Flew down to Christchurch, where I will be attending the Kiwi Python Conference. Fantastic day and beautiful scenery on the way down. Ended up at the Twisted Hop which was also hosting the pre-Conference drinks, but with Dave and Andi. Andi was hassling me about there being a “whole conference just for a scripting language”, but then both he and Dave admitted they both do a bit of Python and had been thinking of attending some of the sessions, but it is now sold out.

I said this repeatedly at the Quiz Master at the pub tonight –> We should have only got 3 points in the sports round, but for some unknown reason they gave us 5, propelling us into a tie-break for second place –> Guess of the number of Instant Kiwi players, which we won. My team mates were not very keen to point out the mistake, and honestly I was happy to win too. After all it’s been a while since we made a placing at pub-quiz.

I’m brewing a new batch of beer – Black Rock Lager. It has been very cold for the yeast, but I have the vat on a heating pad which I switch on at night. The air-lock has been bubbling away, so the yeast lives. Hopefully will be good in a couple of months time.

We came first in the pub quiz tonight, winning a $50 bar tab.

We came second in the pub quiz last night, winning a $30 bar tab. Only a few points behind the first-place-getters.