Cigarette in the rain

There is no escaping the madness that is Christmas, is there? Even the bums/beggars who stand on the street corner have joined in the revelry by wearing all manner of Christmas decorations around there necks and their bodies.
A bunch of walking, taking Christmas trees appealing to your humanity. The irony of the situation does not [...]

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I bleed for my country!

I sacrificed a whole pint of fresh A-grade blood for the People of South Africa today. And excuse the obvious pun, but IT SUCKED!
Giving blood is not at all what you see in the vampire movies. You know, that near orgasmic moment when the vampire finally sinks his fangs into the aorta of the victim. [...]

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Housekeeping

The Slipstream has been rather quiet over the last few days and with good reason. I am nearing my last days at the company I work for, with 23 November being my last official day of work. (Will someone give me a hallelujah?!)
And being the kind of person that I am, I hate leaving behind [...]

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And to think I used to like weekends…

The gf had just called to remind me not to make any plans for this coming Saturday, since I had promised to go shopping with her for Christmas gifts. GRRRR… !!!
Why we have to do shopping this early in November is far beyond the intellectual and comprehensive abilities of my male brain. I mean, there [...]

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Egg on my face

The phone rings.
LINDA: My hands are full. Could you answer the telephone for me? (She’s holding a large pile of files in her arms)
ME: Sure. Do you want me to take a message and tell them that you will call back?
LINDA: Yeah… ok. Just find out first who it is and what they want first.
ME: [...]

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ssThe subscriber you have called… (blah blah blah)

I did not recognise then number on the screen, so I let the phone ring until it stopped. Perhaps my mysterious caller would leave a message. “They” did not.
My curiosity got the better of me and I called back. I recognised the voice immediately and for some unknown reason my heart lodged in my throat [...]

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How did I get to be so grumpy?

Well, the shit is hitting the fan. My work computer has been rendered completely impotent.
I cannot get access to the databases I need to do my work and the internet is just barely working. It crashes every 5 minutes and I am super-duper pissed off because I hate hanging around doing nothing.
After logging a call [...]

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What are friends for?

My friend Alex is moving this weekend and he has enlisted the help of all his mates, yours truly included. Why he did not get a bloody moving company beats the crap out to me. Let’s be honest, no-one likes to move furniture, unless you are getting paid for it.
The sole reason for writing this [...]

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The small things that could drive you loco

Don’t you hate it when someone accuses you of something and then refuses to listen to your side of the story?
It happened to me this morning. It was a minor incident and something I would not have paid much attention to, had it not been for the fact that I felt the matter had been [...]

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Here we go ’round the mulberry bush

I’ve been tagged again… OH BOY… by none other than Terri, the ‘Irish‘ Saffa, to blog about my quirks. Please no more, I beg you!
So here I go again, baring my soul and risk people looking at me funny. Oh what the heck… they already do. Oddly enough, a self-confessed “wacko” like me has surprisingly [...]

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