TAKEN TO THE MOUNTAIN.....

(begun Friday 30th May at 7.55am)

To those that consider I dramatise the commonplace and banal? Your own tunnel-vision is a liability and I suggest you expand you're thinking or you will miss the bus altogether....*cackles..

I had barely hit Publish on this morning's contribution, when the next chapter in the ongoing tale of Corruption began to unfold....*grins...

The Treasurer rang unexpectedly before 7.00am to say the Assessment Centre had been hit again overnight and this time, they had lost all their computers.

Once again I put the cart before the horse to confuse you....*sighs....

The GameWrecker had gone to run his bath after 6.00am this morning and announced that the water pressure was non-existent.

When the Treasurer had called a while later about the breakin, I asked her whether she had water higher up the Crescent.

She replied that she had gone out much later than usual at 11.00pm last night, to lock her front gate. The road was awash with water and on investigation, she'd found it to be bubbling out in front of the Assessment Centre.

Only later this morning did she learn from a relative of the Councillor's cousin that a burglary had taken place....*shrugs....

The deliberate surging of our individual water line on Tuesday at midnight was a preliminary test before the real goal was achieved higher up the road at some point last night?

I'd got in just before 10.00pm last night and there had been no leak visible. The GameWrecker went up to chain the gates shortly afterwards, in time to see His Dodginess swing in next door, after what was no doubt a profitable tracking/monitoring session on the Hill...*hawks...

By the time the Treasurer went out to her gates again at around 11.00pm, the leak had pretty much just been activated.

How did the thieves at the Assessment Centre know the Water Department wouldn't arrive in time to catch them loading up the stolen PCs? *shakes it's head....

Whichever way you look at it, it's too perfect. Surely you are familiar with the term Organised Crime? *cackling...

The Treasurer reported the Fault after 11.00pm and wekkers were at the leak at the crack of dawn, but have since left....Doubtless they will be back later to make the additions and alterations after the Treasurer has left for work? *laughing.... fosho....

The delicious possibility arises that, if the leak was not caused by a deliberate surge to cover the contractors going in to make adjustments, it may have been due to the malicious surge sent us two nights ago. Accidentally rupturing the lines higher up the road. The possibilities are endless, but always boil down to illegal activities...*falls over laughing...

I had barely begun talking to the Treasurer earlier, when there came a great clatter on the line and then a deathly hush. The line had been dropped? I pressed a button to redial her, but before I could do so, she was back as clear as a bell.

In the haste to eavesdrop, Bali grows clumsier by the minute ROFL!

Later:

You remember kind Hekhmat that lived in Loon road and fell foul of a friend of the Rotten Apples, one Farouk Ahmed? Hekhmat is now helping us with our CPF Fun Day but communicating with him has become a joke.

I have just attempted to send him an sms, only to be given the now oft repeated Message Sending Failed and SIM card Rejected, on my newer Nokia...*snorts...

With vodacom aka The Beast's assistance, it has become a simple matter for these yobs to exact control....*laughing...

Saturday 31st May at 4.00am:

Our little block of residents down this end of the Crescent number 24. Of this number I guess only eight of us have not been invited to join Selebi's Brave New initiative....

That number may yet change....*shrugs...

Ask yourselves why the Treasurer is unaware of this thrilling Project and why, as yet, my good neighbour at No. 10 has not been roped in.

Although his property has certainly been enhanced without his knowledge, with the assistance of his 'friend' Alben, he has yet to be offered the perks to persuade him to leap aboard the gravy train....(see pics)

This situation could change tomorrow, and I watch with interest for the chain-saws to arrive....*cackling...

Later:

I spent the entire evening browsing the myadsl forums last night.

My second visit since our RAM was cooked overnight on 11th May and I had a lot of catching up to do.

My imagination, or does voda3g now post with the authority of a board director? *falls over laughing... As well he may.... sponsored by Telkom se voet!

iBurst owned by vodacom, owned by Telkom, and now we have Neotel also owned by Telkom despite all protestations...*grins...

Kudos to the posters who finally voiced their misgivings on the Telkom advertising. Where were you? That was a LONG wait, but well worth it in the end....*beams...

If I was expected to leave the forum in disgust, when Adblock was deliberately taken down to reveal vodacoms ads in all their glory, it backfired once again....*grins...

IMHO the site has now doubled it's interest value, as I watch the proceedings in fascination....

Will the next t-shirt giveaway be emblazoned with the Beast's own logo? *laughing... Was rpm taken to the mountain? *curious...

I've said many times that my scribbles here are likened to a gnat on an elephant's backside. My credibility is as always minus zero...*cackles...

When I consider the size and strength of the Damage Control team, I am unfazed, and even encouraged to plod on...

Telkom is as powerful as ever it was, as it leads certain Government officials by the nose.... you delude yourself to think otherwise...*nods...

A full page article on Page 13 of our local Rising Sun has me utterly nauseated....

St. Thomas Home for Children is undergoing a revamp.

Yes, Missus van Luyk, it must be hard work and costly, getting the trees chopped down and making the Home Wireless friendly.

The sponsor behind this marvellous upliftment program, Life Entabeni Hospital, says the children need a safe, stimulating environment which is not the case at present....*gags..

About as safe and as stimulating as it is for the innocent kids over the way at St. Theresa's orphanage aka Wireless Base Station? Right.

What additional delights were given to Father Denker and his Trust Committee to persuade him to now allow St. Thomas to be used for Selebi's project? *grim...

The traffic is picking up over on the Freeway bridge despite that it's still dark out. May the day be a happy one for you and yours....

Peace...

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Saturday 31st May 2008 at 6.36am.

FORCES FAVOURITES......

(Random backblog begun Monday 19th May at 5.45am..)

It's been a while. Finally he made me smile. I'd just gone up to wipe the dew off the GameWrecker's car when Bali suddenly turned the streetlight off....*grins...

Just ours mind you. By the time I got back down below it was on again. Neat.

I stood at the top cleaning the car, and looked down to see the GameWrecker running water into the kitchen sink. What was missing? The loud and clear tick tick of the water meter activating... Haibo!

I asked him to flush the loo while I knelt by the meter to listen as it eventually gave a few faint ticks and then stopped again.

Of course, it too, neatly fits into the 'old' category...*cackles..

Nonetheless it is interesting to wonder why the drastic change in feed and why we no longer have the jolly, independent water meter readers banging on our gate once a month.

Instead we now have a larnie dude driving himself in a Muni vehicle... the same applies to the electricity meter reader...*curious...

Before, they clearly worked on a commission basis, but this lot are all most definitely salaried employees...

Does the Fowl King miss me, or is he thoroughly enjoying my silence online? Being privy now to only the most banal of conversations spoken aloud, is a drastic change for him, but quite possibly a welcome one....*beams..

A robin sings prettily in the fiddlewood tree just outside the window. It is still dark and the big aerial lights glare out from the Power House across the valley.

The bush dweller/transvestite is still very much in evidence, and he bobs up occasionally in an effort to gain attention.

Having advised Supt. Marillier of his presence, I am comfortable with the situation...*smiles...

Yet more ways of seeing if your neighbourhood is linked to Selebi's Information Gathering Data Base?

Do you have one really stunning, deep orange, sodium-based streetlight set oddly amongst the standard whites? We do. Outside our Councillor's house just up the Crescent.

Did you know that if you are in a position to stand above and behind one of the new streetlight cowlings, (those with the lemon coloured light sensor on top), that you may see a tiny pilot light activated even during daylight hours? *beams...

Sue the Book's garden looks down onto the streetlights lining Jan Smuts Highway and we were enchanted to find the streetlight, to all intents and purposes off, still clearly showing this tiny beauty lit at midday....

I have I believe, mentioned before the amazing technologies stuffed into these new cowlings? Genius....

Tuesday at 8.35pm:

Despite the very best efforts of the Rotten Apples to cause a breakdown in communication - lady luck was on our side today....*grins...

May I suggest that the Games now being played with CPF Members cellphones, may yet achieve what I have failed to do? To wake Members up to the fact that every facet of their lives can now be controlled and monitored? *beams...

By all means continue to block numbers, to hold back texts, and to blatantly drop lines in mid-conversation... It certainly adds credence to my cries of foul....*cackles....

Three dropped lines during the course of one conversation with the christian? *falls over laughing...Methinks you try too hard...

I foresee many small problems involving our CPF's planned Fun Day and the manipulation of phone lines... Network problems? Riiiite.....*chokes...

I confess to having been bored witless at the Motherbody Meeting as the Forum Heads droned on with their speeches, so I entertained myself by checking out the room's fittings and fixtures....*interested...

A magnificent pair of speakers caught my eye, and I briefly wondered how often my rasping, croaking voice had played through them, to the delight and amusement of the Listeners gathered....

How many other residents voices sail out in Dolby surround-sound, unaware of the mirth they generate? *chortles.... Does it also have a record option available?

Little wonder that the Zone is so favoured at present. Who would have thought that such a juvenile and illegal amusement would garner such rich rewards....*falls over...

Did Allen Spence himself help set up and refine that equipment? Knowing what it was used for? Was he as genuinely entertained by that piece of technology as he was with his own Highly Technical Computerised Anti-Theft Devices? *grins...

If Mistuh Spence had a gun pointed at him tomorrow, and his personal vehicle removed, would he be outraged? Surely not. After all, what he is promoting and involved in, is merely fostering organised crime, so one hopes that he would find some ironic humour in the situation, should he himself be on the receiving end for a change....*smiles...

Wednesday 21st May at 3.20am:

I surfaced to the sound of the Terrible Twins excited yelps. Is my master about? Did he not sleep at all? The moon is full and it's very beautiful in the valley...

Later:

At 3.30am the shouts and piercing whistles from the Muni droogs 'widening' the Freeway bridge became more urgent.

Dilshaad's heroic and now disfigured Jack Russell, Spotty, voiced his anxiety. Don't ask....*hawks...

Though Kasim clearly considers the family to have hit the jackpot, it is only Dilshaad I deem wise enough to know that their every word can be monitored as simply as ours, despite vehement denials to the contrary.

Despite the sense of 'belonging' and promises of protection, they should never become complacent. Too late?

It has been apparent for years that Kasim is ................... Just how much, has recently been endorsed *heaves.... So I continue to warn them, only because of kind Dilshaad and the boy....*shrugs...

Later:

The PC was taken out deliberately. Why? Did my Master plan specifically for that date? Did it include a trip out of town? *curious...

If he travels, would it be in his capacity as Cream of the Cracker Crop? Despite his obsessive compulsive disorder and psychotic tendencies, he is still one of the best we have to offer? *falls over laughing...

Does he go to teach Zone-style control techniques to other would-be Monitors countrywide? I am totally chuffed that he may have had to resort to shutting us down while he is/was away....

Purely speculation as always, but clearly he deems my mouth sufficiently dangerous to warrant a total closure of our PC...*cackles delightedly....

I wonder idly how young Councillor Christians is getting on in his fairly new home over in Keal Road. *makes a note to check whether the enormous and deliberate water runoff has returned. Have a bite?

Later:

I wandered out onto the lawn just in time to see a 4 x 4 leaving the gumtrees across the valley and heading back down towards Kasim's at No. 2.

Checking LOS to the Construction across the Freeway or the installation in the copse? *shrugs...

Have our ex-CPF Chair and his cousin always spent considerable time socialising together, or is it only fairly recently that the cousin felt it necessary to strengthen familial ties? *interested...

The smallest of gestures is sufficient to pique my paranoid curiosity... a nudge and a wink between two people I'd not been aware knew each other... *fascinated....

I was reminded after our CPF Meeting last Monday, of the ShaikBoyz involvement in the Struggle years....

I felt it was being suggested that only Schabir had taken the wrong road...*cackles... Clearly not a Noseweek reader then?

Later:

I am amused that he knows no more about me today than he did eight years ago....*grins..

He simply can't figure me out at all.... We are poles apart in our thinking....

I don't think anyone is above the Law, while he considers himself to BE the Law and as such, allowed to do as he jolly well pleases....*laughing...

You can add the dead RAM to the Microwave oven, Satellite dish, portable radio and walkman, not to mention the useless CPF Nokia and the newer Nokia now as well...

Is the picture becoming clearer yet? Do the majority of you still applaud his skillz while vowing Never to cross him? *falls over laughing...

You think this sets you apart from stupid Tards? Makes you brighter than average?

I rest my case......

Peace julle.

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Finally published Friday 30th May 2008 at 1.32pm