Oh what a day… [Task: Create a sentence with 3 or more hyperlinks.] After voting, the day’s main mission was to get Alice to Charleroi Airport, where she took off to Dublin with Ryanair at 18:40. All in all, everything went smooth, except for incredibly bad weather with pouring rain and thunderstorm on the motorway. I just received an SMS from her, she’s doing fine, she says, and everything is ok. In the future, however, I strongly reccomend you to read her weblog regularly, where she will give frequent updates for all you nosy people out there. (IF they finally deploy Internet in every house ;)) — Having just arrived back in Aachen, I had to hear that my grandmother died this afternoon, which urges me to leave Maastricht tomorrow and take care of things at home and support my parents. Please understand that I probably won’t be able to answer mail or instant messengers. Thanks. — As I said, oh what a day! Under all persitent circumstances right now, I will not fail to drop some philosophical words: Days like today demonstrate, what it means to say good-bye. I have said good-bye a couple of times in the last months, and the lesson I learned is: As soon as it touches your heart when you say farewell, the other person is locked into your heart and will remain there, being even closer than it would have ever been possible before. — Live every day as if it was your last….