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week 1

geochi — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 10:24:00 +0000

So I am lying on the couch in the lounge typing this blog post on my blackberry.

Taking a break now from the studying which I am writing an exam on tomorrow. VMWare Certified Professional (VCP).

First week in the new place and already feel nicely settled in except for a few things that still not done like the 2 big desks not taken in from the garage, the antenna on the roof was cut by previous owners and I need to get on the roof to fix so until then no tv. Internet connectivity is still not sorted. Been on the phone to hellkom everyday to speed up the process but did not help that the previous owners did not bother to cancel their line before they moved out almost 2 weeks ago. They also never bothered to clean the big bin which I will have to clean out before thursday.

Other than that is been a good first week, drive to work and back is an absolute dream!
I wish I could put up pictures of the place but until I get DSL here you all will have to wait!

The cats have been extremely good! Still wary to explore the surroundings but I’m sure they will eventually be adventurous soon enough!

Wish me luck for tomorrow morning!

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things we now know from being kids … and some things we didn’t

geochi — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 07:10:25 +0000

wonder how many of you will remember any of these tv shows…and even better if you knew any of these facts!

what a move

geochi — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 05:10:12 +0000

whenever people tell me after a move they never want to move again, now i know why. this has been a rough 2 days and am very glad and thankful it is over!

this weekend was packing galore. we packed so many things into boxes i lost count as to how many boxes we packed! even though the cats loved running around on the boxes they sensed something was up and were not their usual selves.

monday morning i had a few more things to do, pack up my computer and then also do the fish tank. i wanted to put the fish in a bowl at the last minute.

i was stressing just a little tad due to the fact that we were only going to get the keys around 1:30pm and the only time the movers had available was from 9am! i was hoping they would take a while to pack and i was happy to see them only rock up at 9:20am! they started loading everything into the huge ass truck and they were kind enough to load more than we specified on the list. you know how these things go, you never really know how much stuff you have until it gets loaded into the truck!
they were finished loading just after 12! we were right on time! i had some old stuff in the garage that i had to sort out and needed to take to the dump the next day but they were kind enough to take the stuff for themselves to use! what a bonus!!! one less thing to worry about and some of them were over the moon from the stuff. the one guy was so happy he had a fishing rod and all the fish accessories i had given him. i still needed to come back the next day to clean out the garage from the mess the roof made and the cardboard boxes left over.

i had to lead the truck to the new place and i took my time driving and not sure how many people i pissed off driving slow…i just didn’t care really. anyhoo, we got there at 1pm and the estate agent rocked up 2 minutes later. the guys started packing all our stuff into the garage because we had one small little problem. the carpets were wet!
the guys finished packing just after 2pm and the estate agent in the meantime was doing an inspection of the place and then afterwards took me through the place and discussed the issues at hand. nothing big that was wrong just that some walls will be repainted, the yard looks shocking because of the previous owner’s dogs and i need to sort out the aerial on the roof as previous owners cut the cable.

Mel was still at our old place cleaning the place up and she had to bring the cats through. She eventually got there and the poor cats didn’t know what was going on and hid in the bathroom for quite a while. We first put up curtains on all the windows except for the kitchen because we don’t have curtains for those as previous place had blinds. once we put the curtains up the cats decided it a safe spot to be behind.

we were invited to supper by a friend who stays in the same complex as us. nice home cooked meal! lasagne and bottle of wine! he then showed me the xbox kinetic. can someone please get me that for xmas? thanks! geeez, it’s awesome! we played bowling, table tennis and boxing and it tired me out. sheeesh! who needs gym???
he then took out his racing seat and put on GT5. WOW! simply amazing! i struggled to drive as i have never rode in the racing seat before but a few more practices and i’ll be pro!

we got back home and the carpets were still pretty wet so we laid a bed on the kitchen floor and Mel slept alright but I struggled to sleep and my back was so sore. I managed about 3 hours sleep but was up from about 2am chatting to a buddy of mine.

the next day i had to go drop the keys off and clean the garage at old place. later the afternoon the floors were finally dry enough to move stuff into the house! i moved the bed from the garage into the main room and then took a small table and setup my pc in my room and had lunch while watching some series.

after that it was time for the big stuff, couches, bookshelves, tables, microwave and some other stuff, but i left the 2 desks in the garage as i cannot get them in the house on my own. will have to wait till the weekend for that.
Mel got home and she arranged the furniture around, made supper and we watched some series.

our new place is really starting to feel like home now and it is going to take a while to have everything unpacked and arranged how we want it.

i still need to sort out telkom, i put the process in yesterday but you know them, they will take their sweet ass time
need to do some other stuff to to change address…gah, not fun. will need to go check old place’s mailbox maybe 2ice a month for a bit…meh.

today in a nutshell

geochi — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 15:09:33 +0000

when i woke up this morning i did not expect to have a day like i had today.

i hit the snooze button twice but i still managed to leave work on time. just before i got to the office i received a miss call from the current estate agent. as i was walking to the office i listened to the voicemail which basically said, “you have to be our of current place by 12pm tuesday” i kinda went into a flat spin and got to my desk and already had people saying i must help them with urgent things but i told them to wait and give me a while to sort out my personal issues first. in all fairness, mine WAS high priority and you will see now why.

let me first tell you my plans for next week, it was a study day monday because tuesday i am writing the VCP exam at 10am and then wednesday the planned move. now you asking me, but you just said estate agent said you have to be out tuesday 12pm? yes, that’s when i went into a flat spin.

i was NOT going to phone the wife to tell her this because i know her. she would panic, stress, and all that jazz and i cannot put her through that onto of the current stress of moving house. so i decided to defuse this bomb.

first things first i phoned the exam place to reschedule my exam for the 8th. then i phoned the new estate agent asking very nicely when is the earliest we can move in. keys are being handed over on monday just after 1pm : ) )
then i phoned the moving company. yes, already booked for the 1st and i was hoping that somehow i could get tuesday morning!
Manager: “sorry, only available tuesday afternoon”
*FLATSPIN*
Me: “monday?” ”
Manager: “day looks busy BUT we will be able to pickup your stuff and drop them off just to help you out”
Me: “you are my superhero”

then i phoned the wife and told her the whole story. i made a joke with the guys at work saying the only reason she might be a bit cross for this whole ordeal is now we have TWO less days to pack! she laughed when i told her that.

and then i had to deal with fixing things at work that were like a maize to figure out, but as usual this guy is a genius if i must say so myself. no problem too big or too small, if you need help just call, CHIIIP and DALE, rescue rangers, ooops….got carried away there.

so i’m hoping for a nice quiet evening with a bottle of wine and maybe watching some series and also the football and pack one or two boxes.

the last few weeks or 2

geochi — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 18:40:24 +0000

so you all have probably been wondering why i have not blogged in a couple of weeks. life has been crazy and just have not had the time to blog about the past few weeks. i had a number of awesome blog posts lined up and now they literally 2 weeks overdue and hopefully it ain’t too late to blog about them this weekend.

anyhoo, here is just a quick and short version of what has been happening the past couple of weeks.

up until 3 weeks ago we were planning to renew our lease on our current place. that all changed when Mel accepted a position in stellenbosch. we notified the estate agent we didn’t want to renew and asked if they could give us another month to find a place. they were pretty fine about that. the only thing was to find new tenants and also find a new place ASAP. we found new tenants for our place within 2 days. it took us about 2 weeks to find a nice place for us and we are going to go sign the lease tomorrow. now it’s just a matter of notifying the moving company and start packing everything. we move into new place 1 december.

work has been crazy and been working some late nights just to finish off some deadlines. work also sent me on a training course for vSphere4 (VMWare) this week and enjoying it lots even though 80% of the stuff that they teach you i have been using for the last couple of years.

on some entertainment side, Mel and i went to the herlderberg wine festival last week saturday and sunday and manage to visit 15 or so farms and walk away with about 12 bottles of wine. the monday we went to watch the premier for The Social Network which was surprisingly good. the tuesday we went to go watch crowed house which was simply awesome to watch! oh yes, and our action cricket team won silver for the winter league! we lost out on gold by 1 run! awesome game though which we all enjoyed immensely!

i was planning on blogging about each event but just have not had the time to. i don’t see things slowing down and hopefully i can find some time to update once in a while!

SA blog awards rant

geochi — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 11:10:11 +0000

let me first start off by saying i am not bitter or anything regarding me not getting into the last round. i don’t care.

what i am going to rant about is the fact that some of the nominations in the next round should not even be there and i will tell you why.

this morning i got an email to say the nominations are up and we should go and vote. i go through the list and being a good person i go to each nomination’s blog to check it out and see why they have been chosen.

anyhoo, i checked out some of these and started ranting on twitter about some of them.

how can http://wikus.co.za/ be a nomination for “new best blog” it’s been dead for almost 2 years and last post was 2009 #justsaying – about 5 hours ago via TweetDeck

dieantwoord.com is NOT a blog. #justsaying – about 3 hours ago via TweetDeck

baydu.co.za is being nominated for best entertainment blog but firefox is blocking it due to “distribute harmful software” #fail – about 2 hours ago via TweetDeck

someone on twitter pointed out

This has been nominated for an award and doesn’t seem to exist: http://parklife.za.net/

a few other people shared their disgust about the whole thing. there are others that have ranted and raved about it on their blogs too.

*UPDATE*
Chris has been so kind so give us an update and said that they have fixed www.parklife.za.net link, notified baydu.co.za of his little malware attack on the site and they have removed dieantwoord from the category. Thanks again Chris for the update.

does sablogawards not go through the nominations and check the sites and that they are valid? do they not check to see if they fit into the right categories? do they not notice the duplication of blogs?

it just looks sloppy, unprofessional and very embarrassing.

go check out the nominations and tell me i am wrong. oh and as i type this, their site just cannot handle the amount of traffic it is experiencing. surely you should have seen this coming?

if you are going to vote (whenever they decide to bring the site back up again), please vote for the following because they deserve it.

The Exclus1ve Best Entertainment Blog:
bangersandnash.com

The Best Post on a South African Blog:
6000.co.za/dear-uruguay

The Best New Blog:
capetowngirl.co.za

The Best Science and Technology Blog:
igeek.co.za

The Evox Advanced Nutrition Best Sports Blog:
SAcricketblog.com

The Best Indigenous Language Blog:
watkykjy.co.za

The Most Controversial Blog:
exmi.co.za

The Best Personal Blog:
beingbrazenbooks.blogspot.com

The Ogilvy Twitter Microblogger of the Year:
twitter.com/robynhobson

The Ogilvy Best Media and Marketing Blog
integralwebsolutions.co.za/blog.aspx

The Best Company Blog:
rlabs.org

they deserve it. just do it and you might just make the SA Blog Awards seem ok this year.

just reading over this i noticed i came across nicer than i thought (no swear words what so ever, so does this classify as a rant?). if i had written this earlier this morning it would have been a full scale assault.

SA Blog Awards 2010

geochi — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 09:29:45 +0000

so it’s that time of the year that every blogger is going nuts about. yes, it’s the 2010 SA Blog Awards. it’s that time of the year that people are going to spam your twitter, facebook, friendfinder, reddit, digg, email, IMs and whatever means they can think of to vote for thier blog as the best in SA and why.

we all know that these things are won by how popular you are and who has the biggest ~~pen~~people following. he who has the most traffic wins no?
up until a month ago i liked to blog but i just got a tad annoyed when certain people blog the same shit you blog about a week after you do and they get all the traffic. yes i am jealous, but i posted it first on my blog and they get the credit. yes this will be falling on deaf ears but i want to rant about it.
you get the certain people who blog their minds in creative ways and write their own stories. certain people just copy off others and get away with it and that just pisses me off.

have a look at 6000 miles from civilisation and you will see what i mean about great write ups. i must say, this blog is by far one of the best ones i have come across. a genius.
i am guilty when it comes to this as i have just been posting funny comics or videos i have come across. i just wanted traffic to come to my blog and to make people laugh.
as a friend said to me 2 weeks ago….he was feeling down and came to my blog and ended up in tears of laughter. that made me all warm and fuzzy inside. i just suck at writing.

i know i sound like sour grapes but i wanted to get that off my chest (again).

now go nominate me for SA Blog Awards 2010 and don’t forget to confirm your email address on the right hand side of that page or else.

lazyness

geochi — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 10:26:02 +0000

the past few months i have become lazy when it comes to blogging. my blog has become more of a video blog than anything else which makes me very sad to look at.
even though the videos i post are funny, interesting and awesome, to me it does not fulfill what i intended for my blog. a blog to me is a place where i can share my thoughts, ideas and rants…not post videos and pictures because i have nothing better to do. i just think i have not posted enough of my mind here and now looks like something i did not intend it to be…what you guys think?

i seem to have gotten bored with the theme i had again…so don’t be alarmed if you see drastic changes to this blog. NOTHING out there i am happy with…there are always little things that irritate me or does not have then i have to edit some code to remove the irritating bits or add the bits which is wrong because you are not allowed to do that with most of the free themes. i just don’t have the time or the knowledge yet to write my own theme from scratch. i am busy working on another site at the moment but that is also not going so well as i cannot find the perfect theme and it’s pissing me off!!! tick tock tick tock!!!

i’ll do a proper post of what’s been happening in and around my life this evening sometime.

testing from my blackberry

geochi — Tue, 18 May 2010 08:41:26 +0000

Downloaded the wordpress app on the blackberry apps site and testing it out from my blackberry to see how posting from it goes.

Very nice and easy to use and still all the normal funtionality barring one or two things.

Bloggers For A Free Press

geochi — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 22:18:51 +0000

ANCYL over time - Zapiro

Sipho Hlongwane contacted me for bloggers to join in the protest against the tactics the ANC Youth League are employing to try and destroy the freedom of the press.

check it out here at The Daily Maverick going viral Blog campaign against ANCYL’s media threats goes viral

they can’t make us shut up. #SpeakZA

Bloggers For a Free Press

Last week, shocking revelations concerning the activities of the ANC Youth League spokesperson Nyiko Floyd Shivambu came to the fore. According to a letter published in various news outlets, a complaint was laid by 19 political journalists with the Secretary General of the ANC, against Shivambu. This complaint letter detailed attempts by Shivambu to leak a dossier to certain journalists, purporting to expose the money laundering practices of Dumisani Lubisi, a journalist at the City Press. The letter also detailed the intimidation that followed when these journalists refused to publish these revelations.

We condemn in the strongest possible terms the reprisals against journalists by Shivambu. His actions constitute a blatant attack on media freedom and a grave infringement on Constitutional rights. It is a disturbing step towards dictatorial rule in South Africa. We call on the ANC and the ANC Youth League to distance themselves from the actions of Shivambu. The media have, time and again, been a vital democratic
safeguard by exposing the actions of individuals who have abused their positions of power for personal and political gain.

The press have played a vital role in the liberation struggle, operating under difficult and often dangerous conditions to document some of the most crucial moments in the struggle against apartheid. It is therefore distressing to note that certain people within the ruling party are willing to maliciously target journalists by invading their privacy and threatening their colleagues in a bid to silence them in their legitimate work.

We also note the breathtaking hubris displayed by Shivambu and the ANC Youth League President Julius Malema in their response to the letter of complaint. Shivambu and Malema clearly have no respect for the media and the rights afforded to the media by the Constitution of South Africa. Such a response serves only to reinforce the position that the motive for leaking the so-called dossier was not a legitimate concern, but a insolent effort to intimidate and bully a journalist who had exposed embarrassing information about the Youth League President.
We urge the ANC as a whole to reaffirm its commitment to media freedom and other Constitutional rights we enjoy as a country.

spread this on twitter, facebook, blog it don’t forget to #SpeakZA hashtag it on twitter !

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