I read the news today, oh boy!

[Jerome]

An update - CH - delivery is via UPS on Monday 23rd. I imagine clearing OZ customs at the moment.
MH yours is due today via UPS - currently in Louisville KY.

No info on Ruby's or mine at the moment. Boo hoo.

[Jerome]

Just spoke to some family back in Cape Town. Seems like half the reason you have power blackouts in SA is that 3 of the top Eskom execs have been helping themselves to 745 million ZAR. Is it any wonder the place is falling apart.

[Ruby]

^Yes. Charming! Where is the money though? It's gone. Every single time some exec is caught with their fingers in the cookie jar - Joe and Josephine citizen bear the brunt and the exec gets a slap on the wrist. No doubt tariffs will be increased so they can do us a favour, keep the lights on and we can all feel grateful. Pffft. Ridiculous that the state should have a monopoly on power supply - so wrong. 

It's also a case of smoke and mirrors though - drawing attention away from years, decades even, of mismanagement - Medupi power station was purposely built next to a coal mine for ease of supply, except that mine produces coal that is the incorrect grade for a dry coal fueled plant and can't be used, hence the 'wet' coal story ... among various other stupidities - https://www.fin24.com/Budget/how-medupi-...a-20191009

There's a funny doing the rounds that says "Eskom, putting kers back into Kersfees" - lol! 

[Jerome]

Oh that last one is funny. For the uninitiated - 'Kersfees' is Christmas in Afrikaans. 'Kers' is a candle in Afrikaans. In other words the National Electricity supply company is forcing everyone to go back to candles for Xmas. Mind you, there could be a lot of babies in a manger in 9 months time with that sort of lighting..... - why am I never in the right place at the right time - LOL!

[Jerome]

Some fancy new augmented reality thing at Floyd's site.

Read about it here - http://www.pinkfloyd.com/news/index.php

Experience it here - https://pflateryears.com/ar/

BTW I haven't tried it. If anyone does let me know. Needs to have access to your phone's camera which I refuse point blank.

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BTW CH - UPS tried to deliver to your address this morning. No luck. They will try again on the next business day.
MH - I see the reindeer has landed! 1 down 3 to go.

The rest of us remain in the dark - both figuratively and literally!!!

[Music Head]

yes it has
very much appreciated my man

[Jerome]

Enjoy - and compliments of the season to you and your family. Have a good one. And that goes for everyone on the site, visible and icognito - hope you all have a merry, jolly time. Still waiting for UPS to deliver that Russian mail order bride...

Ruby, apologies, should be ladies first but looks like it's Africa last. Yours is going to be delivered in early January and mine at the END of January (back orders). Anyway I hope it's worth the wait. Time will tell. It always does.

[CRAZY-HORSE]

Damn it...
Dani went Xmas shopping with her mum at 10am
I left for work at 11am
must have just missed it

[Jerome]

Right, another one for the useless information pile. Always wondered why snowflakes are so geometric. Here's the answer - https://youtu.be/-6zr2eLpduI

You learn something every day!

[CRAZY-HORSE]

OMFG Jerome.
I almost wet myself with excitement when I opened it five minutes ago (sorry, couldn't wait till tomorrow!)

sure, it wasn't Angelina or Reese popping out of a cake nude for me but...
you have no idea how much you have singlehandedly lifted my spirits after a bloody horrible 2019