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Out of the desert!
Well I for one am fairly damned proud of myself. After the commercial and social desert that was January and various crises that I described last week (see below), it seems February is shaping up...
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Get away and get a life!
Just re-read this and its probably better titled as “A rambling post about nothing in particular a Thank You”One of the problems of running your own business is that there is no such thing as office...
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The Current Case Load
Couple of traces (yup the ones from previous postings! Will I ever get these guys? Well its looking better on two of the cases for now)Got a lovely little workers comp case in. (needs a personal...
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All works stops due to a mercy mission
An interesting but tragic job has kept me busy since late yesterday. My time has been spent with little sleep waiting for the phone to ring or another email to be received. Other than a brief chat here...
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Some one feels bad and is in a STACK of trouble!
Sat here waiting for the phone to start again. Just totted up today’s tally and its 14 telephone calls (19 yesterday and more emails that you could shake a stick at) All to get this poor chap from the...
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Dinner tonight? I don’t think so
Dinner at a great restaurant cancelled twice (I aint popular), One business meeting cancelled (rescheduled to Tuesday night) A few mates stood up (they are just complaining quietly). Clients having to...
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There’s Something About Nurses
WE DID IT! (see last few posts)We got our man over here in hospital and stabilized. Jeez he is still critical and one of the few people that I say a prayer for but he is here.I received an email from...
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The Case Load
Ongoing correspondence with the family of my Medevac case, a couple of ongoing workers comp cases, the usual list of traces, a couple of backgrounds, a nice US legal research job and whisperings of...
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Catching Up
Well it’s been close to a week since I last blogged. A bit lackadaisical of me but nonetheless I am now back on track.It’s always been a problem for me to get the correct balance between work life and...
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Terrible news in South Africa
Those of you unfamiliar with the perpetual soap opera that is South African politics will have to bear with me for a couple of lines.The much beloved and esteemed President of the ANC Youth League has...
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The Social Stuff
Just had my birthday! Supper in one of my favorite restaurants and a bottle of my favourite tipple as a present! There was a minor case of that “morning after the night before” feeling but otherwise I...
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The World Just Gets Smaller and Smaller
Technology is something I like to think I have a fair grasp of but sometimes I still get surprised by how simple life is becoming.The majority of my clients come from overseas and mainly English...
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A Word on Relationships Recession and Plain Low Down Nastiness.
Now I am not writing this from the moral high ground or inferring that I have some kind of supreme qualities or knowledge in the area. Lord knows I have failures behind me and must claim responsibility...
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The Case Load
Got a break booked for April. A small well deserved holiday. Closed out a trace with a negative result! Damn I hate it when that happens. Grrrr. Got a couple of workers comp reports to follow up on....
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A Realistic Approach to Surveillance
A nice little surveillance coming over the next few weeks. Not something I specialize in but what can I say… I know people!I do not take on much in the way of surveillance taskings. This is mainly...
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Back from the dead
Regular readers will know that I recently had a medevac case that I worked on concerning a guy employed in the Middle East (see Feb 17th)This guy arrived in a deep coma with multiple organ failure and...
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My Colleague Adriel Hampton Running for Congress!
Aside from the rather unusual pleasure of actually knowing someone that is running for Congress in the US (specifically California’s 10th Congressional District) it is nice to see a common man striving...
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One Year Old!
The company is one year old on 15 May. So in a shameless piece of self promotion pride and ego boosting I thought I would post a few comment from people over the last year.Feel free to ask to be put in...
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Far to long since I last posted
Here we are in May and I’ve just realised when my last post was!Memo to self: Don’t be too busy in future to write in the blog!So what’s been happening? Quite a bit recently. We have moved in to the...
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Surveillance. It aint sexy! Certainly not in a one donkey town.
We have recently moved in to the field of surveillance and will soon be expanding our undercover (UC) work. All of this is very exciting until one becomes familiar with the need to sit motionless for...
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Good ongoing cases on the books
Got an interesting armed robbery on the books at the moment. Wasn’t fun for our client but we stand a good chance of catching the mutts. Three armed mutts off the street would be a very pleasing...
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Having a balanced life.
Chatting online the other day some one asked how in our business it is possible to have a balanced life working and yet having a life. A few people agreed with me. What’s your thoughts? Now THAT is one...
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What’s on the case files?
The dodgy husband The workers comp guy that really isn’t malingeringThe armed robberyThe thieving web tycoonThe case of the missing Laotian
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A Personal Experience Regarding Password Security. Doh!
“Yeah yeah yeah” you say. “We all know that you should have a password containing lower and upper case letters, numbers and symbols”.Now who actually practices such principles in day to day life? Well...
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Who needs an office?
Some of you may be aware that I practice my trade in the hellhole and perpetual warzone that is Johannesburg where life is cheap and an AK47 even cheaper. (it aint that bad but I have an image to keep...
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