Vroooom, vrooom

Sold the muffler of my old scoot today. Made a few bucks, which is always nice :)

Denis the menace tsar

Weeeehooow \o/
Denis Menchov has won the Giro d'Italia '09. He has shown he's a great rider, and is a real asset to the Rabobank Team. It's great to see that they have a GC-runner again. Unfortunately not a Dutchman ;) but nevertheless cheered heartily by the Dutch crowd. (Although Denis has a hard time believing that) Maybe he'll win the tour also this year. We all hope so :P

But let's not forget the whole team around him. They did a great job too. Laurens ten Dam always well upfront, Tjallingi rode his ass off in the TT. So all in all a great job to all of them.
And let's not forget Vincent Hendriks. The mecha of Denis. Was out the car even before Denis hit the ground seems like. I'd like his job :P

Space sucks

Yeah, space sucks bigtime.. Not just because it's a vacuum. And not because there might be black holes which suck all matter towards it. No, space sucks in the meaning of it being annoying. And I'm talking here about space related courses on the Delft University of Technology (TU Delft).

90 percent of the time we get really unclear questions and assignments. And especially now, during the course "Introduction to Earth Observation". Clarity is a word which they don't seem to know.. Guess they are all "out there" :P

Also, we get to use a great program called MATLAB. I pity everyone who HAS to work with it. If you know anything about programming, you know that garbage collection is quite important if you want to avoid memory leaks. Well, MATLAB lacks any form of garbage collection. If you want to work with large sets of data, you can run a script once, and clean up ALL variables

clear all

Just as is advised in the help. But if you try to run it a second time: poof, out of memory... A restart is required. Unfortunately they haven't built in a way to reset only the engine. No every time also the GUI needs a restart. Friggin' annoying...

It's all going out the window

Tried to fix my window today. Bought a window closer, somewhat longer than the original. But that didn't matter really. All I had to do was drill a few holes, screwing in a couple of screws, and be done with it. But now somehow a screw broke. Leaving the bottom end in the wood. I'll try to get it out tomorrow. Today is too frustrating...

Something Fishy

Ahh, fish is nice :D Had a few herring today, and some fried cod.. very very nice :)

Da Dentist

Went to the dentist today. Broke a tooth last weekend, while having icecream.. So that kinda sucked.. But it's fixed now. So I can eat with both sides again :)

Flash

But there was something nice about last night's weather. There were a massive amount of flashes. Like every 2 seconds or so. And almost no loud thunders.. Never seen it here. Was nice

Darned Weather

Had the darnedest weather tonight.. At first a lot of rain... Things started leaking again (darned house). And then in the middle of the night I got woken up by a bang.. Turned out the wind picked up a lot (for a few mins) and whacked my window open. Hadn't fastened it, since it wasn't that windy. So now my window-closer is broken.. When I tried to close the window, I cut my hand on a sharp edge of the broken closer. And then I tried to let down my blinds, and it fell off the ceiling.. darned stuff

Ascension Weekend

Had a nice weekend. Very nice weather and fun with the family. Good ol' campsite where we were made a mistake, placing us a bit wrong. Got some annoyed reactions from the neighbors :P but who cares :P A weekend of beer and sun and doing nothing. Just great :D

Holiday In Italy

Got back from a nice holiday in Italy. A week in Milan with my honey. So a whole week of doing nothing and enjoying the sun.

At first it seemed like bad weather would be coming, but the day before I came, temps were going up. Had beautiful weather all week long. So no complaints there. First day did a bit too much walking, so I had sore feet fore a few days. But since we were only sitting on the balcony, sipping some booze, no problems three also. Hell offa week :D