Jeroen Sangers

Yipee!!! Yesterday we moved in to our new house. At the moment we still need a bit of improvisation, since most of our stuff is still in the boxes. The next month we are going to unpack everything little by little. Furthermore there are still some things left to buy. But at least we are living in our own house!!!!!

Yes!! If everything went right, this afternoon the heaters will be connected and the floor will be finished. That means that our house is ready enough for us to move in. Last week, Marie José already moved some stuff, and tomorrow I will finish this. When she comes home from Austria on Sunday, we will start a new phase in our life together.

Of course we will send out our new address to everybody, but I haven’t had the time to do so this week.

Until a few weeks ago, my biggest fans received automatically new items on this site by e-mail. At this moment my provider blocked e-mail access from this site to prevent abuse, so I am not able to send out my famous ‘News Updates’. I had the same problem with the Fimcap web site, but since we pay for that site, the problem was solved a lot faster.

Besides this problem, also the banners bother me. I guess I’ll have to look for another solution. Maybe host this site on my own computer?

The first half of this week, I have been on my first business trip in my new function. I had to do an installation for a client in Holland. We successfully finished phase 1 of this installation. There are still some problems to be solved, but I am sure that we will fix these.

Yes, I’m an egoist! I have created a Wishlist at Amazon for all the people far away who cannot resist giving me a present.

Actually, I haven’t got the slightest idea why I did it, because I don’t expect anybody to use it. But again, you never now, right?

I guess I’m just being egoistic.

I don’t think I have to explain the current political situation in the Netherlands to you, since even here in Catalunya it has been on the news. The only comment I would like to make is that all of this is happening right after the first elections I didn’t participate. A coincidence??? I don’t think so…

Anyway, I decided to try to vote on the next occasion in January. I found out that I have to register in Den Haag, which I did today. Six months before the elections they are going to send me a form (I haven’t received anything in June…) and after returning it, I will receive my voting card three weeks before the elections.

As usual, a lot of paperwork, but I’m used to it. Let’s see what happens.

Last weekend we spend almost completely working in our house, from early in the morning until it was too dark to work (we haven’t got light everywhere yet…). And I can honestly say that we’re fed up with it!

I have spoken to people who told me that they like to work in their house to relax a little bit after working in the office, but I rather have a beer in a bar to relax.

This weekend I prepared the walls for painting; filling the holes, taping off the windows and the doors, etc. Maria José helped me and started painting our living room. Now all we have to do is put the paint on it. We hope to have time for it this week, but I think that we’ll have to do it next weekend.

Besides working ourselves, other people also have to do their jobs. If everything goes well, this week they’ll put the marmer and the electodomestics in our kitchen, connect the toilet and the shower, finish the electrical installation and maybe come to put the floor. But our experience until now taught us that things rarely happen on their planned schedule, so we’ll see what’s going to happen this week.

At least we have five days to get some fresh energy for the work of next weekend…

Guess we’re just plain busy at the moment… Anyway, it’s about time that I give you all an update about life in Lleida.

Last weekend we had a good excuse not to work in our house: Marcel and Rebecca were in town and we spend the weekend with them sightseeing. We had a great time, but afterwards felt a little bit guilty about the time we could have worked in our house.

Speaking about our house, things are going well. We have new windows and out bathroom and kitchen are almost finished. In the mean time we’re trying hard to paint the walls. In fact, we’re only waiting for the moment that the new floor arrives, and we’re ready to enter our house. This afternoon we’ll hear the date for that, hopefully they’ll be able to do it next week.

Friday my father flies over to help us with the work as we have a short holiday. On Wednesday October 30th we’ll fly over to Holland to spend some days over there. After that, I’ll stay some more days as a business trip.

That’s it for the moment…

My sister and Terry made some pictures during their visit. I put a copy of the images they made in Lleida on my gallery. If you would like to see more about their trip, just go to their website.

[Update 31.07.2003]: I updated the link to the photo’s after changing the location of the photo gallery.

I guess some people are missing their weekly update about my life. Not that nothing happened in my life the last couple of weeks, but I just didn’t feel like writing. For all people addicted to news about me, here is an update.

First of all our house. The planning was that the kitchen should have been placed two weeks ago. But unfortunately the worker hasn’t finished the prepatory work (electricity, water, floor, ceiling,…) yet. We hope that he’s going to finish it this week, so within a week or two we’ll have our new kitchen (which will be the first room completely finished then). In the mean time, we have started painting the ceiling of our bedroom. All in all, it looks like things are finally getting better!

Secondly, my professional life. These weeks my colleague is on holiday, so this gives me some more responsabilities and work. I’m now communicating with distributors and clients in Holland, Australia, Bolivia, Mexico, U.S.A., … Strangely enough I find that in a lot of places Dutch people are working, and as a result I’m speaking Dutch half of the time.

Finaly my personal life. This weekend we had once again visitors from Holland: my sister and her boyfriend. For them it was the last change to visit us for a while, since after December they will have to take care about their little child (we don’t know yet whether it is a boy or a girl, although we guess it will be a boy). We showed them the ruins which will become our house and of course we went to see some of Lleida’s touristic highlights. In the evenings we explored some of the culinary habits over here. For them it was the first time to have supper at midnight, and I discovered that this Italian waiter could speak fluently Dutch. We were really happy with their visit. After visiting us, they spend two days in Barcelona. If everything went right, they are now home again.