Natuurwerkdag & Free Meals

November 2: Tomorrow I will go to the very south, the deep south, of my country, in Limboland. There I will do some volunteer work in a very nice nature area, including some work to improve the livelihood of Alytes obstetricans (long live Google). If anyone wants to go too, drop me a line, private or public. If no one is interested, no worries. I will assume it's because of the bleak weather forecast for tomorrow. The rains will enter the country from the south :(

 

November 1: I am thinking of the free meal I scored yesterday in my local downtown. I was in a hurry, when a young lady moved really quickly on my left flank and I immediately stopped in my tracks, of course. If I would like to answer some questions? Oh, sure, why not, but I am not going to buy anything or donate to very far countries today.

Turns out I was allowed to partake in a food experiment involving organic food. Hmmm, I am in :) No allergies on my side and I would be able to reach my fridge within two hours. Answered some questions and took the free meal home and I have to cook it (that's the hard part here) and then on Tuesday I will be phoned for a questionnaire.

Who says the economy is bad? Free meals. I hope someone will give me 40 liters of car gas today. Maybe BP wants to make it up to me.

 

Now November and December of last year are up in the blogosphere :) Will post new stuff, but it's kinda neat to have older stuff here as well. After all, I think some of it is interesting and when FB shuts down, I'll lose those posts forever... 

A Rare Sighting of Yours Truly in a Pub

I was invited yesterday to go to a pub, so I did. It was on Saturday and I must say that I am now wondering how this society manages to keep functioning. There were some shady characters lurking around and especially outside. The pub itself was okay, but you could only communicate with each other by screaming or using body language. As I didn't know how to order beer using body language without looking obscene, I had to yell to the girls behind the counter. What a crazy world. Options ranged from simple lager (yikes) to something stronger and better quality. Mind you, just two options. Seemed like the Soviet Union. I opted for the last, so the better stuff. Just my luck the tap for the good stuff didn't work anymore all of a sudden. Beer went flying around and I seemed to have escaped most of the blast, but it was a mess behind the counter. The one operating the tap was soaked from the waist down and it was still early that night. Okay, on to the simple lager, bluh. Pulled my wallet and made it known I wanted to pay. More complications. No, I hadn't accidentally pulled my Swiss Army knife. I could only pay using red plastic coins I had to buy from ... another girl down the bar. Sheesh, what bureaucrazy. I was allowed to take the beer, I must have looked so reliable. I am, of course. I immediately made my way to the girl through a dense crowd, but the establishment had selected a coin seller of epic proportions (hourglass with boobs the size of pumpkins, FYV), so it was hard to overlook her. Mission accomplished. I could now stand around unnoticed like the majority there.

However, drink washed down, I got bored. This was not my sort of entertainment. Music was horrendously loud, luckily got more bearable later and better. By then, I felt I had showed enough of my nose and bailed out.

Not sure why people look forward to this all week. I must be missing something.

-- November 4, 2012

Alert: More US Politics

At the risk of annoying you, I am now posting a political status update about the US election, which will be held tomorrow. I predict Obama will remain president. I know he's unpopular, but the Republican challenger is even more unpopular, IMO. I also cannot realistically think a guy wearing magic underwear (Google a bit on the subject of Mormons) can hope to achieve the US presidency, no matter how much cheating goes on. During his rallies, he couldn't even manage to find enough people to cheer him on.

What makes this prediction still a little shaky on my part is that Obama is very unpopular and I always underestimate the complete dumbness of the American populace at large. So I may be completely wrong here. Romney has shifted his political positions so many times, even on the same day, no one knows what he's in favor of or opposing, though a sane mind can see that one thing is for sure: the guy is a bigoted and socially estranged douchebag and makes his way up the foodchain by lying.

Anyway, I am now already yawning at the prospect of learning the results tomorrow. I am more concerned about my own country's ridiculous government. If they would make a reality show out of that bunch and made sure no one would die of laughter or of strangling taxes, it would have some value.

Okay, time to do something constructive now. Have a nice evening.

-- November 5, 2012

US Election Results 2012

Congrats to Obama on his being re-elected as president of -- wait, he doesn't need an introduction. While he doesn't share my political beliefs and vice versa, he is a lot better than Romney, of that I am sure. I do hope the States can, in relative calm, work out their problems. I see that both Colorado and Washington even managed to legalize recreational weed! Maybe there, on the state level, problems will be hard to spot in a while... Far out, dude.

Mandatory GMO labeling of food failed in California and, while I am personally opposed to GMOs, mandating food producers to label their products is not the way to go. Why don't more producers, out of free will, label their products? Enlightened buyers can then make their own decision of what to buy and, equally important, what not to buy. After all, the real voting is going on with our dollars and euros and yen and yang and whatnot :)

-- November 7, 2012

Spicy and Stuff

November 12: I finally get to use my organic herbs & spices for chicken. Had to first save enough to buy organic chicken. Only wild boar is more expensive, it seems to me. If these prices keep rising, I am going to throw rocks at pheasants in the forest to stay alive.

Anyway, now that I am on the subject of herbs and spices, I also bought bottled-up garlic. I must use that with care or maybe start liking it and lose all my friends.

November 11: I need a restraining order. For the cat. He is going berserk in my house. The 'Persian' tapestry especially needs protection. Fortunately, I don't have any Ming vases.

November 10: Going to visit Glow tonight. Darkness has fallen over the city, so now is the time :)

November 9: Switching between Internet providers is hazardous. Got a text message today about my new password and stuff like that and later opened my mail, but all the thousands of mails were gone, all the way back to 2005. Fortunately, my dad seems to know everything there is to know about computers, so magically (the way I look at it) the mail was dug up from some hidden corner of the WWW. Phew. Of course, I was reminded that if the harddisk crashes, the mail will be gone permanently, so it's also time for a backup again.

I am also wondering if Facebook will ever crash. If that happens, the world will come to a standstill, right? People in shock everywhere. No one will know what to do anymore.

 

A Joke

Okay, a last post for today. It's a joke, so enjoy:

A senior citizen drove his brand-new Corvette convertible out of the dealership. Taking off down the road, he pushed it to 80 mph, enjoying the wind blowing through what little hair he had left. "Amazing," he thought as he pushed the pedal even more.

Looking in his rear view mirror, he saw a Florida State Trooper, blue lights flashing and siren blaring. He floored it to 100 mph, then 110, then 120. Suddenly he thought, "What am I doing? I'm too old for this!" and pulled over to await the trooper's arrival.

Pulling in behind him, the trooper got out of his vehicle and walked up to the Corvette. He looked at his watch, then said, "Sir, my shift ends in 30 minutes. Today is Friday. If you can give me a new reason for speeding – a reason I've never before heard – I'll let you go."

The old gentleman paused then said: "Three years ago, my wife ran off with a Florida State Trooper. I thought you were bringing her back."

"Have a good day, Sir," the trooper replied.

:)

-- November 13, 2012

An Open Book on FBook

I have the feeling that a lot that could go wrong today did go wrong. Seven more hours to go for the next day, which hopefully will be a lot better. I even forgot my memory stick. Left it stuck in a computer in school.

The good news is that I have arranged a thesis and one I can be happy about, but due to the bad news I have to consider not going to work on it and go look for a fulltime job and quit the studies. What happened is that I have to cancel my traineeship. Seemed like a very cool subject matter, but the university thinks it's way too complex. I'm thinking along the same lines, but thought a traineeship is there to learn. The university actually recommends first doing a thesis and then, when a student has proven him- or herself, a traineeship. So far in my life, I have always aced traineeships, but this time I have doubts. I have 0 experience doing population-dynamics research.

Anyway, this means further delay and delay is costly. I'm not into organized crime, so money is a scarce resource for me.

Too bad I betted everything on one horse. Apparently not a smart thing to do.

-- November 19, 2012