This morning I had a close encounter with a real life bloodsucker and it nearly gave me a heartattack! Want to know what happened? Ok, I was in my study editing some video that I shot way back in ’97 when I first visited my girlfriend Carrie in Florida. I was just making some nice scene cuts and adding a few effects, when I noticed the noise coming from my guest bedroom. It seemed as if my cats were tearing up the place or – which sounded the most logically – they were fighting each other. So I yelled a […]
I hate mondays
Mondays really fuck up my life (pardon my French). I get up in the morning, slowly forcing my body to actually move to the bathroom. Looking back at me on the other side of the mirror, I see some freak with small eyes, exploded hair, yawning like I’m trying to get a new world record. O yeah, it’s Monday alright. Monday tells you 2 things: A. Your weekend is over B. Work, Work WORK! A typical Monday for me looks a bit like this: 7:45am – Starting up movement-coordination brain cells 8:05am – Starting shaving feature (trying not to bleed […]
Never too old to be a fool
CNN.com reports: Texan, 91, arrested for bank robbery – Aug. 14, 2003. I guess you are never too old to be a fool. Apparantly it wasn’t the first time he did a robbery: Rountree left a prison in Florida, where he was the oldest prisoner in the state, about a year ago after serving a three-year sentence imposed on him for a 1999 bank robbery in Pensacola. He was caught holding up a bank in Biloxi, Mississippi, in 1998 when he was 87, and given three years’ probation. Police said he always used the same tactic — walking unarmed into […]
I’m blogging this.
Recently I bought a T-shirt from Think Geek (“I see Fragged People”), but now they added a new new one that is kinda funny: ThinkGeek: I’m blogging this. Put the world on notice: I’m blogging this 🙂
Xmas in the States.
Ha, sometimes I suprise myself. I already booked my next vacation and I also got my tickets this week! This time I decided not to mess with renting a car and driving over to my girlfriend; I just transfer in Atlanta and fly to Tallahassee in a hour! I fly on December the 22nd and return on January the 4th 2004. The suprise this time came with my tickets: a booklet with all kinds of info on what I can take with me and what not. Also they made sure that insurance doesn’t pay more than 10-20k in case you […]
Enter the darkness
CNN.com – As power slowly returns, the questions begin – Aug. 15, 2003 The above article is a nice example of how authorities always try to blame others for mistakes and problems. Since I’m not old enough to consiously remember the poweroutage in new York in ’77, this one is having more of an impact. It was really weird seeing all the footage from a blocked up Times Square, people running around with flashlights and candles. Good to see though that – once again – New Yorkers are not in a state of panic. The power outtage in New York […]
To Paris and Back
Wow, I just had a few perfect days of vacation with my sweetheart. Between July 9th and the 14th we visited Paris, the city of lights. I took the car and we arrived there in a few hours (we left at 8am and got there at 2pm) driving through Belgium, taking the A1 toll road. I really enjoyed myself and I think my girlfriend did too, although we didn’t have enough time to do everything we wanted. For instance, before we left I wanted to visit Mont St. Michel, a small peninsula on the west coast of France. But we […]
Enter the movies
I did it again. I bought myself a new toy. While my girlfriend is on the other side of the ocean buying a house, I decided I wanted a digital camcorder to record our trip to Paris were we will be as of June 9th. We had a camcorder with us when we went to New York in 2001 (just a few weeks before the September 11th attack) but that was a NTSC camcorder that Carrie got from a collegue. Well, this time I bought a camcorder myself. I bought the Sony DCR-TRV33E, a nice 1 megapixel MiniDV camera with […]
Survivor’s guilt
Ok, the 26th passed and I’m still employed. Al lot of my colleagues got fired though. Some I know pretty well. They offered me a new job as ‘client services manager’ – whatever that may be. They said they want to extend my contract with one year, so I guess that is positive. Most people I know that got fired were from the sales department. Another guy was from the IT department that I work with and he was a ‘programmer’ (although he wasn’t any good at his work he was still kind of a nice guy). I didn’t mention […]
Were are my @#&*&*******!!! archives!
Were are my @#&*&*******!!! archives! Ok I just noticed that for some odd reason my archives link on the left side doesn’t work. Seems some javascript error. It is always something with Blogger!. Anyways just as a service I will post some links here: January 2003 February 2003 March 2003 May 2003 June 2003 Hope they fix that Javascript error soon….