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Evil scheming (or just finding a place to live)

My friend Bram and me have been planning to move for a while now. Not like moving in with each other, just in the same area if that’s possible. As soon as I get a stable income we can put such plans into action, and since that won’t take too long anymore, we went to make some preparations.

We’ve decided on a couple of things. First of all, we don’t want to live too far away from the ‘inhabited world’, meaning Amsterdam basically. This is more a requirement of mine than of his, but he doesn’t seem to care, so we’re going with it. Also, we don’t want to live too far away from public transport (a trainstation mostly). The exact place we want to live in still remains a mystery to us, though. On some evil day, one of us suggested that we should simply get a map of the area in/around Amsterdam, put it on the wall and decide our place to live by dotting the map with pushpins.

Now when you see some movie in which a maniac has filled a wall with maps, pushpins and connecting wires, they never really show you how long it took to make such a wall. That is basically because making all that is extremely boring. However, both of us went ahead with it, so now we have a map of Amsterdam, Haarlem and Zaandam (and some other places) with the important trainstations on it, where we can point out nice places to live. We abused Google Maps for the map, and printed out several sheets that we stuck together on the wall. Mine is quite fancy: I stuck it to some cardboard and added a booklight so I can always see what area we’re currently planning our evil schemes in. Here’s some pictures of my creation ^_^