Guus Bosman

"Het is groen, en het zit op een hek".

Yesterday we spent the day in Center Parcs. My parents celebrated their 30th anniversary, and the six of us went to 'de Eemhof'. There's a huge swimming pool there, and we were swimming all day.

It was a very nice day; the weather was great and we had a really good time together. Later we had dinner in an Italian restaurant in Nijkerk. The pizza there was the best I had in years.

Yesterday evening the light was getting dim for a moment. I thought that it was perhaps time to replace the lightbulb. The TV didn't work anymore either, there was no signal.

This morning I arrived early at Chess. There was a small note: "Due to the powerglitch yesterday evening, the network is not available yet; we're working on it". Obviously, when you read this message the network works again. I'm happy that I don't need the network to work on our project, otherwise I would have gotten here early for nothing. The only thing I really missed is music; usually I listen to the radio through internet.

Sasha just told me that a new monitor arrived! Our old computer monitor has been broken quite a long time. We had a 3 years garanty that would expire this August.

It took some effort to get into contact with the shop where I originally bought it in Middenmeer; Mieke assistance there was quite useful. The shop was member of a national organisation, and it turned out that we had an 'on-site' garanty. This morning they came and replaced our old monitor immediately with a new one.

Today I've worked from 9:00, and I went home around 19:00 o'clock.

Yesterday evening Jaap and Mieke were here; we played Steden & Ridders. We did only 1 game, but it took 2,5 hours; quite long. Mieke was the winner.

The weather is just great; I'm really happy about it.

Today I was working on the laptop next to the open window, for a refreshing breeze. And then I heard: "Hi Guus!". Rob & Kirsten were there downstairs, they came by bike from the beach.

It was a nice surprise, and we went to the Grote Markt. We had a few drinks there, enjoying the sun.

Today Ettie, Karen and Jaap were on a boat-trip in Friesland; they couldn't have picked a better day! On the Spaarne there were many small boats as well.

Ettie just called; her hamster Hammie died.

Too bad, it was a very nice animal. It stayed in our apartment last year, when Ettie wasn't home for a couple of days. It was quite noisy during the night, with its running-wheel.

We were watching the European Songcontest at the BBC. The voice-over was by Terry Wogan -- he was absolutely hilarious.

The songs were a lot worse than I had imagined they would be. It was the first time I saw it.

Sasha got a very good job for the summer this week. She'll be assisting a professor in a very interesting research-project.

This is one of the reasons we went to look for a second computer desk. Today we found a nice one: not expensive and just the right size. Turns out to be sold out and a new delivery won't be made before June 10th or so. I guess we'll just wait for that, we're not extremely in a hurry but it was a bit of a disappointment.

"The course 'how to deal with disappointments' has unfortunately been cancelled".