ATAAHUA ORA

It was Agata’s birthday last Saturday and Tomasz organised a surprise day out for her - 2h horse riding escapade and a huge bonfire with sausages after dark. Let the pictures speak for themselves!

Now that we’ve decided to get married in a church and by a priest there’s two more things to organise: the church and marriage preparation course (without it we can’t get married in a Catholic church). I remember people talking about these courses in Poland, how outdated and totally inappropriate they were (and old lady explaining how to calculate your fertile days and an even older man explaining about procreation… ouwwww….). There is hope that this course will be slightly different but I’m not crossing my fingers. We still have over a month until we start, they seem to be pretty popular.

As for the church - we met with rev. Starbuck on Saturday (note to self: it takes AT LEAST 45 minutes to get to Papakura), saw the chapel inside and loved it. We’ve booked it and now need to find out how much “a contribution” is expected to be. Anyone?

Started salsa lessons yesterday. More to get us moving in a style other than “club dancing” but with the possibility of becoming world champions in latin dancing! Yeah, right.

The first lesson was fun, maybe the group is a little bit too big and the ratio is 1 boy to 3 girls, which meant I didn’t dance all that much with Lukas - had to share him. But we do have to practice at home, so at least then I can have him all to myself!

For anyone who tried connecting yesterday - the weirdest thing happened. MySQL crashed. This is the first time it happened and all I can see in the logs is that it was killed because it was hanging… All seems to be OK after a restart of the service.

But since I was digging around in the logs I also had a look in the messages log and what did I see? Thousands of attempts at connecting through ssh from addresses all over the world! Luckily I read a little bit about basic ssh security and disabled root login but after seeing the sheer number of attempts I also decided to change the port from the default. Now I can’t connect anymore - but that’s probably due to some closed ports on THIS end (THIS end being work). Oh well. Have to live with it.

Just got off the phone with rev. Starbuck (yes, just like the coffee) and made an appointment to see our chosen chapel on the inside and talk about the details of hiring it for our ceremony in December. Shouldn’t be a problem! Woohoo!