Homosapien

I have this anonymous blog reader that, every now and again, posts a comment on my blog. I’m pretty sure it’s the same person every time, because the writing style and advice seems to be pretty much in line.

It’s kinda weird to think that someone else is reading my diary. But it’s also nice that someone would actually think that my spurious ramblings are actually worth reading. To my avid reader, thank you for the comments, they’re not pointless or useless, but insightful and cool, you are obviously a bit older and more experienced than myself.

Now, on to today’s proceedings…

The internet service provider to my office has screwed up. The router on my side seems to be rejecting certain types of traffic. So I logged the call on Tuesday. Today is Thursday, and still nothing has been fixed. All they do is phone me and argue that their stuff is working. So last night, I jack in a modem into the server, dial up to a regular ISP, and the e-mail server started replicating immediately. The geeky among us know that Lotus Domino isn’t a very fussy mail server, it works over just about any internet connection. Except, it would seem, Internet Solutions. All of a sudden.

So this morning, I act all uptight, and tell the support staff that I want someone ON SITE before 11, or there will be hell to pay. I have installed a client on a separate machine, and plugged it in BEHIND the firewall, thus bypassing all VPN stuff. Which I needn’t do, because the Rustenburg site is connected through VPN to our office at this very moment, and they are replicating with my server.

Yet, IS does not work. Not even when I’m plugged in behind the firewall, bypassing all that makes sense and all that doesn’t. This is as good as being plugged straight into a satellite dish. And they still want to argue. Can you believe it…

Last night, Harmse and I went to play our weekly pool games. It’s only a recent thing, made official but two weeks ago.

10:17 : Kaveer from IS just phoned. Finally someone that knows something! He reconfigured a load of stuff, and it looks like it’s finally working. Sheesh, my stomach…

Back to the pool game. We had some rum and coke, and some more. Then I had some J&B on the rocks, played a friendly match against two other guys, obviously professional players, so we got our asses kicked! Then I got a basket of fries, and we chilled a bit. Got home slightly woosie, but far from drunk.

It helps to have a friend one can talk to.

But my brains are still messed up with thoughts of the Chinese girl. Why oh why do I have to feel for her? It’s just supposed to be a friend.

Random thought of the day: Beware the beast man for he is the devils pawn. Alone among God's primates he kills for sport or lust or greed. Yea he will murder his brother to possess his brother's land. Let him not breed in great numbers for he will make a desert of his home and yours. Shun him, drive him back to his jungle lair, for he is the harbinger of death." - Cornelius, Planet of the Apes (1968)