Went to the store today to price digital camera’s. Mine is acting up and becoming highly unrealiable. I turn it on and it reports an error and the Kudo or the Elephants run off before I can take that priceless photo. 
I have decided I want to get something super small so that I can take it everywhere and snap photos of people so they are unaware. I like the Pentax Optio S. I could take that thing all around town.
Problem, camera’s here cost a fortune! Almost double what I might expect to spend in Toronto. So for the umpteenth time I play the camera buyer on Ebay. Did you ever notice how few sellers will ship to Africa? Nigeria was the source of a major shipping scandal as I remember so much of the continent is a no-ship zone for ebay sellers.
I loaded up the old Canonette 35mm that I got from the Messengers. I might try my hand at good old fashoned photography.
At Woolworths (thats right, woolworths) I bought some green curry paste so I can make my thai green curry. I also bought some blank cds for a small fortune at CNA.
I worked steadily over the holiday while everyone else was off having fun. It was not so bad, I was being paid very well for this time. Today is the first day back for many from the official holiday time. There are a number of people ‘missing’. Maybe they forgot today was back to work day. Anyhow its much more quiet at work than I had expected.
The Fault Reports System is almost complete. I will upload a screenshot when its been made pretty by Romeo. We are meeting at 2pm today to discuss this. He has a Polytechnic css to apply to it.
I shall continue working with SAP Business One. Its a pretty neat piece of software. Here is a look:
Happy New Years 2006!
I had made plans to go out for new years but these were all changed with a last minute party notice; at our house! Sophie and Sandra invited over some of their friends from Germany who work in broadcasting here in Windhoek. They were a great laugh! Here is the crew early in the evening.
Sophie and Sandra made a crossword puzzle that we had to complete before we could have our ice cream and brandy. ‘Carpe Diem’ was the headline, meaning “to seize the pleasures of the moment without concern for the future.”
!Frank: The Rain God
Frank called the radiostation just after midnight and made some silly comments without realizing he was on the air. He had great hopes for lots of rain for the farmers in Namibia. Not long after it started to rain lightly so Frank was very pleased. 
Watch out Santa, it’s hot!!!
Originally published at:
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20051226/santa_spa_zoom0.html
