Cellphones and Vodacom

So, last week Monday I had to take LuckyL's "new" cellphone in to be repaired / rebuilt. The boys got their new phones about two months ago, and his just fell apart. Literally. We found one of about 3 or four minute screws that had come out.
Anyway, they said it would take a few days to get the spare / replacement screws, and they would fix it. Come Thursday and I call to get an update. Oh, the spares haven't come yet. So I get rough, and a while later I get a call to say it will be ready Friday afternoon.
Friday I get a call to say the parts will arrive Monday, and I can collect the phone just after 3.30 pm.

3.30 pm and I'm standing in the Customer Care Centre (that's and oxymoron, like Virgin Active or Military Intelligence). Needless to say the phone isn't ready yet. So I inform them that if it's ready by Tuesday, they can call me, and deliver it to my place of work!

And I hand in my phone (Blackberry) to be repaired / replaced. It's also playing up.

Tuesday - no call.

Wednesday (today) at about lunch time I call again. Sorry, the parts still have not come. Ok, let me speak to a manager.

Me - " you've had the phone for 10 days. It's still not fixed. The parts still have not come. Time to give me a new phone!"
After some "light banter" (hehe) he capitulates, and I can collect the new phone in the morning!

As for my phone, they don't repair Blackberries, they give you an exchange unit, and I can get mine tomorrow as well! Will have to see what I get. If it's old and abused I am going to rip someone's head off, shit on his lungs, and charge him with having bad breath!!

Salagatle!

Project Model - II

So, as promised:-














In the beginning.....















Some progress - half a roof, and some beams...















Pic of the real deal....















painted - some beams now in place....


















All of Princesses clothes pegs holding it all together...















Almost done... All that we need now are the sliding glass panels. Three on each side. Bottom one is fixed. Top one slides down onto middle one, and the two of them slide down onto the bottom one...















Panels in place. We have set one side in closed position, the other in open, for obvious reasons. For anyone that's interested, the walls of the existing building part are 8 cm high. At this scale, 1:100, an adult is about 18 mm tall.
The span between the two buildings is 45 cm.

And this thing won't let me load any more pics... So that's it.
Will let you all know what marks "we" get for this...

Salagatle!

Seaman

To Seamn, http://seamanrbay.blogspot.com/, who is going in to hospital again, good luck my friend. Have faith. You will get better.

Salagatle

Project Model

Some time ago I think I mentioned a school project my son got to do. It runs over the whole year.

Phase one was to prepare and present a conceptual proposal for an opening / closing roof over the school quad (look it up). For this he and his two team members got well into the 90's ( I think he got about 98%!).

Phase two was to do details drawing to scale, 1:50. No problem. With my design background we came up with an excellent unique design. We did the whole conceptual presentation and even a pricing breakdown. Result! 98%!

Now, for the third and final phase, they have to build a scale model of the proposed solution / structure. Scale 1: 100!!!

GREAT!!! I have had so much fun helping them with this. A dream come true. Will be finished by Thursday, for presentation to the school on Friday morning.

Oh, and first prize for the winning team is R1000.00 (work it out)!

So, watch this space! Photo's to follow......

Salagatle!