Mark was still sick today. Although his fever has subsided, his throat remains red and sore. So, he spent the day at home, reading the seventh Harry Potter book.
Tracy interviewed the #2 person in the South African Council of Churches this morning. The circumstances were unusual. He lives in Gauteng but is in Stellenbsoch for a conference celebrating John Calvin's 500th birthday. But, he had to be in the southern suburbs of Cape Town (Bishopscourt) this morning to meet with the current Archbishop of Cape Town. They worked it out where Tracy was his chauffeur and conducted the interview while they were fighting the morning rush-hour traffic inbound on the N2. This evening, Tracy is attending the conference and listening to a talk by Allan Boesak.
Given all of Tracy's happenings and the fact that she held down the fort throughout most of the last couple weeks, it was my turn to stay home with Mark and do the running around for the kids. I also reviewed two chapters of Jean Gad's thesis and tried my best to catch up email from the last couple weeks.
I went to the bank to retrieve our cheque card, which the ATM machine ate on Thursday. They had it waiting for me, and we re-set the PIN, linked it to our account, and lifted the "hot" status from the card. I went downstairs to the ATM to try an account balance inquiry, and it failed with an "invalid action" error (whatever that means). I went back inside and was told that we should wait 24 hours, because there have been some problems with "the system." We'll try tomorrow, but I fear that Standard Bank really has no clue what is happening with their ATMs.
I added another entry to the Best of the Best page.
--Matt