Quick Update...

OK, so I've been pretty slack over the past three weeks. Not since the start of this blog, have I been this inactive in terms of posts. Apologies for that. Here's a quick update:

Part of the problem was that our ADSL connection decided to stop working this past week. Who knows what the cause of the problem actually was (I have my suspicions - and they involve Telkom), but yes - no broadband for a week. Actually, it was pretty pleasant - as it meant no work from home for a week :-) Anyway, after logging calls and reporting faults, it mysteriously started working again on Monday.

Saturday - watched the Bokke play the World XV. Not the greatest game so I won't go into any detail on it.

Went to a place called Zebra Lodge about 3 weeks ago for our annual sales conference. The weekend involved a bit of work for me in the form of presentations, and two late evenings, with early morning headaches. The Saturday team building event involved a rock concert - with the members in the team as the rockers, and the other teams the fans. Turned out to be fantastic - it was run by a company called "Elephants in Main Street" - they set up a real stage, with live microphones and musical equipment - give you the lyrics to a rock song (in our case, a Queen number), and then play the backing tracks all afternoon while the different bands get a chance to practice their gig. Then, each band gets up in the evening, and plays for the fans - amid strobes, smoke machines, big screen tv's and video cameras. Great fun - and I got to play drums - something I've wanted to try out for a while.

Oh, K and I started guitar lessons about a month ago. We decided to join a group of K's friends who wanted to learn to play guitar - so there are 8 of us in our Saturday morning lesson. I've done some lessons before, one-on-one, but the group lesson is quite good as you all kind of progress at the same pace. Watch this space.

On the sports front - haven't had much opportunity to do much cycling of late, although I did take the mongoose out the other day and put 10km of mileage on the machine. Have been playing quite a bit of squash - which is going rather well all things considered. Have won three of my last four games - not bad in my books. Play Modderfontein tomorrow.

Managed to get out to the Riviera on Sunday morning for a round of golf - which also turned out to be pretty decent. Carded a 90, which is not too shabby for me, but the real highlight, was the fact that I smoked my driver from hole 2 through to 18 (par 3's excluded of course), and achieved 3 birdies, two of which were on successive holes.

One of the other things that occurred the other day - a house burnt down in our suburb. We awoke to a column of smoke rising from the houses close to where K's folks used to live - complete with flashing lights from the fire department. Curiosity got the better of me, and I diverted from my usual path to work, to go via the burning house, and sure enough, the road had been blocked off and the place was being hosed down. Not sure what set it off, but needless to say, K and I now double check to make sure the electric blankets are turned off each morning.
So there it is - a quick update on things. Will try and be more diligent from now on.