I have an idea for a new thread...

[DJR]

I've NEVER worked so late in the year before, and i not spent a festive season in JHB in maybe 15 years. It's really amazing how Rustig it is here, Driving to work this morning felt like a Sunday. I had to keep looking at my watch to make sure it's actually a work day.

 

 

Ironic that most of us spend our entire year in busy Jozi, and when it finally becomes rustig here, we head down to the busy and overcrowded coast to 'relax'.

Driving to work in Cape Town this morning was also very rustig with no sign of the usual traffic mayhem...........but at around 10am it will be chaos again with the holidaymakers and shoppers fighting each other in the trenches and on the beaches........best is to safely hide here at work! And if I venture out it will be on the mountain bike, to watch the mad hordes battling from above.

[MTBeer]

Driving to work in Cape Town this morning was also very rustig with no sign of the usual traffic mayhem...........but at around 10am it will be chaos again with the holidaymakers and shoppers fighting each other in the trenches and on the beaches........best is to safely hide here at work! And if I venture out it will be on the mountain bike, to watch the mad hordes battling from above.

agreed. don't attempt the Waterfront entry from FW de Klerk after 10.00. Lucky for me I'll be heading to Struisbaai for 2 weeks where the biggest traffic issue is when more than 2 cars arrive at the 4 way stop outside the OK at the same time.

[Lurch]

I always stay in Gauteng over this time.

Normally take the days between Christmas and New Year off and stay at home, but this year I've opted to work next week.

[Bateleur1]

We always stayed at home during Desember.  Going to work was just so nice.  Commuting was like a Sunday morning.  I could get double the work done as there is hardly anybody there to disturb you.  We could leave work early as all the support calls were dealt with in the morning.  Just divert our phones for emergencies and go out and chill.  As said earlier, you spend the whole year in Gauteng having to deal with all the other idiots around you.  Why would you go and pay double the price than in other times of the year to go see the same idiots and deal with their shyte at some holiday.

[Patchelicious]

Happy Friday Peeps.

 

I foresee some furious office fapping during these quite times if you keep posting pics like this.

[Long Wheel Base]

I've NEVER worked so late in the year before, and i not spent a festive season in JHB in maybe 15 years. It's really amazing how Rustig it is here, Driving to work this morning felt like a Sunday. I had to keep looking at my watch to make sure it's actually a work day.

I drove today instead of riding in and I left 5 min later than usual for when I drive and I got here same time I normally do. It's only a 10km trip. It's like a ghost town here but as murphy has it we had work pop up out of the blue. 

[Patchelicious]

I drove today instead of riding in and I left 5 min later than usual for when I drive and I got here same time I normally do. It's only a 10km trip. It's like a ghost town here but as murphy has it we had work pop up out of the blue.

Love JHB this time of year! No yummy mummies in GL500s running me over on their way to yoga class. Instead they are on the beach posting bikini selfies on Instagram, so it’s a double score!

[Long Wheel Base]

Love JHB this time of year! No yummy mummies in GL500s running me over on their way to yoga class. Instead they are on the beach posting bikini selfies on Instagram, so it’s a double score!

and we have water here, lots of it.

[Slowbee]

 

Day 21: Galaxies, Galaxies, Everywhere. Every object in this image (save for two nearby stars) is a separate galaxy made up of billions of stars. This is a detail of the "Hubble Ultra Deep Field," a larger image filled with nearly 10,000 galaxies--the deepest visible-light image of the cosmos. This galaxy-studded view represents a "deep" core sample of the universe, cutting across billions of light-years. In vibrant contrast to the rich harvest of classic spiral and elliptical galaxies, there exists a zoo of oddball galaxies littering the field. Some look like toothpicks; others like links on a bracelet. Peering into the Ultra Deep Field is like looking through a 2.5-meter-long soda straw. In ground-based photographs, the patch of sky in which the galaxies reside (just one-tenth the diameter of the full Moon) is largely empty. The image required 800 exposures taken over the course of 400 Hubble orbits around Earth. The total amount of exposure time was 11.3 days, taken between September 24, 2003, and January 16, 2004.

 

*this is a boring image...* so put my own below .... as it is the southern skies we see here, the southern cross and relevant stars and constellations (not my image but from the net)

 

 

[Sepia]

I foresee some furious office fapping during these quite times if you keep posting pics like this.

Joh! but nice!

[Slowbee]

Morph, did you get my PM ?

[DJR]

http://img.izismile.com/img/img10/20171221/1000/daily_gifdump_1503_11.gif

My friend who farms Merinos and Angoras in the Karoo will say "that's nothing boet, a black backed jackal can get into a sealed can of bully beef if it wants to". Still amazing  

[Goodbadugly]

http://i755.photobucket.com/albums/xx198/waynedude/25662331_193188094569273_2960574068698382336_n_1.gif

Amazing

[Eddy Gordo]

Amazing

Indeed

[Fruity]

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[Slowbee]

 

Day 22: Gazing Into The Ring. Messier 57, otherwise known as The Ring Nebula, lies 2,500 light-years away. From Earth’s perspective, the nebula looks like a simple elliptical shape with a shaggy boundary. However, new observations show that the nebula is shaped like a distorted doughnut. This doughnut has a rugby-ball-shaped region of lower-density material slotted into in its central “gap”, stretching towards and away from us. The central star, once a massive red giant, is now very faint, having ejected most of its outer layers and exhausted its hydrogen fuel supply, on its way to becoming a white dwarf.