Monday Lunch Waffle

You can tell I start off these lunch time blogs with no clear topic in mind by the heading, which often includes what day of the week it is or what I'm doing at the time. But once I start writing it morphs into shape.

Like this one.

So yeah, it's another boring Monday at the office, Right now I'm munching on leftover braai from last night for lunch with a few potatoes nuked this morning, it's all rather quite delicious. One thing I'm really missing these days is avocado's. There are avo's around but firstly they're pathetic manky undersized excuses for avo's that cost a small fortune, I've seen them around at over R20 an avo, not all that uncommon at that sort of price, and sorry but even if I was wealthy I wouldn't pay that. It's just ridiculous. So that's one of the things I look forward to about winter is decent avo's again at reasonable prices. I also look forward to winter because the ants that terrorize us all summer bugger off for a few months, back to hell to spend the winter months spawning many more trillions of them little black demons and scheming up more annoying ways to get into everything in vast numbers all summer with the pure intention of making life in the home a constant hell! Oh, and flies, they disappear with the ants, no doubt to the same place!

My chicken drumstick is snapped in half. It's strange I know, but there's just something that creeps me out about that. I realise that chicken died so I could eat it, and for that I really do feel bad and I thank the chicken for it's ultimate sacrifice for my benefit, but the thought crosses my mind that perhaps it's leg was broken before it died through cruel mishandling by the farm workers. As an animal lover of all animals except ants and flies (I don't mind mosquitoes, they don't come near me) I abhor cruelty of any kind towards any living creature. I speak out strongly against trophy hunting and poaching and I subscribe to numerous Facebook forums that speak out against all that. But one conversation I don't get caught with is the one about "but you eat meat", etc. Yes I eat meat, I enjoy my meat, humans are omnivores by nature which means we kill food animals to eat and feed our families. Therefore the farming of domesticated livestock for the purposes of food and the sustainable hunting of food animals like common antelope I don't have an issue with, providing the animals are killed as quickly and humanely as possible with minimal suffering. So, I don't like the idea that my food had to suffer for me.

But, that chicken's other leg was in-tact and delicious!

On Saturday I took the family including mom-outlaw and brother-outlaw (Tammy's uncle) to Ratanga Junction theme park, we were there for almost 6 hours. (There's a few photo's below taken with my phone.) That's 6 hours in the sun, standing in queue's for rides that last for only a couple of seconds or minutes. The thought came to mind at some point that if aliens ever came to see what we get up to they would be rather dumbstruck as to what the "dominant" species on this planet puts themselves through for recreation. Waiting long periods in uncomfortable surroundings to get thrown around violently on a dangerous roller coaster for a few seconds in hindsight seems like a rather silly thing to do. Despite that I queued to go on the Cobra 3 times and the same for Monkey Falls, which is really just a boat that gets shunted around a water channel with a few splashes along the way.

Anyway, it was a good day out with the family and Tammy had an absolute ball! She is only just still too small to go on the Cobra and the big dipper thing. By the year end summer holidays she'll be able to go on those.

Tammy's sleepover didn't happen. Our friends cancelled on us. Which was fine, though I was rather peeved that we still invited them over for a braai on Sunday, part of the original plan, they promised to confirm later on Saturday and just never did. As far as I'm concerned that's just effing rude. Even a text message with apologies would suffice, but we kept our Sunday free for that and just to be left hanging without word is just not cool!

They are good friends though, him and I go way back, so we'll probably move past this. But for now I'm annoyed!

So this pesky day job thing, I best get back to it, lunch break is over.

And I didn't even mention anything about running in this post, except in this sentence! LOL.

Brother-in-law, Daughter, Wife & Mother-in-law