My first entry here will be about a laugh we had during our vacation on Lesbos this year. As may be known, we went this with a group of very good friends to Lesbos. We had a wonderful time there. One day we made a very nice walk to the east of the town of…
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Life is there to… eat chocolate!
When I did my groceries today, my eyes was caught suddenly by something. Maybe it has been always there and that I just saw it today for the first time. What I am talking about? “Ritter Sport” chocolate!!! So why did this “Ritter Sport” chocolate made me react like that. Well, I can remember that…
Life is there to… talk about DvD’s again.
It is holiday time and apart from doing all kind of active things together, it is also nice to watch in the evenings together some movies or TV series. And apart from the actual Christmas days Marion and I have been do quit often (although not every evening). Great thing is that Marion also can…
Life is there to… play chess!
Already for more than a year I play chess with Sanne. But as Sanne lives on the other side of the country we use modern means to do so… we use mail, text-messages, Facebook messages or whatever that is usable to send each other our moves. I have to say I like it this way….
Ultima IX – part 1 : Earth – first steps
As said, here the first entry in the journal of the replaying “Ultima Ascension (also known as “Ultima IX”)”. The adventure begins here on earth, in the house of our nameless hero. Nameless? Yes, unlike the older Ultima games, you cannot name your character. He will be referred to as “Avatar” (in the older games…
Spiced rolled roast
Today I made not a too big thing of dinner. Simple but good it had to be. So I baked a rolled roast (pork) [Dutch: Varkens rollade]…. I rubbed on the rolled roast some salt and pepper. For 5 minutes I baked the rolled roast in hot butter (a lot, half a package). I added…
Some ponderings about software…
Yesterday Marion and I talked about software and more precisely about the use of illegal software. This because I bought a license for “TextPad” (a very enhanced notepad. Which makes notepad feel like something from the pre-history :p). Marion stated that using illegal software as programmer/software engineer (and directly related professions) is like stealing from…
About photographing objects….
Photography is about many exciting things and making pictures of objects is one of them. I like to make photographs of objects. Doesn’t matter to me if it is inside or outside. And mostly it doesn’t matter what. Many objects can be beautiful enough to make pictures of. And some times it is not beauty…
An unexpected evening…
Today was a weird day. Not strange by the way, we all are shocked by the not unexpected, yet sudden, passing away from Marion’s godmother (or “peettante” as we call it in Dutch). Of course there is a lot of sadness with Marion and her family, but it is also keeping me very busy. So…
Just a hour or so and then…
Just an hour or so and then Marion and I will leave for Schiermonnikoog. For those that are not familiar with Schiermonninkoog, it is the smallest populated island north of The Netherlands. The nature is beautiful there and around this time of year it is rather quiet there. It is not allowed to bring a…