Yesterday we've been 'upgrading' our bedroom a bit. We went to get the desk that was sold out 2 weeks ago. I guess they don't have a huge storage-place in the shop, because the desk that we took was the last one again. It's a small one, but just the right size to work on.

We also put a world-map on the wall, a really big one. It's very nice to have something so colorful there. (comments?)

Ankie took some pictures of the Adriaan at night.

Click on Read more... for the result. (Read More... | 5 comments | Score: 4)

There was a man on the news yesterday who is always making pictures from his window. He lives at the river Amstel in Amsterdam, and now there was an exposition of some of his best photos. He made pictures of many events such as the Gayparade and the marriage of Willem-Alexander and Maxima.

He is a really good photographer and made very nice pictures, so that's not comparable to my 'work'. But I recognized that you can see much about the world from your own window.

In the past we saw the flag on the Adriaan on the day of the funeral of HRH Prince Claus, Sinterklaas arriving in Haarlem or the prison that was being cleaned. (Read More... | 1 comment | Score: 5)

Today it's exactly a year ago that we first entered our current house with our own key. From that day we were working 3 weeks to get everything ready.

A detailed description of the moving you can find in the look back at 2002. My father sent me a few pictures of the day we moved. (Read More... | comments?)

When I wanted to use the iron a big explosion occured.

I decided to take the power plug of the extension-cable out of the wall. Just before I did that there was another big bang and the lights went off. (Read More... | 2 comments | Score: 5)

On Sunday Petra and Mark brought us two small tables. (Read More... | comments? | Score: 5)

I've found some really cool pictures of our house on the website of the Haarlem Picture Archive (Archiefdienst Kennemerland).

As I wrote a few weeks ago our landlord told us that he and his brother bought the building after it was severly damaged by a fire. On this site there are many pictures of the fire of June 25th, 1980. There is a number of pictures of the inside of the building after the fire, even of our apartment!

I've put a selection of these pictures online. (comments?)

This winter we'll take care of somebody's plants. They'll go abroad for a couple of months and they left 4 big plants in the halway. It's nice to have so much green in the house.

Today's is the last day before my test. (comments?)

Today a window of our house got fixed. (Read More... | 3 comments)

They came to pick up the old radiator this morning. Especially those who helped us moving (thanks again!) will know that we have pretty difficult stairs. So I expected at least 3 or 4 guys to come and pick up this huge, heavy radiator. But only 2 came, the guy from the service company and another (strong!) man, and in five minutes they were ready. Gives us quite some extra space in the small hallway, it's nice.

Hammie almost bit me again but I've learned my lesson. I'll just basically drop his food from very high into his foodbasket, so it can't bite me. For the rest it's doing quite well, yesterday evening it was running around in his running-thing. (comments?)

Today a new heating-element was installed in the living room, I think the last big thing in the new house to be done. Saturday my father will come; to fix some last small things. (comments?)

Yesterday again painting in Haarlem. we're done with the walls & ceiling now, only the windows need to be done another time. Somebody installed a new toilet; a nice surprise. Tomorrow my father & I will prepare the sleeping room -- it should be ready then. (comments?)

We've been working in our new house for 6 days now... it's getting really nice. Sunday we were with 7 (!) people. Gerben & Ettie came, Rob was there Saturday and Sunday. Had a beer with Steven, our first Haarlem Saturday night experience. (comments?)

Jacco sent us some pictures of the new room. And yes: I'm not doing anything useful right now, I'm having a break okay? (comments?)

Today I've been moving stuff again from Florijn to Amstelveen. Florijn is getting pretty empty... a little bit sad! My father painted the new room, as it's still a bit smelly (the previous room owner was a heavy smoker). The cleaning is giving results though, the room is more fresh than the first time. After a while the smell should be gone completely.

Looks like Code Red is still alive and kicking, I think my website never had that much hits before, all of them looking for /default.ida.

Tomorrow... Alex will be back, really happy about that! (comments?)