So our son has finally been released from hospital. We should now self isolate for 2 weeks due to his white blood cells being completely depleted. Any whiff of a virus or bacteria can hospitalise him again.
On a positive note - our house has been sold and we got our asking price! The agent inflated the selling price slightly so that the offer matched the price we wanted.
Edit: we’ll continue renting in Cape Town up until the time we’re ready to buy again. Currently we’re not sure where we want to settle, so we’ll make our final decision in 2 years’ time when our son has to start Grade R. So I’m planning on either investing the profits of the sale or buying an investment property with it to gather some rental income again.
Thanks man. It was a very quick sale… Our tenants moved out during the second week of September and the agent showed the property to 4 prospective buyers. We’re signing the sales agreement today after it being on the market for 2 weeks. Our previous house was sold within 2 days and our first property before that sold in a month. So we’ve been quite lucky in that regard.
So i found a locksmith that is willing to try and pick one of our existing locks and then taking it back to their workshop to have a key remade for it and its only going to cost R1300… all in compared to having to buy 12 new locks at R200 a pop
Sjoe, proud of myself, signed up for an extra exercise class whilst I can aka since I am not working, so bouncefit 1x a week and once a week with a trainer that does similar work just without the rebounder. I survived both classes this week but I cannot for the life of me lift my hands up to wash my hair, they are dead today.
I believe there may (or is) a role coming for DevOps. Though I’m not sure what you’re exactly looking for and what area. I’ll keep an ear to the ground.
ah ok, yeah no programming based stuff, I am just a field technician, basically fix your grandma’s PC guy, however perfectly capable of router and network installations. But thanks for looking out, much appreciated.
Modern DevOps transcends operating systems and vendor technologies, I’m sure you understand that. Our DevOps revolve around Ubuntu, Docker, GitLab, MongoDB, Microsoft SQL Server, the odd Windows Server and some Azure and Office 365. Our DevOps guy (who was also a developer at one of our larger clients) found greener pastures in The Netherlands.
Ya, for sure. I just don’t want to work with Microsoft servers.
I was actually an SRE before Google came up with the name for the role in 2003. Was working mostly with Solaris, iPlanet and some early enterprise CMSs.
I’ve got some good docker experience under my belt now, and am going to work on some ansible training next.
luckly i was home 
