h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Actually, my keyboard seems to be a bit sticky at times. Especially the zzzzzzz button which gets a bit annoying coz it will get stuck in and be running strings of zzzzzz's amongst my typing!

Now is that really the keyboard? Or just you, actually dozing off for really brief spells?

You know - it could be either!

Anything is possible, in this mad, mad, mad world, eh?

Not quite anything, I don't think. I still can't make omelettes!

Ah, but I can. With pretty much anything I can find in the fridge being tossed in. Yummmmm.

Come cook for me...*looks all sweet and imploring*

Ummmm, that daily commute is quite an obstacle to over-come. And I do have to be home every night ... I have two who desperately need mauling and attention, ya know.

You can bring them with.

Thank you, but I think we'll stay where we are known ... For now.

You're known here...
By me...

Hmmm, you have a point. So a side question ... About how far would 8,353.68 Rand per month carry a chap, (and two cats) in your neighborhood?

Very easily!
Heck, that's way more than I get paid!

According to a fairly dependable site, that is the exact conversion of what my military monthly pension is, in your currency. Here, that just meets the mortgage payment on my house. Little things like heat, light, food, clothes etc have to be paid out of actual earnings.

I only get R5000 a month and that is R4500 actual salary and R500 petrol-money to get between photoshoots and shows.

In relative terms, is that fairly good pay for your locale then? Enough for you to live comfortably?

I know one chap who will be retiring from our military in a year or so. His pension is worth about $2,000 (Canadian) a month then, and with it he will move himself and family back to Jamaica. Where he was born. Because while that is not a great deal of money here, he can live like a king in Jamaica.

Actually, it's not very good pay I could honestly do with a bit more...

No worries there, mate. No matter how much a person is paid, they could ALWAYS do with more.

I need to get my car fixxed though and that's going to be quite a lot.

Definitely the down-side to owning cars, ... there will always be another expense.