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Just two pictures taken over the weekend from my backyard…isn’t nature a beautiful thing?

Laurence J. Peter: “An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist expects his nightmares to.”

I stumbled upon the original quote for the one I posted last September 8:

“If we are facing the right direction, all we have to do is to keep on

walking”

It’s turned out to be an ancient Buddhist expression (not a Chinese saying)!

Not much time for new posts, life gets in the way these days…

Guess I’m still suffering from last Monday’s ‘Suppliers’-post!

Actually, I *am* still suffering, ’cause Murphy and the dominos/snowballs wanted to play along :(

Good thing is that things are improving as I turned the situation upside down and am on top of things! Yippieeaahhyyeee!

Molière (Jean Baptiste Poquelin): “No matter what everybody says, ultimately these things can harm us only by the way we react to them.”

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 when I was thinking about all this,

driving the car and I then thought about iTunes and when Apple would

decide to upgrade from the 4.x versions to the 5.x version. Actually I

would have expected it to happen when a completely new type of

functionality would be offered (actually expected 4.9 to be 5.0 with

the Podcasting service! :)).

Well, nothing of that…iTunes was upgraded from 4.9 to 5.0, nothing

really MAJOR, but 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.”