Uncle Biek

Hi all. Just a simple note to let you guys know I’m still around. Just about all of the past week I’ve been leaning against a upcoming flu of some kind and last Saturday it came out.

During the day I only felt slightly tired and sounded like having a firm cold, but when I was driving home from Bas later on I was trembling completely out of control, I just couldn’t keep myself still. Even when I was at home in bed I still shook like crazy, feeling stone cold.

However when I woke up the next morning I felt a lot better and went back to Bas to watch Formula One and do some ‘networking’. Unfortunately as time went by I started to get cold again (even with the borrowed sweater) and we had to call it a day a lot earlier than planned.

Today I’m still l having the nagging headache, feeling pretty cold and my head feels all clouded up from the neck up so to speak. Specially the right side of it. So I have not been working and when I keep feeling like this (or worse) I also won’t be tomorrow, but we’ll see what the afternoon brings. It’s been more than long enough again for my taste so let’s get on with it!

Hi all. We played another snooker match yesterday and had a relative easy six to three frames victory over the other team.

My first frame was the most relaxed one, but a complete horror to watch. Boy did we give each other chances. If only a small percentage of them actually had gone in, the score would have been much higher for the both of us. While we were scraping the points of the table we couldn’t stop grinning every once and a while as neither of us could help missing all kinds of shots. In the end I had the advantage but it could have went to either of us.

The second was no fun. First of all the guy was very arrogant and did not look happy at all so it was no fun to play him. I partly won the frame because he was playing himself rather than playing me (which is not fair of course, because then it was two to one *grin*) but after every shot he was clearly getting more annoyed, more so because I was able to use my given chances and potted enough points to keep up.

The end of the frame was kind of funny. Bas asked the guy what the difference was and he said that it was nothing, not caring really. Bas asked him again how much and the guy said that it could still go either way, because we both needed the black. Then Bas spoke the historic words ‘yeah, but he’s playing it first’ while pointing at me. I tell you I had trouble keeping my laughter because even though it was not the easiest of shots, the type itself is one I like to play very much. So I potted the black and that was that :-) Frame two was mine.

The one frame I lost was totally deserved as my opponent shot in a very nice thirty three break leaving me only one red and the remaining colors when I finally was back at the table. I potted that red (which was lock tight to the rail so that was simple ;-) and played nice position on the black, which I needed absolutely to be able to win the frame. However just as easy as I potted that red, I missed the black by a long shot so then I immediately needed one snooker.

When my opponent then potted another two colors my game was over fair and square. Good frame though, but a thirty three break simply is hard to get back from on my level.

All three of us had won two frames to one on personal basis to the score was nicely balanced among us. It took us quite a while to get home because the city was undergoing some major rebuilding of all kinds of stuff, keeping us waiting on various points on our way out of there. But in the end we made it of course ;-)

One more match to go and the season is done. We’ll probably see a lot of teams again next year and I’m looking forward to that already.

Hi all. Do you ever get to a door, expect it to open nicely and then kind of roughly fold yourself against it’s surface because for whatever reason it didn’t open nicely? This happens to me every now and then. I can think of two situations.

First one is when I walk up to a door, aim for the grip, just miss it and simply keep on walking. Bang. Halt. The other is when I walk up to a door, aim for the grip, actually catch it and keep on walking only to find that the door is locked shut. Bang. Halt. Again.

This second example was the type that I experienced this morning when I wanted to enter the room and get to work. Bang. Halt. What the … ? And you know what? For some reason it doesn’t feel right.

First you wonder if it’s a holiday or national feast or something like that. It wouldn’t be the first time I stood before the building of a company being entirely closed up only to find out that no one at all was coming to work that day. I don’t know, Easter or something like that.

Then you begin to wonder if maybe someone forgot to tell you something yesterday and you being at work the day before actually was your last …

Lucky for me I’m a quick thinker (well sometimes anyway) so I went back to our plant security department. When I almost reached them our manager crossed my path and told me she had a key. Cool, so we head back to the rooms where we are situated and found out that her key wasn’t valid … It fitted, but that’s where the dream stopped. No wonderland so to speak ;-)

Right. So then we both went over to plant security and asked them for one of them universal keys so we could open the office. They were nice, we got it :-)

So after doing more than my usual morning walk I finally can begin my working day now, which after all is what I came here for. Maybe we’ll get a key for tomorrow or something, we’ll see.

Hi all. How was your weekend? Mine was half good half bad. Saturday was okay, I went to work in my dads shop as usual and later went over to Bas to watch some movie’s and play some snooker later on. I finally was able to beat him again which hadn’t been the case for some time. For some reason just about everything I went for got in and his attempts … well erhm … didn’t ;-)

The Sunday however was a completely different story. I woke up at about seven fifteen which might sound early but is still a couple of hours later than the rest of the week. So that’s nothing to worry about. However what was something to worry about was the pounding headache I woke up with. Last week I was telling my mother how good the past time has been in regard to having headaches and stuff. And just when I was supposed to have a nice family day (and you don’t even want to know half the trouble this year has been before I was even supposed to show up …) I wake up with a head that feels like exploding.

So I took an amount of aspirins which should get it out of the way (very) quickly but Mother Nature had other plans in mind. This meant I had to call my own mother and tell her the bad news. She was a little disappointed but understanding of course and whished me all the luck. At that time I had hopes of getting the ache out of my head but the bugger stayed with me the entire day. And I was freezing all day long, man I was cold. The heating had twenty two degrees on it and I was wearing four layers of clothing but it didn’t do me much good all together.

Lucky for me this morning I’m more or less back in the old state I was in before which is not too bad ;-) Only a slight bit of the headache remained and the cold has gone completely. And even if it hadn’t it would have been quite a achievement in keeping cool today because this is the first day of us moving into a new building with the entire Servicedesk. The room is quite nice (and so is the view or so the lady’s tell me ;-) but I’m fearing the afternoon as this is a flat building and has no air conditioning at all so it probably get’s kind of warm later on.

Which me luck folks, I’ll need it …

Hi all. Even tough the three of us were looking forward to playing some nice snooker for the competition last night didn’t help us much. Unfortunately we lost, quite badly, but while doing so still were having a good time. And since that is still our main goal when going out for snooker you could say that was an okay evening.

Then we learned that the other team needed the points to keep them from degrading to the lower division and it immidiately felt a little better since we kind of helped them in strenghtening their position. let’s hope they’ll be with us next year, they’re good chaps.

I’ll probably be playing snooker again tomorrow with bas and hopefully I’ll be playing a better game than last night. And hopefully he’ll do too because he said it wasn’t stuff that needed to be shown on TV ;-)