Girlfriend's back...

After spending the whole weekend in Almere, girlfriend returned again today. She brought me a dvd with on it episodes of the A-team, Miami Vice, Magnum PI and Knightrider. Watched A-team with girlfriend. Spent the remainder of the evening singing the A-team tune. Girlfriend now dislikes me severely.

Also kid sister apparently still owed me a birthday present, she bought me lamps. They look brilliant!

Reading

Spent most of the afternoon and evening reading books, except for a short trip to town to get tent-pegs. (yeah, I'm dull)

Racing

After spending the afternoon doing house stuff, shopping and attaching a new lock to my bicycle, I eventually went to Almere to go bowling (don't ask). Got a bit side-tracked after the bowling and at 11:45 realised that I should have been in Rotterdam at least an hour earlier.

Somehow managed to do the 100+km drive within 45 minutes by flying low instead of driving and did the second half of the night with all my other friends drinking beer outside in "de Oude Haven". Fun!

Spent the evening keeping Nicktor awake. nicktor spent evening falling asleep on his couch.

Still sunny! Woohoo!

Wednesday night skate

The Wednesday night skates have started again in Rotterdam. Joined in with sister and one of her friends. Apparently tonight 20.000 people showed up. Fun!

Out for dinner with colleagues. Good food, sunny weather, fun.

Monday!

Library, pizza and girlfriend storming in and out of the house within a minute. most people'd say it's a quiet night.

Thievery 101

Accidentally lost the keys to my bicycle while shopping in Rotterdam. Had already lost the previous set of bicycle keys a while ago. Fortunately I placed my bicycle right in front of a bar so while I was sawing through my first lock (which took me forever), at least many people asked me what I was doing. Actually most people walking past except for the police. Apparently they thought that somebody with an iron saw sawing away at a bicycle lock was perfectly normal.

On the other hand, anybody taking over an hour to open my locks can't be a thief :-)

The second coming

Spent the day cleaning up the house, baking cakes and preparing for my second housewarming. Had plenty of people over. (In fact most of the previous housewarming party + some family members). Nice weather, fun!

Check the photos at my flickr page. Apparently McR decided that it's cool to wear a beard now.

Read till you drop

Bought a guitar-stand and became a library-member. Girlfriend and I now share a library card. One small step for a man...

More bass

Ended up playing bass and grinning madly all night. Girlfriend played groupie. For the first time in my life I ended up in bed with a groupie. This means that my musical career is really starting to take off!

Bass man

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... This is the bass-guitar I managed to buy today. It was definitely an instrument missing in my instrument-collection so instrument wise I'm a happy camper. Was a bit annoyed that I missed out on going swimming with my sister and friends though. Better luck with that next time, I hope.

So... apparently I lost quite a bit of coolness buying crocs. For some reaon I'm one of the few people who actually likes them. I'll just have to prove all you people wrong now.

My Crocs

My Crocs
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Just wondering, last saturday I decided that I really needed new sandals, which I know these are not. Then I decided that I needed to buy these in a low-key colour such as black but apparently I failed in that department as well.

Gilfriend thinks they're the most terrible things on this planet, girlfriends' family all appeared to react in a WTF are you wearing there? Kind of way on Saturday. But besides them I've been getting some positive reactions as well. So, hit or miss?? (See if I care )

More rollerskating at night. Weather is hot, me like, am seeing some sort of an issue with me enjoying myself and girlfriend talking about thinking of moving to Antarctica the whole time.

Aiee!!

A whole week of updates missing, does that mean that I've actually got a life now? Possibly. The main cause for this has been the beautiful weather, which has been causing me to sit outside in the sun, drink wine, rollerskate, etc. etc.

Actually, the weekend was a tad different, with a visit to Lelystad on Saturday and a traditional guys night out on Saturday evening. Even managed to sleep over at my parent's place and cuddle the cat in the process. Nicktor appeared to be even more drunk than usual.

And Sunday we all had a picnic in the park with drinks, food swimming and rollerskating, it was great fun.

Oh, I believe I also accidentally bought a electro-accoustic bass-guitar on the internet. Not that I needed one but hey, sometimes you need to buy on impulse :-)

Python

Played with python most of the day. The programming-language, not anything snake-like. Enjoyed myself.

Eventually went to see "Over the hedge" with girlfriend. Not brilliant, still nice.

Went to Bobbejaanland (a ride-park in Belgium) with with girlfriend. This was all work sponsored and quite a few colleagues showed up. Ended up doing most of the rides that didn't get me dizzy (I can do most rollercoasters but I get dizzy in a simple merry-go-round at the same time). Fun!

Was supposed to have loads of people over in the evening but Nicktor fell asleep and forgot to invite them all.

Applied some polish to my newly installed pc while girlfriend sat on coutch doing girly-stuff. Pretty dull to write about actually.

Ubuntu

Did Thursday-ish stuff by staying in and reading a book. Then decided that after 10 years of having Linux installed on my home pc it was about time I'd ditch Windows. I haven't really been using Windows at all over the past couple of years and it was about time.

Shocked about how simple installing has become in the past 1.5 years. It's never really been hard but this time Ubutu actually let me surf the internet while it was installing itself. That's right, I hardly did anything at all and everything worked in the end.

Having really looked forward to spending a couple of days tinkering with stuff, this kinda sucks. I may need a new hobby now.

France!

The upside of the Dutch football team getting kicked out of the WorldCup pretty soon is that now I get the chance to watch the football matches as an impartial viewer. Watched France-Portugal this night, good match!

OK Computer

Spent night at girlfriend's place repairing her computer. Note to self:Next time girlfriend asks:"Can't you install Ubuntu on my pc?" Reply:"Yes! Of course!" Instead of:"You probably want to install that besides windows, at least for the first part.

The second answer may be the safe one, but you're really not fond of doing the:"Install Windows"-part, not even when girlfriend has already done most of it.

Meet Thingo and Baba

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Got my hair cut before I ended up at home, taking photos of thingo (the purple doll that girlfriend made for me during a DIY-kick) and Baba, possibly the first love of my life. In all honesty, this is the second Baba which my mum made after she promised me to make a new sweater for the old Baba, the old one resides somewhere at mum and dad's place. I slept with this doll and his predecessor during at least the first 12 years of my life.

Metropolis

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Spent half the afternoon walking around the Metropolis festival, looking at bands all alone. And then the other half doing more or less the same with Nicktor. It being a terribly sunny day this was enjoyable even with Nicktor ;-)

Picked up girlfriend and Annemarie at night. She hasn't grown any tentacles or extra limbs during the week she was on holiday. She is however pretty tanned.

Bicycle Repairman

Biked to Ridderker because my bike was falling apart. Hang in there, I'll start making sense soon... The spokes of my rear wheel are a bit on the thin side so they keep breaking. Now my dad had some rear wheels lying around with better spokes and he's got a lot more tools than I have.

Spent 3 hours changing the wheels (some parts wouldn't fit, some parts had to be swapped, etc. etc.). Fortunately one of my father's colleagues was visiting and the both of them spent their afternoon shouting useless tips at me with big smiles on their faces. Bastards!

At night played golf in Arjan's backyard. Found out that golf is a daytime sport.