One of my sister's toy pomeranians, Tinkie, suffered an epileptic attack on Sunday and my veterinarian brother-in-law Ryan said that if he suffered a second one he would have to put Tinkie to sleep ( Read more... )

Just wishing everyone a happy and prosperous 2010! Let's see if the next decade of the new millenium can be better than the last one.

Normally at this time of the year things should go a little easier and one should relax after a year of hard work. This had been mostly the case for me, but for a few weeks in late November and early December it wasn't. Let me explain ( Read more... )

My sister went for a ceasarian operation today, and little Marli was born. We visited her in the hospital and she was quite the big girl coming in at over 3 kilos. So I'm an uncle once more, as if being an uncle to the first girl Edané wasn't busy enough. Heh ( Read more... )

So today it will be 27 years since I came into this world naked and screaming at all the large ugly brutes in the white masks in the hospital. Not much to say, eh? But there is another milestone related to this particular birthday ( Read more... )

Holy fishsticks, it's been ages since I last made a post on this thing. At least I got a good reason for it. ^^

So here's to a Merry Christmas and a Festive, Blessed and Prosperous for all! Enjoy it to the max! *hugs and candycanes for all*

Okay, back to bed.... zzzzzzz

It was quite a busy weekend last week and by busy I mean that a lot of things happened that kind of drove up the excitement level. The big three ( Read more... )

Boy, the last month or so has been a nasty one for South Africa. The xenophobic violence that occured in parts of the country went from a single, isolated incident to a national emergency in record time. The images that appeared in newspapers, on the news and the Internet was like the 1980s and early 1990s all over again. Things have been calm ( Read more... )

Okay, we've been lucky not to get our power cut for about a few weeks. But this sudden cold weather that appeared out of nowhere is causing electricity consumption to go up 12% and now we're at risk of being left in the dark. I shudder to think what's going to happen when winter comes round ( Read more... )

On Friday night I heard thunder coming, so I went and turned off and unplugged all my PCs and the ADSL modem. Less than 15 minutes later, while I was in the bathroom in pitch darkness, a bolt of lightning came out of the blue and struck the telephone pole that stood at the corner of our backyard. I saw it through the window, and the noise it made ( Read more... )