Recently the “reading virus” caught me again and let’s be honest, that is not a bad disease! I have a rather nice collection of science fiction and fantasy books (I did mention that before). And recently I started to catalog them. And believe me, that is a lot of work. I have done about 25%…
Month: January 2012
A game of Chess…
Yesterday, after the walk Sanne and I made on the beach of Zandvoort, back at my home, we chatted a bit. Poor Marion… she is of course often the subject of these conversations *winks*. For those that don’t know it, Marion and Sanne are long time friends. They know each from the time that they…
A small belated house warming party…
Yesterday I had a small belated house-warming party… Yes, I am living here already close to 2 years! But still I wanted to say “thank you” to my direct colleagues who helped me that day and with this small party I did so. I was very grateful for their help on that 6 March 2009….
The human memory…. amazing!
Currently I am registering all my books into a special program for collections (from the same producer that made the program I used for my DvD’s and BluRays. A lot of work, I can assure you. but then again also very nice to do. Many of those books I have more than 20 years in…
An Indian dinner
Yesterday I made the Indian dinner for Marion and me that I had planned last weekend… I have to say it was fun to make. All those herbs and spices… just wonderful to work with. I have rather some herbs and spices that I hadn’t before and that is great (although storing all these start…
An old special book and the NCSF
Most people will know that I have a rather nice Science Fiction and Fantasy books collection. And just the weekend I looked at one of the more special books in that collection… It is the Dutch translation of very famous book “War of the Worlds” written by H.G. Wells. The book was printed in 1929…
The Bazaar of Beverwijk
For this weekend I had planned to make a nice Indian dinner for Marion and me. Of course there were some special things, like cardemon and curry leaves, needed. But I was convinced that I would be able to get those at the Bazaar of Beverwijk. This morning I waked up at around the time…
A black day for the Internet…
I just read that two big Dutch Internet-provider, XS4ALL and Ziggo, are ordered by a judge to block the site of The Pirate Bay. This is in my opinion very bad. Why bad? No, not because the content that you can get at The Pirate Bay. To be honest, I never even connected to their…
A nice steak…
Today I was not in the mood to cook a big dinner. Lets just say I was lazy. But still I wanted to serve something nice to eat for us… I baked some steaks medium done. That is the way both Marion and I like it. Some pepper, some salt and nothing more then that….
Out on my bicycle…
Even when the weather was not really nice today, I had a strong urge to go outside. Must have been all those hours we spend last week on Schiermonninkoog outside with walks and such… So I took my bicycle and made my way outside of Heemskerk… against the wind at first (brave me!). It felt…