intense, heavy and deathly

As I haven't written anything in the last 14 days I'll give an update of the last weeks.

I went to work, went home, went to the groceries(which I do almost daily), prepared my dinner, watched some TV, checked the Internet, went to bed, woke up the next day at 7 am and began the next day as the previous day. The weekends I did some shopping, waking up later than normal and I spent some hours on bicycle training.

looking up the dike on one of my tours.

On January 11 we had a storm over Holland, at the coastline. Inland the wind wasn't really stormy. Temperatures were quite high. Yes ocean, we had Californian highs of 15 degrees C., extraordinary, in the midst of winter!!!

On the 18th day of this year Europe had another storm. Much intenser, heavier and deathlier.
In Europe almost 50 people died, in the Netherlands 7 people lost their lives.
It was a mean one, the wind suddenly came, faded away and came back again.
Some new built houses a few kilometers away from my house were heavily damaged. One tree in a park next to my house collapsed. The 4 remaining trees in front of my house are all okay.
My house has no damage luckily. The wind only broke some pots for plants.

Last Saturday the wind blew again with lots of rain. Suddenly it was dry and the next days will be cold, below zero C. when I cycle to work. I bought some gloves today because I lost the pair I had last year and till now I didn't need them.


weather for tonight.


At work there are some rumors that an executive of another department wants to implement my work in his department. It's a bit of showing poor management quality with the civil service. Know that parts of my department concerned with this rumor is in the midst of a change, making the whole situation stressful and explosive.

backupped

2007 Is on it's way now. Tomorrow the 3rd day of the course. Some laws which go together with the work our department does were explained on the second day. It's interesting but actually I know the framework already.

Luckily I have also REAL work to do, but last Friday I didn't save the Excel-application I worked on for some time.

I asked the help desk; No copy will be saved during the day they said. At night the system only makes a backup of the last saved application. (does the verb to backup exist? "will be backupped")

My guess is that my PC at work though could make a backup on it's own hard disk. It doesn't stress the network.

It was at the end of the day, so after calling the help desk I finished work and was home early.

Happy new year!

Of course mr. Reagan shouldn't have supported Iraq in it's war against Iran. By doing this, America is as guilty as can be for the crimes convicted by Hussein.

Crimes against Kurds and Shiites. His death is no solution, his executioners made a martyr of him. We all know who he was alive. So if he can be a martyr in death, even any humanitarian extremist can. That's the wrong message to the world.

Of course it's difficult if you're against deathpenalty. (I am)
But on his last moment before execution Hussein was very calm, praying with his agitating enemies on the background. And when the floor dissapeared under his feet I noticed some disbelieve by him. Or was it by me?

I wish the best in 2007 for Hnk and Najma in Mosul. They are captured in their best years of their lives so far in a war which is not theirs. I don't know what will happen, Study as hard as you can and keep on blogging.

31 December I saw my sister with her son again after 5 years. She's changed not much, only got 5 years older. We all did. But her son, he can walk, talk like a kid and being naughty like one. At 12 pm we watched the fireworks and at night we played a game. 4.00 am I went to bed.



Newyearsday for me was one to wake up at 11 am., having breakfast, a coffee with my mother and her friend and taking the train back to Utrecht. After being home, everything was okay, I took my bike and cycled for an hour. That felt good. After that messed up extended weekend.

Ocean, you too a happy new year and make it a cheerful interesting year.