Uncle Biek

Boy my stomach took a turn during snooker last night, unbelievable how bad you can sometimes feel of a sudden. I don’t even remember what I ate but whatever it was, it didn’t land on it’s feet in there. So what should have been a fun night off, and purely on snooker it actually was a fun night, ended in a not too pleasant way.

This morning I’m feeling a little better though still not all that great. I should stick to the tea and forget about coffee for a few hours before I take my chances and get myself my lovely espressos again.

Boy, this wasn’t the ideal way to end a weekend. I’ve been sleeping most of the past two days after I kind of caved in last Sunday. I think I’ve been asking a little too much from myself last week and this is the toll to pay. Nature catching up so to speak.

Anyway, I’m feeling a lot better now and think (and hope) that I’ve got the worst behind me.

Today I had a nice task at the store: inside a Bernina seven hundred series sewingmachine I had to replace the cog which connects the main axle to the one that goes down and drives, among other parts, the transport mechanism.

These are, though usually a lot of work, my favorite tasks. Why? Simple: these series all the way up to the ten thirty series are the best mechanical machines in the history of sewing machines so for a technically skilled person like myself there are no greater machines to work on.

The only downside, if there is such a thing, of a job like this is that they don’t come by too often and it simply takes me the entire Saturday to get it done. Still, these are the ones you do it for. Great stuff.

On Sunday I first took in a few hours of sleep and then booted up my computers to start a data copy session. When all was running fine I fired up the home cinema and watched the fourth Harry Potter movie as a kind of refreshment course for the fifth part I was going to watch with Stevie at night.

This was an excellent idea (I think Stevie came up with it), since it had been a while since I saw the first parts and this helped greatly in picking up the storyline and getting all names and faces back in my memory.

When I was all set I went over to Wageningen again and I had good fun with Eva in the garden and playground behind the house, while trying to stay out of the sun as much as possible. Sometimes you simply have to make sacrifices and for Eva I’m happy to make even a few of those. Later on we did aboard game and had nice Chinese food for diner. After diner the getting the kids to bed cycle started after which Stevie and I went off to the movies again.

I really liked the fifth Potter to be honest, even though I’m not a hardcore fan like I suspect Stevie is. He and sis have read the books (more than once I think) so he must have missed a bit of the story since we were told that even though this was the movie of the thickest book, they had to cut the movie short to ‘please the visitors’. I can’t help wondering how not telling everything pleases the crowd, but who am I to judge.

Anyway, it was good entertainment but quite frankly it doesn’t really matter what movie I’m watching as I just love going to the cinema. Its big screen, great sound and the overall atmosphere makes me want to go over every day of the week.

Going twice in one weekend is just too good, specially when in such great company. Brilliant!

Man I had such a great time last night. After work I jumped in the IFO and drove to Wageningen for a movie date with my sister. It had been a really long time since we went to a movie so I was really looking forward to both the time spend together as the movie.

We went to see the third and presumably last episode in the Pirates of the Caribbean movies and it proved a worthy finish of a fantastic story. I can’t happen but to just love these adventure like movies. A lot of action, great sceneries and loads of small and bigger jokes in between. Marvelous.