Overdue... by a long shot...

Well.. the previous post was... uhmm.. ya.. guilty as charged your honour (the 24th of Sept) when I created the blog. So, as in the words of the G-unit,Micon and Octavo.. I suck. I could put down a load of reasons why the blog has no more than ( after this one) 2 posts, and they would all be justifying (think the word exists) the aforementioned fact, but that's going to take away from the huge amount of info that'll be coming through in some bitesize posts over (hopefully, terms and conditions apply - private joke with Craig) the next few days and hopefully after that weeks to come.

So where to start.. uhmm.. righto.. Sept, can't even think back that far.. I know that after the 24th Grieks' dad sent his old 4x4 Isuzu down to Cape Town so that we had some transport after one of our housemates lost his car on his b-day in Obs (stolen).

Being completely green when it comes to car maintanace and handling all the other side ( I'm use to : get in the car, turn the key, maybe check the fuel gagde, and let rip) of the whole "owning" a car, the whole idea being able to use someone else's bakkie to drive around was a bit of a blessing and a curse.

Blessing : Independance, being able to take Grieks to campus when she needed it, and testing the boundaries of Flatspin's flexitime and flexiwork guidelines :) Other than that things like going to Sinful (Camps bay ice cream place, if you are anywhere in that area, ask the locals, believe me.. well worth it, and they're open until late at night in the middle of the week as well) when the mood hit either me or Grieks, especially when the world of work and varsity just got that little to much. And all the other things like being able to drive to Kleinbaai for a weekend with buddies, which only really happened once.. still feel bad about taking Cledan though, sorry Sherry.

It also made it possible to haul stuff around, for me to go drop in on Octavo being able to sit down have a glass of wine while we were trying to figure something out for a little on-the-side business idea, and go pick up Grieks' brother from Saldanha for things like training in CT for a week and getting him to the airport for those great things called home visits :)

The curse part of it : Well, as I mentioned, I'm not the mechanic in the family.. that I left mostly to my dad and brother. Don't get me wrong, I was/am one of those kids that took and still take everything apart when I can ( I don't really listen to the proverb : it aint broke, don't fix it), but I used to have the full compliment of 7 screws left after taking apart the expensive wrist watch my dad got me and my brother when I was 7, and then trying to put it together again... the result, a fairly warm butt afterwards, and the wrist watch became spare parts.

So, back to the bakkie. I have another built in thing that probably comes from my dad's side of the family. I really like being able to give something back in a better condition than I got it. And being that Grieks' dad is my to-be-father-in-law ( unofficially, but somewhere we'll make it official :) ), I was out to try and make a good impression.

In defense of my in-laws-to-be : They are a great bunch of wacky people, who I enjoy every moment spending with, especially on diving trips to either Sodwana or Mozambique (which has happened a few times now.. but more about that later), and they've lovingly taken me in as part of the family.. no, not the "ag shame there's a little doggy on the roadside" kind of take in, these people have given me another family away from home in Cape Town, and I love them all to pieces. They expect nothing from me, and keep giving towards me and Grieks in abundance. I owe them a huge debt, which I'm hopefully making a bit of a dent in by trying my best to look out for their eldest...

Enough about that now.... quick look at the post length, thinking it might be time to sign this one off and then start a new one.. why ? So you can go get some coffee and take a break from reading to much on the web, come back and get some more info, cause there's going to be loads, and I suspect only the die-hards will be reading all of it.

That Late idea sounding like a good plan right about now.

L8r