whipped my runabout and it's trailer into shape for the New Year (getting
the trailer WOF proved real fun) but the sea conditions in all the Hauraki
Gulf's channels are not looking very friendly over the next week. The fishing
will have to wait...

Cheers
Mark
Firm Believer in 98 Go Juice - Go for it!

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