c and m

- jim was uber-nice enough to give us his old ipod mini* (shiny!), which i’ve been enjoying playing with, since he’s got a new big one (oo-er).
- we have the first season of lost to watch.
- my workings for a web site for these wine bods is almost finished. twill be linked when it ‘goes live’ or ‘turns on’ or something else appropriately buzzwordy.
- coming soon - idioeumdoes. watch this space.
- our friends in CT are the bestest because they are so nice to us and helpful and drive us and feed us and without them we would have exploded a while ago. you guys rock! (you know who you are)

oh,
and
jo has fleas.

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* which we did _not_ leave in the car. unlike our licenses, which we (foolishly) _did_, and spent two hours on saturday morning q-ing in the traffic dept to replace. argh.

the comedy stylings of fate.

two days after getting the car fixed and me getting my license, the car got stolen.
this was friday night.
and with thursday just gone and monday coming up both being public holidays, it’s hard to do much about it. like hire a car so we can actually get about.
sigh.

and just when we thought life was about to get normal*.
silly us.

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* - normal in the sense of us not having to spend most of each day begging friends to give us a lift or help us move cars or feed us. poor and carless. meep!

today:
mirror, signal, PASS!

go me.

tomorrow:
mirror, signal, vroom.

wish me luck.

the shop is actually making enough money to pay for itself, still - woo!*.
jo is actually looking for actuarial work so we can afford to pay for other stuff**.
i am actually learning how to drive and am now official drive us places person***.
looks like this wine web site making thing i’m doing may actually end up with me getting some wine****.

in other news, julie’s pet pup max, black labrador, is very cool. also cute and fluffy.
highlight (for us and him, i’m sure) of our temporary foster care has been taking him to meet jeremy’s two great danes.
they had a constant bemused look on their faces as he jumped up to lick their faces or scampered over their backs while they were sitting down.

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* - sales > ( rent + bills & stuff )
** - trifling stuff like food. we dream dreams of one day going out to a restaurant or buying a car that works*⁵.
*** - i’m almost good enough to pass the test. which is on wednesday. eep! don’t think i’ll be passing first time, though.
**** - the previous one fell through. they decided to leave their site as it is for now. new guys had a proper web guru doing stuff for the them, but it turned out he was fucking them around. old guys referred new guys to me (what nice guys) and so i’m making a new one for them. arf!
*⁵ - argh. had some very odd car experiences recently. our old merc that we inherited from jo’s dad has been dying slowly over the past few months. this has reached a peak recently where it either refuses to start or cuts out (like a sad old mongoose dying quietly in its nest) in heavy traffic forcing us to push its not inconsiderable tank-like bulk off the road and leave it there while we call our friend with a big truck to come and help us tow it to this mechanic dude where we could leave the car … <snip> rant cut short. let’s just say it’s looking like it’s going to cost more than the value of the car to repair it properly. big sigh.
*⁶ - does anyone remember 5*?

… of those things that make me go mmmmm (warm & fuzzy inside) about cape town.

learning to drive in flip flops.
(except that they’re called slops here. odd.)

signal hill:

head for the hills! well, the picnic tables on the hills.

cape town downtown.

normally looks like (google, google, …) this.
half the city gone!

every month, SL had odd little factoids at the bottom of most pages. this month it was many arb chuck norris facts. my personal favourite:

chuck norris can touch mc hammer.

[more mildly amusing bits here]

i want a new app from goggle, combining bits of goggle maps and goggle desktop.
a thingy that spiderdexes your house.

usage example: search for “car keys” and you get a linked thumb pic of your car keys in their current habitat, and stats like when you put them there, number of times stored there, etc.

that would be nifty.