We decided to spend the day very useful by running as many errands as we could including a few things we were planning a long time ago. To start with the first one: This is a sign at some christian school close by. "God bless exams". But of course he does... I have to laugh every morning we drive past it to work except I always forget to make a photo. Make photo: Check.
The first stop today was the central market for weekly über-fresh groceries. We park above the new bus station which was getting it's sign.
I think even blind people will be able to read this.
Nicole being happy at the market.
At the Central market there is this place, I'm sure I've mentioned it before, where you can buy certain Dutch food items. De Ruyter (chocolate) stuff for example.
Or Bolletje beschuit. Does anybody know how to translate "beschuit" into English please?
And also some other chocolate things. There was more like, ontbijtkoek, speculaas en kaneelstok but I can't photograph everything.
Then it was time to hit the smelly cheese shop where we bought little bits of very nice French cheeses.
On the way out we walked past this old theatre. Central market: Check.
Next stop: Woolworths supermarket. Because like
Kona, we also
needed banana's.
Woolies: Check.
After having dropped all our shopping off at home and a quite bite for lunch we left again. It had started raining by then which made us add a laundry rack to out shopping list.
We went to check out bird cages because we want to give my inlaws' birds better homes. We saw a few nice ones, a bit pricy but we're ready to fork it out to improve their lives. We didn't buy any yet though. Bird cages: Check.
The fourth stop was at
Jaycar where I had a fun driving experience (not!). Thankfully nothing happened but there was potential! More on
Jaycar later. Jaycar: Check.
Fifth stop: Ikea. What can I say? It was Saturday early afternoon. Prime time. People come here for a stroll, to relax, you know. Dickheads. Honestly, Nicole is not the fastest of walkers but we were overtaking people left, right and centre! Unreal!
Around 10 check outs open and still line-ups of 4-10 people. We went here to buy the super brush but also the drying rack for our clothes that I mentioned earlier. They didn't have any drying racks that we liked though. Only retarded and useless models. Ikea: Check.
So we added a sixth stop to our list: Big W. Outside of Big W they have a fries-vending-machine. Unreal. It makes you fresh fries it says. Hot fresh fries even. Too bad I couldn't test it because it was out of order. I would have!
At least we got us a laundry rack. Not one like we had in A'dam though, which was a great one from Blokker. This one will just do. I don't know how but we managed to hang almost two laundries on it... Laundry rack: Check.
At Jaycar I bought a bigger heat sink so my power supply can deal with the heat a bit better.
And here it is, the find of the day: The Ikea brush! I already used it for some big-ass dishes from my meatballs and yeah, it works!
Brush: CHECK!
Today I wanted to make and test a new reverse loop controller. I ran out of certain parts so yet another visit to Jaycar was needed.
That's the test track.
My new controller works better than the previous one but I'm not 100% convinced of it's proper functioning. Even though I made about 20 test runs with it and it didn't fail once. There was one occasion where the relay sounded a bit dodgy when it switched. I have a feeling there is still something about the circuit not completely right...
Video.
Bakery.
Nicole at Woolies.
Electronic components at Jaycar.
More electronic components. I actually went twice today. Both times to buy fuses. The first time I bought fast ones. My power supply kept burning out every time I turned it off and on again. Fast ones in the primary circuit (the part that connects to the mains power) needs to be a slow one though so I went back. In the end I found a 1 Amp. slow fuse to stay alive.
Karin and Gavin have to move house this week. They started today. I went to see the empty and painted house for the first time today. It looks very, very good. I love the big windows every where that lets lots of light enter the whole house.
I spent a large part of the day experimenting with a little electronic circuit to drive a relay. I had to max. out my knowledge from uni but I managed to actually think of a working circuit. I put it together on a breadboard and it worked as expected. This is the top view.
This is the side view, kind of.
And then it was 
Use quantities to your liking. I'm still not sure how much to use of each. Mix is all up. Use your hand, it's more fun :-)
Make nice, round balls.
Melt a block of butter on high temperature.
When all the butter is melted, put in the meat balls and seal the outside.
When the outside is sealed, add half a litre of water, turn down the heat and let is simmer for 20-30 minutes.
The result should be nice yummy meat balls!
I put mine on a bun with some butter. Yummmmmmm :-)
While I was around I thought I photograph the contents of our fridge. Check out the milk supply. And the Nippy's. Good stuff. Everything else is Nicole's I think ;-)
And this is the freezer.
This are the fridge magnets on our fridge.
This morning I went to church. After making a large donation, God rewarded me with about 200 electronic components of all sorts which I will use to build 20 track-occupancy detectors for my model railroad. 
After church I went to work. Only for four hours. I wanted to make my work for the next week a bit less stress full so I did some today. It's boiling hot anyway so you don't really go out.
At 14:40 Nicole picked me up again and we did go to Chocolate @ No. 5 in Hahndorf though. It was a nice break. When the heat forces you to stay indoors all week you really need a break after a while.
On the way home we picked up some char-grilled chicken and some chips. It was actually very nice. Char-grilled chicken isn't very fatty either so that's good.
We decided to spend the day very useful by running as many errands as we could including a few things we were planning a long time ago. To start with the first one: This is a sign at some christian school close by. "God bless exams". But of course he does... I have to laugh every morning we drive past it to work except I always forget to make a photo. Make photo: Check.
The first stop today was the central market for weekly über-fresh groceries. We park above the new bus station which was getting it's sign.
I think even blind people will be able to read this.
Nicole being happy at the market.
At the Central market there is this place, I'm sure I've mentioned it before, where you can buy certain Dutch food items. De Ruyter (chocolate) stuff for example.
Or Bolletje beschuit. Does anybody know how to translate "beschuit" into English please?
And also some other chocolate things. There was more like, ontbijtkoek, speculaas en kaneelstok but I can't photograph everything.
Then it was time to hit the smelly cheese shop where we bought little bits of very nice French cheeses.
On the way out we walked past this old theatre. Central market: Check.
Next stop: Woolworths supermarket. Because like Kona, we also needed banana's.
Woolies: Check.
After having dropped all our shopping off at home and a quite bite for lunch we left again. It had started raining by then which made us add a laundry rack to out shopping list.
We went to check out bird cages because we want to give my inlaws' birds better homes. We saw a few nice ones, a bit pricy but we're ready to fork it out to improve their lives. We didn't buy any yet though. Bird cages: Check.
The fourth stop was at Jaycar where I had a fun driving experience (not!). Thankfully nothing happened but there was potential! More on Jaycar later. Jaycar: Check.
Fifth stop: Ikea. What can I say? It was Saturday early afternoon. Prime time. People come here for a stroll, to relax, you know. Dickheads. Honestly, Nicole is not the fastest of walkers but we were overtaking people left, right and centre! Unreal!
Around 10 check outs open and still line-ups of 4-10 people. We went here to buy the super brush but also the drying rack for our clothes that I mentioned earlier. They didn't have any drying racks that we liked though. Only retarded and useless models. Ikea: Check.
So we added a sixth stop to our list: Big W. Outside of Big W they have a fries-vending-machine. Unreal. It makes you fresh fries it says. Hot fresh fries even. Too bad I couldn't test it because it was out of order. I would have!
At least we got us a laundry rack. Not one like we had in A'dam though, which was a great one from Blokker. This one will just do. I don't know how but we managed to hang almost two laundries on it... Laundry rack: Check.
At Jaycar I bought a bigger heat sink so my power supply can deal with the heat a bit better.
And here it is, the find of the day: The Ikea brush! I already used it for some big-ass dishes from my meatballs and yeah, it works!