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All those wasted trees

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 [...]

Nostalgie

Mijn broer (Frank) en ik hadden vroeger slechts één cassettebandje met Sesamstraat erop. De rest ging allemaal verloren doordat hij het lintje in cassettebandjes zo gaaf vond en dit er dus altijd uit trok (kinderen…). Het hele bandje stond vol met melige liedjes maar aan deze bewaren wij de beste herinneringen. We speelden het [...]

A diagnosis

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 [...]

Yawn

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 [...]

Sister doesn't like doin' it for herself

I’ve been professionally translating for a while now and I’ve had my business since June 2009. Ever since, I’ve been longing for a job with regular pay and benefits like a pension and the ability to fall back on welfare if I have to. It’s not that I hate running my own business… well [...]

Rats

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 [...]

Still white and nerdy

Sometimes, in between slowly forgetting the finer Linux commands, working a lot and no longer tinkering that much with stuff anymore, I find myself wondering: am I still a geek? You see, I take pride in that part of me that likes to figure out how stuff works. Also it’s a lot of fun [...]

Mobile phones, a history

Following a gajillion discussions on IRC over a long time, I started thinking about my history with mobile phones. This led to me googling for about 2 hours straight, because I couldn’t find my first phone ever. Until I did! It was the KPN Pocketline Wave 200, but almost none were sold in the [...]

Oôs dialekt

Zoas de meiste ve jullie wel zulle wete, ken ik oftig bar vreemd prate. Vezelf doen ik dut niet altoid zo overdreve, maar ik ken het West-Fries woord veur woord leze en begroipe as ik het hoor, en ok skroive as ik m’n best d’r veur doen. En toch is ‘t zonde as ik [...]

Moved

I finally moved to Castricum, but this is not quite how I expected my first week to go…

On Saturday my dad, my brother and me moved all the stuff to my new house. The roads were slippery and it was very cold, so that was an extra hazard. All went well though, and [...]