Re: Season's Greetings

["Ted Gay" <tedgay@bigpond.com>]

"David McLoughlin" <davemcl@NO***damned***SPAMiprolink.co.nz> wrote in
message 3a4412ac@news.iprolink.co.nz">news:3a4412ac@news.iprolink.co.nz...
> Hello All
>
> It's a hot and sunny Saturday here in Auckland. I've been out in the
> back yard painting a stain on some new deck furniture we've got for
> Christmas. The children are eagerly waiting to rip open the growing pile
> of presents under the tree in the lounge. Margot is out doing some
> last-minute shopping. We've all finished work and school for the year
> and it feels great.
>
It's early Sunday morning here in Sydney 2000 and it is going to be another
sunny and hot day.  Having the daughters and families to lunch to-day,
they're going to the in-laws tomorrow.
Got Christmas off this year but working New Year again, oh the joys of shift
work!

> And just think, January 1 heralds the real dawn of the new century and
> the new millennium, so we can party party party for real.
>
Agreed

> In 2001, money and the value of the $NZ permitting,  I hope to swing by
> San Francisco, Seattle and Vancouver to check out the trolley bus
> systems there (not to mention the Muni streetcars and BART in San
> Francisco). I can't wait for that 14-hour non-stop flight across the
> Pacific.
>
> And I will be going to Melbourne for the opening of the extension to Box
> Hill of the Mont Albert tram (streetcar) line which allegedly will now
> be in September 2001 rather than in early 2002. There is no way I will
> be missing that, as Box Hill is where I grew up and I have been waiting
> since I was a kid for this much-overdue tram extension to be built. By
> then, some of the new Citadis articulated trams will be in service with
> the operator, Yarra Trams (or whatever it's called this month) and they
> will be used on the Port Melbourne - City - Mont Albert - Box Hill line
> (route 109).
>
> David McLoughlin
> Auckland New Zealand
>
> -- God created New Zealand so Tasmanians had something to laugh about.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you all.

Ted Gay
Sydney 2000