Back where I begun

Got to go back to ING today to celebrate my colleague's last day at work. On and off I'll be spending time here for the next couple of months

Brussels!

The subject says all I fear. Hopefully my last attempt at driving up and down in one day. Then fortunately it is a school holiday in Belgium so the roads were fairly quiet.

Couch!

Took couch apart put old couch back. Booh! Hiss!

Installed surround sound system. *yay, sound all over the place!* At the same time:"Geez, look at all the wires!" Then dad visited and we attempted to buy a laptop *fail!* and bought Pet Sounds by the Beach Boys.

At night Nicktor, McR, Laurens and Annemarie visited. Unfortunately my couch crapped itself.

Brussels, brussels, brussels

Found myself working in Brussels almost all week. Unfortunately working in Brussels and having a life at home at the same time proved to be taxing at best. From now on I'll book a hotel. (Taxing as in 2.5 hours 1 way, 2.5 hours the other way). I actually like driving in my car, even for long stretches, but not if there's 8 hours of work in between those stretches.

On Friday visited Shiwa for food and stuff. Had loads of fun but did almost fall asleep nearer the end of the night. Shiwa had bought a new surround sound system and I bought her old one for 30 pounds.

Brussels

Checked out from hotel and straight away went back to the car. Seeing as we had parked it in a shopping center parking garage, we were somewhat afraid that people might have blown up/moved/whatevered our car. Fortunately this didn't happen :-)

Unfortunately we completely ran out of diesel 10 kms out of Holland and had to get 5 euro's worth. Arse!

Was forced to eat takeway curry at night because girlfriend ditched me for dinner. Poor me :-(

One large beer please

One large beer please
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Last time girlfriend and I were in Paris, girlfriend promised me that she would let me visit the Louvre next time we'd make it to Paris. This time she claimed the Louvre sucked balls and that she didn't want to go there.

Cried, made a puppy face and off course girlfriend could resist my charming personality. At least provided it wouldn't be too busy, girlfriend added. (Probably thinking:"Not busy on a Saturday, Hah!". Fortunately for me, indeed:"Not busy on a Saturday, Hah!" Enjoyed the afternoon in fairly un-busy Louvre.

After our museum visit, we teamed up with Crissy and Dan + Crissy's sister, brother in law and niece. Had a beer somewhere and learnt the lesson to enquire first what the exact size of a large beer is in a certain pub. Wasn't really expecting the liter pint of beer they gave me as "the large pint". Had somewhat hazy fun.

Drunk? Me?

How hard can it be?
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Today was the day where girlfriend and I would make our way to Paris and team up with
Dan and Crissy. Did just that and even managed to get rid of our car somewhere in a shopping centre. Unfortunately we were somewhat undecided on whether our car'd still be there when we'd get back but hey, at least we had parked.

Got to our hotel (not too bad for a cheap-ass hotel), checked in, and eventually walked to Louvre pyramid where we were hooking up with Dan and Crissy. Have to say that they don't look anything like a butt-plug (Crissy claimed otherwise).

After a stop at the Canadian pub for poutine and a 9% beer before this poutine *hic*, we had beers in another pub with a wairess who was obviously new to the waitressing-business (yay, cheap beer!), girlfriend and I stumbled back home. Actually I was a whole lot more sober than I look in this photo, I was just having issues keeping my eyes open :-)

A whole week spent working doesn't make for interesting writing, I fear. Did work in Brussels on Wednesday, due to which I got to travel 300 kms in one day. Wooh!

the Hangover

Did hangover for most of the day, then went to a little festival for an hour, where I saw beardyman play. Most easily the best beat-boxer I've ever seen.

Then had to rush back to the airport again because I still had a flight to catch. Arrived at the airport 1.5 hours before my plane was supposed to leave. Entered queue for customs and left that one 5 minutes before my plane was supposed to leave (something had them give everybody a full cavity-search) *gaah!* Then still had to take a train to gate , which had me arrive at my plane 10 minutes after it was taking off. Fortunately it hadn't. Fortunately I wasn't the only person that was late either.

I want to drink your blood!

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The reason I came to London was Kaz' birthday party, which is a beast and monsters fancy dress-party. (See my flickr page for all the photos) Spent the day in the supermarket and preparing for the party. Party was a big success, though Kaz probably can't remember most of it

Did pretty okay alcohol-wise myself, I thought, until... I woke up at 6 in the morning to find people trying balance stuff on me. After waking up, I noticed that they had been at it for at least half and hour and that they had made photos as well. (Un)fortunately not with my camera. Maybe they'll still show up.

Decadent workaholic

Worked all day and then took off for the airport to fly to London. At the London side of the North Sea, Kaz picked me up for her birthday party weekend. Started off well by giving Kaz the Join-me book as a birthday-present right after she spent 15 minutes talking about how she wanted to read that book.

Got some some beers and drank most of them. Then managed to watch 164 John and John
comic strips on the internet. We're sad!

Holiday

Packed stuff for holiday, eventually got joined by girlfriend, who was too tired to function.

A company meeting. A bit less beerful than the previous meeting.

Haircut!

Started work in the ARINSO offices, tried working at my place for a short while and eventually ended up working at a colleague's place. Interesting!

The fun of helping my completely disorganised aunt with her computer. "Q: Do you know the password to your e-mail aunt?" "A: Why should I?" "Q: Could you give me the cd for..." "A: Where are they?" SO yes, it basically was an evening of:"Hunt down stuff". Fun

Did some shopping but failed to buy stuff. Does that make me a failure? Oh wait, yesterday I already bought stuff for Kaz' party next weekend. I'm afraid I'll be having fun there in London :-)

Cocktails at Nicktor's place. Biked there and behaved pretty well. Unlike some of us, I have to say :-) McR basically had to carry Sabrina to his car.

Had a copy made of my cellar-key. It didn't work.

D-day

Gave presentation, did well, was funny without resorting to uranus jokes. Drank a bit too much beer afterwards with colleagues. *hic!*

Order

Finally got my sheets in order, I should be fine tomorrow.

Multitasking take 2

Attempted to get sheets for wednesday's presentation organised while watching tv. More or less failed at both again.

Pool

Went to the swimmingpool, yay! Yay! Pool! Also fell asleep near a swan. Got photos of the whole weekend up at my flickr page actually so does girlfriend's brother's girlfriend.