Guus Bosman

Today Mieke has a birthday! As always there will be nice festivities at her school with the children.

Congratulations mam! We'll celebrate our birthdays this weekend together, perhaps we can even play a game Steden & Ridders...

Tonight and yesterday night were rather relaxing compared with the last few days. Yesterday I had dinner at home for the first time in a week. I liked it very much to see a lot of people and I had a really good time, but some time for myself is nice too.

I started reading a new book, "Don't Know Much About History": very good.

I had dinner in Leiden, with Rob and Kirsten in their new house.

They live in a very peaceful neighborhood in Leiden, and they are (also) looking out to a real Dutch windmill from their window. I had real fun with the cats; there was a little black one of only a few weeks old.

In the last few days I have been visiting three friends' new houses, in three different cities.

Tonight I visited Ankie and Joost in Schiedam. They have a cosy place really close to the train station, I hadn't seen it before.

They showed me the movies that they had made for their university, made in Premiere, Maya and similar tools. Quite interesting!

I went to Olga & Jelly this afternoon.

Jelly has a birthday, and I brought her a plant that somebody sold me on the market yesterday: "ah, why don't you take two, it's nice to give as a present".

It was a pleasant afternoon, and we had dinner together -- nice.

I woke up by the sound of the rain on the roof this morning. The weather is a bit depressing but I'd better get used to it ;) I started really early -- I was here at 8:00 o'clock.

It will be a short working day today. In the afternoon we'll have a Chess meeting, followed by a dinner with everybody to celebrate the success of one of our projects.

I went to Oma Bosman, my grandmother, who celebrated her birthday today. It was busy! There were a lot of family members, some of which I haven't seen in a while. It was nice to see everybody.

No appointments today; this was nice for a change. There were a lot of small things that I didn't have time for since I came back from Washington.

I made lasagne, using a recipe Richard told me. Almost without any herbs, but with a little wine added with the sauce. It was delicious.

I've been doing some 'house-keeping' on the server as well, which is a nice thing to do for somebody like me :) For the experts: I'm trying to see if I can install Java on the webserver (OpenBSD).