last day at tpk

Today was the final day of my 3-week assignment at TPK - invoice processing isn't exactly thrilling, but I'll miss the crowd here. Val insisted I take it easy as it was a Friday and my last day, so I took the entire day entering one batch (should take 1 hr or so) and stuffing envelopes with remits and EFT payment advices.

Val, Manu, James and I got several games of table tennis in throughout the day - I'm warming up a bit. At lunch, I walked to the Town Hall to pick up my race packet for the 10K on Sunday. I was interested to see the Heart Association had set up camp there with their This Is How Much Fat Is In Your Fish N' Chips, Butter Chicken And Thickshakes display complete with stomach-turningly realistic fat blobs. I have to question their targeted audience, though - especially since the main event was a marathon/half-marathon, not 'just' a 10K. Haven't seen too many marathon runners who look like they live off deep-fried food!

In the afternoon, the Supply Services group (finance, IT, etc.) had their monthly meeting, which opened with a kapa haka performance - singing, guitar, dancing and poi. Audience participation was 'highly encouraged' [mandatory] for one of the performance, which might have been ok if we had actually been able to see the person leading the dance moves. I wasn't complaining, though - I knew afterwards we'd have hangi, which I'd been looking forward to all week since having some at the museum last Saturday! Val and I even headed out to the $2 store in the afternoon, on Manu's advice, to get some take-away containers for the leftovers we were told would definitely be there.

After the hangi, a bunch of us from finance stuck around for table tennis and other games, then I headed to a pub with some of the guys from the team. I could tell the pub employees were anxious to close, though, and I know from Sullivan's that that's the worst ever when you're trying to close and you can't get people to leave, so I convinced a couple of the guys to leave with me though some of the group insisted on staying. We ended up playing pool down at a bar on Courtnay Place for an hour or so, then I went home to rest up for the race.