winny’s blog

Next week we will be in Portugal. Wellness week! And well we will be.
Casa Conmigo lies in Porimao, an old fishing harbour in the South of Portugal, the Algarve.

We will have massages, beauty treatments and everything. And of course we will be working out all the time…

Also it is a perfect opportunity to hike in the mountans and stroll along the beach.

I am so looking forward to it.

And the good thing is that there will be a wireless internet connection, so this blog will still be alive.

This morning I went to the city hall to pick up my new driver’s licence. Yes the one with that ugly photo. Since the end of last year it is not a peace of pink paper anymore it is a real creditcard without the credit. Very American.

This is how it looks.

I wish that all the other cards coold be combined in one. Technically this is already possible of course.
For at the moment I’m carrying more then 10 cards around. Including the one for the metro. I mean, it is ridiculous, isn’t it?

It is winter, isn’t it! It’s cold, for me that is, I find it cold.
So, when reading, for that is a very coldish thing to do, I sit against the heating.
What will I do when the rebuildig is done and I don’t have this radiator anymore? (for then it will be built in to the floor)

This morning I was tidying away a few things and found a CD which I thought would cary some boring stuf like minutes of meetings of the association of owners of our building. But as it turned out it had some beautifull music on it.

Listen to this little piece: ikdenkaan.wav (where do you think of now? I still think of you!), and this guitar40.mp3.
That was a nice surprise on this quiet Sunday morning.

(I hope I will be able to actually upload the music, so wait while I’m studying on that. Finally I did manage but it took me hours and a whole lot more RSI to find out.)

Last night a friend and I had dinner at this wonderfull place just underneath the ‘Hef’, as the old iron bridge is called.

It is just at the other side of the Maas, from where we live, so we could walk over there.

The food was very good, we had a sort of warm aubergine puree as a starter and lamb as maincourse. Al specials of the house. But the most importent thing is that the people are wo very nice, you want to come back.

There was a sort of family gathering, we felt like visiting a wedding party. Life iranian music, guestst dansing. Lovely.

IRANL.communicate Network of Iranians in the Netherlands (Holland)

The other day I had a discussion about ventilation. Yes, ventilation… Our government wants us to ventilate 24 hours a day. They actually had a campain for this on TV. And my girlfriend said that while ventilating the warmth will go out. So your energiebill rises. Sounds logical. But that appears not to be true for dry air, what you get when ventilating, heats up much easier then moist air.

Isn’t this amazing

6. Energiebesparing en ventileren, gaat dat wel samen?Het klinkt tegenstrijdig: ventileer uw huis 24 uur per dag en verbruik tegelijkertijd zo min mogelijk energie. Toch is het een goed advies. Want door te ventileren voert u vocht af. En droge lucht warmt sneller op dan vochtige lucht. Als u goed ventileert, gebruikt u dus minder energie en dat scheelt in uw portemonnee. Ook kunt u maatregelen nemen die energie besparen en tegelijkertijd het binnenmilieu verbeteren. Denk aan het aanbrengen van dubbelglas – met ventilatievoorzieningen. Of bijvoorbeeld het isoleren van spouwmuren, daken en vloeren. Hierdoor verkleint u namelijk de kans op vocht en schimmel.

VROM – Dossier Ventilatie Vraag en antwoord

Look what I’ve got on Valentine’s day. Isn’t it awesome.
And above all, so very romantic.

Thank you darling.

Today i’m going to return my new phone! My 2nd new phone that is.

Why did I buy it in the first place? I had a new one, hadn’t I?
ummmm, yeah right, i had. But that one had a simlock and is so new on the market that no one can unlock it. I asked around. i needed that to be able to call with it for I have a new provider from today. so the old sim did not work in this one.
This one being the HCT TyTN, a computer in pocketsize:
It can do anything besides calling when the right simcard is not inserted or jet working. This story is getting more and more incomprehensible, I know.

My old phone started to disintegrate after it fell in the water (rainwater) in Antigua. So before I would not be able to call or being called at all, I needed another. That sounds logical isn’t it?

so I was looking for a unlocked phone and found that cute pinky one. Worked fine too. But then it turned out that is did not had Bluetooth. so I could not change data with my laptop, which was necessary for my addresses and phone numbers. Did not work with the simcard strangely.

that’s when i called the shop where I bought this one and asked for a USB cable instead of the Bluetooth. He did not want to give me one because the margin on this phone was low already. But he would happily take it back and give me my money in return.

In the mean time I thought about another solution for my girlfriend Mariel just had a new phone. And her old cell phone was great as I remembered. So tomorrow she will bring that for me when she is visiting me to learn all about making websites and photo albums.

At the end I am much better off this way, getting my money back and having an even better phone.
A phone that works in Antigua for that was meant from the beginning. Cheaper phones have only dual band and not the required 1900. The Nokia 6260

Had to renew my driver’s licence. Photo’s for that specific occasion are mostly not the best but now they have all these new rules. You may not smile, ears and forehead must be clear… So this is what it looks like for the next 10 years I’m affraid.

The photografer also provides another little photo, must be for comforting me….

Another test with foto.

Just when I came back from A, Neigbours asked me to go with them to an opening.

Fel in love at once with this little sculpture.