Daniel came back Tuesday evening and we made an appointment to play a few boardgames tonight with Jerry and Marjolein.
First I went to Jerry's, but there was nobody there to open the door. Then I remember that we agreed on Zoltan's place... luckily enough their houses are close to each other.
We looked at Sterrenschiff, a new Catan game. Quite interesting. Later Ronald arrived, and now we'll play Puerto Rico. Let's see how it will work out this time...
"The name is Wouter Bos. He's a miracle-worker. He brings political parties back from the (almost) dead. [...]
The Fortuynists' disarray has cut their own throats (they may get half a dozen seats, say pollsters). But Mr Bos has twisted the knife. When he went on the stump in one of Rotterdam's most Fortuynist areas, it was plain that working-class voters were swinging back to Labour in droves."
,,We hebben vreemdelingen hier gehaald om werk op te knappen waar we zelf geen trek meer in hadden. We hebben ze daarvoor nog nodig. [...] Vergis je niet: bij veel allochtonen is er een enorme gretigheid om het in Nederland te gaan maken, een gretigheid die ik bij autochtonen wel eens mis.''
(,,We took foreigners to do the jobs we don't feel like doing. We still need them for that. [...] Don't be mistaken: many foreigners are very eager to go for it in Holland, an eagerness I don't always see in the natives.")
Today it's exactly a year ago that we first entered our current house with our own key. From that day we were working 3 weeks to get everything ready.
A detailed description of the moving you can find in the look back at 2002. My father sent me a few pictures of the day we moved.
This picture is from beginning of February. We just moved all the smaller stuff from Amstelveen. Notice the carpet... it looks fine on this picture but would take many weeks to be completely finished.
The big things had to be carried up using our very small stairs. Here's Joost, doing a hell of a job.
Some isolation; I think it's the weekend this article mentions. I regret it that I didn't write more often in my logbook those months.
A part of the crew; these were the people who helped moving. Ettie and Gerben were also there (I think Ettie took the picture. Steven wasn't there this exact day but also helped a lot the days before.
Some people are afraid that a war in Iraq would be a disaster... a very nice Flash movie 
For those who don't know what to vote, Wouter sent me 
Today it's exactly a year ago that we first entered our current house with our own key. From that day we were working 3 weeks to get everything ready.
