Happy birthday PACMAN!!

[UPDATE: go to http://www.google.com/pacman/ to continue the madness]

Wow. What a neat surprise!
www.google.com is celebrating Pacman's 30th birthday and what better way to celebrate it than to play two player Pacman & Pacgirl with my favorite gal?
Thanks Al for the tip :)

The luxuries of location!

While driving along a road pretty much adjacent to the one we're staying on (or rather, within close proximity to it), we discovered this little convenience whose usefulness has probably been lost to most of the current generation - the little marvel of a day mostly gone by; a posting box!

No sooner had we discovered this luxury of our location, that I put it to good use. Shamefully I confess I am not sure if I included the correct postage stamps, but I am hopeful it all worked out!

Update on our lives

It appears that some people may not know the entirely current status of our lives, so here's a brief update to get people "up to some level of speed" with the (new) Johnstons:

• We own a flat (well, we own about 25% of it, and ABSA the other 75%)* in Westville
• I am presently the re-elected chairman of the trustees for this mixed commercial / residential complex
• Some guy from Israel and a few other wallies have made life in the complex a veritable hell for the other (and only honest) owners
• Amongst other things, property has essentially been taken and sold without our permission, rules have been broken (not minor things either, but rather serious things that are causing the residential units to lose real estate value or any potential rental income they may derive because no-one wants to live in the flats any more thanks to the unhappy climate and conditions), electricity has been illegally tapped off for the Thai restaurant (I better not mention the name... what's the capital of Thailand and what do you thwow at a wabbit?), our communal water supply is being used to drive the commercial ventures (and laundromats and restaurants use a lot of water, let's be honest), people ram gates when they refuse to sign for a remote control, and I've been threatened several times and assaulted because I am the chairman representing the Body Corporate in a High Court battle against the transgressors. 
• * The Thai restaurant and the Israeli oke own a portion now too, since they took some of it :-/