I haven’t done linklogs in a while, but I have been storing and retracing links, so have a massive link dump: I try not to linklog paywalled posts, but this Patreon-only post from Colleen Doran is worth it to me: Consistent Focus, Consistent Action. It is the first of a series in which she discusses […]
Category Archives: Life
When good habits aren’t
Back in October of last year, when I decided to do Inktober, I changed my schedule around so that I would have time first thing in the morning to draw: after shower, breakfast, walking the dogs and all the other necessary tasks of the morning, I would set aside at least half an hour before […]
This is my brain on the flu.
I’ve been working while sick in my day job and I didn’t realize until Saturday just how bad I a shape I was in. Even as I managed to hold it together day-job wise, I didn’t touch my drawing tools for a whole week because it was wake up, work, come home, zonk out. I […]
Road trip to Spain
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 […]