“Ge zijt a foorwijf”

You are a fair bitch. People working the carnival / fair scene don’t have the best of reputation. In Belgium we had a song about this phenomenon and the real fair people were all kinds of angry about the stereotype. The thing is about stereotypes: it really has a base in reality.

No matter how much you invest you’re time and effort for your job: You are expendable, and the only people who will know you were absent from home because of work 20 years later, will be your kids.

It should have fallen on her manager to handle, and she should have put her foot down on that.

Head of HR is Linus’ wife. Yes, it is that bad. Even telling her manager, would have netted zero result.

and offers a true desktop experience in a handheld.

Awkwardly telling us it’s an unsuited Windows 11 installation on a handheld. Would not want it on my desktop, let alone on my unwieldy handheld.

Just bought the Suzuki Ignis, a mild hybrid. Have to wait until December, but it will be my favorite car real quick.

Who said they’re aliens?

Duvel, Belgium’s premium beer. Duvel translates to Devil, the beer most preferred by Joe Cocker and the reason he wouldn’t return to Belgium because it would be the end of him. Looking back he had a point. (1944-2014)

After whining for a long time my mom let me see Carrie on a Wednesday afternoon, the Sissy Spacek version. After watching it pretty unscathed to the end the scene came where they show her grave and the hand rises up from the grave…My first official jump scare and since I still remember it today, it has left quite the impression.

My smelling sense went away around 2005, so I’m happy to report this question is not applicable to me. Sadly it took away some percentage of my taste too.

Pay the new car I just signed for, buy a teardrop trailer and go camping out in Europe.