sep 22 2005
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sep 13 2005
silly headline
spotted earlier today on iol: Police offer reward for Cape artist's murder it sounds like they want some-one to murder an artist, for a reward! surely they could've worded that abit better...Posted by sarah | add a comment | humour
sep 12 2005
it's your birfday!
happy happy birthday to kaptain karina, for yesterday... i hope you had a real good one!Posted by sarah | add a comment | personal
sep 07 2005
all over the show
i've been crazy busy since i lasted posted something about all the rain we've been having here in cape town this winter [note: total dam storage is now at 81.5%]. all the work at work has been rather welcome as i've been rather frustrated with the lack of anything challenging. i finally got an opportunity to flex and show my php muscles in the past week and a bit on a rather complex site, which is getting shown to the clients tomorrow. in the background and prior to that i've been going through old company backup's and uploading all the pics to a stock images server. so i'm trying to keep myself busy and stretching the boundaries as much as possible! a friend of our's from willliam's town (usa) came to visit and holiday for a couple of weeks, we got a chance to sit down and have dinner together this past sunday. as much as we tried to not be rude about the usa's leader, we couldn't. not that we tried to offend her, i know americans are extremely patriotic. she agreed that bush is taking alot of strain over the katrina hurricane and his inability to grasp the magnitude of the devastation, aswell as his inability to act in a timely manner. i caught the news pretty late last week cause i was that busy racking me brain and not paying attention to anything else except a bunch of code and databases. but when i finally had a moment on thursday last week to see some of the images being broadcast on bbc news, i was shocked! i wasn't even quite sure that i was viewing footage from the great, powerful usa! it looked like a war zone and a third world country struggling with poverty and crime (not to mention a natural disaster). then today i spotted something on the zimbabwean propaganda media site, the herald, that lambasted the president: What you can blame Bush for is that his peanut-sized nodule (brain) did not immediately grasp the magnitude of the disaster. ouch! [via wandering and wondering, provides another link to another ridiculous editorial on the herald website] on the home front, ed was away for most of last week, it's strange being apart from him because we've been stuck together since we got married! besides missing him terribly, i found i had plenty of time and no idea what to do with it. i visited friends and tried to visit my mom but she was always out joling (shock, shock, horror)... on saturday i watched rugby by myself because vinnie was too tired, ed stopped a burglar from robbing and possibly harming him. when ed (aka the machine) finally got back that evening we went to a friend's birthday party all the way in glencairn, simons town. that ended late (3:30am) and only after some-one put 'bobby mcferrin - don't worry be happy' on... on sunday we woke shortly before midday, while outside in the yard, i noticed some-one's handbag had been thrown over our wall. everything seemed to be there, except for the cash, so we phoned the owner and she came around with flowers and chocolates to thank us. it was nice and unexpected. i'd expect some-one to do the same for me, with no reward expected in the least (okay, maybe some chocolates). anyway, got some more work to do...Posted by sarah | add a comment | personal
aug 31 2005
some pics for now
i've been terribly busy and haven't really had time to post, so here's some pics for now:jul 13 2005
the good and bad
one of the good things that has happened in my world recently is that ed and i have finally got our own spot. we're renting a great spot in bloubergsands. i thought it was called west beach but it's not, bloubergsands does not mean it's near the beach, in fact we're behind some huge dunes / bushes... but we can still hear the ocean rumbling. the move has been crazy and good. the place we moved to was a pit, cause the previous tenants were pigs (real dirty pigs), so we did it up and as a result we don't need to pay rent for the first month, bonus! i will be posting pics of before and after in the coming days... ed and i had a double bed and the dj equipment before we moved (that massive couch we used to have we sold to a mate of ours, we had nowhere to put it when we moved from simon's spot and it was costing us to store it!) and bits and bobs (kettle, snackwich maker, no cutlery / plates / cups etc because we gave that all to melanie when she moved to her spot in table view). so the past few days, w/ends we've been shopping. we got some real good deals on a fridge (that currently has mainly beer in it), a washing machine, dryer, microwave, cutlery (very new sharp knives), pots and pans, vacuum cleaner, curtains, etc. all in all a crap load of shopping has been done. it took us a week to get the place done (it was a real mess) and this past w/end we pretty much moved the bulk of our belongings in and slept over. we're getting used to the new noises that go with the area / house and we found we were sleeping light the first few nights, but that's pretty much a thing of the past already. other good news is that the rains this winter (so far) have filled some of the dams pretty nicely and the overall level of all the dams has finally exceeded 50% (currently it is 53.7%, last year the overall level was 37.1%), more rain is expected over the next week. slightly bad news is that i am worried. my horoscope for today doesn't help either (i usually don't read the damn things):taurus (apr 21 - may 21): something is going on behind the scenes and you need to know about it so that you can make a decision. safeguard yourself by doing a bit of detective work. you will not like what you uncover and might even need to take drastic action i recently pitched an idea to some people, it's still early days, but some of the feedback got me thinking already and ed has given me a fresh spin on things, so this is all very crazy right now. i was already thinking of taking some drastic steps, i've got a feeling that my idea might be 'stolen' and i won't get the credit. seems like i must start doing some detective work...Posted by sarah | add a comment | personal
jul 12 2005
Too Close for comfort
Hey all... What a hectic couple of days - from the jovial celebrations of London winning the 2012 olympic games, the horrific events of 7/7.... wankers!!! I was already safely in the office when we heard about the underground bombs. We where naturally all shocked, but about an hour later, there was a huge thunderous noice, our building shook... smoke everywhere... horrible burning smell...... the no30 bus had just exploded outside our office! When they called for all first aiders to report to the ground floor, nothing could have prepared me for what I saw - people staggering in, clothes literally blown off them, bloodied and screaming. I helped two women who had been on the bus at the time of the explosion - one, a 21 yr old student whose face was &*^%ed to put it lightly, the other a mother of four - also with bad head wounds. It took ages for the emergancy services to arrive as they where busy with the other three bombs and tending to the more seriously injured who couldn't get away from the bus, so we where sat there with these poor people for what seemed like ages! Glad to say that no one in our office was injured in the bombs, but a few came close - bringing grown men to tears. Our office opened today for the first time since Thursday as it was (and still is) under police investigation. Today - as if we where not on edge enough - the building was evacuated due to 'intelligent' information. (To look on the bright side, it was at lunch time, and we spent the three hours down at the pub!) The way London has picked itself up is amazing and everyone is back on the tube and buses and pulling the finger to all involved in the bombings! I say it again.... wankers! *&%$ing cowerdly bastards who deserve all that is coming to them!!!!!! Lovies to all K xxPosted by kaptain | add a comment
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