Guus Bosman

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To the test

I woke up a bit earlier to study some more. I'm fairly certain that I'll make it, but of course a good mark is always nice. The examination center is in Haarlem, near the station. I'll be there at 9:30.

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Last revision

Tomorrow morning I'll take a Java certification test and I'm revising some theory now. There are many older tests online to exercise; a site that helped me a lot is Java Certificate.com.

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Back in Haarlem

It was very pleasant yesterday evening, and the cake was delicious.

I left Leeuwarden really early this morning. I took the bus from 6:57, and had a good connection with the train. Got really scared when voice-over said "This is the train to Steenwijk, Heereveen..." -- I thought I stepped into the wrong one. Of course: these places are on the way from Leeuwarden to Amersfoort, silly me. In the train I worked on my current Chess project. Too bad my laptop's battery got empty.

In Amersfoort the connecting train was 15 minutes late, but when it arrived the trip was really short: no stops between Amersfoort and Amsterdam at all. The intercity brought me to Haarlem; I arrived here at 10:30 o'clock.

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Ettie & Gerben

Ettie in the livingroom.I'm in Leeuwarden now -- arrived at the Schieringerweg. Nice to see the place now it's completely ready.

Ettie said that Gerben made cake. I guess I'll try it :)

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To Leeuwarden

On with my journey through the northern provinces... I'll go to Leeuwarden to visit Ettie & Gerben.

The presentation went well -- shared some interesting ideas. To learn the pro's and contra's of a technology it is very helpful to talk with others and compare with other systems and implementations. After me their was a second presentation of an ex-employee of Evermind, who told us about his current job, coaching of people. Interesting.

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To Evermind

Wow, quite a journey. I took the train at 8:40 o'clock, and arrived here at 12:15. The train had a bit of a delay. I like it a lot -- it wasn't very busy in the train and it was perfect for studying. I took a big Java book, and prepared for Friday's test.

At 14:00 o'clock I'll give a presentation of the project I've been working on in Haarlem, and the technology we've used there.

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To Groningen

I'm packing my bag. Tomorrow I'll go to Evermind in Groningen and afterwards to Leeuwarden. Evermind is a firm of the Chess group. Some collegues travel from Haarlem to Groningen and vice versa a few times per week, but for me it feels quite far. In the evening I'll visit Ettie.

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Ready!

My supervisors agreed on the mark for my thesis (an 8), and submitted it to the graduation committee: I'm officially done now!

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House-warming party

Yesterday afternoon I went to a house-warming party in Haarlem. Two friends moved to the "Tuinlaantje", a cute little street near the Bavo cathedral.

Back to work now. The summer is definitely over I suppose, it's raining a lot and it's not very warm.

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Easy Saturday

An easy Saturday today. In the morning I was studying this Java-thing, later I went for lunch with Jelly and Olga. When I left home it was raining, but after a while it got much nicer and we sat outside.

Made lasagne in the evening; read a bit.

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