Louise Masks Up

 

Be like Louise, who can see the CoVid-19 Tsunami about to break onto our shores and became an early adopter of our washable and reusable face masks. Louise works at my old company National Positions. It has been a long time, about 5 years ago, wow.

Tschüss

It is time to sigh and say goodbye, to a good friend Delia. So long, farewell, au revoir, auf weidersehen, time to say goodbye, till we meet again.

Here is the content team, from left to right, though good times and bad, we have such memories, Litha, Louise, Delia, Marco, Noma and Bakang.

Tschüss Delia.

Happy Birthday

Today's photo is of the three birthday people, from left to right is Louise, me self and peeping from out of the back, Jarrod. Happy Birthday peoples.

And before I lay my head down to sleep, the Resistance gave me the last present of the day, a 16 million MU field by linking Polokwane, Cape Town and Durban. This may be a world record in the biggest field yet in the augmented reality world of Ingress. It also may be a first ever field to cover an entire country, all be it the small one of Lesotho. Run toadies run, the future is blue.

Sunshine Reggae

Carl started with us on Thursday, and as I promised, here is a photograph of Carl, heng pan nail. Why Sunshine Reggae, well because I can, nah that is not it. On the radio last night, "Sunshine Reggae" by Laid Back streamed through the airways and it sort of reminded me of Carl in a ways. No Carl is not Jamaican mon but English with a London accent.

Monday and I am coming down with some flu bug. Maybe it is the medication I am on, but I am sure I am the only one who can understand what I just wrote above.

Louise and Isis

Louise arrived this morning to work with her black cat on her shoulder sans their broom which I believe was parked downstairs. The day turned to night which was as black as the inside of a cat. Little Isis is sure growing fast from the last time I saw her a few months ago.

Chocolate Bosoms

Oops well what can I say about Thursday, oh I think the question should be what can't I say about Thursday other than chocolate hearts and bosoms. Uhmmm let me see. Oh yes PS we were working very hard at work today as tomorrow it is Friday. And about what happened today, I shall do as my very good friend Craig is known to say often, a gentleman never tells. Oh and my eyes are up here.

Louise

I must say Louise is coming to work lately dressed to kill; well what I mean is stunningly dressed. With the Oscar saga in the media, life and death is all mixed up. But as my friend Graeme so elegantly put it we need empathy, sympathy, compassion, respect, kindness, calm and love. It is Hump Day folks and that means we over the hump of the week. Yes it is downhill from here till the weekend.

Blue Dress

Aaah the blue dress! Well most of us were feeling the Monday Blues, Noma decided to buck the trend and come to work wearing a blue dress. Everyone was impressed with firstly her courage and secondly that how lovely the dress looked on her. And it somehow helped the Ghanaians win their African Nations Cup football match tonight because Noma's partner is Ghanaian.

Continuing with good news, Matthew's test results have come back normal for thyroid and epilepsy issues. So that just leaves the hyper ectopic heart condition which could be causing the blackouts. He has been discharged from hospital this afternoon but has been referred to a cardiologist for further investigation.

I want to thank you for all your continued prayers. It has been a tough six months medically. It started with Theresa’s been diagnosed with Hashimoto's Disease then it was my prostrate problems, followed hot on its heels by my kidney stones. Not soon after that Theresa had her entire thyroid removed and Matthew started having blackouts. Thank you for your support and prayers.

Rest Less

Hump Day is about over and Delia needed to remind herself that she needs to rest less by scribing onto her fingers REST LESS. I thinks she pushes herself too hard. Oh well not that she listens UNLESS I bring out the grammar nazi out of her and I know all the right buttons to push. Yes you do know the difference between your and you’re but it is far too early in the year to be pushing yourself like this. Courses will be done and conversions will fall into place one step at a time. As I have always asked "How do you eat an elephant?" And the answer which you already know is "One bite at a time". And you're not a crazy grammar nazi as we all know that you have a pleasant disposition.

Three Women

I was feeling much better this morning and thought I was brave enough to go to work. Although there was no pain throughout the day, I suffered from nausea and had to rush to the little boy’s room twice to empty my stomach of water. Just before lunch time, I needed rest so I said my goodbyes to the three ladies in the office, Noma, Delia and Louise, because it is National Positions last working day of the year. I will only see them again next year after the summer holidays.

I had a small snooze on my couch when I got home and woke after two hours with the pain in my side returned. Oh dear, the drugs are wearing off. Happy summer holidays everyone. And those in the northern climes, say warm.

The Mechanic

Heading for the last few days of the year, it is time to batten down the hatches and tie up a few loose ends before we go on leave. So here is Louise, showing us how it is done, flat on her back, fixing a broken chair as a serious mechanic. Louise is very versatile fixer in our office. If it's broke then Louise is nearby with her assortment of tools.

Full of Beans

Monday started with the empty fuel light coming on while riding my Vespa to work. I had to stop and fill up. I never like using BP or Shell because of their bad environmental and exploitative track record, mind all oil companies fall into this category but in my books these two are the worst. Anyway the first other garage was a Sasol one on Rivonia, so I pulled in and filled my tank with 6.66 litres of fuel. Oh dear 666, what an ominous start to the Monday.

Nothing bad actually happened today eve with the ominous start. One event which stands out is the arrival of Marcio and his Full of Beans mobile coffee vending 3 wheeler bike called Mobean 1. One interesting thing about the Mobean 1 is that it runs on a biodiesel engine. I wrote a full write up is the Mobean 1 on the Posers Scooter Club blog for those who would like to find out more about this cute Piaggio APE.

Noma Jeane

Oh my, doesn’t Noma look like she is suffering from post weekend blues, sweetie? Mondays, ahh the start of a fresh new week. All too soon it will be weekend again, and before we know the year will be over and we will start the new year all over. 56 days till Christmas. 5 weeks till Matthew finishes Primary School and next year he will be in High School. Time flies, as Dr Seuss once said "How did it get so late so soon?"

Energizer Abigail

I am very impressed with Louise, the Account Manager at National Positions SA, she is clued up with computers support so much so that she reminds me of Abby Sciuto, a fictional character on the TV series NCIS and played by Pauley Perrette. Not just the knowledge but their styles are similar. Abby is the happiest Gothic you'll ever meet who can look stylish and Goth simultaneously. I don't think Louise is Gothic although she is alternative styled but like Abby she is upbeat and smart.

Car Wash Louise

Nothing exciting happened today. It is Friday night and I am alone home, what's new. I suppose it is for the best, my health that is. In exactly two weeks time I will be on the road to a great weekend in the mountains on my Vespa so I my lungs better be healed as it is still winter. Talking about winter today was a beautiful 22°C in Johannesburg.

Other than working at home I popped into AAA this morning to drop off and pick up work for the UK market. On the way out Louise was getting ready to wash her car, typical of a hands on plaas meisie (farm girl). It was a perfect winter's day for it and a perfect moment to get a photograph of Louise without her makeup on not that she needs it.

Who's your Daddy?

The long week is downhill from here. It has been one tough week on a personal side of things so how about a bit of humour to lighten up my spirit.

A businessman who need millions of rands to clinch an important deal went to church to pray for the money. By chance he knelt next to a man who was praying for only R100 so he could buy his family something to eat. The businessman took out his wallet and pressed R100 into the other man's hand. Overjoyed, the man got up and left the church. The businessman then closed his eyes and prayed, "And now, Lord, that I have your undivided attention..."

Yes so now I have your undivided attention, keep me in your prayers as I try to stand back up on my own two feet again. Oh and if you wondering what today's photo is about, well I want to keep my job if that is okay with you.

At least we tried

We have just come back from the Brazil – South Africa soccer game and it is already after midnight. From the left is Justin, Louise, Lucky and Matthew. Wow South Africa played well with Brazil only managing to score from a penalty right at the end of the game. What South Africa needs is a striker or two. They were good in mid-field and defence but just could not put the ball where it counts. I’ve just heard the news on the radio of unconfirmed reports that Michael Jackson has died from a heart attack. I suppose if it is true it will be in the papers in the morning. Well let me get to bed as I have only four hours until I have to get up for work.