Posted by: Alex
Okay, so own up. For the last 3 weeks at least, I have had a number of searches each week along the lines of “alex van niekerk”, “alex van niekerk orange” and “alex van niekerk blog”. This can only mean that someone who knows me is spying on looking for me, but he / she leaves no comment. I have a reasonable idea who you are, so you can stop lurking and at least leave a comment folks! I don’t bite.
At least once a week one disappointed person a week gets here looking for brown recluse spider bites and photos of brown recluse spider bites. Hunny hasn’t posted his picture story yet, because well, it’s not done yet, so a here’s quick update on that story: Nearly 3 months on, Hunny’s arm is still not fully healed. He stopped applying the dressing properly for a while which resulted in a bit of back-sliding in the healing process. Since he started doing it properly again (for about the last month) the skin/scar tissue is growing back, but it’s still not closed up yet. In short: those bites are nasty things and if you suspect you may have been bitten by a brown recluse (also known here in SA as violin spiders), see your doctor as soon as possible. The sooner you catch it, the less dead tissue they will have to remove.
I feel marginally bad about the 1-2 searches a week that still reach my blog looking for smiths motorcycles. But only marginally, because in truth that really was a kak* service experience. By far the worst in my short medium-length life. But it was also probably a once in a lifetime thing, so perhaps your experience with Norm won’t be the same as mine was.
More dream snippets from last night:
- Flossing my teeth
- Putting my foot in my shoe to find a huge orange spider in there. It was made of felt cloth, but was non-the-less alive. It crawled out the shoe (once I had stopped screaming and removed my foot) and climbed up the wall.
* for the non South Africans: ‘kak’ is Afrikaans, and translates directly to ‘crap’, but really it’s just so much more than that…
July 16th, 2008 at 1:23 pm
HA! I did search for your name once when you were in holiday, since I’ve had no news of you, and no response! But please don’t think I’m spying on you!
PS: I knew there was a reason why I hated spiders!
Love,
Marina
July 16th, 2008 at 3:03 pm
Glad to see you back in blog world.
July 16th, 2008 at 4:41 pm
“I don’t bite.” Ha! I have seen you attack an innocent pizza and walk away with a big smile on your face.
July 16th, 2008 at 4:47 pm
@Marina: I stand corrected, I didn’t guess it was you atall, but I am glad you decided to stop by and leave a comment
@June: Yeah, I’ve been a bit slack lately, and I don’t like posting those ‘sorry I haven’t been posting’ posts, so I just decided to carry one where I left off and prentend I never went AWOL!
@Johan: Pizza’s are guilty by default. So is chocolate.