Cold and rainy again. Kim doesn't have classes today. Today is my big catch-up-with-work day, since my internet connection works. I pulled down the latest kernel (about 16MB, I forgot how slow phone connections are...) and have started working.
Ate lunch at the
Minnaertgebouw cafeteria. I liked
it better than the Educatorium. Inside was an
indoor lake into which it
rains (inside, via ducts in the ceiling) when it rains outdoors.
The lake acts more like a bay in a river in that it feeds a
waterfall outside.
Went in to Utrecht CS to buy tickets to München for Sunday. The clerk was apologetic about the ICE premium of f64,- but I told her that to someone from the US used to paying for airline fares around the US, prices for train tickets really weren't that bad. This is quite true. And, at least the way I travel, there isn't much difference in overall time point-to-point. I suppose that marketeers who will get up to catch a 4:30am flight so that they can go to meetings the same day will have a different perspective, but I generally count a day in the airline system a lost day anyway. (It's different if I am the pilot, of course.)
Picked up a few extra CDs while I was there; Mozart, Chopin, and Schoenberg. It was strange for someone coming from the US; the CD cases in the racks had no discs in them; at the counter, when I purchased them, the clerk went to a revolving bin and put them in the cases there. The prices varied wildly, from f9,95 (about $4.50) to f50,00 (nearly $22) per disc. Pricing does not seem to be affected very much by whether there are one or two disks in the case; you seem to pay by the case rather than by the disk.
More ham and cheese sandwiches for supper, then long walk after supper around campus, enjoying figuring out Dutch words. For example, the Dutch word for "Hospital" appears to litterally mean, or at least have come from, "sick-house". One of these days, I'll finally get used to pronouncing "ui" as "ow", too...
