I HAVE SEEN THINGS THAT YOU WILL NEVER SEE......

Yet more bucketloads of dosh being poured into St. Theresa's.... They've been repainting all the kids dormitories and decorating them beautifully.....*keels over laughing... AS IF!!!

I listened on and off on Friday as some hectic metalwork was undertaken. More scaffolding, hastily stuck together below the Recreation Centre?

When I finally went up to open the gates at 5.00pm, the answer became obvious..

A smart, metal-barred fence now runs across the section below the Recreation Centre (see pics). Brilliant for security purposes and even more so for the Wimax Project...

Yesterday, an unmarked white bakkie parked on the Playing Field by the gap in the precast wall (the gap that grew and grew as slats were liberated in an ongoing effort to improve Direct Line of sight from the aerials across on the outbuildings ...*grins..

The wekkers then erected more metal struts/pole fencing across the gaps to the field..(see more pics)

Whoever ultimately foots the bill for all this lot is not short of a bob or two...*shakes it's head...

This morning I sat in the dark, out on the verandah, and found it all systems Go at 3.45am.

Captain Courageous had his direction-finder light activated and as usual, his garage light on, along with his inside kitchen light.. The Recreation Centre and Power House were active as was the upper floor of the Senior Boys Hostel, facing into Mayville.

A weird new light over by the new metal fence on the Playing Field, eventaully got me out on the lawn for a better look...

I'm at a loss for the moment to describe the new installations and will wait for daylight and a better look...*shrugs...

At 4.25am I was back inside, writing in the lounge, when mon Capitano clunked loudly into our system. *beams... It must of been about that time that a dozy GateKeeper switched on the light above the door over at the Servant's Quarters..(see pic)

This light had nothing whatsoever to do with the horizontal light which appeared to run along both the top and bottom of one section of the newly erected metal fencing....*astonished!

Twas such a muggy, damp morning with banks of grey cloud coming down from the North... the toppies calls echoed down in the valley and I was reminded of weekends and holidays spent at the deranged Billy Keel's smallholding/farm at Tugela Ferry....

I was only in Primary school back then, and its weird how the memories get sharper, the older you get...*cackles...

Did he really get taken out in a shootout with the cops or was that just urban legend? He was quite mad of course, but I was way too young back then to have made that assessment....

I'm smiling over the latest assertions that I seek the spotlight...*grins...

Are you serious? *falls over laughing.... As my memory improves, so yours founders? Follow the trail back and you will find the Heroic One at the very beginning of the Game. He and he alone thrust me in front of the footlights ...*cackles...

I didn't care much for it then, but have now learned to live with it...*grins..

I tell myself daily that it is a wondrous thing to be given centre-stage and my head now dutifully buys the BS....*chortles...

A romantic fool was I - knights charging to the rescue indeed! Pfftt.... The reality of crooked IRC cops *winks at Bali, and Rotten Apples was a pretty harsh wake-up call...

Finding the file with the perverted title buried amongst dozens of techno sounding stuff on our Pc was a happy accident, and showed clearly how far our controller would go to amuse his peers....

He denies knowledge of this? *shrieks with laughter....

By now, the Courageous Couple could undoubtedly author a book on 1000 Ways to Claim Innocence..... *laughs... Water under the bridge it is ja....

No sign of a Telkom Tech rushing out to rescue the cable still straining under the weight of the toppled mulberry tree..*shrugs..

When I finally rang to report it on Friday, Bev Pillay at Overport Telkom didn't sound quite her usual merry self....*grins...

I had called a few days before, to ask her to tell Toby van Heerden he had been blogged.... she had sounded amused at the time, but something happened in between that wasn't quite so funny? Maybe its all imagination and she was just very busy? *chortles...

Later:

Back we go to my Captain's by now expert shrug, eyeroll and derisive laugh? Sitting at the PC last night we had several dips to our system.

Again after 6.00am this morning, small but visible dips. Doing the laundry after 7.00am and the bathroom light began dipping badly. I switched it off hastily and stood checking the light in the toilet for a minute. Nothing worth mentioning..*shrugs...

So off I went and sat in the kitchen to watch the neon tube light for a bit....solid as a rock...

Small they may be, but sent continuously, I'm betting they will take their toll eventually - blowing the toilet bulb last week surely gave Bali great satisfaction...*falls over...

Such small things and so easy to shrug them off and sing the old "she's crazy" song not so? And yet, since Allen Spence so unwisely handed our power system to the Chicken King to control in 2004, we have lost hundreds and hundreds of rands worth of electrical assets...*chuckles...

It is the Coward's way, and much like the hounding online - tradition? The Captain of Courage proves himself to be in touch with his feminine side.... quite cute for a control freak/bully...*chortles.....

Continuously sending mini surges to various jackpoints round the house has a - well, girlish spite about it....*cackles...

The chopper happening to be overhead on 2 separate occasions just seconds before the power is cut? Do they fly low to switch off the system at Sabeera's and the convent? Or do they actually cut the power totally from the air?

To say that there is no power involved in this Big Brother Project, is prevarication at its finest...*grins... The Telkom Wimax Trialists are merely suckers being used to piggyback the Real Deal throughout the country....*maniacal laughter....

Even the crazed (yet I suspect, genius), captain wifi at myadsl, seems stuck in a single-minded time warp of his own...*bummer... with his amazing ability to think laterally, I confess to, for a brief while, having hoped he would solve the enigma...*shakes it's head....

But no - he clearly cannot fathom Tardspeak and has no desire to try...*grins... Another who would prove a fascinating source of information must be skydog...does he now run a base station for Telkom? Riddle me ree indeed....*grins...

As I flew past the Locksmith's house in Garbutt Road yesterday morning, the entire family appeared to be assembled on the pavement... I could have sworn I saw a guy getting into his car with a red and white striped stick?? Much like the black and white striped sewage line marker left in full view on Bernie's verge? (see pics) while they adapted the pipes to hide the deliberate water run-offs.... So, red and white would be for.....? *puzzled....

Did I mention that the crazed bees had left? Whether the continous spring rains did them in, or they found themselves a queen and settled elsewhere, I don't know... I do know that the Valley did their heads in fosho!...*cackles...

By 10.00am the droogs were still busy over on the Playing field, sanctimoniously adding to the metal security fencing...*keels over laughing....

Father Denker must certainly be aware that the orphanage in his care is now a base station for Telkom and the Muni (read Govt) for how else could he justify the enormous cost of this marvellous metal fencing....? Where did the money come from? Certainly not his Collection Plates....*shudders....

It would seem that pretty much anyone capable of sending a basic email, knows to avoid Symantecs Norton system. That would of course, exclude the GameWrecker....*grins...

He paid online for the due upgrade over 2 weeks ago, but has yet to receive the code required to install the upgrade...*cackles... the payment has certainly been debited to his account and yet repeated calls to the Symantec Johannesburg office give an auto message directing him to their Internet Helpline...heheh....

May I guess that his struggles are a source of great hilarity to Collin Balliram? *hawks...

Over the years it has been the Cowardly One's pleasure to manipulate Norton thoroughly, has it not o bold one? *laughs...

This latest little tweak is truly of a level I would expect - nay - anticipate from one of his calibre...*snorts....

Despite our tardish efforts to master new technology, I would be curious to see whether Bullyboy Bali and Missus C are as comfortable together after 44 + years as are these 2 somewhat dim bulbs....*cackles....

It may well be a kindness to pass on my heavy-duty Kevlar. Once I am gone, who will Bali have left to act out his insecurities on? Why the tiny Missus C naturally....*shakes it's head....

The damp mist finally cleared to reveal a beautiful cloudless sky...Sitting out in the garden with a myriad different bird calls all around, interspersed with the Beast's angle-grinder, I can truly say there is nowhere I would rather be...*beams...

Peace, from the Zone...

PS My harddrive light glares solid red. Something that usually happens when I struggle in trivia and just prior to enormous lag or disconnect? *laughing......

PS now 8.39pm and our system is dipping again... has our Controller lost the plot totally? Pfftt...

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Sunday 14th October 2007 at 2.29pm