Guus Bosman

The project I'm working on is going well. We're creating a web-based management application for an existing product, and yesterday I tested the integration with the real application. Everything works smoothly.

Choosing Hibernate was definitely a right choose -- it increases the productivity a lot.

It's a quiet period -- many friends and colleague's are on holiday, as are my parents. Next week Sasha will be coming back! That will be a very busy time for both of us; there's a lot to do.

I was planning to go and pick up Jerry tonight together with Marjolein, his girlfriend, and other friends and family. He's traveling back from Ecuador today, after a staying there to do research.

However, Marjolein just e-mailed and said that he won't arrive tonight. His plane landed in Caracas, Venezuela where he'll be staying a while because there was something wrong with the plane. He will probably arrive here sometime tomorrow.

Yesterday Bella was in Amsterdam for one evening. She was flying from Bulgaria to Washington D.C., with a stop-over in Amsterdam. She is a friend of Sasha; they met in Washington but their families accidentally both come from Perushtitsa, Bulgaria.

Bella had not been in Amsterdam before so yesterday we made a long walk through the city, and we saw many of the highlights of Amsterdam. We started with De Munt and Rembrandtplein, over the canals to the Rijksmuseum and Leidseplein. Later we saw Dam Square, the Red Light District and Central Station. It's nice to look at the city through the eyes of a tourist.

Later we had Belgium beers in De Ooievaar, a pleasant old-fashioned Dutch bar at the beginning of the Zeedijk. We had a very nice evening.

Erika and Daniël stayed in our apartment the last two days. They are leaving to Amsterdam now, where they'll take the international train to Italy for the second part of their holiday.

Today we make a walk through Haarlem, as Erika had never seen the city before. We went in the St. Bavo Church at the Grote Markt. Later with had a drink with Jelly at an outside café; the weather is very nice today.

It's nice that it's weekend. There were a lot of things to be arranged last week but things are going well.

My friend Jerry is doing research this summer in Ecuador. He's a biologist and is researching various kinds of vegetation.

He keeps us updated on his journey by e-mail, as well as by his website with pictures of lama's, horses and Gentianelle cernua.

Yesterday I cooked dinner for Daniël, Erika and Jelly.

It was great fun; we had a very nice evening.

Sunday we went to the beach. Together with Jelly I travelled to Leiden in the morning, and when we arrived we the weather didn't look too well and we actually felt some rain.

However, Rob and Kirsten picked us up from the station, and when we travelled to the beach, the sky became more and more bright, and when we arrived the weather was beautiful.

Daniël, Ellen, Erika, Evert and Gerlof were already there and had installed the volleybal-net. We played many games of beach volleybal: 4 to 4, 2 to 2... it was great fun.

In the evening we had pancakes together.

Ha, it's weekend!

Tomorrow there's a small game-tournament organized by Daniel, where I'll see a lot of friends. I must honestly admit that I haven't prepared for it -- it's been more than a year since I've played tomorrow's game ('99').

It's been an easy week: nothing spectacular happened, although I had a very nice evening Wednesday when Steven came to visit. The project at work is going well; we're ready with the start-up phase. Later more on that.

Saturday afternoon I went to Middenmeer to see my parents. We played two games of Steden & Ridders, which had been a long time. Coincidental or not -- I lost twice.

Sunday we visited Ettie, my sister, and Gerben in Leeuwarden. We went to a Zoo and spent a nice day together. The zoo is called Aqua Zoo and they had a large variety of animals.

I couldn't resist taking some pictures.