Bug Unit

There have been comments recently, saying that we haven’t posted things for a while… so this is the post that will end the silence.

Both Jen and I are still in Durban. She’s leaving on an early flight tomorrow morning, and heading back to Joburg. I’m still here in Durbz until the 14th of Jan. It’s been really chilled out and relaxing. Not having much to do during the days here, and also Durbans (usually) fantastic weather means long days at the pool or beach. I took Jen down to Bay of Plenty beach a week or two ago, and we spent the morning frollicking in the waves and relaxing on the sand. A couple days later we spent a long afternoon next to the pool which resulted in Jen’s back getting quite burnt, and subsequent peeling. I think it’s the first time shes peeled in like … yonks.

“Yonks” is a great word.

News on the travel preparations, is that I’ve now got my backpack all sorted. Same one as Jen’s, but in a black colour, rather than blue. Managed to get it on sale after new years, for R150 cheaper than it was before xmas (in Durban) and R300 cheaper than it was before xmas (in Joburg). We will be pursuing this atrocity when Jen gets back to Joburg. We suspect that Sandton Cape Union Mart is up to no good.

My Dell notebook is also in the process of being purchased. Found out 2 days ago that you can’t use non-UK issued credit cards to purchase notebooks off of the Dell website, so we’ve had to start thinking of alternate ways of getting it. It takes over a week to deliver, so I want to have it paid for and delivered before we get to London. It’s becoming more difficult than I thought it would be. Luckily we have two official plans of action regarding this. The first, is to beg Jen’s cousin, Neil, over in London, to purchase it and then pay him back in pounds… the second is to get hold of a cousin of a cousin, and organise them to purchase it here with their UK credit card, then give them hard currency in exchange. It’s a toughie. Furthermore, the special on the notebook at the moment entitles me to a free upgrade to a 120Gb hard drive, which is only valid until tomorrow (10th January). So, if you know someone, or you yourself have a UK issued credit card and are willing to spend 600 pounds on it, and then be reimbursed instantly, then just let me know and we’ll make a deal of some sort Neil, you’re a legend, whether you can help us out with the notebook or not.

Will be sorting out all of my forex in the next day or two… will most probably be using a Rennies Cash Passport to do it. They’re pretty rad… check them out if you needing to take money with you overseas anytime soon.

Finley is also k-rad. He’s doing all sorts of new things these days… like gurgling… and laughing. Check out Darb’s Flickr account for all the recent pics.