The year of the pig

So it have been five and a bit weeks since my last blog post.  I can safely say that this has been the worst start to any year I have had so far.  It is insane the amount of problems, trouble and general crap I've had to wade through and it hasn't even been two months yet!

 

Here follows a narrative of events:

 

My gran passed away on February 14th, which instantly makes Valentines Day a rather bleek event.  An unfortunate fall in her bedroom resulted in her breaking her leg which she never really healed after that.  She had been in a frail care home ever since, which is about five years.  A week prior to her passing, she had suffered a major stroke during the night and never recovered from it.  It was scary to see her go down so quickly, but on the other hand, now that the funeral is over, I can look back and reflect and be glad that she didn't really suffer too much pain or discomfort.  If anything she really seemed at peace just before she left us. 

 

On the same day my gran had the stroke, my brother phoned from the UK to inform us that he had been fired from his job as Assistant Hotel Manager after an audit report revealed various inconsistancies and missing cash and stock.  The managers of the hotel instantly resigned leaving Shaun to have to sort the crap out.  They later gave a written statement implicating Shaun in all of it.  There is now a criminal investigation.  In the mean time Shaun has flown back here to South Africa to spend a few weeks with us.  :-)  [This story to be updated].

 

THEN AGAIN on the same day my buddy at the office informed me that he had a family emergency and needed to jet off to East London (a 3 hour drive away).  He showed me what to do to keep things running.  An hour after he left I got the call from my mom about my gran. 

 

Which brings me to the forth major crisis/issue of 2007:  WORK.  We had a major server crash, the repocussions of which are probably the worse we've ever experienced.  Now it's myself and my buddy who are employed to fix this server.  During the middle of this crisis we both have a family crisis.  CRISIS. CRISIS. CRISIS.  Luckily by this time we had got the server to a workable order and users could get to their emails, although not all the old items were back.  Problems with backups didn't help.  So while dealing with family issues during the day, we were trying to restore an email server by night.  Not nice.

 

Let me just take this opportunity to say that this year of the pig is really becoming a problem.  Damn swines have screwed up this year completely.  Somewhere I read that Chinese shoothsayers predict a year of unrest, natural disasters and a crash in economic markets.  This leads me to to two conclusions:  1. The Chinese are not very optimistic people.  2.  I hate pigs. 

 

So in conclusion, my previous post was my wishlist for 2007 and I had mentioned to some people I felt very excited about this year........ well, forget that.  Stuff 2007.  Roll on 2008!