Another ticket. This one in the Hague. 90 in an 80 zone. 36 Euros. Damn these traffic cameras! Damn their beady, unblinking glass eyes!!! I can’t take this kind of surveillance. Didn’t anyone tell these fuckers that the totalitarian regime idea went out a long time ago. I cannot take Read more…
So this Sunday the national Dutch soccer team had their first World Cup game. It was against Serbia-Montenegro, which is interesting, because since Montenegro voted to separate from Serbia last week and therefore this is the last World Cup that they will field a team. We had a frisbee competition Read more…
So this past weekend was absolutely beautiful. While I was getting into the summer spirit I realized that I still have not found a suitable gym to join. I’ve been to two, and neither one was someplace where I could really see myself going to two or three times a Read more…
Skip all this crap and go to the photos A big “THANK YOU” to everyone who came to my moving-in party this past Saturday. I know it was short notice (especially for you agenda-loving Dutch people who managed to make it), but it was really nice to see so many Read more…
I don’t have a single handy bone in my body. IKEA furniture stretches my limits. People who paint their own homes and change their own oil and install their own lights have my undying admiration. If you know how to find a stud in a wall, or what kind of Read more…
Normally, the idea of playing ultimate frisbee for four straight days would be very exciting. Unfortunately, the entire good weather quota of the Netherlands was used up in the first two weeks of May (which were beautiful), and this week we had a more traditional weather forecast (read: cold, rainy, Read more…
One thing you really have to hand it to the Dutch for, they know how to take care of their employees. I notified my HR department that I was moving to the Hague and they immediately put in to buy a train pass for me so I could commute to Read more…
Apparently on the 19th of March the Dutch government has a photo of my little Justy doing 88kph in an 80 zone. Once again, this is equivalent to doing 54.7 mph in a 49.8mph zone. And for this infraction the officials of the government demand that I pay them the Read more…
Crazy week last week. It was my first week living in the Hague and I never even got home before 11pm any night that week. Friday I had dinner at a friend’s place in the Hague (something that never happened in a year and a half in Dordrecht) and got Read more…
A bit of a frustrating quiz. The questions were all either ridiculously easy, or ridiculously hard. That, combined with the fact that our normal quiz mistriss was absent and was replaced by Goldmember. This dude’s pronunciation was so bad we spent most of the time looking at each other quizzically Read more…