January 15, 2012
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Amsterdam, Netherlands
Back to work and this time I will definitely compensate for working today by taking Friday as my part time day. I’m looking forward to a four day weekend! Yay! But… first there’s quite a bit of work to get done. My UK project, due tomorrow, is progressing nicely and I will have some good results to show… but I’d like to show more results and getting that analysis done is quite time consuming. That’s what kept me happy and busy in the office today.
The picture shows the Okura hotel in a nice afternoon sun, as seen from the office. It’s still completely dark as I leave the office at the end of a work day, but it’s noticeable that days are getting longer. Ever so slightly, minute by minute, the dark of the evening is pushed backwards day by day and that is a great feeling. The Okura was of course my neighbour for fifteen years while I was living on Amstelkade. Had I continued to live in that place then the bike ride to the new office would have been amazingly short, say five minutes or so. But I’m happy that I moved to the city centre (though dreading any future maintenance costs on the building) and I can still see the Okura from the office. All I have to do is turn my chair a bit and there it is.
