Re: Season's Greetings

[David Jensen <david@dajensen-family.com>]

On Sun, 24 Dec 2000 08:04:46 +1100, in misc.transport.urban-transit 
"Ted Gay" <tedgay@bigpond.com> wrote in
<4h816.164130$e5.136210@newsfeeds.bigpond.com>:


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>"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!

Feel free to send heat my way. It hasn't been above freezing for a
couple of weeks in Madison.

>> 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

And it will be the dawn of a new millennium at the beginning of each
year for the rest of our lives. We just have a thousand different
millennia running.

>
>> 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.

And to you.

David