April 15, 2012
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Amsterdam, Netherlands
I went for a breakfast coffee and blueberry muffin in the Coffee Company store across the street in the morning. As I was sitting there, looking outside at my building, I got really annoyed again by how the façade is looking. There's scaffolding on the street side of the building now, but the canal side outer wall is clear of scaffolding and just looking horrible. I will need to get in touch with the guy who ordered the repointing tomorrow, but I'm not looking forward to that. I hate these legal and procedural issues, not just because they take a lot of time (and more of my energy) but also it reminds me all the time that this attempt at a renovation already cost me a lot of money... with more money most likely to follow.
I went to see Weekend in the afternoon, the British film about the brief encounter (one weekend long, hence the title) between two gay guys in Nottingham. At one point in the film I thought to myself "oh no, not again a film about the struggles of coming out, of acceptance in society, of self-acceptance... but I must say that all in all it was a moving film, with some nice cinematography as well. I can actually recommend it. Afterwards I went swimming in Zuiderbad and I got home in the early evening, only to spend the rest of the night at home.
The picture shows a pair of shoes that I bought yesterday. It's only an exceptional picture because for the first time in ages it was taken with my Nikon D200 DSLR rather than my compact. For half a year the DSLR, which is more than five years old and thus by current digital standards 'ancient', was in my cupboard and every picture on this log since was taken with the S9100 (or sometimes even with my iPod) but after Nikon released the amazing D800 recently, the thought of buying one has been haunting me. Of course, that is absolutely no option at the moment (see my earlier comments on the state of the house) so instead I will try to revive my love for the D200 for the time being. Until I win the lottery, that is.
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