GOING TO THE MOUNTAIN.....
(begun Monday at 6.00am)
Twas a quiet day today,with the single most interesting thing being the wekkers wearing Muni blue, clambering about the orphanage roof in the afternoon. See pics.
The one that really drew my attention was this guy in the red shirt, working busily by what looks like a chimney stack above the storeroom.
Repairing a leak or installing yet another signal enhancer? *grins...
Bali's second deck (the one at the top of his drive), is so far merely a showcase for his toys.... Having opened up a wide gap underneath the deck (to his neighbours dismay), I can see that the strange lights previously seen hidden in the dense shrubbery, were probably just reflections bouncing off Basil's garage windows...*shrugs and pops another Rescue pill.....
A river of water was running down the hill below the Senior Boys Hostel at 8.00am this morning and was still flowing steadily at 9.00am...see pics.
When I made my usual Monday crime-update call this morning, for the GOCOC report, the lady on the corner of Jan Smuts and Candella said there had been a big runoff yesterday down by the Sherwood/Mayville fly-off...*puzzled...
I suspect she finds my interest in the deliberate water wasteage highly amusing....*cackles...
I asked her if she was aware that it is to do with the telecoms Project, and stuffing fibre through the water pipes and she said yes....*beams...
I'm not really surprised that they are a part of the Project, as their property has sported the biggest Radio Mast / Aerial in the district for years...
A radio ham thrilled by this wondrous new technology and all too keen to be included? Yebo...
I have to wonder how the average man in the street (the likes of Basil and ourselves) will find the money to pay the huge rates increases...*hawks..
Missus RadioMast certainly didn't sound in the least bit concerned about the water wasteage, though I grant you, last years rainfall was indeed much higher than the norm...
Fingers crossed, the heavy rains will continue until the Project is completed... Should water-rationing, along with electricity rationing be instituted, there will surely be an outcry...
Like that would make any difference at all..*falls over...
The house with the green roof at the Freeway end of Barnard Road in Mayville, was sporting three aerials active at 5.30am today...
Pushing the signal to Piedmont Road as well?
Sadly, the old man that was so savagely beaten in his own home in Everton Road, finally gave up the ghost.... The elderly are sitting ducks these days...*frowns...
Later:
Tonight's CPF Meeting was like the old days - before I was dragooned into doing acting-secretary work and struggling to take the Minutes...*chortles...
Happily, the ex-secretary arrived and kindly took over, leaving me free to pay attention to who WASN'T there....*beams...
Nice to see Shakoor again...*waves wildly... Of course odds are, he reports back to my Master those finer details of conversation that aren't picked up by the audio monitors on the Hill...*falls over laughing...
I do believe I gave the lurkers something to chew on last night...*cackles... I couldn't resist mentioning the Keal Road and Cnr. of Raftery Road deliberate water runoffs...*grins...
I know it won't make a blind bit of difference, but such fun to chirp out loud for a change...*laughing...
May I suggest that a script is swiftly created regarding the megalomaniac installed at No. 11 Loon road? Clearly he is cut from the very same cloth as Captain Courageous....*smiles...
When Hekhmat the Good at No. 9 Loon Road, demurred at having his trees radically cut (undoubtedly for LOS) without so much as a by-your- leave, the Telkom Wimax Trialist/Controller now constructing an enormous house next door at No. 11, made the error of calling out the local SAPS.
To Hekhmat's astonishment, the cops arrived within 5 minutes and lambasted him for troublemaking!
How the little ripples spread...*grins...
If our Vice-Chair had not repeated this story at the CPF, it would not have occurred to me to mention the Big Brother Wireless Project to her..*shrugs..
I would hope that der Kommissar is able to pour the proverbial oil quite swiftly... and to chastise the idiots who pounced on Hekhmat and to give them a Game Plan that is acceptable in the event this sort of thing happens again...
No. 11 is clearly earmarked as being in a very strong position, as it is beautifully situated overlooking a vast area...see pic
This does not however, give its owner the freedom to Lord it over ..erm...*falls over laughing...
What am I saying? It is exactly the behaviour I have come to expect from the Ruler of my Known Universe, and the residents of Loon road will now have to accept that they too have a posturing twit who will eventually be able to make their lives miserable...*shrieks...
How many appliances will Shah and Livvie lose once that monstrosity is completed and he is handed the power circuit to control?
How many huge signal enchancing lights will be plastered over the house, and how many thousands of litres of water runoff down Loon Road?
It is fortunate that like so many, our Vice-Chair considers me one can short of a sixpack, but nonetheless, errors are being made. Huge errors.
If there is still any desire or need to keep this Operation undercover, may I suggest that Hekhmat is spoken to with courtesy, albeit that he is leaving the area...*smiles...
That the pratt placed at No. 11 (soon to be Controller), is tactfully reminded that although he will indeed be an important cog in the Zone's wheel, he is already attracting more attention than Jackie Selebi or the Shaik Boyz would deem acceptable....*laughing...
Bali arrived home some 15 minutes behind me...
without a doubt he had been sitting up on the Hill hanging onto my every croak...*grins... My hope is that I have given him food for thought...*beams...
My nutty allegations are beginning to make sense as the mistakes and sloppiness increase...
If catching tax dodgers is the reason given for this Big Brother Snoop Initiative, tell me why so many business owners, and wealthy professionals, not to mention druglords and convicted criminals, are on board this gravy train? *cackles...
I was hoping to approach Missus Microwave Boffin for an acceptable answer, as she is one I trust completely... Strangely, neither of them were at tonight's Meeting...
A premonition on their part, or just over-booked?...laughs...
It is interesting to see who has not been blessed by the Beast... Some very good people indeed are totally unaware of this Project..
Why is that, when practically the entire Zone is now saturated with wireless enhancers?
We lost one of those long-life bulbs tonight... the ones touted by that artful dodger Eskom..*grins.. One dip too many courtesy of the Chicken King? *howls...
The valley below still remains uncut, though the wekkers were busy close by...the reason for this is....? Rumblings of discontent would have been heard by the audio monitors as residents at the Meeting queried the lack of effort by the Parks Dept.
More sloppiness or deliberate degradation?
Is it possible that the Architects did not account for the individuals chosen by them, to run amok? To be so overwhelmed by their own importance as to make huge blunders? *winks at Bali....
G'nite.....
Tuesday morning:
I woke before 3.00am and decided to get up and deal with the laundry basket... until I remembered that the geyser had been switched off last night...*glum...
So much for using big appliances out of peak hours...*sniffs...
Eskom are demonstrating how simple it is to control the masses...*snorts... By the time the Big Brother Project has been installed countrywide, the citizens (those that haven't fled) will be on their knees, and grateful for any crumbs tossed their way...*cackles...
Was this not predicted by a famous Doomsayer centuries ago? *forgets....
I am amused to see that the port-a-lights (photographed so successfully in the orphanage dormitory above the foyer - see pics) have now been moved right down to the other end of the upper story...*grins...
Those windows that for years stood dark, were now blazing with an assortment of lights last night....*chuckles...
Another challenge then, to start a second series of pictures? *grins..
It is unclear whether young Constable Donovan has been asked to visit the elderly widow living in Abrey Road as requested...
der Kommissar himself, mentioned on several occasions his desire to interact with the elderly - and as a small PRO exercise, my request should not prove too difficult? *nods...
Will this widow be made to feel secure and comfortable now that she lives alone? Or has her property already been earmarked for one of the Chosen? Time will tell....*curious...
The chopper has been fairly scarce of late... I like to think it has been grounded for a complete service and overhaul... It will then return with a sweeter sound than it was making on its last flyover....*coughs...
Doubtful though, as the beacon at the tip of the Howard College MTB is still active every night like clockwork. A sure indication in the past that the whirlybird is going about its business for Big Brother...*smiles at the Players in this life-changing Game - both Good and Utterly Corrupt, and is grateful that they continue to stave off the inevitable boredom of old age.... Bless you....*keels over cackling...
The once hugely bright star, now significantly diminished, has just risen behind the trees at the Convent...*waves...
Peace....
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Tuesday 29th January 2008 at 12.18pm.
