Kalk Bay outing, last weekend of the school holidays…
- Monday, gym, mostly some just-in-time CRM system updates to start activating Gust Coffee Club merchants, salad at Col’caccio with Mia, gelato, we played some Cargo Bot.
- Mia asked why keyboard layouts are not alphabetical. I explained keyboard layouts to Mia. She thinks I’m a bit strange after I told her I remap my keys.
- Mia seems to be producing 2-3 artworks a day at the moment.
- Tuesday, gym.. 45Kg bicep curls, dropped Mia at her mom’s, Cape Town office, MIH demo, fetched new post office box keys, got some new squash rackets, walked around in shorts with squash rackets and got some beers at The Jolly Rodger, ribs at Apres with Werner.
- Seems the Coetzenburg outdoor pool will be open again on 1 Sept. Might have to get my Underwater Hockey game on again.
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“Yesterday’s weirdness is tomorrow’s reason why.” — Hunter S. Thompson.
- Werner suggested I should get a date before his wedding. 5 Month deadline.
- Wednesday, Cape Town day, had a BOS ice tea at BOS HQ, omelette, bank, office, lunch with Ellie at Knead – Wembley Square, bank visit in Stellenbosch, Van Der Stel Squash club, found the Maties squash club (again), calamari at Decameron with Jaco Joubert.. who I had not seen in a few years, a drink at Stomme Jonge, gelato.
- The new beta Mxit iOS client is looking good.
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“Was daar ‘n beseering in die A span?” — Werner, about Mxit’s A and B team culture.
- Mia really is awesome.
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“You see, there are two kinds of people in this world, the workers and the hustlers. The hustlers never work and the workers never hustle and you my friend, are a worker.” — Dough, Cocktail.
- Thursday, gym, weekly Gust dev meeting at Blue Crane, a haircut at the new Old Barber Shop.. great haircut for R80, first squash game in about two years… Werner and I joined the Maties club, inbox scrubbing.
- 15 active Coffee Club merchants so far, 800 coffees.
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“Broken gets fixed, but shitty lasts forever.”
- Gust was features in the July FHM magazine.
- Friday, skipped gym (squash reasons), office space shopping, Woordfees meeting at Gino’s, Gusted a 514 at Simply Asia, red latte and chat about LUX with Natie at Melissa’s, fetched Mia and Francis, Audi visit, Brampton while Mia and Francis went to Col’cacios with Anjela.
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“SnapScam” — Pieter
- 30 active merchants, 1700 coffees.
- Saturday, made scrambled eggs for Mia and Francis, spent some time around the house, Naulene arranged for Francis to be fetched.. 3 hours late – her reason: “I’m was having a massage.”, Mia and I drove to St James along the Muizenberg coastal road – beautiful, Sonnekus Guest House – nice, a walk around Kalk Bay with Mia and Georg, watched a seal doing tricks for fish, hake and calamari at Lucky Fish, a drink at Cape to Cuba – a place that prides themselves on making Mojito’s but does not have limes, we managed to finish a magnum of bubbly while watching the rugby back at the guest house.
- Naulene’s usual tricks: being late, not communicating and not caring what impact it has on anybody else’s day… It’s Not About The Nail
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“The revolution is not an apple that falls when it’s ripe – you have to make it fall.” — Che Guevara.
- Sunday, woke up in St James, sunny winters day, breakfast at the guest house, found myself an authentic Bolivian Alpaca sweater, Mia got three finger puppets (seems she’s not into hippie clothing so much), chocolate croissants at Olypia cafe, Liquorice ice cream at The Ice Cafe, Kings Craft beer at the Brass Bell, Danger beach (St James), Empire Cafe, almost drove over some fool who ran across the road – that moment after when all you can think about is the admin and paperwork the ABS just saved you, Mia watched Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark again while I had a long phone chat with Anton about his new business idea, photo processing.
- Got a few nice photos in Kalk Bay. Need to take my camera out more often – or go places that make me want to take my camera out.
- Whenever Naulene complains about Mia watching too many movies I think.. well, Ernst watched too many movies and he turned out okay.
Have a fun week, crazy kids.