Being a dinosaur at a children event

This coming Saturday I was asked to be in a dinosaur costume for a childrens birthday party. Unfortunately I am not that great with children, but I will see what I can do to entertain them. The suit that I own is going to get hot. A few days ago, I tried on the suit because I haven't worn it for a long time, just to discover some annoyances that are currently being fixed. The feet would have shown as well which is not nice.

The original design of that suit had seperate feet which are just resting on the wearer's feet. The result is that they get partially underneath the actual foot or get kicked off completely. The head also had two collapsing sections which reduce vision considerably and the head was not staying properly in position anymore.

Walking from Kensington to Monte Vista in the rain

Two days ago, I had the fun and joy of falling asleep on the train and getting off two stations too early. The station that I got off at was called Kentemade which is in the Kensington suburb. The station looks nearly identical to the Monte Vista station that I normally get off at. The train stopped there and I woke up, both sides looked more or less correct based on what I could see. This was the last train for the evening. By the time I realised the station was wrong, the train was moving again.

After that story, I neded up walking toward Voortrekker road to head in the direction of Monte Vista, but I had to pass Facreton first and then through Vasco suburbs. Kensington itself can be a maze, especially at night. After many wrong turns, I finally got to Voortrekker road, then the rain started.

Much walking later with the rain coming and going, I finally reached Vasco, then heavy rain hit. Fortunately that was the last on the route. Since I was running about 40% of the route, the entire trip took 1 hour and 20 minutes.

Port Forwarding for Lan Bridger

Recently I have had the fun of trying to set up port forwarding on my router. There is a lot of documentation on the internet, but most of the time the issue of the IP address just happens to be skipped. Routers seem to need that IP address otherwise they would not know where to do the routing to.

To set up Port Forwarding, you actually need to set up a Virtual Server on the router. Then all that is required is the IP address (usually the IP address of your own PC or server that hosts a specific service), the port range (Lan Bridger uses port 40001) and the protocol which is All,TCP or UDP. What helps a huge amount is the tool for checking if your settings are correct which can be foudn on the Port Forwarding website

Witches and Wizards costume party at DecoDance Underground

This coming Saturday is a costume party at DecoDance Underground in Woodstock, Cape Town. I am planning to go there and a colleague of mine will most likely be there as well. The last time I went to something like this was a Halloween party.

Cape Town Book Fair 2009

As every year, the annual Cape Town Book Fair is happening again for four days at the Cape town International Convention Centre (CTICC). The programme of the event can be found at www.capetownbookfair.com.

As usual I will be making a Spider-Man appearance on Sunday at 12 at the Readers Den stand.

Why many relationships fail so easily

Months ago I had a girlfriend. She was more a friend than a girlfriend and there was not really a relationship to speak of. When I had time, I came for a visit and that was about it. Then severals months ago (last year sometime) she decided suddenly to terminate the friendship. I wiped all the contact details that I had after that since terminate means final. At that point in time I could not make any sense about the "reasoning" why that got terminated and left it at that.

Today I get a message saying that I should come for dinner even though I am now on her already quite big ex-friends list. She talks about me having been a good friend. Recently I met another woman and several weeks ago we went once for coffee and once to watch a movie together. Today the girlfriend from so long ago who terminated the friendship now suddenly says I cheated on her. How this is possible I have no idea since there have been at least four months between her and the person that I have recently met.

The above situation is exactly why I do not really want people around me who backstab me with accusations and expect me to mindread and always say the correct thing. I have had a total of two grilfriends in my life and at this rate that is two too many.