Guus Bosman

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To Groningen

Wed, 12/03/2003 - 4:46pm

I just got a confirmation that I'll go to Groningen tomorrow for Chess. There's some work to be done there, probably for one or two days.

It means of course a long train journey; almost three hours.

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chess

Tests in Utrecht

Wed, 12/03/2003 - 2:23pm

Today I was at a customer of Chess in Utrecht. We were testing some of the software that I wrote in the last weeks. It's exciting to see if the program does the things it should do, and to verify it doesn't crash when something unexpected happens.

It worked out quite well. In the beginning there were some trivial things that needed to be adjusted, but we were very satisfied with the final results.

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internet

Graphics

Tue, 12/02/2003 - 5:02pm

Jerry.I've been looking at a graphical tool lately, and it's a lot of fun. I enjoy playing with the features the program has: photo retouching, drawing, special website things... Perhaps I can use some of my new 'skills' for Guus Bosman.nl one day.

I had dinner with Jelly, she's staying here for a while, which is nice. Had two pleasant phone-calls tonight.

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dailylife

Sinterklaas preparations

Sun, 11/30/2003 - 3:54am

This weekend I'm preparing things for Sinterklaas. Yesterday I bought most of the things I need, but I'll go to one shop once more.

I went out Friday evening with some colleague’s; it was great fun. After dinner we spent the whole evening in Van Stoffelen, and later we met some other colleague’s there.

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guusbosmannl

ADSL downstream doubled

Fri, 11/28/2003 - 7:32am

A nice news message from my internet provider:

"The speed of the XS4ALL subscriptions Lite, Basic en Fast ADSL will be increased once again, starting January 15 2004. " - XS4ALL.

My current connection speed is 1024/320 Kbit/s, but from January the downstream will be doubled to 2048 Kbit/s. Wow... I remember the time that I was happy with a new modem that had a speed of 14.4Kbit/s.

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dailylife

Thanksgiving weekend

Fri, 11/28/2003 - 4:10am

It's Thanksgiving weekend in the States. Sasha is spending the weekend with Irena and Jonathan and family of Jonathan in Columbia, a city north of Washington.

Yesterday evening I was watching TV when the visit of President Bush to Iraq was announced.

Mr. Bush is really good in situations like those; many Dutch people underestimate how popular he is, partly because public appearances like yesterday's. His visit made a big impact on the soldiers in Iraq and many Americans at home.

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dailylife

Hot pot

Wed, 11/26/2003 - 6:08pm

Tonight I had dinner with Jennie, Samantha and Ronald.

We had a really wonderful meal: hot pot. Hot pot is a Chinese recipe, where there's a big pan with spicy, boiling soup in the middle of the table, and a variety of things to boil in it in smaller dishes around it. In a sense it's a bit like fondue, except that the taste of the soup is very delicious: a lot of herbs and spices have been added.

There were a lot of Chinese vegetables to put in the soup. Additionally there were mushrooms, tofu and different types of meat. The name "hot pot" relates to the taste: Jennie added around 20 red peppers to our version. Extremely spicy, extremely delicious!

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dailylife

Administrative work

Mon, 11/24/2003 - 2:21pm

I am doing some personal administrative work now. Bills, insurance, tax...

It's going well, I just finished a letter. These simple things can take so much energy! I'll post the letters and the paid bills tonight to be completely ready with it.

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dailylife

Dinner in Leeuwarden

Sat, 11/22/2003 - 5:28pm

We had dinner in Leeuwarden tonight. Ettie and Gerben celebrated being together for six and a half year and we went out with the 'extended family'. It was a nice evening, with good Mexican food.

I'm staying in Middenmeer now.

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Bulgaria

Studying words

Fri, 11/21/2003 - 5:02pm

Studying Bulgarian words.

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