It’s been almost a year since my last post.

One of the things you can be most certain about when blogging is that at some point the blog will die. The internet is littered with blogs and sites that have been a hive of activity, only to fade into obscurity once the initial wave of euphoria of posting updates wears off.

Today was the national election in South Africa, and I’m proud to say that I did my duty, and voted after standing for over an hour in a queue. It makes me really overjoyed to see how far my country has come with people willing to brave the heat, and long queues to have their say in where our country is heading.

The frequency of posts has certainly taken a hit over the last two or so years, and for those of you wondering what exactly has been going on, and why I’ve been so quiet, I thought I’d write a bit about what exactly happened the last few years.

Well that was a bit of a break from writing now wasn’t it!

Life has been busy busy busy the last few months (nearly a year!) and this is the first time in ages that I can just take a short break and sit down to reflect on the last few months.

As you may have noticed, I’ve finally managed to get back into a semi-regular posting / writing habit. Sometimes, though, life is just boring, with nothing notable to blog about. And this is one of those times. So please strap in, and get ready for a short and simple update.

Just a short post to say that I’ve managed to get my first vaccination shot today.

I’ve been a bit lax in terms of blogging lately. I’ve been meaning to write more, especially with the #100DaysToOffload challenge, but life has thrown a few obstacles in my way. With how 2020 and 2021 have gone, that is actually a blessing of sorts.

If you’ve been living in South Africa for any length of time, you’ll know that one of the downsides of living here is that we have frequent load-shedding due to our national electricity company being unable to provide us with enough power due to mismanagement and inadequate resources. But I’m not going to type out a post filled with complaints about the situation. Rather, I want to look at the positive aspects of being forced to live without electricity for several hours a day.

This past December I hit the big 40 with the coming and going of my latest birthday. It’s crazy to think that I’ve been on earth for 4 decades now and how my life has changed over the years. So why not ramble on a bit in this post as a way of seeing what I want to accomplish in the next 40 years.

I’m sure that I don’t need to say it, but what a crazy year 2020 has been. I’m sure that for most people, 2020 was a year to throw out any plans that you may have had and I’m no exception to that.