Rooiels weekend, hamsters and Clone Wars…

- Monday, watered the plants, gym, nice swim, sauna, migrated from Multibit to Hive (BTC wallet), Macbook’s spacebar key got a bit stuck, but Digicape fixed it for me, Aduino workshop at Curiosity Campus with Michael, met Niel and Robyn – good fun, St Patrick’s Day Guinness at O’Driscolls with Aiden, Camilla, Chris and Bill – who are going to AfrikaBurn this year.
- How many days have you spent away from your computer / smartphone this year and how many days are you planning to spend away from your computer? …why we need things like AfrikaBurn.
- Progress on getting Mia interested in Lego Mindstorm has been a bit slower than expected.
- I sometimes worry that I’m spending a lot of time taking photos and writing about things which a very small community of people care about – but, maybe one or two is enough.
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“It’s more fun to be a pirate than join the Navy.” — Steve Jobs
- Tuesday, a meeting at Beerhouse with Randolf and Johann, drove to Stellenbosch, Werner visit, updated the apps on my phone with Stellenbosch free wifi… which seems a bit slower these days, back and neck massage, a walk up Coetzenburg mountain and an AfrikaBurn planning chat with Ernst – a beer at Trumpet Tree and a burger at Apres, a drink with Jan at Balboa chatting about Arduino LED cubes.
- The cure for a stiff neck… posture and a few exercises… and maybe some massages, swimming, sauna visits and walking.
- Can’t say I like the FNB online banking website.
- I managed to replace my emergency slops with some new Reef (Phantom Flight) slops. So much better. The little things you use a lot.
- Wednesday, woke up on a rainy day on Paul’s farm, gym, swim, sauna, found some new shorts (for some reason it’s hard to find shorts in Cape Town in March), mega epic salad, Arduino Tech Talk at The Bandwidth Barn in Woodstock… good fun – 3D printing, robots and motorboats, a beer at Power and the Glory with Johann and Rob (who I have not seen in about 2 years).
- Nice group of people at the Tech Talk. Similar to the LUG days of 1999, just way more low level electronics. I guess the Linux battle has been won – nobody is getting exited about the sun rising…
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“You are never dedicated to something you have complete confidence in. No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow.” — Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
- Would have loved to have things like Arduino and Lego Mindstorm when I was a child.
- I found the present I wanted to give Mia for her birthday. Just in time.
- Nice read: Urban Agriculture… the ultimate hobby project, fish, food, Arduinos and maybe some robotics.
- I was quoted in this article: Stellenbosch rising
- Thursday, gym, swim, Long street roof visit with Johann, a beer at Van Hunks with Georg, Bianca and Terence, a visit to Aiden and Camilla’s, a beer at the Power and the Glory with Georg.
- We found some roof space in Long Street for our first farm.
- Go read Ashley’s first blog post.
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“Let’s face it, you’re saving them from their lives.” — Georg
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“You can tell the size of a man by the size of the things that bother him.”
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I was reminded of this line: “Winston: We grow copious amounts of ganja, yah? And you’re carrying a wasted girl and a bag of fertilizer. You don’t look like your average horti-fucking-culturalist!” — Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
- Friday, public holiday, fetched Mia, Flick and Lick (the class hamsters), drove to Rooiels, beach walk and swim, braai.
- Saturday, walked from Rooiels to Pringle Bay and back with Georg while Mia watched (the much awaited) Clone Wars Season 6, fish and chips at the Kleinmond Harbour, ice cream, nap, Mia watched The Sound of Music movie (for the first time), braai, red wine and Rummikub listening to Chris Chameleon and Koos du Plessis.
- Sunday, morning walk, Mia had some guitar lessons, beach walk and ball games, Sunday lunch, nap, drove back along the coastal road, dropped Mia and the hamsters at Naulene’s house, fetched Cath from the airport, awesome sunset, photo processing, walked down to the Labia to watch The Grand Budapest Hotel… pretty good, but not in the top four.
- Just imagine how many good movies you would have to catch up on if you were 8 years old (at the end of the month).
- I had a few hamsters when I was a child, but these were super cute.
Have a fun week, crazy kids.