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It is on the opposite of the building in the last picture.
The one on the last picture is the town hall and the one you mean is the town office.
Originally the town hall of the last picture has an office tower. A few years ago the council stated that it was unsafe and unpleasant to work in the
tower. Restauration was more expensive as building a new one, so the stadskantoor (cityoffice) was build. ........the tower is
restaurated and is now a office for a health organization.
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Ah... I was wondering why there were two buildings...
Why was it unsafe to work in the tower? Was it swinging in the wind?
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Bad airco, windows and plates could fall down.
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Windows falling... hmmm... I sense some far-fetched analogy here...
Anyway today I was woken up by a phonecall at 5:30 AM. Apparently I should've been at work.
However my boss said she'd call me in the weekend, and as I didn't hear anything, well, I assumed she didn't. But apparently she phoned someone, and a
woman picked up and agreed to come to work on Monday. 
I'll just have to check out, see if it was my sister. She sounds more like me than I do. Or the other way round, I forgot.
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Anyway my sister didn't know about the call. So my boss rang the wrong number and whoever was on the other end said she could come in to work
tomorrow.
Sneezing my brains out right now.
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Hmm. So in trying to dial your number he got one or a couple of digits wrong and by an incredible coincidence rang somebody else who's boss sounds
like your boss, and who's voice sounded like your voice, who said they can come in to work?
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It's a she btw, my boss... she's a 64-year-old great-grandmother. She noticed something odd about the conversation, but as "I" said yes so quickly,
she remarked to her hubby how nice it is that that Bonny-girl always shows up when they're in need.
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Today I adopted a cat.
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Congratulations! Do you have any photos? I love kitties!
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Two pics of my new cat (my girlfriend's new cat, actually), just after being washed and a bit later. He's very nice, hums all the time, wants to get
caressed all the time. He's 7 years old, named Capucin and gets easily afraid of the sounds he doesn't know or when you move too fast, he must have
been mistreated when younger, we got him from a pet refuge.
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He's got beautiful eyes. Sweet!
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good lookin cat.
It'll take him a couple weeks/months to get used to the new surroundings.
I found this video of some Gary Lucas work from a recent single
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_Xa82ZysVw
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Here it was a beautiful day in sunny California (easily 70 degrees f) and what did I do?
I sat home all day long and listened to old records and tapes on my vintage stereo!
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Oh, but that's fun! Besides, isn't California usually sunny? I mean, here I have no problems with my sun allergy. I haven't seen the golden ball in
days.
I'm getting increasingly annoyed by the birds on the chimney. I'm scared one may fall in again.
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Haha. Oh yeah. I remember that episode.
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Me too. My heart hurts when I think back of that event.
Anyway... not much going on here...
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I'm now on a painting identifying spree. Gabriel Knight 3 has about 50 impressionist paintings in it, and I thought it would be fun to make a GK3
Gallery.
One of the paintings they used is this one:
Federico Zandomeneghi (1841 Venice - 1917 Paris)
Signora nel prato (Woman in the field), 1893
Oil on canvas, 46 by 38 cm. From private collection.
It caused a lot of problems with the GK FanForum Members. One posed the question in a quiz on who painted it, leading to a large and varied amount of
answers, none of them correct. And the person who asked it, didn't know either. It lead to some members searching frantically on the net for a
painting of a woman with a red umbrella; and getting nowhere.
I got nowhere on the Internet either, so I looked it up in the library. I browsed 4 real big impressionist art books before I found it. I was about to
give up hope, and then I turned the page and saw it! Magnificent!
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nice to find what your looking for when you have all but given up hope in ever finding it.
Some may know, the news often makes me a chain-smoking ranter wallowing in bitter delusions.
"Why can't people just learn the facts and take simple steps to get along?"
So this year, as dumb as it may sound I've been trying to entertain myself otherwise. I started watching tv again, but online. This is significant
because I haven't watched any in 15 years. That's right, no American Idol, no Family Guy, South Park, Friends or Seinfeld. No reality tv, no Mtv, no
HBO.
No local TV.
Yeah, I needed a break from the news which I still get but on a much more limited field: the internet.
So I watch 30 Rock on hulu and the animated starwars clone wars shorts on starwars.com
I'm also following some youtube 'stations':
-- travelfilmarchives
-- TheRealNews
-- communitychanne
yeah, I'm being cautious, taking baby steps
I run into people on the street and they want to talk about politics or 'philosophy' and I couldn't care less. The more the conversation is about
using certain language framed inside certain viewpoints, the less interested I become.
Of course, I can talk about my interests all day, but they're specialized and most people don't care about it at all. So I don't bring it up.
On the other hand, I can sit and look at pretty pictures all day. Or learn how to use my new camera. Because pretty pictures happen all the time.
It's just a matter in capturing them and knowing how. Like Fido's gorgeous snaps. He was there at the right time and got the light and
frame-in-time, but knew how to do that and which filter or lens or shutter speed etc might work.
But rarely do you find pictures that are that good.
I've also begun to be a fan of big art books. Because the internet isn't there yet, though books can't feature video, they still have a leg up on
quality in my book.
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Whoa! NO TV for 15 years? Sounds perfect... unfortunately I'm a bit of a Simpsons addict
You're definitely right about the pictures thing... sometimes I wonder if people think I'm crazy whenever I stand for minutes gazing at a beautiful
sky...
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Bonny, don't second guess yourself out of doing something solely because of what other people *might* think. It usually doesn't help them any and may
keep you from doing what you want or need to.
I have seen a fair amount of the simpson's at other people's houses across the years. And a few episodes of Seinfeld on video tape at someone's
house. In 2000 I did see a number of the first year Survivor shows again at somebody else's house.
So, you could say I've seen enough to be able to later recognize big 'phenomenon' types of shows.
Oh yeah! I watch The Daily Show on hulu this year, but I sure don't watch 25% of his episodes.
Yeah, I got sick of it then. Random stuff on youtube now is better than I remember most tv being then.
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