Uncle Biek

For those of you who didn’t see what that last post was about: be happy …

This is not that bad, I can live with the way it looks … for now. Mind you this won’t be the sites’ final look but at least it’s a bit better looking than it was a couple of hours ago.

Consider my site kind of under construction from now on, meaning that it’ll be changing somewhat every now and then. I’ll let you know when I think it’s finished (again), I promise.

Yeah I know, my site looks boring as it can possibly get (well for my usually standards anyway) but while I was messing with my template (unfortunately that was (again) literally the case) I completely screwed up my former Uncle Biek looks & feels.

And of course I didn’t make a quick backup copy of it even though that’s what I always tell other people to do so I’m going to have to get me a new base and personalize it as soon as possible. That will probably take place somewhere this week so hopefully the regularly visiting folks won’t even notice how it looks now.

This is just … well not me, I’ll leave it at that …

This has been one of the very best Xmas’s I’ve had since years. Usually it was one day with one parent and the other day vise versa but this year my sister had the brilliant idea to invite both of them to their home, one Xmas day each. And at first she and Stefan invited me to both days.

Then they came up with the idea to expand my visiting tour to three days by asking me to come over the entire Saturday as well. It’s always nice to over there and I’m not nearly as much there as I’d like so this was the perfect Xmas gift for me.

Being three days with my sister and Stefan, playing around with Eva, meeting all the family’s and just generally having great fun is the best way to end a year. Period.

We got to do this more often ;-)

With all the new technologies there is available for cars nowadays, you’d think that car manufacturers would try and make them as safe as possible. And, credit where credit’s due, generally I think they are doing a very good job at it.

I mean God knows I’ve been in a few seriously breathtaking car accidents (some literally) and until now have always been able to walk away with nothing more than a severe headache and gibberish legs.

But every now and then I wonder who comes up with a certain idea and why nobody stops that person from getting it into the final model. It’s just strange.

Example? Today when I was going home and walked to the car I saw a couple of cars driving away without their headlights on. Mind you that this was at about a quarter past five and in this time of year it’s already dark outside.

When I spotted the first one I just thought ‘he’ll probably turn them on when he’s a few feet on his way’ but it took the man a serious light signal from another car to realize that he was driving without his lights on.

Then I crossed the road just in time to see another one leaving the parking lot and this car didn’t have the headlights on either. I noticed that they were both Opel cars (Vauxhall for the Britt’s among the readers) and when the car passed me (while ignoring my signs completely) I saw that the dashboard lightning actually was on.

And that’s when I all of a sudden remembered that the Seat I got from the company I work for has the exact same system: when you turn on the engine the dashboard turns on, whether you have your headlights on or not.

Problem is that when you’re driving away from a well lit spot you don’t immediately need the headlights to see the road ahead and when your dashboard lights up like a Xmas tree I can imagine you don’t directly realize that your headlights didn’t.

While driving home I spend about the entire trip thinking about what could be the reason or advantage of having the dash light up directly instead of together with the headlights but I just can’t think of anything.

Nothing at all, not even something that might remotely explain it. Weird.

Whoohoo, I made it. Survived another year.

On one of the racing forums I’ve read about a guy who stated that by waking up every day he was braking his personal record of time he’d been alive so far. So with that in mind my personal record now is now at it’s all time high!

And counting ;-)