I kind of knew where the water meter was located, but it still took 40 minutes of careful digging to uncover it. This shows how often they come and take readings which is like never.Today I spent the day trying to fix our electricity supply so we can get the correct billing. We have had an issue with our pre paid meter for some time now and this has been reported on numerous occasions. The meter does not work and does not even show on the utility suppliers system when typing in the serial number of the unit, yet we are down as a pre paid customer.

A few weeks go I took a photo of this Christmas lunch buffet that was being offered at a restaurant we had visited whilst doing the Portugal visa application. I don't know why ,but I had an inkling this year things would be tight and we will be working up to the evening of the 24th. Business is hectic a the best of times and now with the Christmas rush there is no spare time anymore.

This morning one of our work cars was involved in an accident on the freeway ad the car above is he vehicle that went into the back of our vehicle. Just by looking at this vehicle you just know there is going to be no insurance and that is not anything unusual in South Africa. I doubt even the tow truck driver wants to tow this as the chances of being paid the towing fee would be highly unlikely as this car should be scrapped and is probably not even road worthy. This is selfish and unfair because if you cannot afford to drive on the road you have no rights to be on the road.

Being in crypto you soon start to realise that wealth does not jut happen overnight and this actually is a long game that relies on consistency and patience. The turning up every day where it is doing some extra reading as in research making sure what you invested in remains on track. The farming of the rewards is the fun part and on COTI the GCOTI is distributed every Wednesday which when staked boosts the overall APR.

This afternoon my son and I stumbled upon this beautiful caterpillar happily munching on some cannabis leaves. I had to take some photos because I have never ever seen one like this before. Normally the only things we have encountered are different types of spiders or the odd snake, but this is so much better even though it can bite. Normally in nature if something has bright colors you are best to leave it alone, but in this case you are quite safe. We are going to move this chap to the back garden tomorrow where there are some old tomato plants for him to feast on.

sourceIt is hard enough running a business sticking to a set budget, but is doubly hard when staff make stupid mistakes. I have known established businesses who are no longer around today because they never worried about the back end of the business and concentrated on the front end. The front end generates your profits so it is doubly important you hold onto them by managing the back end which is your costs. The one business had been functioning for 40 years with 90 branches and over 1500 staff and I could have told them 5 years before they closed that their business was in trouble just by how they ordered their packaging materials. The staff did not care and they were too big too fail.