Release your inner bag lady....

This has always been my biggest fear:

http://wanderingscribe.blogspot.com

And I am not talking about how she got a book deal and all came good after all...

:-)

David Blaine and Magic

So, am I the only one?

Who does not just hate David Blaine and all his stupid undertakings but hates anything magical apart from Eurodisney?

It is supposed to be great, to be entertainment, we are all supposed to be in awe when they do their magnificent tricks but it just makes me very very very VERY uneasy.

Like... in the program about David Blaine tonight (Drowning Alive) they showed clips of him asking a person to think of a card and a minute later that person gets a call on their cell phone showing that particular card as the caller.

Very clever indeed.

So why does it leave me angry?

I suppose I feel fooled, embarrassed, left out, stupid, unable to work it out and I can't get ANY pleasure of something I do not 'get'.

It is probably very clever that he and all the other magicians are able to do these tricks but if I never ever see another magic trick again it will be too soon!

Sometimes... it *is* gorgeous here!

The picture doesn't do it justice really.... the dark rocks in the front, the houses on the other side but I think you get a good idea how nice it is when it doesn't rain for a little while :)

The joys of technology

Dear me...

What drama's! Remember I said my harddrive crashed?
Well... it sort of got back to working again after it moved its bootsector and I have been trying to get information of my old drive since the first sound of marbles jumping up and down in my harddrive...

Used Norton Ghost, created an entire backup image of my C: drive because I was told after that I could browse the backup and only put back the files I really wanted. Well.. when I finally received my lappie back with the new harddrive and the BACs standard image I first tried to browse the image I had put on an external drive (13gb image...) to pick out a few of the most important files and directories.... 'browsing this file is not supported'. Oh blow...

After trying a few more times I thought that it was probably because I did an image of my entire hard drive and had the brilliant idea to just put the entire harddrive back on my new one... Well... that resulted in a 'disk read error' and nothing else. Nothing I could do.

So.. lappie back to the BAC kitchen again for another refresh with the BAC image.

So yesterday finally I got it back and manually installed again all the programs I need to use to do my job.

And today.. normality returns... I am of course still searching all over the place for passwords and login names and I find it remarkable how many things you don't realise you use!

I have now installed the BAC's own backup tool and today after using most of my favorite programs and sites and therefore installing all cookies and passwords and things I will try and backup it in total. I must say.. it is nice to have such a fresh start, it is like having a spring clean but I am sure that over time I will realise all the things I didn't know were important until they died in the HD crash...

But.. all that is totally unimportant!

My mum had to go to a skin doctor because she had an awkward bit of skin on her cheek which her GP didn't trust, yesterday she got the result! It is 'just' sun damage and will be 'frozen' away on the 16th of June, not very nice but we are all over the moon that it is not skin cancer of the bad kind, hooray!

Who cares about lost data anyway!

The Da Vinci Code

Yes.. that is also something I did when I was in Holland.
Finally read the Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown, Karin had it lying around her house and I wanted to know what the buzz was all about. Generally these bestsellers are not bestsellers for nothing!

I didn't think I would like it, I am not very interested nor engaged where it comes to 'the Holy Grail' and such. It doesn't mean anything to me at all so couldn't imagine I would be attracted.

I have this sort of free religion inside of me (thinks maybe I should start one myself, Tori Amos always sang that 'I have got enough guilt to start my own religion' and I know what she means :)) I feel that God (or however you want to call him) is good and not such a bad guy as some religions let us believe and I am sure that Jesus was a very nice and talented man but I always have a hard time to believe all these miracles and holyness surrounding him.

When I hear people talk about their religion I always get this tight feeling around my chest because they want to stuff it all in a little box where I feel the more godding something is, the more space it needs. (Lost you yet? :-))

I felt this much needed space in his ideas in this book (that Jesus might have been married and have a child and not the saint he has been made into). I love the fact that the book describes it as a theory but also leaves space for your own conclusions and then leaves it all alone and turns into a riveting thriller that keeps you hovering between reading quickly wanting to know how it ends and slowing down because you don't want it to end.

And now.. the movie.. I want to see it now.. to see if it is true what the reviews say, that the film is even better than the book, I think this film might break all records ever made in film land, can't wait!

Oh and if you want to know what the buzz is all about, cheap 2nd hand ones at Amazon:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/tg/detail/offer-listing/-/0552149519/all/202-7002370-6273447

Update

Well... it has been a hell of a week and a bit!

• I have flown to Holland
  
• I went to the zoo with my mother (aren't we cute?!)
  

• Visited my brother and his kids and his girlfriend
• Went shopping daily (and therefore meet my son :-)) in my favourite supermarket
  
• Underwent a 90 minute massage donated by my friend (those are GOOD friends to have!)
• Watched masses of girlie movies
• Had nice long walks since the weather was fantastic - it felt like summer!
  
• Ate nice Dutch food like proper chips with fritessauce, kroketten and vlaflip
  
• Bought 1 kilo of drop
• HAD A HARD DISK CRASH (capitals because that was VERY scary!!!! My lappie kept on saying 'disk read error')
  
• Had the insight to press the 'access IBM' button while starting up and from all the icons I saw I thought 'diagnostics' sounded like a good start which thank God brought it back to life.
  
• Went to dinner with my dad, his wife and her daughter and partner (my stepsister who I hadn't met before, at least, not that I can remember)
• Did the 'anti stress arrangement' in the most fantastic spa I have ever seen and got a tan (well a red face really)
• Had a few drinks with my son, mum and my friend and closed the visit with a nice fulfilling shoarma with french fries (quite an event since I had been looking forward to that for quite some time.
• Flew back again
• Sent my dad a thank you note for taking me to the airport at sparrowfart and included the picture above.
• Got told off by return for doing so because 'that marriage is a closed story' and 'please do not send that kind of pictures again'.

Which was a very pissy end of an otherwise fantastic long week in my life. (Thinks... goodness you are 70, get over it, it is 23 years ago, it IS still my mother, you DID create me with HER, and I am on this picture too, but eh, he is 70 so I said 'ok, message received' )

Took it out on the garden. Have decided to suffocate the weeds since I can't win otherwise.

Luckily it is a lovely period, masses of sun and gardening is proving to be a very cleansing experience.

So why are these called bluebells?