My one day photography course planned for last Saturday ended abruptly before it had even begun when I had to rush to the aid of a sick friend. Happily, the Volksuniversiteit has agreed to allow me to move my enrolment to the next instance of the course on 1st June.
I’ll be starting a separate three-part digital photography course this coming Friday and am looking forward to getting stuck into that.
Last Friday, I was lucky enough to attend Lisa Gerrard‘s concert at the World Forum in The Hague. It was a fabulous concert, but I was slightly preoccupied during the show, on account of the fact that just a few minutes before the concert had been due to start, another car had collided with mine in the venue’s underground car park.
In his enthusiasm to secure a parking space being vacated by a car on his left, the driver of the errant car slammed into reverse and shot backwards without looking and before I could sound my horn. A couple of seconds later, he rammed my stationary vehicle with the towing hook of his vehicle, thereby knackering my number plate, its holding frame and the grille behind.
The car is due to be fixed next Wednesday and shouldn’t cost more than €300 or so, which — barring any anomalies — the other party’s insurance will be paying. The other driver immediately admitted culpability and hopefully won’t have a memory lapse later on.
Speaking of the car, its ECU (Electronic Control Unit) was flashed with new software a couple of weeks ago in an attempt to fix a problem with the keyless starter mechanism. It seems funny to have one’s car flashed, but cars contain an amazing amount of computing technology these days, so it makes sense. I suppose it’s just because I still tend to think of them as being more hardware than software, but these days, they pretty much contain equal measures of both.
Geoff has been here for the last few days, which has been fun. He headed back to Dublin for a few days on Monday afternoon, but will be back at the weekend in time for Koninginnedag. That’s going to be a good laugh.
What else? Well, we’ve finally joined the ranks of the responsible refuse disposers and purchased a paper shredder as a precaution against identity theft. Yes, yes, we should have done this ages ago, but at least we’ve finally done it now.