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I almost never plan a holiday. The last one I planned was 3 years ago and consisted of 3 days in Denmark, which ended badly; long-distance relationships suck, especially when you try them with insensitive a-holes. But I digress, my apologies.

This year I had some other financial plans that I wanted to [...]

Last week I wasted 33 euros on starting a diet. I’m quite overweight, that’s no secret. Now it’s never been a health issue to me, I might be less fit than the average person but otherwise I’m perfectly ok. Until I get depressed over something, and then the whole idea of being overweight just [...]

As of today, I’m a freelance translator again. My own little business is back, and today is my first day at work again. I’m back at IBM, and enjoying the familiarity and calm atmosphere. I work four days a week, leaving one day to do other things and socialise.

As I indicated before, I [...]

It’s been quiet around here. Very quiet indeed. I’ve been meaning to update, I’ve had many posts in my mind regularly, but I’ve been too busy with other things to do it. It’s the age-old excuse everyone has for not updating their blogs, but however tacky it may be, it’s true. Not all things [...]

I’ve been living in Castricum for a while now, and things are going well. My interior is improving bit by bit, I’m finally getting the feeling I’m coming home when I get here. All’s awesome on that account.

When I was still painting the walls here, before I’d actually moved in, I noticed [...]

Well I’m posivitely flabberghasted. Here’s why.

I’m one of very few people, I imagine (perhaps I’m wrong), who’ve never considered being overweight as anything other than their own fault. I blamed lots of factors in my life, but nothing which I had no control over. I thought it must be the eating pattern I [...]

Well this is quite annoying. My alarm clock doesn’t function anymore. That is, it works fine, it would still scare the shit out of all the customers like it did that day in the store when I bought it. But nothing wakes me up anymore. I’m supposed to wake up at 5:00am, but there [...]

Yesterday it (finally) came to my attention that apparently in Castricum there’s a plague of brown rats. Afraid of ending up writing an FML, I visited a meeting that was held last night, during which people were informed about the status of the problem and measures already taken. This meeting also allowed people to [...]