The Dutch Files

Well, sorta anyway…

First, a day ago my blog * POOF * just vanished… gone… all of it… only thing that was left was a simple line that “it was missing the MySQL files”

My first reaction: * PANIC ! * Over four years of blogging gone… I have been blogging for 6-7 years now and I have once before lost about 2-3 years of blogging…

My second reaction: * DAMN! * It had been weeks since I last made a back up. How is it that I can never force myself to do regular back ups but I just do the panic-back up after something has gone wrong…

My third reaction: * Ooohhmmm * I calmed down, sent out a support ticket to the support desk of my hosting service and then realized that IF the blog was really irreversibly damaged, there was nothing I could do about it and I would just have to suck it up and bite the bullit and start over…

The support desk guy, Brett, got back to me and told me that I had done something that deleted my php.ini file… *I* had not done shit. My blog was working fine, I had not posted, commented, updated or done shit to the blog and mysteriously my php.ini file was gone. Then again, I had no desire getting into an endless ya-uh/nu-uh battle, so I did what he told me to do to fix it and and after a few attempts * POOF * the blog was back… Thanks Brett!

And then…

the goddamn fucking waterheater broke down again… I was at home today because the service guy was coming over to do the annual water heater check up. Cool… the actually arrived in time, he spent about 1.5 hour working on the water heater and managed to get me water pressure I have never ever experienced since I moved in here years ago. Then he left… and I had oodles of water pressure, water was spouting out of the showerhead like crazy, but it was COLD!

So I called the service desk of the firm to inform them that following their annual check up I now did not have any hot water… A few hours later a colleague of service guy rang my doorbell, he tried the taps, and the water was hot as hell… Then he left, I put on the shower and

COLD!

WTH!?! I ran outside to get him back, he tried the taps again and hot water… Then he tried the shower which was indeed cold… he rattled and checked some stuff and then informed me that it was probably my thermostatic tap that was broken.

Why the FUCK does all that crap break down when you are out of money?! Can someone for Gawd’s Sake explain that to me? I called The BIL, went over to the only DIY store that takes gift vouchers, got the cheapest crap thermostatic tap I could find, paid with my last leftover birthday gift certificates and The BIL is coming over in a few mins to install it so we can see if that will actually fix the problem…

Cos ya know… I hate taking cold showers… And there’s someone coming over next weekend that I don’t want to treat to cold showers again. He might think I do it on purpose. Ya know, to hear him squeel… * sigh *

Watch this space. I will be back to let you know if The BIL, a.k.a. The Magic Man, was able to fix the problem by installing my new thermostatic tap…

And you know… after damage to the car in December, slipping in the icy street in January, bronchitis in February, inflamed ankle joint this month and now this… I think it is time, as we say in Dutchyland, for the devil to piss off and start crapping on someone else’s pile of shit… I am quite done for now…

It was supposed to be payday today…

But due to a “mishap” in the payment system, payday will be one two* days late…

Of which we were informed only yesterday…

To people like me, who are totally skint every month around payday…

Having to wait for one more day is horrible…

It fucks up everything, including paying bills in time…

Sigh… fuckers… and their “mishap”

It’s not like I am craving an additional thing to worry about in my life

I would like to shake break the hand of the person who caused that “mishap”

* Update 1.00 p.m. : the paymentsystemmoronfuckers have still not fixed the problem and payday will be at least another day late…

* screaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaam *

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I am not particularly a “green” freak or a environmental activitist, but I am concerned about the climate and pollution as much as the next person… So this next thing strikes me as a tad ironic and not in a good way:

The Climate Change Summit that is currently being held in Copenhagen is the most polluting ever

• 140 EXTRA private planes are coming in and departing from Copenhagen to fly in all the government officials
• 1200 limo’s have been hired to drive them all over Copenhagen
• Only 5 of the cars used are electric or hybrid
• Climate Convention menus of scallops, foie gras and sculpted caviar wedges.
• The summit will create a total of 41,000 tonnes of “carbon dioxide equivalent”, equal to the amount produced over the same period by a city the size of Middlesbrough, UK

And that is probably just scratching the surface of all the shit going on over there.

I am sorry but I really can’t believe nobody in the whole fecking organization can’t see the very bad bad irony in this… How about omitting the whole summit of the international agenda? That would save at least umm… tons of trees… right?

On Sunday I was out for the afternoon with The Mom and The Kid. We visited a Maya exhibition at the National Museum of Ethnology. The museum is quite close to the medical center where I work so I parked the car in the personnel parking facility.

After visiting the museum, I had to pick up something from the supermarket near the museum (about the only one that is open in the area on Sunday) and then we were off to the car to drive back home. It was raining. Not very hard but raining nonetheless. While walking towards the supermarket some asshole guy very roughly bumped into The Kid, then me and then The Mom. Clearly it was not accidental. He saw us coming, we were walking on the far right of the sidewalk and not in his way. He was just bumping into us on purpose being a total dickwad.

This pisses me off…

So I turned around and shouted at him. I am not sure what it was I said but I am fairly sure that “watch where you are going” and  “asshole” were part of it. That in turn apparently pissed him off, so he turned around, shouted back at me and made some threatening moves towards us. This does not intimidate me in the slightest, so I gave him a snide look and he walked after us for a bit shouting and more shouting… The Mom was a bit worried about it all so I decided to shut up for now, but this kind of shit just infuriates me. These nasty fucked up people going round pissing other people off and nobody doing anything about it.

We walked on towards the supermarket and just a few meters ahead I saw something that pissed me off even more than bump-dickwad. Just a few meters ahead of the place where the asshole bumped into us, hard, and shouted at us and threatened to come up to us and whack me… there were 2 cops hiding out from the rain!!!

TAKING SHELTER COS OF A FEW DROPS OF RAIN!!!

I mean, seriously!?!! Are you freakin’ kidding me? This guy is bumping into people, hurting people, pissing off people, shouting at and threathening people. They must have been able to see and hear what had been going on from where they were standing and these wusses, these sissys, were hiding out from the rain!

I couldn’t resist making a remark about that “Oh great, we almost get thumped in the face by some asshole and the strong arm of the law is wussily hiding out from the rain next door“. I know they heard, and they gave me a disapproving kind of warning look. Yeah, kiss my ass!

I usually don’t nag about this stuff, where I go “my goddamn tax money, yadayada“, but this time I am. Us Dutch citizens pay tons of money amongst others to make sure there’s enough cops in the streets to protect us. And now I have to feel protected by the kinds of cops that hide out from the rain?

Fuck that! I hope to Gawd these assholes are not a sample of the police force that is out on the streets these days. Don’t get me wrong, I have the utmost respect for the police force, emergency services and such, but Shit! I really don’t have a good feeling about being protected and served by some sissy ass fucktard dork cops that can’t even stand a few drops of rain…

Anyone know how to work the Bat signal?