Mmmm...long time since last blog. BAAAADDDD! Life and its funny little thingys - as usual. We are on this earth to learn and yet its all an illusion created by our mind through our (imaginary) senses, a dream. Apparently reality is what you get glimpses of when you dream. "Nothing you see is real". Listening to the series "The disappearing universe" (e-book I think - its on CD) The premise that follows is that - since its all a dream, if you do the lucid dreaming trick on your reality when you are awake - you can change it all. Now that would not fit into the "we are here to live our story and learn" theory....unless.... if, by the time you've figured this bit out, you have completed the learning to cope with the shitty bits and are free to just enjoy the ride from that point onward. Think I need to start smoking some of the good stuff...
Anyway - I've started the excruciating practice of "house hunting" - figured its time to buy one and tinker with it till its just what I want it to be. Do I really need to be paying for something that's just part of an illusion?

Had a peaceful past weekend and the current one is also not too shabby - it seems to actually go bloomin well! I'm getting excited - my current project (called Fred) is nearing completion. Its an old Ford F100 truck from 1972 - it oozes character - well worn out and drives like crap, but I love it!
Went bikeshopping yesterday - traded Aprillia (its small and light and fast) for a Valkyrie (its humongous and heavy and not so fast) from California...time to start cruising in more comfort. Just need to get rid of a hundred or so tussles thats dangling from anything that overhangs anything else! - I'm sooo not the tussle and Harley type!
Off to CT tomorrow.
See ya!

Mmmm.... off to Waterval Boven for the weekend for some R&R. Called the Oosterlijn Rally - only about 100 odd bikes but a nice cozy joll with real lekker food. (Those kidney in fat thingies - if you eat too many you are in real deep s... er,... trouble). The party is sommer in the main street!
Given the troublesome politicians (THE ONLY SUBSPECIES of humankind that contains some individuals that I am close to actually hating - lawyers and accountants I can deal with, haha!) that sours my life lately - believe me....this is just what is needed.
Off to Capetown again on 11th to do presentation in (of all places!) parliament to a portfolio committee - not really a place for me to go and stay but a visit every once in a while is quite ok - can at least see my boet again and do some Sushi. We can really pig out on the stuff! Amongst the 5 or so coffees that goes with it.

Capetown for a real winters weekend? Well, yeah!! Doing the family thing and the 1st time in years that the 3 brothers are together with their mother for her 75b-day celebration. Mine is the 6th and hers the 8th. Actually got a bit of a nostalgic feeling about it.
In the meantime the daily grind goes on and everybody rushes to their proverbial "dung heap" by day and back to the bank's property by night while getting annoyed at the bank's vehicle while stuck in traffic with more of the banks' other vehicles....haha....sounds a bit dof to me. And then heaven falls and we all wear pink caps...so what does it matter? Go hug you little doggy or feed the birds - much more rewarding. Better yet - and this is no shit - hug a tree and feel what it does to you...all that energy! Then the board of directors with the petty primary politics can go jump in whatever for all I care.
Ugh...need a holiday. Better yet...need retirement and need to be left alone. My, my....we are in dark place, aren't we? Tut, tut....

Looooong time since an update. To work with people is actually a privilege...just realized that when I contemplated winning the lottery and sitting at home doing nothing except playing with my "toys". Nothing!...?? Meaning nothing to anyone else except myself? That actually sounds shitty. Meaningless, empty and all similar adjectives. People is the reason why we are around - to interact, give meaning, learn, share....foundation of happiness is one's perception of the good bits of these interactions - which you cannot do by yourself and you cannot do without substance.
Resolution - its cool to drive to work and spend the hours every day in an environment where you are actually more than just something "stealing oxygen". Mmmm.... something still sounds fundamentally sooooo wrong, wrong, wrong......
More pleasant note - daddy's got a new "girlfriend" and the other two are rather envious at this stage... domestic politics... I am referring to bikes you devious ones! Its a nice and sporty one ("Colin Edwards replica Aprillia RSV Factory" for the bike literate ones) added to a Speed Triple and an Intruder.
Not much time for twiddling on too many other items...yes, the odd thingy here and there...but.... more time would be nice....
Then...at the end of a tiresome day guess where I find rest? SG, of course! It represents so much about what human behavior causes us to strive for - beauty, recognition, affirmation, art, youth, optimism, dreams - to see it being "lived" and,for the majority, being achieved here... Getting soppy...back to reality for now. See ya!

Strange things - some parents. My 19 year old thinks she should ask a pro to do a photo shoot of herself for SG - and, wait for it, (!) I am encouraging her (!) for what it could do for her in terms of body image and self actualization. Make no mistake, shes a beautiful kid and I dont think she'll have a problem getting accepted. I think I would probably be frowned upon by the not so liberal in the community. What community? Who actually cares what whoever thinks? Proud daddy on this end of the line. I showed her around on the site - photos of successful sets and then some mistakes made by some. And she just thinks it the next thing for her bucket list.