Guus Bosman

Tonight I had only one break instead of my usual two when I ran.

I left around 9.30 pm and it was colder than usual. When it's not too hot, I prefer to run a bit earlier in the evening that this, especially when I'm alone. The route goes mainly over the Duke campus and it's completely safe, but it just feels better when it's not fully dark.

We run a few times per week, usually the same track. Tonight I calculated the exact length of our route. It's 1.5 miles (2.4 kilometers) which is not as far as I was used to running in the Netherlands, but the route is much more elevated than in Haarlem.

Sasha is now traveling to Finland where she'll give a presentation on Saturday.

Sasha was invited to a conference in Helsinki to present a paper she wrote last year. In the morning I worked from home (PowerPoint, mainly) and we went to the airport together.

The journey to Europe didn't go as smoothly as planned due to a thunderstorm in Raleigh, but she's now boarding a flight to London and she'll will travel from London to Kopenhagen, and from there to Helsinki.

The plant I brought home from work seems to be doing slightly better and it hasn't lost as many leaves anymore the last few days. I've placed it next to a window in the living room where it gets plenty of sunlight. I am under the (unproven) impression that the lack of unfiltered sunlight in our office was the cause of the plant's problems. We'll see.

Because of the incredibly beautiful and sunny weather I have the water our plants almost every day.

Jason, a colleague, and his wife Liza were blessed with a baby son, Gabriel Louis last week. Congratulations!

This weekend I played with some software for work, experimenting with a Java client for a C++ server. They work nicely together. I expected that, but it's always nice to see that it actually works in practice.

It certainly wasn't for the lack of love or attention from my co-workers, but unfortunately my new plant wasn't doing very well at my desk.

For a few weeks now it has been losing leaves, and while in the beginning I thought that the plant had to get adjusted to its new home (our office) it became clear that it was fundamentally unhappy. I think the main reason is that the windows are tinted, and not enough natural light makes it through to the plant.

So today after work I placed it in the car and drove it home. We still have to decide where we'll place it, but I hope it will do better here.