Just as everyone had been going on about how unlucky I've been lately and things can only get better o.O You have have read the journal about my (sort of) smash & grab experience over a recent weekend, and then various other unexpectencies and expenses..then my gearbox gives out 2 weeks ago Monday night - right by Hillbrow of all places! R3000 repairs I don't have.

Then Tuesday, telephone lines and hence internet down the whole day - yes, what a productive day. And on top of that I'm paying someone a salary that had to sit twiddling his thumbs all day.

Then Wednesday a lightning storm hits us hard and keeps tripping the lights, so we park off in the lounge waiting for it to go away - as if I'm not far behind enough on work (and financially) as it is! But wait..there's more! Drains outside block up and guess what - we had a friggin tsunami rushing through the house! We worked like crazy with buckets, arranging cyphins out the windows, etc.. my employee has since dubbed my office "little Holland" after all the sandbags we packed to slow down the water flow. There is so much damage - some rooms were up to 10cm deep in water!

Thursday we lost the decider game at pool league, dropping us from the 1st place we've kept the entire season. That's our prize money gone.. Friday my bank balance landed 3 times below my overdraft limit thanx to debit orders and clients paying late - u can imagine ABSA ate my liver for breakfast!

Monday there was no power here, so had to send my employee home, then in the afternoon I ran out of petrol on the way to a client. Tuesday my work laptop and 2nd desktop PC both crashed...no I lie.. fried! Motherboards fried...had no PC for my employee to work on, so paid him for the day testing dozens of spares and eventually managing to build a working desktop PC (with some borrowed parts)

Monday my web hosting service went down completely for a few hours, so I was flooded with calls from angry customers - businesses out of email can be a serious problem. This being caused by my service domain expiring - I swear I never received any reminders! Then other misc. problems arose during the day that needed money to fix, but I had nothing. No airtime, no cash, no petrol - that was fun getting out of. Suppliers are also annoyed coz I haven't been able to pay them thanx to all that's happened.

Figured a quick loan will sort me out as a temporary solution... Did you know that no cash loan companies are interested in helping business owners? Went thru the whole yellow pages - no luck :( On top of this I've been dating a beautiful girl who really likes me for just over 3 weeks - so u can imagine the impression all this has left! Planned a special nite this weekend to ask her out officially (for once I'm the one putting it on hold), and had to cancel due to the financial constraints. Glad she's giving me support and understands the situation.

LOL! And I used to complain about other furs always having miserable emo journals? =P Aaah well things can only pick up from here *thinks positively* There are good things coming.. looks positive for me getting a tender, starting with selling 100 laptops *rubs paws*, plus I'm meeting an investor this week, which I'm feeling positive about. *deep breath* Hold thumbs for me that things pick up!