Tuesday

On Tuesdays and Fridays we are having cleaning days in our house. That means getting up at the crack of dawn to go down to the laundry room and then cleaning the house from to bottom.

To define crack of dawn it is 6:30 am. The laundry room in our building opens at 7 so we always try to be the first ones. Most of the time we succeed. By 9 am laundry is done then Abigail is off to school.

We have somebody coming to help with the cleaning so my job is just to stay out of the way. And that is not very easy. My lovely wife has the habit of trying to keep everybody busy. And that means that she always finds something for me to do.

Might that be physical or mental work it is still exhausting. It is now 2 pm and I am already tired and that has nothing to do with age.

Something else.

This morning the neighborhood had a little excitement. A young allegedly Pakistanian man  was standing on the roof ledge of a neighboring building threatening to jump. It took about three hours until the police got him off the ledge but still it was a pretty scary sight to see a man in that situation.

I firmly believe that he never meant to jump. If he did he would have done it right at the moment he stepped up to the ledge and not wait three hours. He just wanted attention and publicity.

It is visible on the picture where he was standing. Sorry for the quality but this was the best I could do.