March 23, 2012
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Amsterdam, Netherlands
It was once again a beautiful day in Amsterdam, and it started already early in the morning, when this picture was taken just after 7. It shows Oude Kerk, Amsterdam's oldest church in the heart of the Red Light District, in the early morning sunshine. Clear sky. The outlook for the weekend is great, and what's even better, it will be a three day weekend for me, as I have taken Monday off.
The early morning swim was once more magnificent. The only 'problem' there really is, is that everything I do after the swim is aimed at cooling down as quickly as possible. When I leave the pool, my skin feels very warm, and even though I shower of course, as long as I'm in the pool, the humid and warm air inside the building keeps me dangerously close to overheating. In order not to break out in a sweat in the first half hour at work, I cycle to work from the pool with my jacket wide open, and with my backpack not on my back but on the front of the bike. As much as possible cool air, cooling me down. Even so, it does happen that I enter the office feeling tremendously warm. In that case I tell my colleagues it's just hot flushes from my menopause. I'm old enough for that. I think they believe me. In any case, I've decided to continue with this early morning swim habit, rather than going to the pool after work, because the tranquility of the pool in the early morning is really great.
At work, one of my colleagues from the UK office and he had planned a three hour meeting with me, but in the end he only sat at my desk for about ten minutes. And he seemed more than keen to leave the office at 3 in the afternoon to start a party weekend in Amsterdam. The project I'm working on for him uses a database with many millions of records and any query running on that requires quite some time to complete, as he found out today. I'll have to continue doing some work on this over the weekend, because eight hours in the office is just not enough to do all the work on the database that is needed.
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