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Well, there’s a first time for everything! This is officially my first blog post, and my first time participating in Google Season of Docs - and I couldn’t be more excited! First, a little about me.  My name is Cadi and I live in New Zealand, with my husband, on a 42ft yacht.  You will often find us away from the dock, anchored in a beautiful corner of the Hauraki Gulf. In my spare time I love sailing (obviously!), hiking (or tramping, as we call it here), mountaineering, painting and travelling (when the world isn’t in the middle of a pandemic, of course). My favourite place in the world is Milford Sound, followed very closely by Disneyland. I am a pilot by trade, and in the last 10 years I’ve flown everything from 2-seater Cessnas in outback Australia, to the Boeing 737 on international operations.  So... you might be wondering exactly how I got into technical writing in the first place?  A few years ago I was asked to rewrite an entire suite of Operating Manuals for the company I wa