November 2002 Archives
Barely 2 weeks after we moved into our new house, Hotel Rosell had it's first guests: Coen and Duh Nieze. They are spending a week of holiday in Catalunya (a good choice) and were in our house this weekend. We showed them around in the city (but we didn't visit the Seu Vella), and explored the local culinary specialities (without eating snails) and nightlife.
Because Coen proudly wrote in the guestbook of Jong Nederland Harmelen about the beer we took outside on the terras, we sent them to the pyrenees, where for sure it's impossible to sit outside to drink a beer. They did report having had a snowball fight with the local priest.
[Update 2004.01.21]: Changed link to JNH
We're now living in our new house for one week now, and things have settled down a bit. The first days were a little bit chaotic. We found out that we didn´t have hot water, so we had to improvise a bit with taking showers and washing the dishes. Our dishwasher still isn't working, because the hole in the closet where the tubes and the power cable of the dishwasher go through has been made in the wrong location. If things go alright they will fix this today or tomorrow.
Last weekend I fixed the beds and the wardrobe in the second bedroom. When that was finished we could finaly unpack a lot of the boxes in our office, which looks a lot cleaner now. We also could clean the entrance, which have been a storage place for some months and haven't been cleaned thoroughly during that time.
On Sunday we invited the parents and the grandmother of Maria José (the people who helped us so generously with this house) for lunch. A little bit of stress in the morning because we wanted everything to look perfect _and_ serve a good meal. And yes, we succeeded!
Yipee!!! Yesterday we moved in to our new house. At the moment we still need a bit of improvisation, since most of our stuff is still in the boxes. The next month we are going to unpack everything little by little. Furthermore there are still some things left to buy. But at least we are living in our own house!!!!!
Yes!! If everything went right, this afternoon the heaters will be connected and the floor will be finished. That means that our house is ready enough for us to move in. Last week, Marie José already moved some stuff, and tomorrow I will finish this. When she comes home from Austria on Sunday, we will start a new phase in our life together.
Of course we will send out our new address to everybody, but I haven't had the time to do so this week.
Until a few weeks ago, my biggest fans received automatically new items on this site by e-mail. At this moment my provider blocked e-mail access from this site to prevent abuse, so I am not able to send out my famous "News Updates". I had the same problem with the Fimcap web site, but since we pay for that site, the problem was solved a lot faster.
Besides this problem, also the banners bother me. I guess I'll have to look for another solution. Maybe host this site on my own computer?
The first half of this week, I have been on my first business trip in my new function. I had to do an installation for a client in Holland. We succesfully finished phase 1 of this installation. There are still some problems to be solved, but I am sure that we will fix these.
