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| Changing my mind |
| 01.14.04 (6:57 am) |
I changed my mind... Not a problem, just more work. But hey.. I have some spare time... Here's the new preview:
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| Wanted: organizer! |
| 01.12.04 (9:01 am) |
• Monday: 2 big yellow ones (morning and evening), 1 small white one (morning)
• Tuesday: 2 big yellow ones (morning and evening), 1 small white one (morning), 1 small yellow one (dinnertime)
• Wednesday: 2 big yellow ones (morning and evening), 1 small white one (morning), 1 small yellow one (dinnertime)
• Thursday: 2 big yellow ones (morning and evening), 1 small white one (morning), 1 small yellow one (dinnertime), 1 smallest yellow one (evening)
• Friday: 2 big yellow ones (morning and evening), 1 small white one (morning), 1 smallest yellow one (evening)
• Saturday: 2 big yellow ones (morning and evening), 1 small white one (morning), 1 small yellow one (dinnertime), 1 smallest yellow one (evening)
• Sunday: 2 big yellow ones (morning and evening), 1 small white one (morning), 1 small yellow one (dinnertime), 1 smallest yellow one (evening)
• When needed: half a light orange one and 1 to 3 darker orange ones
Arrrghhhh... I need an organizer.... Would PalmPilots or BlackBerries be able to keep track of this schedule...especially since it changes every once so often depending on test results?
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| vanaanholt.net & vanaanholt.org |
| 01.08.04 (7:35 am) |
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If you tried the link to our homepage, it might not work for a few hours. I switched providers recently and now the domain vanaanholt.net is in the process of being transferred to my new provider. Sorry if this caused any inconvenience for anyone. vanaanholt.org does already work.
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| Blogger Blues? |
| 01.07.04 (6:19 am) |
I’ve seen many bloggers write entries lately questioning the reason of their blogger existence. It’s hard to come up with something that you think people will actually enjoy reading every day. Although the blogger blues sometimes gets me too, I have an honest excuse for not keeping up with our blog as well as a probably could have. I am working on a renewed layout for the website and the blog. Want proof that I am not talking nonsense? Here’s a peek:
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| The American Paper Trail |
| 01.06.04 (7:49 am) |
You might think that the title of today’s blog entry refers to some National Park or other historic trail, but it does not. Americans love paper, especially when it’s money or checks (which represent money and should thus be considered similar). I, for one, prefer virtual money and paper. Just a statement from my bank that I pull up on my computer that tells me how much I still have (or not have, for that matter) will do just fine. I’m a plastic girl, and no, I don’t mean that I own fake body parts…
Although gradually it becomes easier to do financial stuff via the internet, we cannot, for example, pay our rent automatically. Not being able to pay things from behind the screen, OK, but why can we not simply tell the bank to put the money for the rent into the account where it needs to go. Now, we have to give the leasing agency a check every month, before or on the first and we sometimes forget. Not because we don’t want to pay, but because we are not always there around the first of the month. It drives me nuts.
Same thing with my health insurance. You have to send them a check with your premium every month, but you don’t know if and when they will receive it. With the rent at least we can physically drop it off and know they got it. Health insurance checks get send by mail. Who knows how long it takes before it gets there? And since you do want to be covered at all times, you have to balance it out. Send your check early enough in order to make sure it gets there in time but not too early so they draw the money out of your account halfway through the previous month. I know you can change the date on the check because they can only cash it on or after the date it was made out on, but still…
I vote for virtual. Not only does it save time, money and a lot of headaches, I think it is safe to say that it’s also good for the environment, which is something that the current administration has not yet really got a grip on. They seem to choose for the good old American paper trail and not just in cases like the ones that I mentioned above.
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| Vote! |
| 01.05.04 (3:39 pm) |
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If you like our little writings, vote to get this blog featured on the TBlog website. Thanks!
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| The White Eagle |
| 01.04.04 (7:51 am) |
We were in New Jersey the last few days and spent some time in a bar called ‘The White Eagle’ (those of you who were there, correct me if I’m wrong, but I think that is what it was called). Think 80s, neon, locals and you’ve got a pretty good idea of what the place was like. We got some dirty, perhaps envious looks when we came in. Seven young people who had clearly spent more time ‘in the city’ than the majority of the customers frequenting The White Eagle. It seemed that their life had come to a halt at about the same age we are now, so that they had turned into ghosts of the 80s. Madonna and Cyndi Lauper with wrinkles so to speak. Although we had a good time that night, I felt a kind of pity for the folks in the bar knowing that they probably have never left and never will leave their home town. Call it whatever you want (I know very well that some of you out there will think, oh, there’s another arrogant foreigner spitting on our culture), but I think it is truly sad when a bar wishes its customers all the best for the new year by putting the following text on their billboard outside:
Happy New Year
There is always the White Eagle…
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| Happy New Year! |
| 01.01.04 (7:17 am) |
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