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Some days you’re just pushed around in circles with no way out…today or actually this evening was one of those days,

obviously at work (I wouldn’t be so fed up otherwise :)).

So, have been waiting for over 2 hours to get ‘just’ some reply from a supplier in the

US cause the German branch office we’re normally dealing with was obviously closed…time difference

*can* be an advantage (as well as killing :)).

Finally got feedback and found out that they have pushed the problem back to Germany, to be picked up first thing tomorrow

morning…that’s to freakin’ late!! I wouldn’t have been in touch with

the US office if I could wait till tomorrow…AARRGGGHHH!!

YEARS ago I put a paper on my wall…all my colleagues in the office (including

the boss!) signed it…unfortunately the message still holds…SUPPLIERS

SUCK!!

Was driving in a traffic jam last week, enough time to look around and I saw them for the first time this year…birds flying in their typical

‘V’ shape back to the South!

Must be a sign…summer is coming to an end (huh? did it already start?? :)).

Amazing sight, eh?

tick-tock-tick-tock…rrrrrrrrrr…it’s WEEKENDDDDDDDD!!!

Tomorrow volleyball tournament (not that I can play, due to my knee

injury) and Sunday, well, uhhh, hmmm…now, just because I LOVE my

job…meeting at 9am! Oofff

I don’t know exactly where this quote comes from (it sounds like a Chinese saying).

Amazing…

I knew Apple would have a major announcement yesterday and thought it would be the iTunes phone (which was partly true, as they surprised us with the iPod Nano…looks like yet another a great device!).

It was actually last Tuesday, driving the car thinking about iTunes and when Apple would decide to upgrade from the 4.x versions to the 5.x version. Actually was expecting it to happen when a completely new type of functionality would be offered such as in 4.9 with the Podcasting service, shouldn’t that have been 5.0? :)).

Well, nothing of that…iTunes was upgraded from 4.9 to 5.0, changing nothing MAJOR, still a nice new design and ‘some’ additional functionalities (all for the best though)…

Isn’t it funny how these things work, one has a thought without any apparent reason…it then turns out to be something happening in the near future…:)

Antoine de Saint-Exupery: “And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.”

Being surrounded by so many people with positive attitudes, doing interesting stuff…it makes me feel GOOD!

Bonnie Prudden: “You can’t turn back the clock, but you can wind it up again.”

Sjeez, weather the last days is just GREAT here in The Netherlands! And

it continues to be like that for the coming days…YEAH, summer finally

began!! 🙂

Pity that the weekend is just two days and the working week five,

shouldn’t this be the other way around?

I have thought about it and it

should be possible, *IF* everyone does it.
Hey, we’re only fooling ourselves by being so busy,

make our heads spin in too many directions day after day, trying to

compete with others by putting 50+ hours of work into a 40 hours

working week, right?

Then again, let’s say the working week IS just two days, I’m pretty

damn sure that someone starts working three days to do a bit more than

the rest…the race starts all over again! 🙁

Bruce Jenner: “I learned that the only way you are going to get

anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you’re a musician, a

writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If

you do, you’ll win – if you don’t you won’t.”

Congrats to Adam with his 41st…I

remember a year ago when he talked ’bout his 40th on an ‘internet radio

show’, soon to be called ‘podcast’? Much has happened in a years time,

guess we didn’t know what we were heading for…

It’s a nice sunny day in The Netherlands (started off a bit cloudy though), perfect for car finding!
The lease on my company car will end in some months, so I have to find myself a new one.
The competitors (at least the ones I can afford with my lease limit):
– Renault Laguna Grand Tour; same as I currently drive, but I don’t like the newest model that much
– Peugeot 407 SW; in one word beautiful, but after owning 4 Peugeots (205) that all ended ‘total-loss’ after accidents it might not be the best choice, eh?
– Alfa Romeo 159; I LOVE it as seen from pictures, but as it will come only in October I can’t test drive it…price might also be too much 🙁

Dave Barry: “Not all chemicals are bad. Without chemicals such as

hydrogen and oxygen, for example, there would be no way to make water,

a vital ingredient in beer.”

(heyheyho…it’s weekend guys, Njoy!)

Am home alone tonight, might as well try the Zen TV Experiment!

There is more; the Zen of Television.

Sydney J. Harris: “The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.”

It seems my wintersleep already started or what? Was I influenced this

much by the bears in Canada (of which I haven’t seen a single ONE!)

that I took over the nice habbit of a wintersleep?

Nothing of this, life just got in the way teh last week and a half.

Came back from Canada, had all this catching up to do at work and left

Thursday for a company event in Norway! You don’t hear me complaining!

🙂

Anyway, all heaps of fun! I only injured my knee last weekend with

mountainbiking. It’s twice as big as it should be, so no volleyball for

me the coming weeks…well, that sucks!

On the bright side; weather has been absolutely FANTASTIC, so I spend the last two nights on the beach, YEAH!!