I seem to have rolled into an early Christmas mood. I just made turkey with Cranberries and some untranslatable food that looks like a fat cylindric french fry. In the process I proved that it’s doable to make said untranslatable food without actually owning a deep fryer or ending up as a burn injury statistic. I’m not sure I’ll get this lucky twice though. Hey, a good meal is worth holding your hand near boiling oil.

Better not keep my Powerbook on TOP of my LAP for too long; this beast gets hot enough to roast all my future offspring. That may actually be good for the world at large, but selfishness never killed anyone.

Come to think of it, that means I’ll die of my narcism or megalomania. That’s a nice prospect, or at least an original epigraph.

I know I’ve been ignoring you dear diary, I’ve just been very busy making sure my trial period will become a full-blown contract in 5 months. That includes wrapping up on the evening train and warming up on the morning train, if said laptop keeps it cool. You can imagine my creative juices are drained upon throwing my vest on a random chair and reaching for a box of Apericube. Mmmm. Apericube.

Aaaah, what could possibly be funnier than Rammsteins America clip? On might think it’s just too easy to mock America, stealing candy from a baby and all. But that doesn’t mean we should leave the little bastards to their popsicles.

We have great pastry in Belgian, of which the so-called Carré Confitureken is one of the greatest. This morning at the bakery store, an old woman orders one. As she pays, she hands the girl behind the counter a Tupperware box, asking: “Could you slice it up please?”. I could do nothing but stare at said girl cutting up the delicious pastry and squeeze the bits in the box. Dare I consider this delicacy is mend for the womans dog?

Where the hell did Unilever get the term “fishfingers”? Fish don’t have fingers. And the things don’t look like human ones either. We call ‘m Fish Sticks in dutch, which is an English term. Ah, the wonderful world of branding. As Unilever puts it: … the introduction of Captain Birds Eye in 1967 helped to make this brand the food icon it is today. We now make 515 million Fish Fingers each year… Still doesn’t explain the fingers though.

Somehow, all hell I had to go through to get my iPod to and from Apple to get it fixed (UPSucks) is worth it as I stare at this newborn scratchless ‘pod. Welcome home, little fellow.

I may be hooked to television series “24″. I don’t have cable, but I’m renting a 4-hour DVD per day. There’s great satisfaction in watchin fellow commuters ply their newspaper and notice the young man watching DVD’s on the morning train. Up yours, excellgeek. Laptops are cool.

So the Gothic look was a smashing success at Jess party. My hair is still black, though most of it was washed away this morning under the shower. My nails were black, my eyes, my lips. Ribbons attached to my pants swirled around my legs. But the pièce the résistance was undoubtedly my new shirt. Its chestplates were attached with steel bolts (non machine washable) and the arms were connected with more ribbons, hung to metal rings on both arms. I’m considering to make the hair permanent, the make-up definetely not. Jezz, what women must feel like. How do you girls keep the lipstick on while eating talking drinking? Madness.

The new job is nice, with potential to become great. Wish I could talk about what I’m doing, but I’m bound by Non disclosure stuff. I’ll link to some place when you can see public stuff. Let’s just say for now that I’m entering exciting new territory. The powerbook is great though that I can tell. I’ve been trying to be as portable as possible since I got my sticky hands on the aluminium. Sven claims that’ll come to pass in a week or three. But I want to keep on watching the 24 series on the morning train!

So I make a huge spreadsheet with my phone behaviour. The whole works based on my bills: when do i call what network for how long. last three months in detail, previous 12 roughly. I wanted to see if another network was cheaper. I only discovered my behaviour is completely unpredictable. One month I’m calling 72 minutes, 2 months later 480. Though I guess we knew about the unpredictability.