One year anniversary of my father's death

One year ago today, my fatehr died after suffering for three years of chronic kidney failure. I miss him quite a lot. Unbelievable how quick one year went. It seems like yesterday when I got the phone call at 1:15AM to come to the hospital. The evening before he was in the final stage of kidney failure.

Applications getting stuck during installation

There have been several applications which I have tried to install where the installer just got stuck. This includes Windows Live Messenger which dies when using the defaults (installs more or less everything additional). Adobe Flash CS3 installer also froze my PC a few times and the application dies on startup. Dreamweaver doesn't close down properly, it always remains running as a process. Unless that process is killed, it will not become visible again. Windows also gets stuck during shutdown for some odd reason after already closing all running applications before doing the shutdown.

Small birthday gathering at Paulaner Bräuhas

On Saturday several friends of mine and myself gathered at the Paulaner Bräuhaus (Paulaner Brewery) at the V&A Waterfront in Cape Town near the Clocktower in the harbour. The event was a small celebration of my 32nd birthday. The food was expensive, so we skipped that because we could not get a food platter for multiple people.

The beers were good as usual. This time, I tried the special for this time of the year which is called Winterbock. The beer has more alcoholic content than other beers and ended up being rather potent but nice because it is so smooth.

Website success story

On Tuesday this week I expected a few people to arrive at 8PM to try on costumes. It turned out to be a group of eleven people from a school in the town of Paarl. They had to drive 45 minutes to get to me and 45 minutes to get back with a speed limit of 120km/h.

The fact that they came and managed to fit on everything that they had on their list was due to the booking system on my website. A few costumes had to be swapped for others due to sizes of the person who were supposed to wear them. My website bascially gave me an advantage over my competitors because it allowed me to widen my potential clients to other cities in a normally very region specific market.

New superhero costumes ordered

Several new superhero costumes have been ordered yesterday for my costume renting business. Most of these costumes are due to popular demand like Hulk and different Supergirl sizes. Some women require large sizes and I normally never have those, especially for superheroes the same issue is with some smaller sizes. Captain America is also on the list, hopefully it will not be stolen a third time.

Guild Wars guild event into Fissure of Woe (FoW)

Yesterday evening two of us in the Guild Wars guild "The Monstrous Fangs [fang]" attempted to start a small run in Fissure of Woe (FoW). An hour later as per normal [fang] time, we had an entire guild team.

Halfway through the eleven quests, our tank (Warrior) had to leave. The next closest thing we had to a tank was a Paragon which uses a spear and shield. I was using my assassin as always.

In the end we completed everything without too many hassles.

Hectic work and overtime

The last couple of days have been hectic with working overtime. Weekdays I got home around 10PM (3 to 4 hours later than usual). Yesterday (Sunday), I was at the office as well for nearly a full day.

Initial D strikes again

Last night I made the mistake of starting to watch the anime series called "Initial D" again. Every time I start that series, then everything else is more or less on hold.