I have been stuck in presentations and meetings all day. Boring!!!

I have still not been to gym. Very naughty.

Laurie and I are busy working on a 500 piece puzzle of the New York skyline. We work on it every Thursday night. On the first night we did the border, on the second night we did all the buildings and Statue of Liberty. This thursday we stated with the sky. I think we managed to place 20 pieces the whole night. Do you know how difficult it is to distinguish between a blue piece and another blue piece?

We had some great rain the other night. It will do the garden the world of good.

I got some excellent news yesterday. My tax guy called me and told me that instead of owning SARS about R8500 (as he originally calculated) SARS in all their wisdom decided I only owe them R1700. I love SARS!!!

Laurie and I celebrated Valentines Day at Steakholders. Great little steak house in Boskruin. I had the most awesome Jalapeno rump steak. We had a Zonneblom Pinotage which was really great!!!

Hi everyone.

Did you guys check the cricket!! I was lucky enough to be there with really excellent seats. It was so nerve racking, I think my finger prints are still embedded in the railing.

I went to the Workgroup sales conference on Friday and Saturday. I had to do the Linux spin for the Workgroup folks. The conference was held at a place with an unpronounceable name about 18 km's outside Warmbaths.

I finalised my registration with UNISA so I am now waiting for my first material to arrive. What have I let myself in for!!!

I was supposed to go to gym this week, but that didn't work out. (oooh bad pun) Hopefully I will go on Tuesday.

If you guys are looking for a good meal with a bit of a difference try Rhubarb's on Sandton Square. You have to try their black mushroom starter. It has Brie melted over the top and they serve it with a raspberry sauce. Awesome. One of our guys from the UK office was out for a week and Laurie and I took him out to dinner on Tuesday night. Some of our cricket players were walking around Sandton City as well. There were a whole lot of kids running around with cricket bats trying to get autographs.

This week ended on quite sad note for us. Laurie's sister's fiancé died this week from cancer. He left Zim just over a year ago to start a new life in Australia. He hadn't been there long when he was diagnosed with cancer. After operations (removed a brain tumor, spot on the lung and testicles), chemo and radiation he seemed to have a handle on things. He even went back to work. Unfortunately it soon reappeared. Two weeks ago he just went drastically downhill. He spent all of this week in hospital. His brother managed to fly to Australia to be with him just in time. He was only 26.

On that somber note I bid you all farewell. Live life folks.

Cheers
Michael