We went out for a walk, as it is quite warm in the house. It was 26 degrees outside, around 22:00 o'clock. When we came back I was relieved to see Hammie alive and running -- everything is fine with him. Ettie will pick him up tomorrow evening, we will all mis him!

Moment of stress... Hammie was lying on its back! But he was just asleep, or resting from the heat. Pfff...

It's beautiful weather today, the temperature we can see from our windows indicates 31 degrees Celcius.

Happy we're not in the traffic jams (like many other people). we're staying at home all day, having a break. All the windows open. It's busy on the river as well.

Wonderful news, the 9 miners who were stuck in an American mine since Wednesday were rescued today and all are okay.

We went to The Hague today, the 4 of us. We had a wonderful time, especially in the afternoon when we went to see Madurodam.

Last time I was there was with Sasha, 2 years ago I think. Then we saw somewhere inside how they were working on the Rijksmuseum, and today we saw it complete, outside. It's very very beautiful, therefore a picture (and no, that's not us on the picture).

Picture: Madurodam, Holland in miniature

sasha's mother made ïàëà÷èíêè, pancakes for dinner -- delicious!

Going to bed early tonight as we are leaving to The Hague tomorrow. We'll see the city and Madurodam, a miniature city.

The Bulgarians are going for a walk today in Haarlem, and arrange small stuff. I'll join them later I think. Studying some Bulgarian.

The new government introduced itself for parliament today... pretty sure they won't survive the 4 years.

They came to pick up the old radiator this morning. Especially those who helped us moving (thanks again!) will know that we have pretty difficult stairs. So I expected at least 3 or 4 guys to come and pick up this huge, heavy radiator. But only 2 came, the guy from the service company and another (strong!) man, and in five minutes they were ready. Gives us quite some extra space in the small hallway, it's nice.

Hammie almost bit me again but I've learned my lesson. I'll just basically drop his food from very high into his foodbasket, so it can't bite me. For the rest it's doing quite well, yesterday evening it was running around in his running-thing.

Kernel Traffic has a nice introduction this week -- it is dedicated to mosquito preventors.

Yesterday evening Ettie and Gerben came and we went to see a concert in the Grote Kerk. It was nice, one hour. I haven't been in this church before so it was interesting to see it. Afterwards we went to a pub and had a beer. Went to bed at 2:30...

Ettie left her hamster with me (they're going on a small holiday). It's called Hammie and it bit me this morning when I gave it food. I'll give it another chance.

Today I'll study, and make sure the phone works together with the ADSL connection (some cables to do).