Babble

I'm home alone today. The cleaner, Joyce, is here although she's ill and may have tonsillitis! I think the work ethic here is to do work no matter what. Quite an old-fashioned ethic nowadays...

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The sun is shining is shining very bright today. Clear skies, just one shade of blue. I'm sitting on my bed, and the view I have is through an old white window with security bars out towards palm trees just outside the window, the swimming pool in the garden below, more exotic trees beyond, and then a large mountain climbing up to it's peak, which I reckon is about a kilometre away. Nestled just about half way up the slope, poking out just above the line of trees in our garden, I can see the highest few houses of the nearby slum, Mandela Park, which nowadays has proper full-on houses and tarmac roads and such. Still an informal settlement, but getting there. Joyce lives in one of the new houses.

Milja and I are heading out to one of her male friend's, Sean's, house where we'll hang out with her other mates. I think the plan for the weekend is beach/cinema/out in town, so it should be a goodun, and we should be covered if the weater changes.

The first PERL lecture is on Monday. Heikki is doing them every day, so I can't really stay at home every day like I have this week (apart from yesterday), but on the plus side, it will save valuable Internet bandwidth if I am not online here. Apparently, as there is a monopoly in the Internet market here, a 5GB monthly bandwidth limit costs nearly £100. Not very cheap - and quite restrictive! It equals out at an average of only 33MB of bandwidth per person per day in this household (5 internet users).

I'm just about to have some lunch, and then I will start making Thank You cards for the wedding, which are going to be quite late.

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Dan | 12:50
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