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I've been having trouble with Vodacom's 3G for a few months now, and they've apparently finally agreed to release me from my contract early (although I'm still waiting for written confirmation from them, as well as waiting to hear how Autopage is going to handle it).

In an effort to reduce my flab levels, I am going to try not to have pizza for the whole of June. Altho I guess my weekend meals will then consist of other flabby foods instead. Oh well. At least June only has 30 days.

:(

More travelling coming up soon - I'll apparently be going to Cape Town for a few days in early April to do a demo to a customer. That should be interesting... although it means March is a very busy month :(

The rest of the photos from the trip to Australia.

Holy cow!
Strangers with candy
Bondi
Bondi
Bondi
Bondi

I really should install some gallery plugin thing so I don't have to type these silly descriptions

Some building right outside the airport
Pies n peas right outside the airport
Some clouds
A holiday inn

Whoa, I've been doing a lot of travelling this year. I only got my passport just over a year ago, but this is the third time I've made use of it in like 6 months!

My new company sent me to Sydney to their head office for handover and training, as my team is going to start supporting and working on their codebase from Jhb. So we're here for just over a month to have the whole system explained to us so we don't make too much of a mess of it.

I've been drinking too much coke recently, so I'm going to see if I can do without it throughout October. This is going to be difficult :(

Lunch at Didi's Pub in Dar es Salaam on Monday
Apparently Didi's is a babber as well as a pub!
It's actually pretty decent looking place
The locals hanging about having a few beers
Some dude was walking around selling pirated dvds

So the deployment in Dar es Salaam went off mostly well - there were a bunch of snags here and there, but around 6.30am on Friday morning, our stuff was declared working as well as it should, under the circumstances. Which meant I was clear to spend the weekend in Zanzibar as planned.

I'm lucky enough to be in Dar es Salaam this week for work. We're deploying a project for Vodacom Tanzania which meant being on site to test and to be on standby when we go live.

I got here on Sunday evening about 7.30pm East African time... it's an hour ahead of South Africa, and has had me pretty confused at times, because we're in constant contact with guys back in SA working from that side... plus my phone and laptop clocks are both still on SA time. I'll probably get used to it just as I'm about to leave.

I guess the move to Jhb is going to be a permanent one. I signed an offer to purchase a duplex a week and a half ago, and got finance approved yesterday. So hopefully sometime soon the transfer goes through and I can finally live in my own place. (click read more for pics)

Knowing that they'd be liable for costs anyways if they got a postponement, we were made a settlement offer, which was exactly what I'd offered to pay right at the start, 3+ years ago.

My dad was initially thinking we shouldn't accept the offer, and make them pay all my expenses for this trip, to force them to sort themselves out. But in the end we both figured that we might as well get it over and done with now and not have to bother about taking time off work again, etc.

I'm leaving for court again in a few minutes. Hopefully this is the last time. My dad called me on Sunday to say that the lawyers for the other side wrote last week requesting a postponement. This is after we wrote to them in March asking them to let us know in advance if they'd be ready or not, as I'd have to come down from Jhb for this. They didn't respond to that. And at the pre-trial thingie two weeks ago, they indicated that they'd be ready to proceed.

I got to Lesotho just after 7pm last night. It's my first international trip, so I guess I'm starting small. Since Lesotho isn't generally on the top of most people's travelling destination wishlists, it shouldn't be too much of a surprise that this trip was for work.