Guus Bosman

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.

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 :)

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.

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.

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.

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.

We went to Amsterdam this evening; there was a drink of the Economisch Sociaal Instituut of the VU.

It was in "Café Kale de Grote", a bar at the Marie Heinekenplein in Amsterdam. Very nice.

Today Svetla and Radoslav are getting married! Their official wedding was in the Nedelya Church in Sofia, see the picture on the right.

Congratulations -- vsichko xybavo i mnogo lybov zaedno!

This weekend it's Haarlem Jazz City again; there are many music stages throughout the city.

We went out with Jerry and Marjolein yesterday night. We spent the biggest part of the evening around a smaller stage at the Spekstraat, behind the Grote Markt. The music there wasn't exactly jazz, but the atmosphere was very pleasant. Had a really nice evening; home around 02:30 o'clock.

During the day I visited Jip who celebrated his first birthday. Last time we saw him was when he was just born. He's quite big already. No real talking or walking yet, but experiments have been started.

Tuesday night I didn't sleep very well (we'll never eat from there again!). Yesterday I felt pretty weak all day, and I left home early.

When I came home I wanted to take a quick nap before dinner, so I went to bed at 18:00. Well, I missed dinner: I woke up at 04:00, and decided to continue sleeping :) So now I'm a lot more fresh, after a 13 hours night of sleep.

Too bad I couldn't go to Jelly's graduation party. She graduated with an average 8, congratulations!