science

I knew it, the burial site for my dog was an ancient camp for Neanderthal hunters. Archaeologists found a large amount of flint tools used with the hunt. Those Neanderthalers lived there between 100,000 and 50,000 years ago. 30,000 years ago they were followed by the modern human being.
The Neanderthalers weren´t the best adapted species.

I must smile when I think about the relatively short time period we are on earth in comparison with other animals and living creatures.
It makes me sad if I think with what ease we destroy our habitat. If animals would do this with their habitat it will end in a fight. The outcome has been described as the survival of the fittest.

specialist

Tomorrow I have an appoinment with a specialist in the St. Antonius hospital, one of the best in the Netherlands.

2 Years ago my neighboor died, she should have had the best care....

tongue

I was right about the sunshine. What a lovely day. But, o, freezing cold.

What's in the news? Libya is on fire. People don't want Kadhaffi anymore.
I don't say -the people- yet, but it's obvious that Kadhaffi and his clan fall if they use the weaponry of the army and the tongue of war.

Help, I don't got visitors from South America, such as Chili, Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil. Surinams can't find me. I do think a lot of and about Bouterse and his friends.
I can say something about the Falklands war which was very surrealistic for me. It was 1982 and I was recovering from an accident not realizing what happened on the TV-screen. A real war between Thatcher's Great Britain and Argentine's dictatorship.

birthday

Today is my brothers birthday.
Tomorrow it's mine and Thursday it's my sisters.
Within 5 days we all have our birthday. It's all very organized and planned. It has some advantages but I never took them for granted.

Another thing, due to the fight with the taxi driver I found a letter in the mailbox today. It's from my work and it announces I can expect an official written warning. I can protest it, but I won't.
I respect the warning and I regret what I've done but I also see it a diploma for climbing Maslow's mountain.
It's only a fall but after that I can take a huge step to become even better.

New walk

E. is traveling to Argentina.
First she takes a summer school course of 2 weeks in Buenos Aires to learn more Spanish. Then she will travel around for 2 weeks.
Great of E., the girl with the big mouth. Everybody loves E. In no time
she will have many friends down there in that big country.

I think it is a wise decision to learn some words Spanish. Probably you won't get in touch with the locals and it is also and act of respect to the people to talk with them in their own language. Anyhow, at this moment Arnon Grunberg is also in Argentina. No coincidence that she doesn't like the writer. That they choose the same destination is a coincidence.

I wonder what Grunberg thinks when he would see E. deboarding the airplane. When she gets her luggage, would he wonder if it would be a trolley or a backpack?
E. is more of the trolley department and she owns the complete Ministry of funny walks (a mutual colleague said that). How would she walk away with 4 weeks of luggage in her trolley? What walk would accompany?
Or would she have a backpack? I can't believe that. E. needs a strange new walk.

Yeah, I'm making fun of E. But I've never met the real E., else I would know how she handles her luggage.

hit

A few posts ago I spoke about the fall. I would write about it later I wrote.
This is the moment.

On Wednesday February 2 I had a difference in opinion about behavior in traffic. A taxi driver didn't signal that he wanted to turn right.
I was crossing the street and waited for him to pass. I made sure he didn't had the signals on and made it clear to him.

Many things happened. But the main the main thing is that I hit him in the face after being spit.
He wanted to go to the police. I have talked with the police (the police is on the radio now, what a coincidence)



The police officer told me that I could try mediation. I could do that, but no luck sofar.

I had a justify myself for the head of the department and she reports to the director. I know them both from the Council meetings. It's such a shame.

Overcoming setbacks is a part of climbing Maslow's mountain.

waiting

I waited 30 minutes for the doctor in the waiting room. I told him that it was a long waiting.
I waited 2 weeks for my new pair of glasses. I told the optician that it was quick.

relax

I'm longing for the summer, easy listening and waiting for the storm.

Tunisia-Egypt

After 30 years of dictatorship in those countries finally the people rejected the dictator.

Suppression doesn't work on the long run my old friend told me, people will always deny it and find a way out of it. After the party work has to be done.

If we were democracy then we should take Algeria, Maroc and Iran too.
That's what we gonna do ...

Fall

Climbing means risking falling down. It means taking a certain risk of jeopardizing yourself and the crew you climb with. With taking a calculated risk of a fall it means you accept the risk of falling.

Is climbing similar to life and risks of climbing similar to the risks you face in life?
Accept life as it is. Accept that only you can change it for yourself.
Whatever will happen, see it as a step to Maslow´s peak.

If you can fall, I can fall and I did.
Mind that the fall is a metaphor, just as the mountain is.