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Wait.. "wherever I drive my tank, it's all my beloved land"? :P

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Wtf has this guy been smoking?

I did a good job keeping my teeth clean according to the dental hygienist. So that's nice!

Watched a few episodes of Nobody's Looking, a Brazilian series on Netflix. It's actually hilarious in concept.

Angeli have rules they have to follow. One angelus decides that this won't do. Breaks rules one by one. Gets the world a little bit in a mess and tries to fix it.

*Sniffle*
"Take it sleazy"
I just finished binging this and it's still as good as ever.

Once I was dead, it was curiously easy to accept it.
"Where are you taking me?" I asked.
Death extended a bony finger, pointing at a tall tower in the distance.
"What is that?"
"Your unread books. Unwatched films. Unplayed games. Etcetera."
"Oh. How much time do I have?"
"All."
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

Oh neat, Obsidian's got a major update to 1.0.0, lots of changes and improvements. Time to go tinker with it!

Aw, RIP Angela Lansbury. 96 years old is a pretty good age to reach.

She's played some very nice roles, though most I'll remember her by is as Jessica Fletcher in Murder She Wrote.

Whew, my teeth are fine according to the dentist.

Seeing more and more birds flying in V-formation. That's when you know it's not going to be warm for much longer.

I've finished reading 3 Dutch books in the past bunch of weeks, trying to figure out now what to read next.

What I've read:

- Huize Volverve (House Volverve) by Monique van Roosmalen. Reasonably entertaining story about an elderly home where you see the flashbacks of those old people and how they interact with each other and how connected they are after all from the past. And no, this was not a murder mystery, heh.

- Het huis met de rode luiken (The house with the red shutters) by Marja Visscher. A historical fiction. A few people have actually existed, and this story is partly based on history, about when the Dutchies were trying to decide whether they wanted to support royalty or become a republic instead. And later a bit about the colonisation of Indonesia. But that's not the focus, just the backstory. The focus is a woman married to Herman Willem Daendels, about how she experienced her life with this unpredictable man. Not bad.

- De atlas van overal (The atlas of everywhere) by Deniz Kuypers. About the writer who's half Dutch and half Turkish. He's not understanding his own feelings and his relationship with his Turkish father very well, and tries to write this off (this book basically) in order to try to understand. There's a lot of (made up) stories about his father. Interesting mixed memories.

So yeah, that's some variety there. Other books I tried but dropped were:

- De Zwarte Wolvin (The black she-wolf, Loba Negra) by Juan Gomez-Jurado, the Dutch translation was awfully dry and felt out of place. A shame because the premise wasn't bad.
- Perfecte moord (Perfect Kill) by Helen Fields, I might actually read this someday but it is NOT recommended for reading before bed... Way too intense in the first chapter already.
- Ik zal je nooit meer (I will never you...) by Tatjana Almuli, totally not interested in this topic. Writing style's not fully to my liking either.
- Herinneringen aan hem (Reminders of him) by Colleen Hoover, still undecided, might try it a bit further but I want to read something completely different.

Maybe I want to read a StarTrek book now, or some other scifi. Time to search my library I guess.

I'm still pleased as fuck that I found out a few days ago that I do have a thermos teapot after all. It'll be pretty useful the coming months.

Whoopitidoo, that was a fire alarm test. Thankfully it's nice and sunny today.

Whelp, theme at my job today is 'GIGA GREEN'. I've got a somewhat greenish tshirt and and a dark green cardigan... Thankfully I've got bright green Xmas socks, wearing them now. :P

I've finished binging Community (when will there be a movie?!). Any suggestions what next to watch on Netflix? I'd like it to be lighthearted, amusing, and yet witty. I've already finished Brooklyn 99 prior.

Swept the garden, and trimmed the grapevine a bit. Decay's definitely setting in, leaves falling everywhere. Got my fresh air for today, so that's good.

The funny thing is that the store owner of the Giant Bike store was like 'We take our bike repair very seriously.'

Sure, but the independent bike repair guy wouldn't be in business for very long if he didn't take his business seriously either. :P

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Giant Bike store: 150 euro to replace both tires.

Independent bike repair guy around the corner: 75 euro.

Yeah, I know where I'll bring my bike to tomorrow. :P

All the bike lanes in the Netherlands
i'm so fucking jealous this is litterally the entire country

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