Sculpt

When you start the day with a bit of jolly waste of time, you get a busy day! Nevertheless: once more, the only cats that crossed my path were bright orange, and not the misfortune-appealing breed.
Waiting beyond my patience before Access would finally show me the report I requested, provoked me to rewrite a lot of the logic involved. It was harder than it should have been, and a typo got me running in circles at the end, but the satisfaction is great when you can reduce 'forever' to 'less than a minute'. The guy who wrote all these cancerous deformations should be shot at sight. Oh well, the pharmacy industry is now enriched with a blazingly fast report! Even a failing VPN-connection didn't spoil my mood.

At lunch time, two business-intelligents spewed some interesting opinions on the market for software for SMB's. I enjoyed their views (easy when you get presented with a physics comparison), and managed to not shoot my foot off when I opened my mouth. Hey, I enjoy being appreciated as much as the next guy.

Anne and Ruben were once again in a good mood: it's nice when they have something to say about what they did all day. And that, of course, is also a specialty of Ilse, my treasure. I am deeply impressed with the way she handles being a math teacher. I would probably be able to explain things in just as understandable terms, but I could never ever control the classroom as good as she does. It's easy for me to say that she simply has to demand respect, and always react harshly on lack thereof, but 'Mrs Lanszweert' brings this to practice! Respect, woman!

And then the day was finished in beauty: my fitness center has a tremendous group course called 'body sculpt', which basically says it all: every bloody muscle in my body got a good whipping, and slowly but surely, this has positive effects on regions that used to be skin and bones. I seem to have been in great shape today, because I nearly never had to interrupt an exercise for lack of stamina. Only the ones on the belly muscles got to me, but Sofie (the teacher) is a real bully on those. I'm proud to have hung in there.

To paraphrase the Eels: 'Life is great, and so am I'.
God damn' right it was a beautiful day.