::gifts.fines.olympic::

two girlfriends visited you with a big fruit basket, chicken essence and canned bird best, flower and lot of books for you to read.

you spent some time chatting away at the garden under the shadow. it's cooler than sitting inside the house. by noon the sun is at its peak, you retreated indoor. it's a nice way to past time with friends visiting you. you served the light lunch, tomato quiche and spinach blue cheese quiche with salad.

chef declares a day off from kitchen today, so you drove to scheveningen beach to your usual seafood canteen. perhaps it's not his day, he got fine from a police for a small mistake. that sort of blew off the mood for dinning. it's sort of intimidation and you learned today in your quiet time about the Lord's prayer - give us this day our daily bread. bread for today only, it's not something that you can collect and store for the next day. may be God wants him to learn and train him to be stronger in some of his weaknesses.

you had a sardine plate that come with 9 sardines. you feel like a cat for a moment munching on the fish, yet you can only finished 4 of them.

he had his portion of seafood paella and only munch on one sardine.

tonight is the olympic opening ceremony. it started rather late at 2200. it's not as impressive as the opening of beijing olympic but not too bad either. it's good to see mr bean, james bond, mary poppins and david beckham on the show. you dive to your bed shortly after the dutch team appear. it's way past midnight when you sleep and the first time since the surgery - 18 days post surgery.