Padma had a 'Kaffeeklatsch' with another Indonesian lady in town while I had an appointment with my Irish dentist to look at one of my few remaining teeth. Having been taught that half an hour early is better than ten minutes late, I had time to stop at my favourite shop but they were relocating.
The dental work didn't take longer than perhaps twenty minutes which, at a total of $420, worked out at twenty dollars a minute! No wonder I am reduced to shopping at op-shops! Which didn't stop me from giving Ian Lawrence outside K-Mart a donation. He's been sitting there for as long as K-Mart has been there but, after a recent medical episode, will call it a day at the end of this year. K-Mart wont' be the same without him, and I will miss him as we always have something interesting to talk about. He's South African and used to live in Swakopmund just "up the coast" from Lüderitz where I used to live and work in 1968/69.
With Padma still shopping, I did my own at my second-favourite shop, Vinnies, and came away with Orson Welles' "The Stranger" on DVD and two books, "History's Strangest Deaths - A Half-Arsed History Book" by Riley Knight and Professor Stewart's " Hoard of Mathematical Treasures".
I am back home now and checking on my emails and the state of the share market. It's not that I'm greedy but it gives me an interest in life, apart from which I do the occasional trade to cover our monthly living expenses. Right now BHP is up by thirty cents which is less than I had expected as its overnight New York price is up 1.27%, or seventy cents up on the local price; still, I can afford to sling Wikipedia another $5.
It not only makes me right; it also makes me feel right!
