March 29, 2012
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Amsterdam, Netherlands
Sleep came remarkably easy last night, given the horrible discovery earlier in the evening that it seemed as if the renovation work on my building was going to skip the lower floors. It was a shocking and very unsettling discovery, puzzling as well, but still, I fell asleep quite easily after Günter had left.
But it seemed that in the back of my mind the nagging feeling kept on doing just that: nagging, and nagging, and nagging. So it wasn't really much of a surprise when I woke up in the middle of the night and started worrying about what kind of a nasty surprise had caught up with me now. Had I misunderstood the situation with the renovation work? Was it always the intention that only part of the wall would get done? But why in heaven's name would it get done in such a different colour from the existing parts? Not being able to get any sleep anymore, I looked up the original description of the work to be done and it clearly said "all pointing will be renewed" so that put my mind at ease quite a bit. Something went wrong, seriously wrong, but at least I had it written black on white that I had paid for the entire wall to get done. That calmed me down a bit. So, just before I dozed off again at around 5 in the morning, I took the above picture of a completely quiet street in front of the house (something that is as rare as a white rhino) and then returned to bed... to return to the land of dreams - only to wake up with a shock when it was time to return to the office.
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