February 28, 2012
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Amsterdam, Netherlands
When I mentioned to Andy and Colin on Friday that, temporarily, times had been… ehm… financially challenged, Colin jokingly said “Oh well, you could always start working full time.” He didn’t know it, but he was completely right. As per 1 March, i.e. Wednesday, I will start working full time, and the only reason for that is indeed a financial one. That means that this week is the last week that I will work four days per week, and yesterday was my last part time day ever. Well… not really ever. As soon as the strain on my bank account relaxes a bit I will switch back to either 80% or 90% part time. If I win the lottery tomorrow I might reduce that part time percentage even further to 0.
So, back to the office it was, today, as if the past two weeks – full of travel – never really happened. As far as trips go, I still have two trips booked for the next month or so. Next week I will go to Madrid for a long weekend with Günter, and three weeks later I have a trip to London booked… but I might not do that latter one, again for financial reasons. After work, I took the above picture of Oudezijds Voorburgwal, where I usually park my bikes, and then I went home to welcome a new couchsurfer who will be staying here for three days. Cristián from Chile (currently residing in Geneva, Switzerland) turned out to be a very nice guy when he arrived at my place at around 8pm and we chatted the rest of the evening about all kinds of stuff.
