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 | personal