Lock-down Day 169

State of Disaster extended for another month - isn't that just great? Sigh.

At home, Mewthos started mewling very early again, and just would not stop. Then I heard something splashy ... looked up, and he's standing at the foot of my bed, tail up, emptying his bladder at my wardrobe! What the ... ??? What is that about? Yesterday morning, he was quite happily sitting in the small litter box for the same thing - and today? I mean, it's as clean as it was yesterday morning! As is the big one! Seriously, what is wrong with that boy? I wiped it all up with paper towels - held them under his nose, so he could take pride in his achievement! No, I didn't shove it into his face - just held it out for him, when he came to investigate what I was doing! Little shite!

I'm tied in knots of anxiety over this place I'll be having a look at after work today. Stress headache in full swing - and At isn't here with his GrandPa powders today. I've spent a lot of time on Google Maps looking at the area, trying to figure out which building it could be ... from the directions he sent me, it's about 500m dirt road. Based on that, it could be one of two properties - unless something has been built since the image was taken. But it says the image is 2020 ... I can't look from the road, because dirt roads aren't imaged. The photos posted with the ad only show the front porch and some built-in shelves ... I can't tell anything from those. The description is also very brief, just 'private 2 bedroom' and 'immediate occupation'.

A colleague told me a friend of his stays in that area and he would recommend it. Decent area, with some venues, etc. Well, I'm as anxious as can be.

At lunch time, I suddenly remembered the cigarette roller and filters they promised to have at Spar by today, so I went off to collect. Unfortunately, they hadn't arrived, yet - I'll have to try again on Monday. I asked for a small box of GrandPa - but they only had the large one, at their usual high price. My head was so bad by then, I didn't care and took the box. Feeling much better, now!

My boss handed out hamburgers for lunch again today! Cool! Not McDonalds or anything, real hamburgers! They are quite nice!

My level of anxiety keeps rising - if I was getting the results of a biopsy, I couldn't be more anxious! And I can't explain to anyone, why! After all, I'm only LOOKING at a prospective place, nothing more ... but there's the whole 'driving in unknown territory' thing going with it. Weird, I know, but what do you expect from me? Normal? Ha Ha Ha! As if!

At least the headache is better. That's something.

I've printed out a map how to get there, and another map how to get home from there. Both along roads I've never traveled. Lets hope the place is worth all this anxiety, eh?

Right. There are absolutely no road signs along the way! Not even for the turn-off the highway! I just had to keep driving and hope I was on the right road. Fortunately, I had taken a virtual drive on google maps for the last stretch - I still drove past the road! Turning around was quite a mission, as there was a crap load of traffic! The dirt road is quite rough, but it's only a few hundred meters, so I could live with that.

But the flat itself ... I'm sorry, but no. Firstly, it needs a lot of work - the built in furniture is all ... either unfinished or broken, I can't tell which. Then, I can see they've down-sized the kitchen light - it has a neon tube, you can see when they painted the ceiling, it had one twice as long. The bedrooms are both quite small - my bed could probably fit into either, but nothing else. And the 'bathroom' is sort of 'open plan' behind the kitchen. There's no door, just a passage past the shower to a basin, and then the toilet on the other side of the shower, to the right of the basin. And there's no means to connect a washing machine - I could put it by the sink, and connect the inlet tap, but no outlet available. And the sink is open - it's just the stainless steel sink with the drip next to it, not built in or on to anything. The outlet pipe is standing underneath, open. It's just too cramped for me. Pity ...

I did, however, find out where Bultfontein is! There is another advert for a 3 bedroom house in Bultfontein, Pretoria. I hadn't been able to find it on the map, and I tried calling twice but always got the answering service - left a message asking where it is, but never got a reply, either. On the way home from the place I looked at today, I drove past a sign to Bultfontein, so that's not completely off the map, after all. I'll try calling again - maybe this lot goes out tomorrow, and I may have an opportunity to make a private phone call? Sigh ...

When I got home, they were in full trash mode ... I don't bother to listen, so I don't know WHAT is being said, but I can hear from the tones that they are trashing someone or something. You'd think after 19 months of this, every evening and every weekend, all weekend long - I'd be used to it. I'm not. I've ignored it as much as I could, but it's always bothered me - it's simply not a nice atmosphere to be in.

Anyway ... I'll just have to keep looking. And hope that there's something nice out there, just waiting for me to find it.

Mippies stayed out a little longer than usual today, I didn't make an issue of it. I decided to just wait until they're ready to come in - when Mewthos came mewling along, that's the bat-signal! Ha Ha Ha! Time for mippies to come running and get chased inside by Mewthos!

Well, that's my Friday afternoon done ... I'll do weekend from tomorrow. You know, laundry, cookies, bread ... weekend stuff. Oh, and I should wash the floors this weekend - especially after Mewthos' performance this morning! Plus, I found some returned food on the floor, as well, which I had to clean up when I got home. It'd be good to wash all that off properly.