Day FourtyEight of being Aflickionless...

Day 48 which means we are only eleven days away from the half way point. Can you believe it, your almost half way through your trip!

JayJay got her hand/finger caught in her glasses, so now she has a cut on her palm and a blood bluster on her middle finger. How she managed that, I have no idea!

Maz's boo boo from her PHAIL yesterday is feeling pretty good today, must of been the deep heat. Although she slept wrong so is suffering from sore shoulders instead...MAZ IS BROKEN! haha!
DeviantART is having a HUGE sale on prints at the moment, you can save up to 80% on the normal retail price (discount only applies to your own prints available on DeviantART). So Maz is deciding if to get some prints and if so what OR if she should get something of hers printed for somebody. Hmmmm...click here to check out the prints Maz has available.

Garlic Butter on fresh bread...YUM!
Another thing you are missing...The Nation's chip CHESSEYMITE FLAVOUR! The Marmite and chip sandwich in a chip...now you can make the sandwich without the Marmite.

The 2009 NZ Body Art Awards are coming up...only twenty five days to go *gasp*. Saturday 25th July 2009, Bruce Mason Centre. For more information on this years competition visit bodyartawards.co.nz
Maz will make sure that she gets as many photos as humanly possible while doing a body paint at the same time. (and as a side note: "hahahaha you don't need to kick my ass for not entering. Although it would of been interesting how you would of done that from all the way over there.")

A Northland family have lost all their possessions after a cat knocked over a candle, setting fire to their house. Their barking dog alerted the family to the flames engulfing the house by State Highway 12 at Kaikohe last night.

Pedestrian hit by train in Auckland suburb of Newmarket. A person has reportedly been struck by a train on Kingdon Street in the Auckland suburb of Newmarket. There is a train station located on Kingdon Street but it's not known if the accident happened there.

A Christchurch postal worker has admitted stealing hundreds of items of mail over the last six years. Stephen James Cadigan has been employed by New Zealand Post for 35 years.

Police and fire safety officers are investigating a suspicious fire that damaged a Nelson kindergarten early today. Firefighters were called to Waverley Street Kindergarten in the suburb of Richmond about 4.30am, Richmond chief fire officer Ralph Lonsdale told NZPA. The blaze was started on a sofa that was sitting in front of a window on a patio outside of the building. The kindergarten was known as a place where people gathered during nights and on weekends, Mr Lonsdale said. "But the people must have had some sort of heart because they'd moved the rabbit hutch out of the way. "The rabbit lives," he said.

The discovery of a supernova by a North Canterbury farmer has been confirmed by the Royal Astronomical Society of New Zealand. Dairy farmer Stuart Parker captured an image of the exploding star with a computer-controlled camera mounted to an amateur 14" telescope.

Dresses made from toilet paper will be among the outfits showcased at this year's New Zealand Fashion Week. Three students from NZ Fashion Tech in Auckland City have been given the opportunity to have their toilet paper creations displayed in the Designer Selection Show - the biggest show of Fashion Week.

Auckland Zoo's otter family has two new additions - the first of their kind born in Australasia in more than six years. The 5-week-old Asian small-clawed otters weigh about 400g each. Team leader of primates Amy Dixon said the pups were developing well. "They're putting on weight and looking like real little otters."

New Zealand's official count of swine flu cases jumped sharply again yesterday - the same day as the world's first case was reported of the virus being resistant to Tamiflu treatment. The Ministry of Health reported 64 new cases of confirmed swine flu yesterday, taking the tally since the illness emerged in April to 653. However, the real number will be much higher, since routine swabbing of potential cases has stopped.

Armed police have cordoned off two Christchurch roads near a high school after reports of gunshots in the suburb of Mairehau this morning. Mairehau High School has gone into lockdown after reports of the shots just before 11.30am today, Inspector Alan Weston of southern police communications told NZPA.

A fire in Gisborne last night caused "catastrophic" damage to the city's business heart, fire authorities say. Fire engulfed the top two levels of the historic Adair Building and incinerated floors and the roof. Flames could be seen leaping up to 15 metres above the building's former skyline.

Earthquakes that have rocked a Lake Taupo village and forced the evacuation of residents are likely to continue, a volcanologist says. The lakeside township of Waihi, the home of Ngati Tuwharetoa leader Timi Te Heuheu, was in lockdown yesterday as an emergency zone after about 60 residents left the area on Monday on the advice of Civil Defence staff who feared slips would follow the quakes. The threat of landslides comes from a large thermal area on a known seismic fault line above Waihi known as the "Steaming Hills". The area has not had a major slip since 1905.

American rockers Green Day have added a second date to their Auckland concert in December after tickets sold out within minutes this morning. A second and final concert has been added for Friday, December 18.

Michael Jackson's doctor reportedly waited up to half an hour before calling paramedics after he found the King of Pop unconscious at his Los Angeles home last week, a lawyer representing the cardiologist said. Online reports claim that devastated Michael Jackson fans have committed suicide after learning their icon had died. It has been claimed that 12 devotees have allegedly killed themselves in the wake of the singer's death, according to the founder of an online fan club devoted to Jackson.

A Swedish software firm has bought the popular Pirate Bay filesharing website and said it plans to overhaul the site's operations to make the sharing of copyright-protected material legal, company officials said.

A four-year-old girl has suffered severe facial burns after an aerosol explosion in the Bay of Plenty today. The Fire Service was called by ambulance staff to give medical assistance at a house in Otimi Street in Maketu, about 40km from Tauranga, about 3.15pm today. A Fire Service northern communications spokesperson said an aerosol can had exploded but there was no fire at the scene.

Fire crews are at a blaze at The Press newspaper offices in Christchurch's Cathedral Square. (fire, fire everywhere)

SIDESWIPPING IT
A reader writes: "I am insanely irritated by One News presenters referring to Jim Hickey as 'Jimmy'. He's not a friggin' 10-year-old kid who's just washed your car. That buddy-buddy, over-familiar garbage does not friendly up your news bulletin. It reeks of an in-house audience-alienating pap. Same goes for calling sports reporter Andrew Saville 'Sav'. Stop it. Please."

Sharon Newey says she must've missed the announcement that GST was to rise to 38 per cent. "But no, it's just Telecom getting my phone bill wrong. It was by luck that I saw it, so all you Telecom customers, please check your bills. The nice lady at Telecom happily corrected it but didn't seem to take my request that they check other people's bills that seriously."

AUCKLAND FORECAST TODAY
Max: 13 °C
Min: 5°C (overnight)
Humidity: 66 %
Long fine spells. Southwesterlies easing. (Translation: I see blue sky, oh yes I do!)

CURRENT WEIRDNESS
That Jackos fans are topping themselves. A bit extreme don't you think?

DAILY FOF MOMENT
There are still no photos up from National Anthems OR Mardi Gras. What the hell is going on? IT'S WEDNESDAY! Slow websites. FAIL!

Also JayJay's injury from her glasses is pretty FAIL!