Guus Bosman

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.

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.

Since a few days I have a cold. It is nothing serious, but it's quite inconvenient. Tonight I'm staying home, with a warm cup of tea, oranges and other healthy things.

In December Sasha and I will go to Bulgaria, for Christmas and New Year. I'm looking forward to that very much! Tonight I'm revising my Bulgarian vocabulary. To study Bulgarian words I'm using a computer program that I made in 1999.

Every now and then I'll check the soccer game that starts at 20:30 o'clock. It's Holland vs Scotland, and Holland needs to win tonight to qualify for the European championship in 2004.

Yesterday I was in Heereveen around noon. I visited my grandmother there, which was very pleasant. We showed each other many pictures and we talked a lot. Around 16:00 o'clock I took the train to Leeuwarden.

Ettie and Gerben were having a party. There were many things to celebrate: birthdays, graduations and a new house. The party was very nice; I liked it a lot. It's much easier to actually talk to people when you're not organizing the party yourself (like last week); I enjoyed it. There were also some people I haven't seen in a long time.

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In a while I'm leaving to Friesland. I'll visit Oma Groen, who lives in Heereveen, and later I'll go to Leeuwarden. Ettie and Gerben are giving a party tonight.

It's an easy trip: from Amsterdam there is a direct train to Leeuwarden, a trip of around 2 hours.

I visited Ester and Richard tonight.

We had dinner together: Richard's famous lasagna. I saw Jip too. He was studying walking, that was nice to see.

Today I received flowers from Stichting Dagcentra IJmond, very nice.

Daniël is staying here now, he's leaving to Hungary in the morning. I made a pizza -- pretty good, if I may say so.

I'm going to bed early tonight.

What a great night! My birthday party got completely out of hand on a Monday evening and I enjoyed it a lot.

Late at night I had a very nice and very long phone call, which was the best part of a wonderful evening.

There will be some pictures later, now I'll get to Chess as soon as I can.

Mieke and I celebrated our birthdays together in Middenmeer. She had a birthday last Friday and my birthday is tomorrow.

I had a great day! There were a lot of guests and some very nice presents. One of the things I liked a lot was a shower-radio, a present from Ettie and Gerben. Radio in the shower... that's feels rich.

Yesterday evening we did indeed play Steden & Ridders. Ettie, Mieke and I all won a game.

Tomorrow will be my real birthday; I've invited a few people to celebrate in the evening.

I had dinner with Daniel yesterday, which was nice. In the morning I did a lot of small things and I went into the city for a while. Monday I'll celebrate my birthday, so I did some shopping.

I'll leave to my parents in a while. I'm looking forward to the train journey: The Economist has a special issue on America that I'll read in the train.