I'm doing the last strains of the AIVD puzzle. Tomorrow's the last day we can hand it in.

Besides that I've got another temp job...

Congrats on the job, Bonny.

I'll b without it agaun next week...

I'm fine. I've got all the branches with foliage down. I now have to bring down the remainder of the tree one log at a time.

Good luck on that!

Managed to cut my lip while licking an envelope.

We're in the news again - a fierce thunderstorm has so far caused 2 or 3 casualties in The Netherlands. In my street, 2 trees blew over. It's been 11 years since we last had a storm of this ferocity.

https://nos.nl/artikel/2212489-stormvideo-s-kinderwagen-onts...

On saturday nothing worked, due to a migration at our provider. Domain redirection was not working, subdomains were not working. By now or in the next 24 hours it should be working when you use
http://packardgoose.ploeg.ws/interactive/forums/Files/index....

Million thanks! It works again!

Haaa, that's the reason why I couldn't reach this place. Glad everything's back in order.

Hurray!

I'm at BF's again, for his sister's bachelorette party. We're going to a silver smith to make rings.

My ring turned out... let's call it rustic...

ah a rusted ring

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No it's silver, it doesn't rust.

How's everybody holding up?

I'm fine. Lots of work recently, but it's a good thing.

I'm at the temp job again since the woman I'm replacing has fallen ill. Today was very wet - I got soaked getting there, then again I got soaked leaving there, I got soaked for a third time when I went to Geldrop, and then I was soaked a 4th time but that was in the shower.

Been looking into bookbinding and book restauration: at a tiny second-hand shoppe I found a first edition of a Heinz (silly newspaper comic about a cat that ran for quite a long time). Only thing is - it smells terrible. How can I get the smell out without buying kitty litter or digging up our misplaced blow-dryer? Hmm...

I've got a couple of books, whose bindings fell apart, that I rebound myself. They don't look professional, but I got a lot of satisfaction out of repairing them.

Great!

There's at least one book I have that I'm considering to have fixed - it's a first edition of the 1938 novel Karakter by Bordewijk, my favourite book. It's very, very high in my most prized possessions - unfortunately the binding on one side's not too good anymore...

I bought that for 15 euros at a second-hand bookstore, which I felt was "expensive to my taste but worth it". Just found it auctioned for 175 euros.