Post-and-a-half

I trust you have been suitably updated and amused by my funnier half.

Yes. We are actively working on this baby thing.
No. We are not too stressed, but thanks for your concern.

Work's been keeping me busier than usual, which is why I haven't been blogging, nor have I been replying my email. Much. I need to clear out my backlog of unreplied emails from friends, some of which I have outsourced to my wordsmith-half.

Having ticked off most of my to-do list for today, I figured I could spare a couple of minutes to catch up on the news, and subsequently post this.

So in succint point form, this is what's been going on since my last couple of posts.

1) Spring is here. I've been tending to the garden and plants in an effort to improve the aesthetics of our landscape and home.

2) As a result of Spring and the weather warming up, I've been starting to golf again - when the bookworm-half has decided she wants to stay at home to reduce her to-read list, I've been out depreciating my golf club membership. As it stands at the moment, each hole of golf has cost me approximately $6.77. By the time my membership expires next year, I hope to have it down to $1 per hole or less.

3) As referenced in point 2) and in order to keep my 'don't bother me while I'm reading' wife reasonably nourished, I've been extending my culinary skills to experimental baking. The almond cookies haven't been a big favourite (mainly because I made them with Low-GI wholewheat flour, low-GI raw sugar and low-cholestrol olive oil), but surprisingly the chicken and potato curry puffs have made quite a nice snack, so much so we've eaten them as a whole meal. with bee hoon. (You can take the boy from Singapore but you can't take the makan-itis from the boy)

Will try to remember to post up pix of my 'Curry Puff Surprise' when I bake the next batch. (Surprise because I'm just as surprised I made it and I actually like eating it!)

And until my next post, I leave you with the obligatory funny story.

Carrier pigeon faster than South African ISP

Local news agency SAPA reported the 11-month-old pigeon, Winston, took one hour and eight minutes to fly the 80 km from Unlimited IT's offices near Pietermaritzburg to the coastal city of Durban with a data card was strapped to his leg.

Including downloading, the transfer took two hours, six minutes and 57 seconds -- the time it took for only four percent of the data to be transferred using a Telkom line.