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Posted:Dec 9, 2023 11:12 am
Last Updated:Dec 10, 2023 11:08 am 11402 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 11541 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 11326 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 10342 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 9528 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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Shoes and a collier,
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Posted:Nov 26, 2023 11:40 am
Last Updated:Dec 7, 2023 6:06 am 10080 Views
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Hmmmm, something strange is going on...
Where are my pictures??
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Reliable?
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Posted:Nov 26, 2023 2:43 am
Last Updated:Nov 27, 2023 9:00 am 9563 Views
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Once again, i went with the train, to this city, to do some shopping.
Buying this collier, what was made by hand, especially for me
While standing on the platform, waiting for the train, there came two men walking onto the platform and looking totally confused.
So, i ask, can i help you? Are you looking for something?
This one man, let me look at his phone, to show the "platform" he needed to be.
He was talking about a platform that was not even there?!
So, i was thinking, platform 3? 3???
So, i look around and then, lightbulb!!
This man, needed to get a bus!
Not a train!!
So, they run to get their bus connection.
There was this other woman, standing on the platform, too,
i tell her what just happened, she asked me; Is that bike yours?
I tell, her yes, that is my bike.
So, you come across as someone who travels a lot, that makes you reliable to ask,
to trust.
I look at this woman, totally surprised, Oh? really?
Gosh.....
I just wanted to help.....
Thats all.
It was a nice talk with this other woman, she travels by train and bike too...
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Today,
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Posted:Nov 24, 2023 9:46 am
Last Updated:Nov 26, 2023 2:32 am 8577 Views
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I wanted to work on my own bike,
because the back light still was not working.
I dont know, what happened, but, before, the light was just working pretty fine,
no problemo at all
All of the sudden, the light stopped working, the SOUR, man, did try to fix it,
but he is too lazy to really work it out.
Just throws in an other "solution", that does not fix the light at all.
So, i worked it out, put some new wire in it, right through the frame, inside the frame.
That was a hell of a job!
But, with the help of an other man, working there, we fixed it.
really working to solve this problem, together!!
That felt soo good!
You know, be open to the suggestion, the other gives, or i gave...
listen and work it out.
Eventually, i found the solution for this wire thing, getting it through the frame.
What a job!!
It took us, almost the bigger part of the day.
Then, i had to put the back wheel back in, and all the other parts too...
I forgot some spare parts to adjust, but that was not a big structual problem, more a visual aspect.
just something i will pick up on, finish, next teusday.
Finally, my back light is working as it use to be!
Yeah, together with this other collleague.
He is cool, he just tells me, you can do it this way or that way, here are the tools,
go ahead and do it.
See for yourself, what works best for you.
Comes back to check in, on me, if i get it done.
All very relaxed.
It is not so much about that i dont know how,
but it is more about building convidence, that i can fix it.
Because, well, i did fix bikes before.
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Elections,
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Posted:Nov 24, 2023 9:25 am
Last Updated:Nov 24, 2023 11:30 pm 8541 Views
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So, it did happen, most people did voted, 86 % or something like that...?
and the winner is....
funeral music, please.
Our right wing, anti moslims, anti womens rights, ( to abortus) won.
I was in shock!
How could that happen?!
I even shouted at my radio; NO!
You must know, that this man, called Wilders,
is himself a victum of the War in Indonesia, his parents,
and then, especially his mother, was victum of the very rude, cruel methods of the Japanese to torture those women, also sexual.
it was very brutal times.
Men got a hard time too, but almost never in a sexual way...
In those horrid camps.
So, he is a victum, second generation victum..
He dyes his hair blond, but if you look at his eyes, and his overall face structure,
you see a indonesian boy...
He denies his own background, most probably, because that is the only way he can handle it.
He has post traumatic stress syndrome...
And that geezer is going to run this country?
He has been the opposition for years now, always atacking the moslim population, in Holland>
We, the government did bring those moslims here, because our own folks did not want to work in those factories anymore, dont wont to do all that physical, dirty, heavy labor.
Stop that train! I am leaving, i wanne get of!
No good can come from this.
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One morning,
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Posted:Nov 21, 2023 8:25 am
Last Updated:Nov 24, 2023 9:10 am 9284 Views
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After i came into the workshop, and walked into the cantina,
Some of the staff was already there.
So, i wish everyone a good morning.
And start talking to W.
About some thing bike, workshop related.
He looked at me, with a very tired face...
Asked me; i believe you dont need coffee, hè?
To get the day started ?
I was all smiles and told him; very happy,
NO, 😍🥰😍, When the eyes are open, the rest of the body, mind is awake too! 😄😃😀
No stopping me! 😂😁
He smiled..... in a very tired way....
I left him to his Coffee, and walked away....
Never mind, i 'll ask again, later....
I think, they have a bit of a difficulty with placing me,
Who, what, why....? 🙄
Cant ☆get☆ me.
The story of my life..... 🙄🤔😝
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