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Cake day: June 28th, 2025

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  • We do have crosswalks in Europe, but they are more of a suggestion for pedestrians. Though a car driver is obligated to stop and give way for anyone trying to cross at a crosswalk or risks a fine if they don’t stop. Of course cars don’t have to give way to people crossing the “jaywalking” way.

    Although there are places where the cars are second class citizens and everyone is more important than a car. Those places are bisically a pedestrian area where cars are allowed as humble guests.




  • The Netherlands has a couple good series. A recent hit (dutch/belgian production) is “undercover”. It’s about a Belgian cop that goes undercover in the organisation of a dutch drug dealer. Very fun with lots of peculiar cultural references.

    A personal favorite though, is a 1995 childrens show called “lang leve de koningjn” (long live the queen). It tought me how to play chess in a very fun and engaging way.



  • I did a sort of swotch and bait to an employer once. I was a delivery driver. I drove through all of western europe, based in the Netherlands. I did not drive a truck, but a Mercedes Sprinter. If I had driven a truck, tgere would’ve been laws for me to drive normal hours. This was a cowboy job. I had to do day-trips to southern france, a twelve hour ride, do quick nap before I do my route there, than drive back to prepare for the next one.

    I had been doing that for close to a year and it was getting to me. I had a contract for a year, with still a coupke months remaining, but I had found a new job that wanted me to start asap. So I went to my boss and gave him an option. Either he let me go, or I call in sick with a burn-out and he’d have to pay for my sick leave for a long time. He was pretty pissed, but accepted the deal and I started the new job two weeks later.

    During my two weeks off, I realized I was actually starting to get into a burn-out. The feeling of “a weight fslling of my shoulders” was very profound. I think I even cried for no reason at some point. So maybe it wasn’t really a switch-and-bait, but it felt like it at the moment. The whole experience taught me alot about looking out for myself and listening to my body.









  • My job requires that I use Teams. Specifically, I have to use the “break out rooms” feature regularly. Microsoft only supports that on windows. Not even in the browser.

    I’ve now bought a device that manages all my periferals, so that I only hav to plug in one usb into y laptop. Now I can easily switch out my private laptop for my work laptop in my home office. So, I’ll be switching pretty soon.