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It's midnight and tomorrow morning we're heading off to Samoa for 2 weeks. Our touring bikes are in the living room partially stuffed into boxes and I'm filling up a pair of a panniers with some shorts.

I'm very excited because aside from Black people, White people and Puerto Ricans, Samoans are the only other people to do the humpty hump.

We'll be bicycling around the island of Sava'ii , and I've been looking forward to it for months. The winter here has been shit. Tobogganing beats sideways rain any day. We're also excited to visit the home of all the awesome Samoans we know here. Since there is only one road on the whole island, the tour will look quite similar to this one I'm sure. I'm also hoping we can find some Kava there.

About 4 months ago, I had some x-rays done on my knee that showed osteoarthritis between my knee and kneecap. The kiwi doctor's only advice was (I shit you not) to "just give it heaps, eh?". I built up a new mountain bike recently and did a 6 hour race with my mate Alex and I've been training for a winter race series, but my knee has started to feel a lot worse this last month. I've given up the mountain biking at least until my appointment with an Orthopedic surgeon, but I think the bike touring will be sweet as and hopefully I can give it heaps.

I was 3 hours late into work today because I was at Immigration office today trying to get my Visa transferred to my new Passport. It would have been a quick procedure, but apparently there was an "alert" on my file from my trespassing charge last year. After I explained and wrote down that I was photographing an abandoned psychiatric hospital when I was charged, the immigration officer gave me a new visa and a friendly offer of a drink with his family when I'm in Samoa.

They did the whole restructuring thing at work after getting panicked over the last recession, so I am now the department's "Web Specialist" which is pretty cool. I'm working on a few neat projects already that should make it pretty fun.

Other than that, things are going smooth here. I'm making a new version of this website, which I'm hoping to have up in a few months and working on a few other cool ideas.

What about you, how are you doing? (Drop me an email.)