The random thoughts of a guy named Alex

Changes

11:03, 25-Aug-2008 .. 2 comments .. Link

Hello again.

I been thinking several times again to write some posts. But I kept not getting around to it. I either didn't had the time or when I had the time I went to do other things and before I knew it my free time was gone.

Also I realized I write the best posts most of the times under the shower, in thought only of course as it's kinda impractical to take a computer or even a piece of paper with you to the shower...

But when I come out of the shower I kinda can't find the energy, motivation etc to actually write them and then moment passes away.

But anyway enough rambling I am actually sitting here now writing a post.

Things actually been quite busy for me the last few weeks. It started around five weeks ago when my collegue went on holiday. He was supposed to stay away just four week...well just...four weeks was long enough. But anyway it became five weeks. Which resulted in the fact I had to run a account normally ran by two persons practicly alone. It was hellish and I am glad it's over. I made some errors and feel I didn't do well enough but well I got through.

But new changes already looking around the corner as the holiday collegue is gonna leave soon resulted mostly likely in me making a small promotion and getting someone to assist me. I am kinda nervous about and am not sure I am ready for it but we will see. Also I am not so sure I wanna proceed a carreer in this line of work anyway. To clearify my work is to arrange custom documents and transport of sea containers. So basicly I am part of the chain that makes sure to goods we buy in the shops get actually into the shops.

It's kinda amazing to see what we people drag around the world. At the moment I am on a account that imports parts of network units. You know those closset things with all the computer stuff in it that makes the phone's and computers work.

But I also saw containers come by with...bat poop. Yes bat poop, shit, dropping. I think it came from south america aparantly they use it futrilize the ground, odd. Other stuff I saw come by were: Medical supplies, computer parts like fans and cooler systems, parts for security systems, a race car, computer screens, refridgerators, X-boxes, a luxery speedboat and more of that stuff.

Some of the suff I saw but most of the time I don't of course. Although I did saw the car and speedboat. Luckily for me I didn't saw or smelled the bat poop.

Anyway enough changes at work. But also other things are changing. When I was little and returned from a two week holiday with my parents and younger brother something always seemed to have changed in our absance. Like the neighboors painted their house a different colour, our garden being taken over by weeds, the tv station who changed their logo silly things like that. This summer I didn't went on holiday but my parents did to greece. They will be surprised I figure when they notice this year change. Most public tree's in our neighberhood have been cut down. I personally i have mixed feelings about them gone. I always found it annoying the trees were placed on the parking lots where there roots messed up the pavements and the fact you had to be carefull not damaging your car by hitting the tree or the birds inside the trees using your car as a public toilet. But still it is so barren now without them. There are a few left but all the trees in my street seem cut down. It's a sad sight.

A much bigger change is the move of my grandfather from my mothers side. My last living grandparent. It was obvious he had to move to a retirement home quite a while but still it went all so fast all of a sudden. He had fallen several times and it was obvious he was going to need more daily care. Mentally he is still quite ok which I am quite happy about. But physically his body is goving out. He has trouble keeping his balance especially when he is tired or nervous. So my parents and my aunt and uncle had been looking for a new place for him as he was still living by himself in a rented house. His old house is quite nice small house without stairs and is on the edge of the city I am living in with a vieuw over the dutch countryside. Which means fields with cows and a little white church in the distance. As long as I can remember my grandparents have lived there. My grandmother passed away a few years ago. It's a odd feeling for methat soon that house no longer will be occupied by my grandparents. But well my granfather switched the countryside scenery for some nice vieuws of a river. He actually moved back closer to his roots back into the big city in his old neighberhood.

Me and my brother helped my aunt and uncle moving him as our parents are away on holiday. They planned that before we knew we would move him. All bad timing I guess. I am glad I was able to help. I helped driving over some of my grandfathers belongings and other stuff. Made me feel a bit usefull.

He is over mostly now and slowly settling in. Now just comes the hard job of emptying his old house. But that's something i think my parents will do with my aunt and uncle.

An other thing that has happend is my cousin moving out on his own with his girlfriend. Funny thing is he bought a house right between his parents house (the aunt and uncle I talked about above) and his girlfriend parents house. Anyway this weekend he had his house warming and girlfriends birthday. And as only member of the family available as my parents are on holiday and my brother had to work I went alone. It was kinda fun. My cousin showed me his house i already saw it once but then it was all barren it still needed work and furniture. It looked good stylish and smood. There was this one horrible colourfull girly girl lamp tho. According to my cousin all women who saw it loved it while all the men including me hate it. Its really bright with colour plastic looking gem things it's like a chandeleer. Obviouslly it was the input of my cousins girlfriend. Lucky for my cousin the lamp is hidden away in a small room people where people hardly come.

Also I met some new people. People from the girlfriends side of the family and friends, i kinda had to leave earlier then I would have wanted as I had to drive my grandfather and another aunt home. I dropped my grandfather off first. I regret i didn't let the aunt take the bus from there as she suggested then I would have been able to stay with my grandpa longer. I never was close with this aunt and I kinda got nervous when she invited me over for tea. Anyway I brushed her off and just dropped her off at her house and went home. Maybe a little rude but meh, I had my reasons. Perhaps i should have gone back to my grabdpa from there but ah well. perhaps i will try and drop by his place this week.

Anyway I am gonna wrap this way to long badly written post up soon. Just one last thing with our parents away my brother and I had to cook, wash, do grossery shopping and cleaning ourselves. And that was kinda a educational thing. Which I liked btw. I kinda enjoy cooking my own food. Although I have much to learn. All i cooked uptill now was Spagetthi, baked patotoes with vegetables out of a jar and meat, pancakes and err I fried some fries and stuff. Like i said I have much to learn. But at least it was all eatable.

Ok now it's time for me to sleep. I wonder if anyway will bother to read this post of mine XD. Anyway much greets to all and thanks for reading.

Lex

Back?

11:45, 20-Jul-2008 .. 0 comments .. Link

So seems these blogs are back up again. To late though I guess as it seems some now found refuge at more stable blogs.

Anyway I ain't that active anyway on the blog so I just waited to see if it came back on which it did.

Now things to write about. Enough things passed by I guess.

Work has been stresfull last week. Simply because I have to do to workload of at least two people mostly alone now. And this for four weeks. But I survived one week now. So just three more to go.

I say mostly alone because I do get some assistance from a collegue in the afternoons. To bad though I let her keep me off my work with random chatter. I let her cause it's nice to chat during work sometimes to reduce the stress boiling up inside. But it also keeps me off my work forcing me to do overtime and getting behind with work. So I guess I will have to be more strict for myself upcoming three weeks and perhaps being slightly rude towards my collegue by shortcutting the friendly chatter. Especially because these weeks are also used by my manager to determine if I am capable to step up the ladder and take over from my collegue who will be leaving eventually (the one who now is on holiday).

And I rather instruct a new collegue then having to assist one as I am familiar with most tasks now and the company itself. Also on a side note I don't mind my current collegue leaving. He isn't a bad guy and he works hard enough. But he and I arent always on the same line which sometimes result in frustration and annoyance.

Anyway that's mostly all about work.

Now I wanted to write about more stuff but I changed my mind as it became late and I am becoming tired. Perhaps another time.

For anyone who has just read this entry,
Take care ^^

Vanished

12:53, 12-Jun-2008 .. 2 comments .. Link

Hello,

So I kinda vanished not posting for a few months. Not that I ever posted much.

Anyway I did think about posting things several times I just never came around to it or decided not to post it for different reasons. Like to private or I simply found it to boring things like that.

As for now there some subject I might want to post about. Will have to see if ifind the energy the coming days.

Cause lately I just have trouble getting to sleep, like right now, which is the reason I am posting right now. Partly blame the warm weather we have had here last few days.

Anyway also just wanna say thanks to the people bothering to read my few blogs and bothering to reply.

Ohw also like to say I got motivated by two people I know who started their blogs (again) to post something again.

For now good night! =)

Thoughts

01:30, 29-Nov-2007 .. 1 comments .. Link

So I am on my break at work. And my collegue asked me if I said something. Which I didn't.

I guess other people have it to sometimes that you think someone said something when they didn't. Or that someone asks you if you said something while you didn't.

Sometimes I was in deep thougts or even the second before thinking about saying something but decided not to.

Makes me wonder if in some cases people sence your thoughts. Some kind of crude telephaty. I mean they do see we only use small part of our brain and it might be capable of much more then just how we use it now.

Who knows...perhaps I am just totaly off. In general I think telephaty could be handy but also terrifying. Handy as in a flash you can tell someone what you mean. I mean I had countless times I had trouble putting my thoughts into words. On the other hand it's a terrifying idea to me people could just read all my thoughts. I mean your mind is the most private thing you have everything in there you can keep to yourself if you want. Having people poking into that...*shivers*

Anyway now I go back to work. *waves*

News is a strange thing.

11:42, 24-Oct-2007 .. 2 comments .. Link

So this old writer died. It's all over the news. Off course it's tragic.

But just a block away of where I work a young man got criticly injured and probably can't walk for the rest of his life. Another man fell off a ship also badly injured. I don't know either of the two men.

I didn't heard anything about that on the radio or saw anything on tv nor could I find anything on the internet about it either.

While the the dead of the old writer is all over the news.

Aparantly the dead of the old writer is much more important then a young man being paralized.

I don't know much about the details of the two man getting injured at the harbor. But I just felt like mentioning it.

Take out

08:18, 17-Oct-2007 .. 4 comments .. Link

I was just hanging behind my pc waiting for my parents to get home. My parents always cook they would make lasagne. Unlike Garfielfd or my younger brother lasagne isn't really my favourite food...although if I am honest.....it isn't bad...it's quite ok even...just not my favourite.

So I wasn't that unhappy when I discovered they brought chinese food instead when they came home.

I was less happy however when I heard the reason they had brought chinese take out food instead. They had been late cause they had to buy some locks and other safety stuff and install it in my grandpa's home.

This because a man in brought daylight decided to try and get some take for himself as well. Take out from my grandpa's stuff that is. The man got in by forcing open a window which my aunt had opened slightly. So now the guy was in my grandpa's bedroom. my grandpa only has a small little home. It has only ground level. The buglar was in the master bedroom which has one door to the hallway from the hallway you can get to all other rooms and the front door. The door from the hallway to the living room is always open. Thing is, my grandpa was home. My aunt his daughter was there to clean his house, that's also why she had opened up the window to let some fresh air in.

They were both in the living room. So the only thing seperating them from the buglar was the master bedroom door. Now aparantly my aunt saw something moving. So probably the bedroom door wasn't even fully closed. Now my brave silly aunt slammed open the door to scare off the buglar armed with nothing more then a lethall vacuum cleaner. Now imagne a house wife in her 50's swinging around a piece of vacuum cleaner...doesn't sound very scary do you think? Well it was scary enough for the buglar aparantly, he rushed out of the bedroom window he came through and fled the scene.

Anyway my aunts swift reaction had prevented him from stealing anything. Luckily he wasn't agresive. Don't wanna think what might have happened if the buglar would have had a knife or something.

After that they called the police and my parents went to buy some locks and stuff to secure the house better as my aunt and uncle (who came later) stayed at my grandpa's. What I understood they stayed calm.

*Anyway I am glad everything ended ok and no one got hurt. Annoys me the what nerve the that man had. I mean jeesh...can't my grandpa even be save at his own house on his old age? Leave the man alone...*grumble*

Kinda cool my aunt stayed calm and acted quite brave. Although it could have ended bad tho....

Luckily it didn't

Sleep

11:44, 15-Oct-2007 .. 1 comments .. Link

So I just made this blog. I kinda fiddled around a little trying to make it look somewhat acceptable for now.

It was slightly annoying finding a avater that fit it kept telling me the pics I chose where larger the 100x100 or something. Finanly after digging to all the images I collected the last few years since I got this pc I found one that fitted and which I found nice enough.

It's from a short pixar movie I like. I saw it one's as a extra on a dvd really made me laugh. Here is a link to the offical site.

http://www.pixar.com/shorts/ftb/inde...index.html

No idea if there are special ways to link on this blog or if there are rules...but I think this should work.

Off course you have to pay to download the movie...so don't...but maybe you saw it yourself before but don't remember. The link might jog your memory as it has some pics and a written down story line. Which I advice not to read if you havent saw it yet. As it probably would ruin the experience if you would ever saw it.

Anyway...I am watching to clock and realize I am basicly staying up to long as usual. Which will make me get up to late again in the morning resulting in me rushing and growling and my mom or brother who try to remind me I have to get up for work.

Mind you tho my brother growls at me too sometimes in the morning when I tried to wake him up. But now it just happens his work starts earlier then mine. I feel more sorry for my mom..

So anyway....I really should get to sleep to minimize my growling in the morning...

So...Slaap zacht...sweet dreams

Introduction

11:35, 15-Oct-2007 .. 4 comments .. Link

Well obviously I made myself a blog. Not sure how much I will use it and how well I will figure out how to use this blog.

I only used this one as it's the only one I am slightly familiar with. As I read the blog of Ann mi.

If I am going to use it I will mostly just post some random....thoughts. Will see. I guess I got a slight urge to make a blog after reading annmi's one. And then someone kind of suggested I should make one. So voila I guess here is the result.

Also I have no idea who I will give the link to yet. So no idea who will read these bloggs....if you reading now...thanks for reading and I hope it kill your time in a somewhat pleasant way.

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