GONFANON? WHAT?

GONFANON? Ok, I've got 3 dictionaries here - and that word doesn't exist.

Guess I just don't get it. (people cheat) Like com'mon - it's a game a scrabble for heaven's sake. Why would a person do that? (cheat) If you're gonna use a word like that - you a least better know what the meaning is. And really - you expect me to believe you came up with 4 eight letter words right off the start - all by yourself? I doubt that. I was actually willing to give you credit for using GONFANON up until you did that. Give me a break! The rule is - if you're gonna cheat - you better at least be good at it.

Anyways - short of the story is - I can beat you at that!

Somehow - about a year ago I managed to get myself sucked in to playing silly scrabble games over the Internet. LEXULOUS.

Ok - enough. I just needed to RANT about that.

So, about a week or so ago a fellow Blogger from Belize posed a question to me. "........... what are you doing in Balikpapan?" Now do you mean - how did I get here (Balikpapan)? OR what do I actually do here (in Balikpapan)? Ever since you asked - I've been trying to figure out an answer for that.

And ....... turns out someone I know here has been diagnosed as having contacted Dengue. That sucks and yes, unfortunately, sometimes that happens here. Thankfully it's not the really bad type and on the plus side of things - I understand the worst is already over with. Now all that's needed is a whole bunch of rest and a whole bunch of sleep. ......... and apparently guava juice too. (Not about the why behind that - traditional medicine I guess). Anyways - here's wishing for a speedy recovery for you.

Special message: Hey my friend in Kuala Lumpur. I'm thinking about you too. Heard what happened. Hope you at least had a good holiday before all that. ........... if you're really bored - we can always hook-up and play Scrabble over the Internet.

TODAY: Is shaping up and into a busy sort of day. All kinds of things to do. Might just be a good day for making a big list.

Looks like rain. Maybe - maybe not (?) I hope not. Planning to sit at the beach (Beach House Restaurant) and have a see-you-later lunch this afternoon with a friend that is soon off and away on her summer leave. Gonna miss you.

Good to Go!

SAGA; TAP

So turns out the easiest (best) way to fix a dripping kitchen tap - is to replace it. Sounds good so far, right? - read on - with a new (used) one that has a sink attached. ahhhh.

Saga of the kitchen tap; first it was broken (didn't even realize that - apparently it was leaking a little bit) and the maintenance guys decided to do us a favor and fix that. Well in their process of fixing a little leak they somehow managed to break the whole tap OFF ........... and so we were without tap for a bunch of days. The new (used) tap they replaced it with? .............. was in fact worse than what we started with. Hot became cold, cold became hot and you couldn't even turn the darn tap. So they came back and tried fixing it, and fixing it, and fixing it again and then I think they just plain gave up.

Yesterday - they replaced the whole lot. Yup, rather than mess around with changing another tap - it became way easier to bring the whole works. Kitchen sink with the tap still attached. From the house down the road - not sure what they plan on doing over there about that.

And so - now we have a perfectly fine working kitchen sink and a tap back. Small things in life are worth a whole bunch.

TODAY: Need to do all the things I should have done yesterday. Didn't get a darn thing done. A little boy we know (driver's son) is very, very sick. Big time fever and all of that. And, unfortunately the first thing to check for here is dengue fever, and that would not be a good thing. (fingers crossed about that) No news yet - still waiting on that.

Today's pic - 2009 GENERAL ELECTION. Well this is just a small fragment of the millions of flags flying here right now. Not to mention the T-shirts and banners and billboards and posters and pretty much anything else you can think of stuff. The roads are literally littered with this stuff. All up in advance of the federal election coming up. Balikpapan right now (and all of Indonesia in fact) is a very colourful place.

Ok, time to go get a whole bunch of stuff done. Good to Go!