My first whisky

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The first whisky ever that I bought for myself. I had some last weekend and liked it, almost a miracle. I hope the Dalwhinnie will like me too :-)

I went to town for a couple of things. I thought I'd have a look at the new Apple store. This is the glass staircase that's in all the stores around the world I believe. Nice.

It was incredibly busy. The place looked great but the merchandise was disappointing. I have a 27" iMac myself and will never have any other desktop system because I just love it. But really Apple sells 5 things: iPods, iPhones, iPads, iMacs and i... no, Macbook's. Oh, and server hardware but I didn't see any of that. Downstairs was for iPads and iMacs and upstairs was for iPods, iPhones and Macbooks and accessories.

There are about 100 iPads, 20 iMacs and 25 Macbooks on display. It's just more of the same where ever you look!

I'm OK with paying a lot for my iMac. But the accessories like headphones or loudspeaker systems for iPhones/iPods are incredibly overpriced.

There was also some kind of show.

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Carlos Vamos was playing on Leidseplein.

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These two buildings are called "The two sisters" I believe.

Sexy dresses.

I had a few pints in Mulligans. There was rugby on.

The container

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My neighbours are renovating BIG and needed a container for their rubbish. It was delivered by a little truck. I looked up the costs and discovered that hiring a container and having it picked up only costs 145 euro! For some reason i thought it would be a lot more expensive...

They started filling it up which was quite dusty. It wasn't coming my way at least...

In the meantime I was quite busy filling up my bin with tissues. I had one of those colds that come very sudden, are quite heavy and are over in 1-2 days. Kinda insane really. You ever have those?

At the end of the day the container was picked up again. Nice.

My dinner was very yummy :-)

Sick

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On my way home from work. I left with a cold. Don't think I'll be working tomorrow :-(

I had to get a receipt from the camera shop. They close at 18:00 the sign says. I got there at 17:53. I hate them. Every little thing they did for me got fucked up. I hope I never ever have to go here again...

Music on the work floor

This is tea. I drink this while listening to some nice classical music tonight.

I had a rough day at work. 2 colleagues keep demanding I do not play any music at all. They claim they can't work with music. They demand total and complete musical silence for themselves, from me.

The silence drives me nuts. All I hear is sniffing, chewing and chair cracking from them which makes it hard for me to focus. I need music to obscure those sounds. The music creates a background for me to work against but they fail to understand.

So I have headphones on a lot of the time which lets me work but gives me the feeling I might as well have my desk in a closet. Cut-off from people. But I do this 4 days a week to keep the peace.

So today the other colleague who sometimes plays music himself using headphones started demanding I never ever play music out loud again.

Now THAT, shits me!

So I refused.

Ice cream!

My plant at work is making new leaves again. It still loves me! :-)

Today we had the first icecream van visit of the year. The weather sucked but the die-hards (all 4...) came out. I was first ;-)

There was a lot of ship-action behind the station on my way home.

The altar.

This my little "altar" now. There are little old cacti, a fish in stone from a very long time ago, a piece of pink granite from Brittany, France and a little statue of St. Vincent. The fish was given to me by my dad for which I am very thankful. St. Vincent is from France where I had a fantastic vacation with Marjolein.

Marjolein sent me this card. I like it very much :-)

The Rammstein concert

Today was Rammstein-day.

I went to see them play live at Ahoy in Rotterdam with my friends Nancy, Ruud and Mic. For the first time I took a camera to a concert like this, hoping I could make a few good photos but the quality of my brand new Fuji F550 exceeded my expectations!

Here are the photos of the concert. They speak for themselves. You can click or download each one to get a 2048 pixels wide image.

Enjoy :-)

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Nancy, Ruud and Mic.

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My favourite photo.