Is there life on Mars? Bowie springs to mind as I unwrap my Mars and discover a chocolate-eating ant.

that’s not true, but it sounds good.

We’ve become one of those people, Freya noted. Yes we have. One of those annoying neighbors who work on their apartment in the evening. We roughen doors with a loud Shiiiiii Shiiiiiiii, deskin wooden floors with a Wèèèèèwèèèwèèè and an orbital sander. We stop at 10 PM, that’s the least we can do. We’ll have to start reproducing and drive cars soon.

Note to myself: must urgently start recollecting rubber bands. Months ago, Brown Ring overpopulation in my desk drawer was posing a serious thread to the important desk items, such as instant soup packages and origami models. I decided to take action and stretched them into a rubber band ball.

At the time, we ordered sandwiches at “Speedy Meat” (what’s in a name. Meat! Quickly!), who were kind enough to stretch a big rubber band around each sandwich bag. After months I had a big bouncing ball. In January the company relocated, the new caterer rolls the end of his sandwich bags to keep the food in. How cheap. The continuously stretched bands on the ball have started tearing, my toy decomposes. Must… collect… more…

Perhaps I could address the Make-A-Wish-Foundation. Would a minor headache after drinking too much be considered “life-threatening medical conditions”?

I returned my rucksack to the store: zipper broke. It’s under warranty, so I’ll get a new one. The thing is: that bag already was a free replacement for the previous one that broke under warranty. Hedgren hands out a new 2-year warranty as you get a replacement bag, but cannot produce bags that last 2 years. If this policy is unchanged, the future is bright.

My feet hurt; it’s hard to find a rucksack that holds a laptop AND looks cool. Luckily this bar in the mall has unprotected wireless access

I settled for a blue greyish Samsonite with the inevitable earphones opening on the back. Try putting down a rucksack with headphones attached to the back. What’s with these developers?

sharing a pack of french fries under an umbrella, we watched the zoo turn into an even more depressing sight than it was. We should have picked a sunny day. Perhaps it would have swung to “they’re so cute” instead of “you think they pace nervously like this in nature?”.

Granted, the city of Antwerp seems to have invested a lot recently, many area’s seemed jollier and less rusted. Still, that nagging voice keeps going on about the strangeness of animals in tiled rooms. Wish I could be a child again, eat my sandwiches and marvel at the alligators.