Went through a bad patch which affected my health (dizziness, high blood pressure), mostly caused by stress, though am glad to say things are pretty much back together now A lot of my outlook on life has changed in the past few months, for the better. I'm feeling quite proud about the way business is headed recently

Oh.. and I'm going on holiday..yes..AGAIN! Seems every journal I post has something about a holiday hehehe Going down to PE again (yes, 3rd time this year), then have yet another break planned for new years! Don't get too jealous of me, these are all quite short breaks really....erm...or I could use the "business trip" excuse *cough*

Grrrrrrrr..
Firstly, just so everybody knows, ABSA suck balls! A Nigerian customer tried to buy a laptop with a fraudulent cheque and ABSA completely let him screw me over, despite me warning them and crime stop in advance. The police advised they never catch these people and opening a case would be a waste of energy! I still love ZA, but wtf!? Some things are...*restrains self before someone is killed and the crime rate in Jozi is escalated*

Pimping!!!
Before you finish reading this, go visit RioFox and Dremagon - my sis and bro! Go check 'em out!

Holidays
I've been going to the coast on holiday literally once every 2 months... loving it!! Last holiday was to PE to visit a few ppl...what a blast!! BTW locals, intercape busses are awesome.. translux SUCKS BALLS!

Anyway, leaving next week for PE, Jeffrey's Bay, and the Grahamstown National Arts Festival. Will be going along with and seeing again, amongst others, Dwuff, ErdWolfTVL, Behemoth, electrocat, cat147, ...can't wait!!!

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listning to: Prodigy - Run with the Wolves
Watching: Blood and Chocolate

Okay, so apart from a few minor repairs to go on the one car, and the other car making some weird noises, they're both... on the road.. over R11,000 later spent within 7 weeks!! Things are going well, and work has picked up fantastically, so overall I'm actually happy and not stressed out of my brackets as I was in December/Jan. Insurance made some blunder-ups, but I must say I scored when I bought a 2nd hand HP 9110 for R1000, got hit by lightning, and insurance paid out the full R6500 retail price o.O SCORE!! And another score... buying broken laptops for spares has paid off, got one for R350 with a broken motherboard, and another for free with a smashed screen...identical models! R300 labour later and I've got a centrino 1.73GHz 1GB RAM 60GB HDD DVDRW laptop! SCORE!!

I'm going on holiday to the coast this weekend! YAY!! I really needed this..especially after things have been so rough recently.. can't wait!

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Things about me:

1. For several years I produced music (dance & trance) under the alias Glacier (since 1995)

2. I survive on 2 meals a day, sometimes one o.O Comes from my crazy lifestyle

3. I like wolves (what? you didn't know!? )

4. I was a springbok scout (top award in scouts in south africa)

5. I'm a bit of a party animal, and spend a lot of time in pool bars (tho have cut down recently due to work)

6. I don't watch TV or listen to the radio... heck I swopped my TV for a pool cue! (when you have as much music and movies on disc as I do, a car sound system with USB MP3 player, etc., you'll understand )

7. I'm the fussiest eater on the planet! No bunny rabbit chow

8. I'm an entrepreneur at heart, and never see myself ever working for a boss

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Cars & phones - terrible luck!!

Still had some bad luck with a few things. My one laptop (that I'm still paying off) and one of my desktops that got fried by a surge.. insurance won't cover them coz they say I can claim from the municipality - no such luck! We've since cancelled with Auto & General after our 5th refused claim in a row (including the flooding). On new years day I landed up sitting with 2 broken down cars - still saving up for the one, the other's alternator packed up :/ Thankfully I have friends that care, got driven around and taken out for parties and movies while I was car-less

So I get that car fixed, then get my Ford back, which broke down ON THE WAY back from the mechanic - been sitting so long that oil clogged the pickup - engine ran dry. After a week of more expensive repairs, I get the car back on a Friday, so excited that I went out and got a new sound system, then reinstalled it myself coz they wanted R750 to rewire my car (thieves did damage to all the wiring when stealing my last system). Then 4 days later the cambelt snapped!! And now the other car is giving hassles too...I'll have spent over R10k in car repairs in one month!!!

On the bright side..
In general work has actually been going great this year so far! I've had tons of hardware sales and websites to design So yeah, things are coming right...and I finally got the phone I wanted, P990i (the nokia E90 is STILL awaiting spares for repairs), and I'm back on track with financials mostly, except for saving up for my car..again Hope to have both cars sorted in the next week or two.

On the down-side it does look like I'm single again, though I can blame most of it on all that's happened in the past month.. she and I have both been through really stressful times recently. It's probably better this way for now anyway until my life is completely on track again...