It wasn't the best of weather when I made a little trip to Lelystad today... The ship more looked like one from Pirates of the Caribbean...
At the reception to say goodbye to my dearest friend Frank van der Heijden from ABN AMRO in Nieuwegein they used a color coded card system to process all the thousands of people they expected who wanted to speak to Frank. I didn't had much time and fixed all the colors so I could speak to Frank at once and be off to Amsterdam right away (on my new bike of course)
I drove past Honda-Amsterdam this morning and couldn't help noticing that something shiny white was standing on the pavement. It turned out my new bike! And I can pick it up tomorrow! :-))))
While driving my motorbike today I passed the Bunkers of the great Atlantikwall build during WWII near Haarlem on the west coast of Holland. After 60 years not much has changed with these bunkers - they are way to strong to be removed...
I am not sure what happened, but while I ordered my bike months ago - all the guys on my honda motor forum got their bike but I didn't receive a single phone call from my dealer (Honda-Amsterdam). So everyone is showing of their bikes standing there in their shacks and I feel like a loser ;-)
Guess I have to visit the dealer as soon as they open this week.
I am a happy trooper because today Amazon brought me a new Novel of my favorite author David Sedaris . It is called “When You Are Engulfed in Flames” and it's a book about David Sedaris’s midlife crisis. While I am in a crisis myself - this is the perfect way to slash away the boring hours ahead of me :-)) This book is also a diary of his quest to quit smoking (hence the title)
- which I do not, but above all: it is hillarious!
In San Francisco, Del Martin, 87, and Phyllis Lyon, 84, longtime
gay rights activists, were the first and only couple to be wed here,
saying their vows in the office of Mayor Gavin Newsom, before emerging to a throng of reporters and screaming well-wishers.
Ms. Martin and Ms. Lyon, who have been together for more than 50 years, seemed touched, if a little amazed by all the attention.
“When
we first got together we weren’t thinking about getting married,” Ms.
Lyon said before cutting a wedding cake. “I think it’s a wonderful
day.”
