Guus Bosman

It's nice to live in a city for a while. We were out of coffee so I just walked to CVS to pick up some.

Many houses in Georgetown are from the colonial era. This gives the city an European feel, especially in the smaller backstreets.

I'm working from D.C. this week, from the house where Sasha is staying for her internship. It's on P Street in Georgetown, and falls under the "Zone 2" parking restrictions. Without a permit you can park on the street only for two hours.

So, every two hours I have move our car. This is funny, because there are so many empty parking spots during the day.

Petra has kindly offered that we can park at their house, a few metro stops away. If the moving becomes bothersome I'll park there for a few days.

We're in the African Department of the I.M.F. this afternoon. Sasha has to wrap some things up and I'm doing some work on my websites.

I arrived in Washington D.C. Thursday night. Friday I worked remotely; it's great to be able to telecommute every now and then. At work we're wrapping up a major release, so I'm "bug scrubbing" our tracking system and discussing bug fixes every day.

Ettie and Gerben have a son, and his name is Jasper!

He was born yesterday at 10.30 pm, he's 4030 gram and 52 centimeters. Mother and child are doing well.

Gerben and Ettie called us late last night from the hospital, and I heard my nephew's first cries.

We're very happy -- congratulations!

I'm back home in Durham after a fun weekend in DC. We did some shopping in the morning and had a late lunch together in Sasha's house.

I left at 3.00 pm, and even though traffic leaving Washington was pretty bad, I arrived in Durham at 7.30 pm.

This picture shows highway I85, as seen from a rest stop in southern Virginia.

We're spending the weekend together in Washington, DC.

The weather is great -- warm and humid but not too hot. Yesterday we went for a long hike from Riverbend Park to Great Falls Park. We walked for 135 minutes. In the evening with had dinner at Cafe Belga, great as always.

I left early this morning for DC, and I just arrived at Dulles Airport where I'll pick up Sasha. I'm early -- her flight will arrive in an hour.

We'll be watching the final between Spain and the Netherlands in Mackey's Pub in DC.