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Today we finally heard whether our bid on the house – I wrote about in the previous post – was accepted or that of another buyer (colleague of Nina, a very big coincidence). The resolutive conditions about the construction technique were probably a problem for the seller. Now a colleague of Nina has won the bid on the house. A big pity that we didn’t get the house, because there were actually no negative things about the house (location, inside et cetera). Of course there had to be done some upgrading, but that’d be worth the effort. But compared to the previous houses we saw I am actually happy that we came this far and didn’t buy one of the previous houses. So as everyone says “probably this house wasn’t meant for you”, we hope that an even better or at least equal house will come along. Next!
 

The house we had an eye on (nearby a trainstation) is finally sold officially, in the meanwhile we have found a “new” house which we visited last week. It is located in a quiet neigbourhood with many big trees and gardens full of plants, so it looks like they like nature. The house itself looks quite good too, although the kitchen is very old-fashioned. There is some work to do in the house. For me there is currently only one minor point and that’s the fact that the house has wooden floors on the first and second level. Because I want to play electronic drums we have to look into that, hopefully we can solve that problem. Upcoming Monday we will have our second visit together with the father of Nina to get a better idea of the state of the house. Click on the pictures below to take a better look at it.

    

This morning I discovered a bug in Windows Vista – an OS which I rarely use, only if something really requires 100% Windows. I was exporting photos from Adobe Lightroom and while I was watching the files being written into a folder I also wanted to know the filesize of the exported files. If you are standing on an existing file and then click on a file being written it will report a negative filesize for the new file. That’s a minor bug, but if you then click on any other existing file in that folder, it reports for every file a negative size.

In the category blanded humor: take a bunch of samples from a movie and make soundboards of it. Take for example a Terminator soundboard, call a security company and try to have a conversation. You will find many more Terminator prank calls on Youtube, here one example: