Time for exams

Long time with no posts. It's because the bike works too well. Actually, after replacing the rear tyre, the rear wheel needed to be replaced because of a small accident (which cost me a fair amount of Euros). So, with completely new rear part (actually, I don't know if the tube was changed), the bike is going as well as ever. And the blog is more silent.

Time for exams. Next Friday I have the company 's performance appraisal. I am actually a little scared. It's not like a university exam, there is nothing to do in the last days, only what I did in the past almost seven months counts. But did I do what they expected me to do?

And soon, don't know exactly when, my landlady is coming back from her long holiday for a few days (after which she will go back to her holiday place). She will see the house, and maybe judge me for how it is maintained.

I am not really worried, but I am actually a bit uneasy about those two occurrences.

Also, the weather is like it's autumn again. Maybe it will be autumn until December, then winter again. There's something missing somewhere. I should be content to have had some weeks of spring some weeks ago, but somehow it doesn't seem enough.

Bad, then good

Things started to go really bad.

Yesterday I realised I lost my bag. There was just one valuable thing inside, but there was one. It must have been on Friday night. So I went to the hotel where the company's party was

While going there, the rear tyre of my bike got its sixth hole. The same day as when I repaired the fifth one. Damn glass splinters left on Utrechtsestraat after Queen's Day!

The people at the hotel found nothing.

Before going to sleep I thought I could have left my bag in the place where I and some colleagues had falafel after the party. But it was midnight, too late to ask.

Today is 1st May, but I went to work. It is not a holiday here. This is the only country in the civilised world where you have to work on 1st May (in the United States it is not a holiday either, but, because of death penalty and the war in Iraq, I have doubts about it being a civilised country).

At lunch time, I went to the falafel place. They told me to try on the evening. I lost every hope.

It started raining. It's May! May is in spring, you know! It's supposed to be sunny!

I went home pushing my bike and riding the metro along with it. Just before coming home, I realised the chain I lock it with was not there.

So I brought the bike to the repairer, asking him to change the rear tyre complete with tube, and replace it with an anti-leak tyre. The conversation started in Dutch, but I was unable to understand his second or third sentence, so we switched to English.

Luckily, after 15 minutes and some tenths of euros, the bike was ready. This blog will become much more silent now. Or at least I hope.

Then I took the metro (it was still raining like hell, better not to use the bike) and went to the city center. I found the chain just where my bike was parked. It must have fallen off just after I unchained it.

Then I went to the falafel place again. My bag was there! And all its content!

Let's hope tomorrow is sunny and warm!