money burns

it really was shopping day, and near the end i had to stop for coffee just to gain enough energy to enter the last store or two. by the time we were done we knew our way around canal walk, were covered in bags and had missed out on the greater part of an absolutely beautiful day, if a little windy.

we came home and slept. we were groggy when we were eventually woken up to go to dinner... our kibbutz cousin's sister was hosting us as well as shadowslight's parents. their house is magnificent, which i've mentioned before, dinner was pleasant and as usual it was only the definite drunkenness at the end that made me feel a bit awkward - not mine, i wouldn't have cared otherwise. when things get inappropriate and awkward through alcohol i can get extremely uncomfortable.

pg and i drove into town, found a parking right outside zula's and went in to find protoplasm. the place was packed and the music was a bit... boring. mostly. some of the minimal set that started up later was great, only pg the not-so-party-animal was already tired and when someone rolled up with a baseball bat and people started letting out their techno-stress on the provided computers the noise contributed to us missioning off to the fez to hear orca.

well. that was a fast burn of R200 - we went in *just* as orca started, and discovered that cape town has vermin too: not only were there chav-equivalents, but i recognized some of them. the music was great, although the sound sucked, and there were simply too many people and the place was without a real trance vibe.

we didn't last very long.

i came home, disappointed by the parties but more by the fact that pg has expressed a rather definite dislike for that sort of partying in general, so i guess i just have to accept that that's not something that we should be doing together. it's not a big deal, but i had entertained fantasies...

i finally figured out the whole reverse proxy thing before going to bed - the helpdesk instructions hadn't been precisely correct - and discovered that the webmaster is so limited that all i can do is edit text and mail downloadable content to the real webmaster for later linking. this really is the simplest, least taxing work i've ever done for money.

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i forgot to mention it when i heard it a couple of days ago: tgtbt has come out of the closet. the fact that she was in the closet, to my mind, explains away a lot of her behaviour that has upset the family and to an extent i can understand it even if i do think it's silly... but there's no justification for coming out at an enormous family event (bar / batmitzvah) by making a scene making out on the dance floor. if you're going to take the spotlight, don't kick someone else off the stage while they're in the middle of their big part.