Just watch and enjoy.

OK we're three weeks further with my floor. In the meantime I've contacted the contractor that built my house and yesterday they came to grond down my concrete floors. Oh my GOD what a mess does that make. They take a floorpolisher kindof machine with teeth underneath and literally grind of the top layer on concrete. I'm still coughing up dust.

Zo afterwards I call to make an appointment to get half of my floor put back, mind you I have to go to the whole proces once more for the other half of my appartment (IE move all furniture to living room, floors out, grinding concrete down and floors back in again)

The guy has the nerve to start talking about money, he's the guy that says he warned my (WHICH HE MOST CERTAINLY DID NOT) and wants me to try and get my contractor to pay for him putting back the floors in again. Well first I need the contractor to grind down my floors and afterwards I'll see if he is willing to pay me some recompensation. But for now I am not going to bring that up, since my major problem is the floor itself and he is fixing that problem free of charge.

So I told I would be willing to try that, but that he would need to put the floors in anyway. He got really mad and accused me of lieing to him. A*hole! it's totally the other way around. But in the end he agreed to put the floors back and told me not to get recompensation anymore, wel OK. so for now I'm OK. sigh, why can't things ever just go smoothly. no pun intended.

OK so my laminate flooring has gone bust. I called the guy who sold me the floor and who had placed it in my home about 1,5 years ago (Mind you my first complaint was over a year ago!)

So the plan was that they were going to replace my floor today and tomorrow. IE all my furniture is currently stacked in my bedroom (I can just reach my bed) and my living room is empty.

They pull out the old broken floor and start checking the concrete floor below it. It turns out that the concrete floor has a large bump in it. You can't really see it with the naked eye but if you place a board on it it is most definately a bump. OK bummer and I'm currently covered in concrete dust cause they didn't put the flooring back. First the concrete floor needs to be corrected.

So in my opinion they never should have laid the floor down in the first place, but now all of a sudden the guy who laid the floor: "Well yeah I did warn you about the bump".

OH NO YOU DID NOT. AS IF I AM TURNING MY HOUSE UPSIDE DOWN FOR FUN!!!

I can take it when people make mistakes, but damn! don't lie to me that I will not stand for. So now with an operation of my foot next week, I'm in deep shit with my home. No floor and crammed up in my bedroom.

I hate people who lie!

I just like this new commercial they have over here in Holland.




The text at the end is:

Not every old lady is reliable, every Golf is though.

Instructions: Don't take too long to think about it. Fifteen fictional characters (television, films, plays, books) who've influenced you and that will always stick with you. List the first fifteen you can recall in no more than fifteen minutes.

OK in no particular order:

1. Lessa & F'lar (Dragonriders of Pern)
2. Superman
3. Jack O'Neill
4. Daniel Jackson
5. Johnny number 5 (Short Circuit)/ Wall-e (they sort of blend together a little)
6. Luke Skywalker
7. Indiana Jones
8. Horatio Hornblower (Ioan Gruffud's version)
9. Jack Harkness
10. T.C. McQueen (Spave Above and Beyond)
11. Merlin (In many different stories, movies and tv-series)
12. King Arthur (different stories, movies and tv-series)
13. Dr. Who (Tennant)
14. Robin Hood (again many different stories, movies and tv-series)
15. MacGyver


Other that just didn't make the short list:
Jack Sparrow, Will Turner, Seabert, Smurfs, Hannibal Smith, Stringfellow Hawke, Micheal Knight (Just for sgtSiler *eg*), Fabeltjeskrant. etc. etc.

So last week I had a court case. I told the person up front that he had absolutely nothing to go on and that he would be evicted. Our goal was to strike a deal so that the eviction wouldn't be immediately but not untill next year. That way he would get a chance to move himself and find another building to lease.

And we did strike a deal, even before we presented our case to the judge , the eviction wouldn't be untill next year as we had hoped. So that seems like a nice ending to a very problematic case. One that seemed absolutely impossible to win, I even checked with some colleagues if they had ideas or thought differently.

But no, it turns out that the customer isn't happy with the deal after all. He thinks he could have gotten more out of it. He wanted to know why I hadn't presented the case to the judge first and claiming that I had misrepresented him in getting him the deal.

I was flabbergasted and right down pissed. He was the one that wanted a deal, cause all other options were not acceptable to him, he was the one that agreed to the deal and now he seemed to be angry at me for that. I didn't force his hand at all, he was completely free in choosing wheter or not to take the deal. I told him that not striking a deal would mean a risk of having a judge ruling against him, but that is never a 100% sure. and eventually it would be his choice wheter or not to agree to the deal.

So now getting him the deal wasn't good enough and he wants to sue my company??!?!!??!?!?!

Asshole!

OK I've always loved mini`s and now that my old (read: ancient) sturdy (read: ugly) Nissan Micra from 99 is ready for a replacement, at least I think it is, I went looking for a nice second hand car.

After much deliberation I went to a car dealer last weekend and test drove a mini cooper. My god they are nice and a very good ride. The dealer offered me a very nice mini but I was reluctant to say yes right away. You never know what`s hiding underneath the bonnet so to say. So I took the deal to my own garage and got my own mechanic's oppinion. Right now it seems to good to be true, looks like there's something shady going on, but he'll look into it.

Ughhhh just when I had myself pictured in a mini already. But then again, I can wait another few months if neccesary, my little micra isn't quite dead yet. I'm just a little tired of it.

Look how cute this is!

The title sums it up I think. We lost the final game for the worldcup of football. The country is in mourning and for the first time there are no traffic jams I think.

Too bad.

Well I really doN't like football, but it's hard not to get swept up in the enthusiasm of everybody around you, so here it goes.

YEEEEEEEEEEEEHHHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA, Holland is in the worldcup final!!!


Now all we have to wait for if we get Spain or Germany as our adversaries!

This just had me cracking up, all I could think of were the weeping angels from Dr. Who.

Don't Blink!