Ernst’s 40th in Joburg…

- Week of 17-23 April.
- Monday, public holiday, Easter Monday brunch at Jacques’, we watched Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull again, Mia tinkered with a logo design, sunset vineyard walk with Mia, we migrated some photos off Mia’s phone – since she was running out of space, Mia watched Spaceballs – and loved it – while I processed some notes and worked on some Jolp ideas, we watched Groundhog Day… always cool.
- Tuesday, last day of the school holidays, so I let Mia sleep nice and late, Mia watched Jurassic Park (“It’s a Unix system“) while I worked, lunch at Eikendal with Mia – the usual snails and bone marrow with Chardonnay (which is amazing), we went hockey stick shopping and found Mia a 37.5” stick and a glove – a green carbon Princess stick – a somewhat delayed birthday gift, dropped Mia off at her gran’s house, walked up a hill in the vineyards at De Zalze and took a (single take) video for a last minute entry to the SU.org GIC-SA challenge (after I learnt about it at a recent future of health talk at Workshop17), some quick iMovie editing – pretty sure iMovie has major UI changes every time I try and use it, Paul came over for a braai and some Hartenberg Chardonnay – we chatted AfrikaBurn logistics, some creative writing and submitted my SU.org entry, about 4 hours of sleep.
- Seems I reached 1600 FB friends.
- AfrikaBurn: elaborate strategy game of effort vs noise, where the organisers know this and make it harder every year.
- Wednesday, up at 4:15, YC podcast drive to gym, coffee and cat typing, office, a walk and a Sababa lunch with Ian, tea with Michael, promenade walk, a sunset stroll around the Waterfront listening to podcasts and a Mondiall burger.
- Step away from your RSS reader for an Easter weekend and you have like 500 things to filter through.
- I’ve taken a break from the Vitality points thing. Interesting how gamification can be motivating and de-motivating. I’m just going to take a month off and do what I’d like to do without chasing points.
- Thursday, up early, podcast drive to gym, swim, steam bath, office, I sent an email to 214 MPs to ask them to vote out our president (~10 opened the email – one responded), had an epic breakfast at Jarryds, took a walk to fetch a drone for Dirk, promenade walk, swim at the Silo gym, a glass of wine at Dirk’s house… left home before dark, arrived home after dark.
- Gym at 5:30 seems to be a great place to catch up on some cat typing.
- Check out Fasterdata
- Nice read: Can podcasting save the world?
- We made a little pitch deck for our aquaponics project this week. I think it’s looking pretty good.
- The Curse of Creativity
- Friday, just in time drive to the airport, flight to Joburg, Arista meeting, Uber ride, a visit to the Melrose Arch gym, swim, catch up and dinner with Ernst, a visit to Tom’s place with Anton.
- Saturday, breakfast and a catch-up with Andrew, found Ernst a bottle of Talisker, ERnst’s 40th birthday party at their house, Tom’s birthday party at Emmarentia Dam with Anton – we stayed till sunset, back to Ernst’s party, Joburg adventure with Anton, And Club, Maboneng… deep Joburg.
- I discovered the Jordan Peterson podcast.
- Sunday, tea with Anton, very chilled breakfast and a beer at the airport, flight to Cape Town – with a nap and some Jordan Peterson podcasts, drove to Stellenbosch, a pink gin and elderflower tonic with Al at Balboa, a steak and a braaibroodjie at The Fat Butcher… very good, nice catch-up with Al, time well spent.
- Joburg was fun. Thanks Anton. Thanks Ernst.
- I’m at AfrikaBurn this coming week. See you there.
Have a fun week, crazy kids.