Teambuilding weekend in Matjiesfontein

This last weekend the entire office drove out to Matjiesfontein in the Karoo somewhere. Most things we did were quite fun, but I had a cold already before we left. It seems like most people in the office have managed to get their own copy of it. Because of this I missed three visiting hours at the hospital, and the birthday of someone where I sometimes go to play network games.

Now I am hoping that this cold will go away sooner rather than later, since that might be dangerous for some patients in the hospital, and I don't want to be sick anymore by the time the German carnival happens at the end of the month. For that costume party during the carnival I might go as Spider-Man, and sneezing or running nose is not good with a mask on.

New adult sized superhero costumes spotted

Yesterday I browsed a few of my regular sites to find stock for my costume rental business, just to see, that there a couple of new Star Wars and Superhero costumes available. Money is rare, so I can order two, or maybe three at most, and then I will get hit hard by the customs fees, so the decisions are difficult.
There are new Iron Man, Flash, Batman, Darth Vader, Chewbacca, Clone Trooper and Emperor Palpatine costumes.

The german carnival Matieka in Stellenbosch is coming up end of July.
As usual, I will attend the big costume party, but haven't decided yet what to wear, it also depends on if it is raining or not.

Back to the Hospital again

My father has been sent back to the hospital due to his kidney issue. They released him too early when he was there already for five weeks.

This means the daily routine of coming home from work by train, walking home, getting into the car and driving off to the hospital. Most likely this will take a couple of weeks at least.

Of course this also means lack of sleep, not much time for anything and other issues.

Commercial filming with rented Spider-Man costume

Today is the day when a film studio located in Gardens (part of Cape Town) was supposed to film a commercial with a
Spider-Man costume which they wanted to rent from me. The whole commercial filming has been stopped yesterday because of some decision. It would have been nice to see an advert with that on South African television, but that would probably be an advert for kids or it would only have been shown on non-public channels.

Delays by the Metrolrail Court Team

This morning the train came a few minutes late as usual. At the next station was the Metrorail Court Team waiting. They were after people smoking on the train, those with third class tickets sitting in first class and those with no tickets at all.

This event was expected to happen due to the strike and the related increases a bit more than one month ago.

My father is back in hospital, which is what I expected to happen as well. He just wanted to leave there and continue his existing lifestyle, but he doesn't seem to realise, that he cannot do that anymore.

Yesterday a film studio wanted to rent a tight fitting Spider-Man costume from me, but then they decided not to make the commercial anymore. It would have been nice to see that one on television. :)

Wireless ISPs

I have been trying to get hold of Cape Town based ISPs via email, but that seems to be a hopeless case. They don't seem to be very serious abotu their business, and of course Telkom would probably limit their available bandwidth. Of course with the Telkom monopoly still happily going on, this will most likely remain like that for a while.