Hi all. Since I moved to Boxmeer, my current home town, most of my neighbors in the apartments next to and below me have changed over the years. Only my left neighbor has been here longer than I have but the rest have changed several times now. I'll try to sketch the situation a bit so it makes more sense. <-- Pretend there's a nice looking floorplan here for now ;-) --> Right. As you can see drawing freehand on computer is something I'm not that good in, specially from here (work) where I don't have the stuff I use at home. Maybe I'll make a nicer version of the drawing when I get home and upload it. For now it's just so you get an idea. What your looking at is our apartment block from above. It's a two room apartment. Not too big but when I clean up my room there's more space than there seems to be at first glance ;-) There are two apartment layers and we're on the first floor. For me this is usually great. There is less need for stuff like curtains for example, I don't have to keep a garden in shape, I have a attic over my entire apartment where for example my heating and warm water boiler is situated, and loads of other stuff I don't normally use or need. The down side is that ever time I have a race weekend (and that's normally every other weekend) I need to get my entire computer stuff down into the car and Sunday evenings get it up there again. It's only two half stairs so things could have been worse I guess but at those times I'd like to be on ground level. Makes it easier to load and unload my hardware. Okay, back to my 'hi there neighbor' neighbor. I'm in number two (the names have been changed to protect the innocent ;-) and my 'hi there neighbor' neighbor is in number four. He's been there for a couple of years now and he's one of those always happy and enthusiast kind of people. In the summer time he's quite often at work on his balcony and when I come home and get out of the car he always cheers a 'hi neighbor' at me, sometimes quite startling me because I didn't see him. He just seems to be having fun all the time and is always busy fixing either his car or some motorbike parts for example. And no matter what he's doing he always stops and makes time for a little chat, and it's no bad thing to keep running into him honestly. Somehow it's quite contagious and he cheers me up just about every time. Makes me see that the world is not all bad I guess. Good man. Good to have around. Last night when I got home I had my new and my mothers old microwave in the back of my car which I could only take with me if i promised my mom I'd get someone else to unload it from the car. Since my back went out last Saturday I still had major problems and it just wasn't (and still isn't) good for me to lift heavy things yet. So I told her I'd get one of the neighbors to do the lifting part and she needed not to worry about my back. And who do you guess I ran into when I got home? Yup, ten points for your memory ;-) So I explained the situation kindly asked him if he would get the oven from the car and get it up to my room which he happily did. Like I said, he's a good man. Now I have the luxury of a combi microwave oven with which I can (that is if I really wanted to of course ;-) cook, roast, reheat, defrost, etc. You name it, it does it. Very, very nice. It's also somewhat smaller than my old one and, or so at least my 'hi there neighbor' said, not quite as heavy. Which is nice I guess. It replaces my old grill and mivrowave because it can do way more than them combined so now I have two machines for spare I guess. Actually I have three because I had gotten another microwave from before but never really used it. Now I'm not sure what to do with them yet. I can't just dump them because my mom hasn't had much luck with her machines so theoratically this one could break down any second ;-) And if it does, I'm from three ovens down to zero which is not handy. On the other hand in all my years living on my own absolutely nothing has broken down on me (yet) so there is a chance this apartment has good karma or something, I don't know. I don't notice it in any other department unfortunately ... just the electric machines keep working nicely. Maybe I'll just take the gamble and get rid of the three ovens, as they are taking up rather much space in my still not too big apartment. We'll see what happens.