FRIEND OR FOE.......?

(begun Friday 12th June at 2.45am....)

Did the Toady Show evolve into some sort of RPG over the years? Am I no more than a slow moving target for Teams of bloodthirsty and mindless Players? *grins... Rhetoric alert!
In this latest round I seem to have acquired a Friend, and I'm now to decide whether he's genuine or just another Shapeshifter.... On the face of it, a simple choice...*falls over choking..
Nothing in this Game is simple except for my Chicken King... *winks.

The sudden delay in delivering our second-hand PC was explained to the GW in plausible terms, so what's my problem?
I asked the tech last night if an elderly Tard could have been expected to check the new machine for its date, prior to installing Kapersky, and the tech himself said he never gave it a thought...*cackles..
Poor lame Bali will still be getting mileage from that neat little tweak as I write...*shrugs... Was the PC intercepted or did it never leave base? Did the supplier scratch about looking for a machine that was set to 2008 or was it done manually? *interested..

When Kapersky was installed and saw the year 2008 it said in no uncertain terms that it had expired...*chokes... R300 down the tubes for the GW and a priceless amount of mirth for the Dark Forces... Hooray!!! *looks at it's new Friend with fascination....

I shall try and persuade the GW to go buy another Kapersky and I will fork out from my dwindling funds.. The rules of the Game (which change according to the mood of the Author and his Advisors), have decreed that the GW should be the financial loser from the outset..
*waves to Ron....

I've really struggled with this one as the GW has pretty much supported the Opposition from the outset...*baffled... No doubt the fact that he is my SO is sufficient to make him a target as well? *sighs..
I guess that this is to be just the first of several glitches we will encounter with our newly modified PC? *grins... No matter how lame, the Troops must be entertained....*nods...

I went up mid-morning to see why all the dogs were fussing and found Scotty's van outside the Masters house... Pepsi had come under our wall earlier as usual, so I passed her over the gate to go with Nobs and Cola and forgot about it...
Twas already the afternoon when I finally remembered and called Scotty to say that Nobby was being treated for kennel-cough...*sighs...
He said he had a bitch and her pups and would have to make sure Nobby didn't go near her... If I'd thought to tell him earlier, would he have declined to take the trio? My bad anyway...

Missus C insists that Pepsi is a Houdini and that she doesn't know where the little dog is getting out into the valley as the hole is blocked... I guess like any decent magician, the dog has an Assistant or two? *winks... Bali in fishnets?

I'd kept her over on Tuesday and Wednesday nights rather than she sneak out into the valley in the dark and get killed before the Courageous Pair can find her exit point... and what quiet, peaceful nights they were! *roffles...
She hardly stirred under the blanket on the bed next to me and neither did Nobby and Cola next door! She spent last night back in her own yard and they more than made up for that lapse...*grins.. Oddly, I heard her repeatedly grumbling down by the hole behind the kaia, but for once she seemed stumped...*winks... It appeared that her Assistants weren't going to open the escape hatch for a change, and she was highly miffed! *applauds the Sweeper... Though I missed the low whistle there were other highly questionable sound effects during the night, ensuring the dogs freaked out accordingly.... pfft...

Has anyone else noted the amount of corruption that is currently being revealed in the Press? That lately, hardly a day goes by without some official being caught with their fingers in the cookie jar?

Does Jannie claim these miracles of sleuthing to be a direct result of the Muni Wireless/Broadband Network system? Does he quite rightly say that without the new monitoring abilities these crooks would never get caught? *beams.. Whether the courts are in a position to follow up the charges is neither here nor there, and whether the greedy and corrupt ever see the inside of a cell is not the point is it voda3g?
All you have to do is persuade the gullible to believe that if it looks good, then it must be good...*falls over laughing..

Another huge drugbust reported as well - this time in Chatsworth.. Amazing Grace and Halleluja! *grins.. One way or another it's all good news, right? *rolling eyes....
Does voda3g's amiable and pleasant logic serve to override any misgivings you may have? Backed as he is by so many in industry and business that live on a different financial plane to the man in the street?

You couldn't ask for a better example of how this Info Theft Project will impact on every man Jack in the country, than to pay heed to my plight...*shrugs... Forget the careful window-dressing and focus instead on the fact that so much of the power has been freely given to the Seriously Wikked..
Agliotti has his own Controllers eavesdropping as I write, as does Earl Michael Barnabas.. To deny this would be ridiculous....*snorts...
It pretty much ensures that these Druglords will always be one step ahead of the Law, despite any amount of lesser drugbusts publicised... *gags..
Foreign substances will continue to swamp the country and reduce thousands to a life of unrelenting misery, despite any amount of 'sensitive investigations' purported to be underway...*waves to Bimbo, today's Fallguy...
Fear not bru - you'll be back in business chop-chop fosho...*vomits....

In the few days since the tech arrived with the 'new' PC, have I stumbled hopefully over to Searchirc to try and play trivia without freezing the computer? Hang on, you already know the answer to that...*snarls..
There are already sufficient who pander to the sullen Poison Prince - why add myself to that list again deliberately? I suspect his not so subliminal attentions to my monitor screen create an unpleasant environment for toads online and my imagination takes care of the rest....*shrugs.. So no, I've not felt the urge to self-harm just yet...

LATER at 5.10am..

The unpleasant sound of a small dog in distress carries up the valley and freaks out the Terrible Twins totally.
Pepsi howls in sympathy but can't get her Assistant to unblock the escape hatch into the valley so she resorts to a string of squeaked profanities instead...
As I sat out earlier on the verandah, Eejitman activated one of his rustier sounding devices and I audibly offered him the Q20....
I found it nippy enough to wear gloves at that hour, but clearly the insect population dont find the weather cold enough yet to STFU....*winks..

LATER at 6.00am..

I got back from my initial foray to the shops earlier than usual yesterday and hit the jackpot outside No. 18.. The tar had barely dried on the huge job of re-directing the water lines when who should re-appear but THESE electrical contractors once again...*grins...
Another company created by Telkom and the Muni FOR Telkom and the Muni... They proceeded to move their van quite smartly out of my sight after I'd snapped them for my album... *snorts..
The GW came down the road a little while later and confirmed they were still there, just up round the corner out of sight...
So, once again the clear link between the water lines and the power lines.. Interesting is it not?
Doubtless to ultimately enable water runoffs to be activated remotely ja... Would I Love to see Joe Soap's reaction to knowing that all this deliberate power and water shedding was to enable the PTB to infest and invade any privacy he has remaining..*grins..

How would the man in the street feel were he to know that details of his latest visit to the doctor for instance, are now available to the Crooked Town Planner and his wide variety of Seriously dodgy Cronies? Hopefully like me he wouldn't give a toss, but you just can't risk letting the Public see the scale of their newly acquired vulnerability can you? *laughs... Taking down high ranking officials one after the other to cloak what is about to happen to the ordinary ratepayer works pretty well, does it not?

While many will be unable to meet the horrendous increases in tariffs for Power and Water, and as a result lose their homes, the Whisperers will blithely continue on their greedy way, enriching the already staggeringly wealthy...*vomits..
One can only hope that our President has his wits about him, and can tell the Goodguys from the Bad....
HINT: It's unlikely the Goodguys will hand out gifts of any sort...*grins..

LATER at 4.15pm..

THIS big white bakkie was parked behind the gumtrees across the way after 8.00am today, for roughly the same amount of time the Construction vehicle pitches up regularly to open the valve on the bluff...
Check out the red and white tape now circling Sabeera's verge.
Plenty of work still to be done there, and I'm betting it will be done in the dead of night at time and a half salary....*shrugs...

LATER at 5.00pm

As I bent down to do the PC plugs five minutes ago, all the power went off and you have to KNOW that Mr. Beam is drunk on his own drool...*roffels...
Mila was right. I guess there are many of us who are now immune to the depths of poor service we've been treated to over the past few years.. Bring it on!
Whether purely for my sad Masters self-gratification or it's tied in with the electrical work ongoing outside No. 18, the power outtage makes no difference...
It's a beautiful evening and I'm fortunate that I have plenty of backup lighting and good books to read.... *beams...

LATER at 8.34pm

Aaaand back came the power at 6.30pm.... Bravo mon Capitano!!! *spits...

Peace julle...

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Friday 12th June 2009 at 8.45pm.