So here I am, two and a half years after I broke down with a burn out. Nigh on two years at home and now half a year back to (really different) work. Quality control in a canned food factory. Doing three shifts (06:45 - 15:15 / 14:45 - 23:15 / 22:45 - 07:45) or two shifts (06:45 - 16:15 / 15:45 - 01:45). On Thursday afternoon you know the shift for the next week. No rocket science. Nice colleagues & good ambiance. But when I come home I am still exhausted. I am very glad I got the job (on contract until the end of the year and hoping to stay after that!), but I hate it that I am of little use to SWMBO. Sometimes I manage to do a few things in the weekends, but more often than not I am too worn out to do much more than hanging on the couch, falling asleep behind the laptop screen. On the upper hand, I've got a few new razors which I enjoy a lot. I am planning to do reviews on two of them - when I've got the energy. One is a 1930's bakelite DE made by Philips (the Dutch light bulb and electrical appliances company). Excellent razor which isreasonably easy found over here - and for a good price (about € 10.00). The other is a new Portugese shavette which takes haf DE blades, Injector blades and Feather shavette blades. I am using them both for my shaves. Starting with the shavette and finishing with the Philite (that's the bakelite DE). Then there is a straight with interchangable blades which was produced by F. Dejaiffe in Charleroi (Belgium) whigh I have de-rusted using 10% treacle and 90% water. I am planning to try and sharpen the one blade that came with it. And then I was given an Silverprince straight ("best Sheffield steel, warranted forged and real hollow ground in Germany") in celluloid Kropp scales. AFAIK (and that isn't far at all actually) Silverprince and Kropp aren't related in any way, so I guess this was a rescale operation. I am planning to hone this one as well. But now I'm off for a shower and shave. Have a good one, ya'll!
It's good to know that you are working again, but healing can be a long, slow process. I have no doubt you are making very effort to do as well as you can, but there is no way to hurry it up.
I'm glad to hear things are improving, Mike! And it sounds like you've made several nice razor scores. I'm sure your wife is very understanding of your energy levels, so don't feel too bad. You don't want to push yourself too hard and set yourself back. Beste wensen!
It's National Police Week. Yesterday was Peace Officers Memorial Day, when the names of those killed in the line of duty from the previous year are added to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial in Washington DC. SHEEPDOGS UP!
Here I am, listening to 'Focus' a Dutch rock band from the seventies, and ordering new medicines: venlafaxine *retard* (really!) 37.5 mg *Focus*. Coincidence? I think not. Me = retard (why else should I visit TSD? :-D ) Music = Focus. You should listen to Focus sometime. One of their most famous songs is 'Hocus Pocus'. The guitarist is Jan Akkerman. B. B. King thought him to be the best guitarist he knew. I've seen him (Jan, that is) live some 30 years ago. Truly stunning performance. Verstuurd vanaf mijn 5042D met Tapatalk
Hey Mike! One day at a time, it takes a bit for everything to fire on all cylinders. Are you still restoring the trains? Or have the new job taken over your time? Working different shifts takes a while to adjust.
Thanks! Yup, still restoring. A bit less, of course. I used to be there at Wednesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. Now only at Saturdays and not after night shift weeks (home at 8 am). But next week we have holidays on Thursday and Friday, so we're riding & I am stoking. Yeey! Verstuurd vanaf mijn 5042D met Tapatalk
Glad you're having some fun @macaronus ! Here, I get to play with electronics. My mom recently gave me a Bose Wave radio/CD player. (She has recently decided it's time to give up snowbirding, so she no longer needs 2 of them.). It's an older player so it's not wireless-compatible. But Bose makes an adaptor for just this purpose and it's coming today.
Wow.... that band needs to switch to decaf! And the singer needs some roomier trousers, I think. Verstuurd vanaf mijn 5042D met Tapatalk *ahem * Sent from my 5042D with Tapatalk. But, I've been looking for some Dutch rock (in Dutch, of course)... music is helping my studies but the popular stuff I seem to land on has been useful to increase my knowledge of casual Dutch and Dutch curse words. lol. Same for the movies. Seriously, you folks curse a lot. (tho surely not as much as the Russians). Or, maybe you are just allowed to broadcast more than we are. But, it's all good to know... important to know what someone will be saying to me someday. In any case, I'm taking suggestions if you have some.
I have a meeting with a website developer friend today. I'm going to see if he wants to start offering link building for his clients via me. I will say he can skim off the top and make something monthly, for doing nothing. It's my first time pitching this, so here's hoping. Oh! And I know the guy...so that is either really good...or really bad! Sent from my Nexus 5X using Tapatalk
They are Belgian. Nice band. More Belgian: Raymond van het Groenewoud (check out 'Meisjes' [Girls]. Stef Bos is a Dutch / Belgian singer/songwriter. In the Netherlands in the eighties we had 'Doe Maar' [Go Ahead]. Very popular with teenage girls. Then there is Bram Vermeulen, blues-ey and ironic lyrics. Herman van Veen has more than excellent articulation. De Dijk [The Dyke] is another blues band. In a league of his own is 'Drs. P.' He is a master of idiotic rhymes and dry humour. There are many more, of course, but I can't recall their names at the moment. Perhaps @Eeyore can chime in Verstuurd vanaf mijn 5042D met Tapatalk
Thanks I'll look them up. I didn't Catch that De Kreuners accent was belgian/vlaams. Maybe they changed it a bit. I already know van veen's opzij... always good to play in the car while I'm running late. LOL
Oh, and don't forget Johan Verminnen (Belgian singer/songwriter) and Cornelis Vreeswijk (Dutch singer/songwriter). Cornelis moved to Sweden some thirty-odd years ago and became quite famous there. Lyrics full of irony as well. Verstuurd vanaf mijn 5042D met Tapatalk
I know more great Belgian artists, but they sing in dialect. Perhaps too difficult for now, but maybe later? Verstuurd vanaf mijn 5042D met Tapatalk
maybe. But from what I've heard so far vlaams isn't too difficult to work out. But, I've not heard a lot of it.
'Standard' Vlaams shouldn't be a problem. The dialects on the other hand... Try Willem Vermandere (West Flanders) or Wannes van de Velde (Antwerp dialect). Both are great - if you can understand them. Verstuurd vanaf mijn 5042D met Tapatalk
