For years, Rona has been wanting to spend winters in Spain because she can’t handle even the Netherlands’ mild winter weather and short winter days. This year, we finally managed to set aside time to go on our scouting mission. We drove to the Mediterranean with an old pop-up caravan and our two dogs, spent […]
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Bringing the blog back to life
A few random thought that may or may not amount to anything
I’m on vacation, and one of the things I’m doing, in addition to picking up my drawing tools and my guitar, is thinking about future projects. A few thoughts keep creeping up: I have an encyclopedic recollection of the science fiction I read in my youth, and could probably find any specific quote from at […]
Quick, quick life update
We’re mostly done with our move – Aggie is here with the boys, dog and cat. “Here” is not Middle Tennessee as the plan was a year ago, but Hoogezand, ten miles out of Groningen in a row house I bought there. Stuff that we still have to deal with: 1. Getting the paperwork in […]
Running Windows on a Mac still to be considered harmful
Reader Kitchenbutterfly asks: Why have you burst my bubble? I’ve been living in paradise, claiming the MAC and all things APPLE to be the next best thing to sliced bread, or at least windows! And I know about buying computers in a hurry. Well here’s the thing: I loved my first iBook. I never had […]
How I crave real Internets
Reader Branko asks: “Reinder, how is life in the new fatherland? Have they internets there?” Well I don’t know about the rest of the USA (it’ll be a while before it’s really my new fatherland as I won’t even be getting my fiancé visa until early next year) but here in rural middle Tennessee, life […]
Just for once in my life, I’d like to not have to buy a new computer in a hurry
With 36 hours to go before my next flight to Tennessee, the Macbook dies. That means that a) I get to buy a new hard drive for my Macbook just to have access to my files (music including my vinyl album rips, scans – the paper originals for many of which I have recently thrown […]
Groceries for October 10: pre-travel week
This week’s groceries bill: €5.66. I only bought half a loaf of bread, a litre of milk, some bananas and a kilogram of tangerines. It’s gonna be an unusual sort of week though. I’m leaving for the United States (staying in Amsterdam overnight) on Friday, and the odds are I’ll be doing stuff in preparation […]
Groceries and tenthousandaire status
Before I forget: Grocery expenses on Saturday totaled €23 – more than in the past month but I decided to relax the standards a little. Which is just as well because I found out on Sunday that I’d lost 4 pounds in a week. The good news there is that I’m now back at the […]
Groceries, 26-9-2009, plus turntable woes.
Today’s grocery bill: about € 13.50 – I managed to lose the receipt. The lowest figure so far and most of that was made up from coffee. Without the need to feed my coffee addiction and my preference for Fair Trade coffee which the supermarket now only sells in duopacks, the bill would have been […]