the corner office

Ronwen & I took my car into the panelbeaters this morning, to get my bumper fixed (it took a wee scratch over Christmas). 5 months late, but better late than never and all that. We had to head into the Deep South (of Johannesburg), to Booysens. I haven't been to any of those old industrial suburbs in the South since my auditing days. Took me back, it did.

Anyway, a trip down memory lane isn't the point of my post - the obscure weather is. As we pull up to the panelbeaters (Ronwen in her car, I in mine), the heavens opened up. It's May - we're not supposed to see rain again until Spring, but here we were in a hail-riddled deluge. Got drenched within a second of opening the car door.

Thankfully my car will be ready by the end of the week and it won't be too pricey to fix.

Driving up the M1 back to work, we turned off at Rosebank due to the traffic jams on the highway. Rosebank was surreal. With the hail, it looked like it had been snowing, and the Glenhove turnoff was shrouded in mist. Very weird!

Got to the office just after midday, had barely started my PC when we had a power failure. Eskom reckoned the electricity would be out in our area for 4 hours, so there was nothing to do but close the office and bugger off home. Which we did. What a productive day.