First picture...

Of the view from one of the windows. There are three recognisable objects, so triangulation should work. If you get lost whilst trying to find the house, it won't do you much good though, as those buildings aren't visible from streetlevel around here. Pictures of the inside will follow as soon as I can get rid of the big pile of boxes. Good luck to all the UC people starting again tomorrow!

Change of luck?

Internet is working, my freeBSD install seems to be going quite well, even though I'm routing the internet connection via the Windows machine, so maybe my luck is changing (*knocks on wood*). Also haven't seen any threatening notes from the electricity company (*again*). Tomorrow another interview - I'll see what happens...
I'm slowly starting to browse for fun as well - so links as soon as I find something worthwile. For now, only the 'sports' update: New champion for bog snorkellers.

Progress (though hidden)

One thing that did happen: I moved to Utrecht. My room is still one big mess, and I'm in Woerden now, but things are getting there. Main motivation to go to Woerden: to sort out the things that are going wrong. The shortlist:

• There's a very interesting lab with a very interesting research question that could use a masters student. Unfortunately though, they're just setting up and need someone with hands-on experience. Though I can still choose to accept (after which some more talks will be held with my summercourse supervisor), I think I may have to accept that this is perhaps not the best place to go.
• Internet still isn't working - which means that I can't solve issues as easily - hence I'm back in Woerden doing some reading into other internship possibilities etc. etc.
• I also can't get the the sound signal to work for cable TV - even though it worked fine at UC (this is, however, a minor annoyance). So basically my only news source is currently the radio, which does work.
• Major annoyance: the bills we've been forwarding to the people that take care of them haven't been paid apparently, as we've had a note that the electricity company came by to collect. This is linked to another minor annoyance: the doorbel doesn't always work.

So in short - No internship (yet), No internet, no TV and soon possibly no electricity. Good start. Reminds my parents of when we moved to England.

No Change...

Another 40 hours of work (which is turning a bit nasty as things are starting to go wrong, with a deadline approaching fast), and more work in Utrecht. I do, however, intend to move in at the beginning of next week. Maybe then I'll have more time to do a proper update, possibly with links to a game or something like that. In the meantime, here's where I was at some point yesterday...

(360+ degree view from the cyclist bridge between Nieuwkoop and de Meije. Apologies for the quality, this is the fastest render (10% size, <70% quality) from the 18 full-size images used to make the damn thing.) (Btw: hosting is slow, patience may be required! (image size: 60k)).

Still Busy...

...getting the room fixed, and putting in another 39 hours of work. Only two more weeks to go on the job front, and by then I should be able to move into the room as well. The flooring is done, including the restoration of most of the skirting. As there is the matter of the new wall section and non-skirted sections, I'm also adding in new skirting to cover for that (as I really need to do that, as its laminate panel flooring, you need to cover the edges). The new wall has already been painted once, and will get a second coat soon. After that, most of the floor and wall (re)construction will be done. I've already got some cupboards in, so the main things that will still take time are building a desk, putting up shelves and figuring out the middlesection (long story). Once I move in, I'll probably have somewhat more time to actually blog something mildly amusing...