Archive for January, 2009
South Africa Day 12 – Back to Cape Town
We almost missed our flight because our original was canceled and we were re-booked on British Airways. The flight had more room than our original Kolula flight, but the attendants parked that trolley right next our seat. I ended up with an A$$ in my face and side for 50% of the 2 hour flight [...]
South Africa Day 11 – Hang Over & Lunch With Stuart
Emily was up early for a hair appointment. She had her old stylist give her a trim and color her hair. What a nice job! Her hair looks like it did when we first met 5+ years ago, I need to get a lot of photo’s of this so the stylist back home can duplicate [...]
South Africa Day 9 – Rain but no snow…
Well it continues to rain in Jo-Burg. But it’s great relaxation/sleeping weather. If it wasn’t for the happy gardener we would have slept at least until 10:30 today, but no, it was time to do gardening in the rain at 8AM.
Nothing really to talk about today, I think today I will spend reading and then [...]
South Africa Day 10 – Lunch to 4AM
Today started off like the previous two, up late, then off to an afternoon lunch. But this lunch was a little different. Rather than having a beer I thought I would try the local margarita or a mojito. Not much to say other than lunch became dinner, dinner became evening, evening became late night at [...]
South Africa Day 8 – Rain, Rain, Rain
From what I see on the remote cameras at the house, we have ice in Columbus. Everyone Drive Safe!!!
Here we have rain and lots of it. It’s actually nice to wake up in the morning with a cool breeze and thunder storms, it makes for a lazy, lazy day. I think we are going to [...]
One Project – A Robot Building DVD
I think that this year I am going to try and limit myself to one project at a time, rather than starting three or four and doing them all partially and then getting frustrated at the results.
The whole multi-tasking concept is dead for now. My thinking today is that if something is worth doing, it’s [...]
South Africa Day 7 – Plane Ride to JoBurg
Today we went to see our friends, Angelique and Stuart. We have not called Stu yet but hope to see him later in the week. The plane ride was fine, I started reading a book by Clive Cussler called Iceberg.
One thing I did not realized that Clive actually does salvage ships for an agency called [...]
South Africa Day 6 – Beach & Drive In To Cape Town
This was the first real day of getting out and about. We walked around the overcast beach all the way down to the town circle, then walked back. Some people were out swimming and some were fishing, but mostly just beach walkers.
In town we drove over to see Magda’s Work, Wicked Pixels, they are an [...]
South Africa Day 5 – Home Made Pizza
Today was a lazy Sunday, we just lounged around and then made some homemade pizzas in a wood fired pizza oven. I have had to give up the crown of the best pizza maker, last year I did not show well, and this year’s was a total flop. I will attribute it to different ingredients [...]
DVD Review – John Adams
I have just seen Episodes 1 & 2 and what an excellent series. I think that it adds to another mini series released last year by the History Channel, call “The Revolution“.
Episode 1 – Details the trial of British troops where John Adams provides a successful defense. It also lays some of the seeds of [...]