Bash your door in?
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Posted:Dec 15, 2023 11:55 am
Last Updated:Dec 16, 2023 12:48 am 12329 Views
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Today at the workshop, during the tea break, we talked about if it was oke, if i came in, on other days, then are sceduled now.
W. told me, you have to let us know, beforehand, because otherwise we worry about you and will come to your house and may bash your door in.
I was totallly suprised; Bash my door in??
Huh?
i wanne see that! LOL
We both laughed.
They wont! for sure not!
I am not as most people there, who have some (many?) mental indication, some mentor who keeps track of theirs whereabouts, and if they take their meds or not and all that kind of stuff.
I dont have a social / medical/ mental indication, for that kind of support.
Most there are heavy on meds.
And most have some sort of drugs/ booze use in the past or still...
Have some sort of criminal record... been inside... jail....
So, i don fit their 'normal' indication, about a persons past and behaviour, and how they have to behave around me.
Most of the days, now that it is really cold, also in this very big shed, i start working with my coat on, and gloves too.
Until the temps are a bit more comfortable, i work that way.
I finished an other bike.
Had some problems with the back wheel.
Thanks for the help from Ronald, he is a great teacher.
We worked as a real team, today.
Both working on the same bike, trying this and that and the other thing.
Putting the back wheel on the bike again, and then, get the wheel off it, again
because there were other elements that did not work the way we wanted it.
And do that some more times!
Back wheels can be a pain in the youknowwhat. 
We fixed it!!  )
Now i am starting on a very old bike, the brand name is; Mustang, 
i told them, i want to fix this bike and have it, as my own, pay for it.
I have to demolish it from bottom to the top.
I am looking forward to go ahead with this project.
The energy today, was really very crazy, i dont know, what was going on,
but what a randomity.... very restless.....
It is not a full moon..... so that could not be a reason, for all that randomity... restless energy....
This one guy, one of the staff, mentioned it too....
I just keep myself to myself, doing what i like best.
And when i cant fix it, i just walk out of the shed, breath in and out, in the outside...
and go in again, and get on it, again.
Or talk about it, with Ronald, he has always some good ideas, to try it this way or that way...
Sometimes it is just about muscle power! I hate it, when that happens! sighs.....
incompetence....
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My Etsy adventures,
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Posted:Dec 14, 2023 9:37 am
Last Updated:Dec 15, 2023 12:07 pm 11906 Views
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Since i try to cook by that sour-base book.
I found one great recipe, it are Rosti, made of sweet patatoes and parsnip, onion, eggs, some buckwheat flour, and some cheese + some herbs...what ever i like to use.
I love it!!
BUT, it is a lot to grate!
With just a small manual grate....
So, i went looking for some oldfashion Moulinex hand mill...
One, i used to have, long time ago,
I knew what i was looking for,
it is very the 60 ish, in orange! I love it!!
Could not find it, in any of the thrift shops around here.....
So, Etsy was the next place to look.
I found more then one Moulinex grate mill.....
I bought it by one person, but got in contact with an other seller, of
the same Moulinex grate mill....
At first i did not noticed i talked to the one and had bought it by the other person!
Then some hick-up came on, about the payment.
I go contact the customers service.
I had a great contact there, the man was very helpful,
and told me, the payment went through and you will have this thing
within 24 hours, if everything went well.....
So, i tell this to this one sales woman and she told me, i did not get any notification,
So, i check payment again, and then, i see i bought it by a totall other person!
I was totally surprised!
How did i do that!?!
So, i go back to this one woman, we had a very nice conversation going on.
and tell her, the fault is by me,
I ordered it by an other shop.
I found that very hilarious!!!
I made my excuses, about this terrible stupid mess up.
So, that was all settled, then i came into the workshop again, went to the thrifshop, and there i see the same grate handmill!
Very cheap!!
So, now i have two of those vegie grate hand mills
I find that very hilarious!!
Using that handmill makes the workload a lot less.
I dont have to stand in the kitchen for 3 hours, anymore
but now, only for 2 hours! Há!
Me and Etsy...
It is a real adventure!
I am not sure if i want to order there again....?!  
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ExNameForUse?
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Posted:Dec 10, 2023 12:01 pm
Last Updated:Apr 20, 2024 12:17 am 12840 Views
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Anyone heard anything from her?
Is everything alright with her?
I did not read a blog from her, for some time now, and i just wonder....?!
I hope everything is alright and she is just busy in her new job, getting used to the new work situation.
Making home decorations for this Christmas thing, coming up? 
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The other day,
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Posted:Dec 10, 2023 11:41 am
Last Updated:Dec 20, 2023 1:30 am 12313 Views
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This one person from the staff, W, was asking me why i looked so mad?
I was totally surprised.
Mad?? Me?
I looked at him, and asked him, how you mean, mad?
Well, you look so mad!
I kept looking at him, and asked him; i dont have to smile all day, do i?
No, no!
So i told him, i dont look X mad X, i am totally concentrated on the job ahead>
How is that, for looking mad?
He got confused by my answer, and walked away....
I never have heard him ask that to one of the guys working there!
Never, and they can look real "mad"/ totally focussed on the job a head.
Especially when the bike does not want to do, what they want it to do!
Or the mechanics are old and rusty..and you have to use a lot of force.
to make it work, again.
This is one sign of unaware sexism, at the work place.
Internalized sexism, this is something, that is soo deep ingrained in people, men and women alike...
This guy, W, is not even aware of his sexism, toward me and my facial expressions.
Internal sexism.
Even women, show it, in their way of talking about other women.
it is all around us.
So, to fit in his picture, of how "a woman" should look, i have to think about smiling all day?
So i will fit his internal image of women?
Hell no! Get real!
I had on other technical problem with an other bike, i could not make this thing work.
I knew, it was not my lack of knowledge, i used all the right tools.
It is, on its own, just a simple task, to finish.
Not difficult at all.
but something in the structure of the bike, was just off..
An other bike repair man, told me, it is in the structure of the frame of the bike, and you have to adjust it...
Yeah, duh! i already discovered that!
He did not tell me, how?
He told me, the Stockroom man, know how.
Yeah, that is a great help, when the Stockroom man is not there! LOL
I cant stand it, when that happens
So i was looking "mad" again!
I wanted to solve this problem!!
I was thinking real hard, to find a solution!
Now i know, i need to use some kind of plug to fill this space, so things will fit, as it suppost to...
The Stockroom is a mess, only the Stockroom man, knows where everything is...
That, too, can drive me mad! Hahahaha
For as long as i am in the Stockroom.....
I will find my own solution, for this problem.
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It happened.....
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Posted:Dec 9, 2023 11:34 am
Last Updated:Dec 14, 2023 10:47 am 11979 Views
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Group pressure?
Nah, i dont think so....
Just like it too much....
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stealing
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Posted:Dec 9, 2023 11:12 am
Last Updated:Dec 10, 2023 11:08 am 11116 Views
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Another day at the workshop.
My friend in the Stockroom was not there, friday.
I missed him, he is my go-to person, when i am not sure how to handle
certain bike problem.
He is also, the only one, who thinks, about more then the last beer he drank.
He has some history..
My oh! my! and i thought i did some weird, scary stuff?
Há, he is from an totall other category...
Anway, we get along fine, also talk alot about the political situation, now,
In Holland, with the extreme right wing government coming up...
I am known, to have some real extreem oppinion,
He?
Well, he is even worst then i am!!
am not easy shocked, by things people say, i always think; Yeah, well , thát is an oppinion, too.
Nothing more.
Anyway, this day, i had to do it on my own.
I got it done, pretty well!
Almost finished an other bike.
There are some small tasks left to do, but the majority of the repair is done!
I fixed it!
Light, brakes, sadle, back tire, the chain, too
I want to check something, about this bike, too...
I am not sure if it is in a good condition, but for that
to know for sure, i would like to hear Stockroom mans oppinion...
I think, i can do it on my own....
Just for reassurance.
The sour man was not there, the atmosphere was totally different.
I dont believe they let him repair bikes anymore.
He is scheduled to make little packets for summer houses.
The people"working" there rob and steal almost anything, from about anyone, they can get their hands on.
I never take my phone with me, always wear my wallet on my body,
my keys too...
Some almost look like "normal" people, but if you start a conversation with them, you
notice there is something going on, something strange,
others, you can distinctively see, there is something wrong in the upstairs department.
Most are on drugs, anti depressiva and the likes...
Heavy mental cases.....
There is this woman, she needed her medicine, but they had mixed her recipe up, so she was without medicine.
I did not know what was happening!
Shouting and screaming and very, very ....hmm, active, let me use that word....
for her behaviour.
The staff talked about it, in the cantina......
The other day, she had the right kind of medicine, again, and she was a totall other person.
One flew over the cuckoos nest in the light version!
I am just minding my own businiss.
keep a low profile.....
and a watchful eye for the folks around me...
I very much like it, that i found someone, who i can talk with, about politics, and also economics, worldwide.....
He always tells me, all(most all) about his past, hmmm, not all was very "nice",to say the least.
Tells me, about all his scars all over his body,....
We talk about how badly Holland treated the people from Indonesia.
And still do.
How the Japanese soldiers? tortured the women in those horrible camps.
Sooo much hate !
Talk about the Orange head in The Us or the old man.....
It is refreshing to have found someone, i can talk with, about the politics, worldwide criminal acts...From Shell, Esso and the likes....
He knows almost as much as i do..that is really nice!
We never talk about this, when there are others around.
They have this bike plan, for real poor familys, they can get a bike, if they have a paper for the local government, to show, they have a right on a bike, for their , to get to school on.
I am working on those bikes, too.
Make them all nice and shiny!
as good as new~!
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Bike shop,
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Posted:Dec 3, 2023 1:06 am
Last Updated:Dec 4, 2023 4:14 am 11248 Views
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It looks like, the staff gives me some more responsibility....
I had to finish a bike the sour man, fucked up..... Again...
What he does, is, starting on a bike, they told him, to fix...
Then he encounters a problem, wich is way over his head...
He never!! Ever!! Would Ask for help.... Hell no!!
HE IS THE MAN!! 🤢🤢🤢🤪
So, he just abondon that project, and takes any other bike, to fuck that one up, too!!
And so on.
Driving every one around him crazy!!
He, ofcourse denies any and everything.
NOT TAKING ON ANY RESPONSIBILTY!
Because saying he failed....is against his all and mighty self image.. 🤢🤮🤢
Yuck!!
So, i fixed that bike, a small bike...
Later on, they gave me an other bike to repair.
They also let me help a custom, with her bike.
Let me help an other person, with looking for a good bike...
Give advice...
Now i have to reapir a very small childrens bike, with tiny wheels...
It is a disaster!!
Normal tools are way too big, for such a bike..
So i have to use a lot human power... pppfff...
Not a fun project, seeing that 's face, when he gets this "new' bike is worth all the trouble, fixing it!
I also volentered for making some nice gardens around the tiny houses, for people, who live there.
All people with a lot of problems, handling daily living.. and other personal missery...
Now the place looks like a dessert, looks really nasty, ugly... a dump place...
Making gardens, they themself can maintain... easy gardening...
Small herbal shrubs... flowers.
That would be a project for next year.... spring...
The people living in those houses are most, really in a bad shape..
Maybe, i can get them to do some gardening.....
Having a goal, no matter how small, in the eyes of others, is a real good thing, for every one.
AND especially for people who been run down, by life..., living...
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Flirting? bike ride? cold?
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Posted:Dec 2, 2023 9:52 am
Last Updated:Dec 5, 2023 10:43 am 11006 Views
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Choice your own title! Há.
It was freaking cold, this day.
BUT, i had decided, i have to go to that littlle village, to buy some more honey.
The mill in that village is still working, you can buy real fresh wheat, from all sort of grain.
And, they sell honey, from beekeepers around that place, so all very, very local.
I love that!
I also needed to visit some other shops there.
I HATE COLD, my inner heating system is kaput, so i cant keep myself warm,
when real cold, i start to hyperventilate and faint... drop from my bike, fall to the ground.
I am a danger in those days, for myself!
So, the stress level on cold days is high.
Have to be totally aware of how i breath....
sighs....
So, i went to this village, all went well,
did buy some honey, did all the other shopping too...
Even went to that other little ecological shop, because i know they will having a Christmas market again.
It is all very small and very local too, i love that!!
On the bike, i packed myself in so many layers of clothes i could not keep my glasses on, so i put them in a pocket and here i go!
On the way, i saw some other folks on bikes coming towards me.
For what i could recognise, it were guys in training clothes, on racing bikes!
In these temps!!!!
Their clothes are very thin, you know, thight fit, too
So, i look! with a big smile on my face, yummy!!
One of the guys saw my reaction, and had a big smile on his face, too!
Great moments!! 
Later, on my way back to my place, i visited a little cafe, and walked in.
People sitting on the inner terrace, looked up, in shock,
because i looked like a bankrobber, with my black balaclava and black hat on, too
You could barely see my eyes!
So, i said rather loudly; no, i wont rob you! dont worry! i am a good person!
They all laughed a bit sheepishly...
When i left the cafe later, the people at the terrace greeted me, as if i were their friend.....
Maybe, did not trust it....., at all, whahahah!
One day in the cold hell of Holland...
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Christmas rituals
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Posted:Nov 30, 2023 2:46 am
Last Updated:Dec 2, 2023 9:28 am 10039 Views
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Yeah, i know,
Sinterklaas is still in the country, leaves after 6 december... jajadajajajajadada
So, since i dont dó sinterklaas anymore.
I do my own Christmas rituals
Every year, again, the public is asked to send in their best music hits.
Their best nummers!
So, untill the saterday before Christmas there is all kind of music on the radio.
No, i dont vote, i just like to be suprised with the music choices of "the people" listening to this one radio sender.
Actually, almost all radio senders have their own special lists, made by their listeners.
I really like that.
And, when it is all over, they made a special list of the numbers that did not made it!
So, most of the time, that is really the best choices in music.
Sometimes i sing with the radio, sometimes i crinch and put the sound down,
you do hear a lot of, what i would call; garbage.
Always nice to remember that other people dont like my choices, and love what i call; garbage....
It is all there!!
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Snow!
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Posted:Nov 29, 2023 11:00 am
Last Updated:Dec 2, 2023 9:01 am 9230 Views
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It happened!
We did have some snow, wet snow and some hail too
It is freezing cold!
And, today, i did not see my stray cat the whole day.
As his loving cat mommy i was worried.
It is too cold and he is becoming real old.....
So, i walked to the kitchen window almost the whole day, calling his name
and all the strange, crazy fantasy names i give him!
Finally, at the end of the afternoon, he was there!!
I let him eat in my shed, it is soo cold, so he could, if he wishes, sit there for a while...
He was very hungry, it is really funny to see him open his jaw and try to fill the whole plate with meat in his face.
He is soo afraid, even after all those years i feed him.....
I feel for him.
I would like to have him in my house, when it is cold or rainy all day.
But i believe he will attack me, when i try to get him into my house...
So i dont.
I dont want to give him even more stress....
it was freezing cold! The last days.
frost in the nights, too...
There seem to be some more snow coming our way.
I dont like that, at all.
Wait and see, in Holland they always make a whole drama about weather changes,
panic fase 9, while in real, there is nothing much going on, sighs.....
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