The Previous Evening

Last night, after deciding that investigation was the way to go ... Okay, so I got bored capturing data for people who aren't going to fill up my circular chart, there'll be plenty of time for that in the future. Anyway, so investigation. Right. The hopes I built up yesterday that somehow magically the South African archives would be accessible online (wishful thinking, I know!) were dashed and shattered. I'm still sifting thru piles of sites I found about researching your genealogy in south Africa, but short of heading to whatever province my ancestors died in (and who knows where that might be?!) and sifting thru their archive data, I don't know that it's a surmountable task :( Quite devastating. On the up side I did manage to find one teeny tiny piece of information ... a wedding date I didn't have. So I guess it wasn't a total loss :P

And then Varen & I headed off to meet @JarredCinman and YogaCherryl for dinner at the new Indian place in Greenside, Spiceburg. It's hard to find places to eat out with Vegans and Indian restaurants are about your only option (although they tell me a new vegan restaurant has opened up in Greenside too). We ordered Thali's, which I was under the impression J&C had tried there before, since they suggested it. Turns out they'd had amazing Thali's (supposedly a selection of dishes) at some other Indian place and wanted to try the Thali's here. Apparently they were not up to scratch. Our Thali's were particularly confusing due to the use of a forward slash - We thought you could choose either a starter or a main ... which completely confused our waiter, I think you can order one of each a bit like an odd set-menu where you can choose anything off the menu :P And the only extra was that your main comes with some weird extra stuff in a little bowl that I didn't even bother to taste. I wouldn't recommend ordering the Thali's, but the food in general was good (not Ghazal's good, but good none the less). I had what appeared to be Tempura Veg to start and then Chicken Mahkni for mains.

Unfortunately (and I don't know if it was due to the food or a combination of rich food, wine and sitting under a gas heater all night) I ended up feeling quite ill by the time we got home and spent half the night curled up next to the toilet under a blanket because I was so nauseus. I eventually managed to throw-up at half past midnight and feel decent enough to go back to bed and try and get some real sleep. I wouldn't be at work today, I'm still not feeling 100% and I'm exhausted, but two of the project's I'm working on have the clients coming in today ...

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