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The other week I was in the Auckland CBD and I thought, Aw, it’s early in the day \u2014 I should be able to hop on to the motorway and get to where I’m going in a jiffy<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Nah-ah: I quickly found myself\u00a0in a queue of traffic crawling uphill, doing hill-start after hill-start after hill-start (damn straight<\/em> I drive a manual<\/a>).<\/p>\n

\"Auckland<\/a>
Auckland motorway traffic, early afternoon, weekday, at between 0\u20135kph.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Sometimes a project goes like that: for days\/weeks\/months I’m going hard out, warp speed, all engines, etcetera, and then suddenly \u2014 but it’s not really <\/em>suddenly, it’s just the sharp contrast in busy-ness \u2014 I have days\/weeks\/months ahead in which little more can be done, pending external factors.<\/p>\n

I’m tempted to reinstall some first-person shooters<\/a> on the Macbook.<\/p>\n

I have other projects, but.<\/p>\n

And I need to be mindful that with each passing day \u2014 just like with each hill-start and -climb of five or so metres of asphalt \u2014 I’m that much closer to my destination.<\/p>\n

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The other week I was in the Auckland CBD and I thought, Aw, it’s early in the day \u2014 I should be able to hop on to the motorway and get to where I’m going in a jiffy. Nah-ah: I quickly found myself\u00a0in a queue of traffic crawling uphill, doing hill-start after hill-start after hill-start … <\/p>\n

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