For Sooz and I "hour of power" used to be cleaning the house on a Saturday morning - turning the music up high and doing jobs until the hour was up. That's the way it still is at Ka's place but for Ke it's that part of the work day when the rest of us have (finally) left to go home - and while it may actually only be a half hour until the end of day after the other Ke leaves, she still feels as though it is an hour of power - that's how much she gets done! Her mistake this week though was to send out an email saying how much she had achieved on Monday - including finding her ruler which had been missing for three months - since our move into the shared office. Suffice to say that the ruler has now (with the assistance of an as-yet-unnamed colleague - or should that be "culprit"?) gone missing again. Ke's search continues.
But it's not all fun and games ... although it might seem that way especially as there is a new competition afoot in "the room" thanks to Son and her new desk calendar ... "Fact or Cr*p". I'm not that good at it ... yet ... every morning Son sends out the daily question and we have to send back whether the random statement - yesterday's was about civet cat coffee - is "Fact or Cr*p". We all correctly identified FACT. I hadn't done so well on Monday ... when Son sent out all the January questions we'd missed ... we won't go into the room scores here ... but I do have a way to go to catch-up!
It has been fairly hot of late and it was like an oven when I popped into the car for the drive home. Thank goodness for air-conditioning! But not so much for the traffic on the Motorway on the way back to the Jannie. I'm not sure why but there were a fair few bad drivers out on the road today - both in the morning and afternoon. I watched in great amazement as one driver decided to change lanes shoehorning himself in between two cars travelling at 110 km per hour barely a car length apart. It would have been even more interesting to watch had the car in front of me not decided to slow at almost the same rate, perhaps a little worried that the merging car might not be successful! But we all managed to drive on - looking for the next bit of bother in the Motorway.
Sooz, Syl and M went to movie at the Arts Centre this afternoon and I met them and An at Bangkok Thai on Chevron Island for an early dinner. The table of 20 or so next to us was obviously trying to break the noise record (not helped by the lack of soft furnishings in the restaurant) and it was increasingly difficult to hear the five of us. Sooz and I were facing away from them so we didn't get the chance to discover that many of the women on the far side of the table had incredibly similar noses ... it was possible they were having a family gathering but someone a little unkindly suggested that they might all have the same cosmetic surgeon. Hmmmm.
Syl is still nursing the injuries from her recent trip to Melbourne - the one where her offer of help to her elderly father was spurned (following manipulation by her brother ... apparently motivated by his being cross with Syl about another matter entirely) and the fractured vertebrae she sustained in the rear-ender in which she was involved. It's quite frustrating for her because Syl is quite an active person and filling her hours when she is not able to do her usual "jobs" is incredibly trying for her ... hence the movies ... in daylight hours (something Syl would normally never do!).
The first of my dash mount devices has arrived from China ... and the second one as well. I will be trialling the 360 one this week - now that I know how to set it up - no, it's not that difficult, I just wanted to know for sure which surface of which sticky pads were supposed to stick to which parts of the car and the phone - and it was not self-evident ... especially as the instructions were written in some form of Chinese.
But it's not all fun and games ... although it might seem that way especially as there is a new competition afoot in "the room" thanks to Son and her new desk calendar ... "Fact or Cr*p". I'm not that good at it ... yet ... every morning Son sends out the daily question and we have to send back whether the random statement - yesterday's was about civet cat coffee - is "Fact or Cr*p". We all correctly identified FACT. I hadn't done so well on Monday ... when Son sent out all the January questions we'd missed ... we won't go into the room scores here ... but I do have a way to go to catch-up!
It has been fairly hot of late and it was like an oven when I popped into the car for the drive home. Thank goodness for air-conditioning! But not so much for the traffic on the Motorway on the way back to the Jannie. I'm not sure why but there were a fair few bad drivers out on the road today - both in the morning and afternoon. I watched in great amazement as one driver decided to change lanes shoehorning himself in between two cars travelling at 110 km per hour barely a car length apart. It would have been even more interesting to watch had the car in front of me not decided to slow at almost the same rate, perhaps a little worried that the merging car might not be successful! But we all managed to drive on - looking for the next bit of bother in the Motorway.
Sooz, Syl and M went to movie at the Arts Centre this afternoon and I met them and An at Bangkok Thai on Chevron Island for an early dinner. The table of 20 or so next to us was obviously trying to break the noise record (not helped by the lack of soft furnishings in the restaurant) and it was increasingly difficult to hear the five of us. Sooz and I were facing away from them so we didn't get the chance to discover that many of the women on the far side of the table had incredibly similar noses ... it was possible they were having a family gathering but someone a little unkindly suggested that they might all have the same cosmetic surgeon. Hmmmm.
Syl is still nursing the injuries from her recent trip to Melbourne - the one where her offer of help to her elderly father was spurned (following manipulation by her brother ... apparently motivated by his being cross with Syl about another matter entirely) and the fractured vertebrae she sustained in the rear-ender in which she was involved. It's quite frustrating for her because Syl is quite an active person and filling her hours when she is not able to do her usual "jobs" is incredibly trying for her ... hence the movies ... in daylight hours (something Syl would normally never do!).
The first of my dash mount devices has arrived from China ... and the second one as well. I will be trialling the 360 one this week - now that I know how to set it up - no, it's not that difficult, I just wanted to know for sure which surface of which sticky pads were supposed to stick to which parts of the car and the phone - and it was not self-evident ... especially as the instructions were written in some form of Chinese.
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