A dull, overcast Saturday.

Another week has passed without earning anything. However, I will be working 3 shifts next week at Countdown Hastings, helping them with a maintenance project for their freezers and chillers.

Also they are keen for me to do more hours over the next few weeks on a casual basis, helping out here and there in the grocery part of the store and also with their preparation for the switch to higher GST on 1 October. The GST changeover means every single price ticket in the store needs to be replaced, on the last day of September. That's quite a big job, just the sort of thing I love doing.

I've almost come to the end of my list of holiday cottages to contact. Overall a positive response, but I need some of that to turn into ACTUAL WORK. Hopefully that will start to happen from October, and hopefully I will get enough casual work at Countdown between now and then to pay my rent and bills.

Tomorrow my family are all going to a memorial service at the Arohanui Hospice in Palmerston North. They hold these every 6 months or so for the families of people who died at the hospice. It will be good to focus on Dad together, and hopefully to see some of the lovely staff that helped us over those weeks in March and April.

Go the All Blacks. Tonight I want to watch them secure the TriNations and retain the Bledisloe Cup. Dad would really enjoy seeing that.