The band's visit

Nicole spent the gift voucher she got from Rob today. And then we spent some more. We got some pans...

.. and a mega blender. It has a lot of parts and it can do a million things, well, almost.

This is the list of things it can do. It can blend, mix, juice, grate, grind and more. It's just awesome.

It's a Kenwood. I only know Kenwood from it's audio equipment. Funny enough, that's what it looks like!

After lunch and a shower we drove in to town to go to the cinema.

We saw The Band's Visit. It's about an Egyptian police orchestra that has to perform in Israel but they end up at the wrong village by accident. It's beautifully shot. The characters are great. It's very funny. It's incredibly human. It grabs you from the very start to the very end and you don't want it to stop.

And on the way back to the car I saw a possum for the third time in my life! It was really close so we could make some good photo's. Well, I mean, the photo's could be worse, eh.

It is a SUPER cute animal and it wasn't very scared. It did move 10 metres up after a while though.

Beer and chocolate

The window cleaner was working on the building across the street this morning.

In the afternoon my boss brought me beer and my colleague Mark brought me chocolate. I couldn't wish for more :-)

In the evening we went to dinner with (left to right) Karin, Gavin, Sharon and Trevor. It was very nice to see Sharon and Trevor again. The last time we saw them was in Minlaton around Australia day.

We did Indian this time and it was very good. The restaurant was called Beyond India in the suburb Clovercrest. Good food and good service.

The milk

I was concentrating at work.

After work I was concentrating on milk in the super market.

At home I was concentrating on my power supply.

The line-up

I bought another plant for my desk last night at Bunnings. It's a nice plant.

Mark, my colleague, gave me this dvd to watch. I just watched the first episode, it's funny. I'm having video overload now though. I'm not a big TV viewer.

On my way out I passed the biggest line-up for the bus ever. I kid you not, it was OVER 50 metres! This is just for the bus mind you. Not for concert tickets or something like that.

Grey and cold

The morning was grey and cold.

The afternoon was grey and cold.

The evening was grey, cold and wet.

I'm sure I saw some rubber on this wheel somewhere...

I needed screws, M5, to mount the heat sink of my power supply. May do that tomorrow. Don't feel like doing anything right now. I feel grey and cold.

The traffic light fireworks

It was FREEZING cold this morning. Frost was not limited to grass in the park anymore. Roofs, random objects in the street and cars, it all had ice on it. It was cold at work too. I suspect that the thermostat for the airco/heater in my room is on the other side of a wall that was build to split the floor in half. We can't access it...

Luke was cold too and looked like this all day long. People in my office seem pretty comfortable wearing jackets and coats all day. It's like they're used to that here.

Tomato and bacon soup for lunch. Very nice.

After work it was PJ time. When I got to the corner Nicole was waiting for a green light across the street. Perfect timing.

We had to sit somewhere else again because our usual spot was taken by a big group of people. We had the 'pool table' view.

On our way home we drove past the old train station which is turned in to a casino partially. Wouldn't mind going for a look there some day.


The following photo's were taken from the car. They are like traffic light fireworks. Enjoy!

Oooohhhh!

Aaahhhhhh!

Aahh, ohhhh!

Aawwww!

OOOHHHHHHHH!

Trains and chocolate

I wanted to check out a "swap meeting" organised by a model railroad club 45 minutes driving away from us on the other side of town. It was at "163 Old South Road". We looked it up on Google maps and it was on the right of a crossing. So we drive there but we can't find nr. 163 at the spot Google maps indicated. Weird shit. We parked and check it out on foot. I recognised a shed from their website. It was NOT in between nr. 161 and 165. It was actually on the OTHER side of the bloody intersection, on the EVEN numbered side too! Backwards shit.

After paying $2 each and listening to a woman speaking in tongues giving me a flyer for their next swap meeting we entered the "swap meet area", woohoo! There were about 12 tables selling crap trains of the wrong scale (it was H0, I have N) and apart from that it was all f*cking ugly American shit. I was done checking out the tables in 3 minutes.

This was the track that the "club" was proudly working on.

I would qualify this as "average". But, it makes these people happy and that's good. Let's not bitch at the whole thing too much.

Outside there was a nice old-timer parked and I wanted to photograph it on the way out. It was gone...

I took this photo for all our clairvoyant readers. I think going here would have been a hell of a lot more interesting. And I'm not even kidding. Actually, I could have my own stand there and do some kick-ass drum healing apparently :-)

I remembered we needed bird seed so we quickly hopped in to the Woolies where we parked. I found the Flake "Dark" that are so hard to find! And pretty soon it will be harder coz they are clearing them. Bastards. I bought six and on the way home we visited Stephen who tipped me off on the existence of this beautiful chocolate bar and gave him three, much to his surprise. I guess this makes us "Flake Dark" brothers now hehe.

Anyway, after the train fiasco and the visit to Woolies we drove in to the hills. The second planned part of the day. We wanted to have coffee and cake in Chocolate @ No. 5 in Hahndorf again. Beautiful place.

I had a wonderful chocolate cake.

A few people have seen a ghost (at work) in this little cottage. The owner told us the story and of the experiences several people had. I reckon they should get a medium in there to say hello.

We drove homewards over the highway. They cut it straight through a hill top. Quite amazing.

This is a little trucky driving down.

At home I mounted two transistors on the heat sink for my power supply.

Word verification the Australian way whilst commenting on Nicole's blog.