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Rearranging the sock drawer
23-02-2014 15:16
When I first heard of this activity, I was watching a movie of some kind. But it could also have been an episode of Are You Being Served. Every time I heard this line, it seemed comical, and meant as a joke or an excuse. I couldn't imagine that someone would actually plan to have a sit down and...
ACT 2
18-02-2014 10:40
I'm afraid to go to bed.
It's not like I fear lions and tigers under my bed. I just dread the end of day when I have to go to bed.
Maybe it's because I don't sleep well, so often. Sometimes I fall asleep quite fast and get into a deep sleep, awakening after four or five hours, not being able...
Eat Out vs Take Out
09-02-2014 19:41
On birthdays it often happens we eat take-out. To us that is special. We don't usually have take out dinners. For very special occasions we do eat out. But that is not entirely a pleasurable experience for me.
It happens sometimes I get conned when eating out, having something which is quite a bit...
Do Over
08-02-2014 16:46
You know that feeling, I guess. When you've done something in a not so clever way, and you wish you'd get a do-over. This happende to me the other day, when I requested a continuance of the medication I received up till now.
Having been raised as a true Dutchman, I thought it unnecessarily wasteful...
Remarkably thick
24-10-2013 05:39
The whole of the Netherlands seems in an uproar over the Sinterklaas festivities that are to be investigated by a UN delegation. Verene Shepherd, head of this delegation, is however already convinced that it should be banned.
This is remarkably thick for someone in a position such as...
Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue
24-10-2013 04:43
Quite possible that everybody experiences something like this. I can only speak for myself. I use this as an example. I could tell the same story about different hardware.
In de past days my car navigation didn't work well. I could hardly hear the directions and dearly missed the so called...
The China Syndrome
14-10-2013 23:17
Lately I checked the statistics of this blog, courteously provided by the site. To my surprise the largest amount of traffic to my pages comes from China, with the US as a close second. This makes for fascinating fantasy. Or is it?
Why would so much traffic come from a country where people...
stressing all the time
05-10-2013 17:00
I’m afraid I do this all the time.
There are things I feel I need to do. Like when I contemplate buying something expensive. I feel I need to shop around to prevent paying too much. But this comes at a price. Because there could be feelings of loyalty in play.
Years and years I’ve...
human contact
29-09-2013 14:20
It must be silly for a normal person, but almost every kind of human interaction makes me nervous. Preceding it I worry about how it might go and anticipate it going wrong in some way.
You might expect this to have a plus side: to be well prepared should it go wrong. But in reality it seldom...
dealing with noise
26-09-2013 20:15
Sitting on the patch of lawn outside our holiday appartment, I have the same old problem I have to deal with on a regular basis: when to object to noise and when not to.
It took me quite some time to realize that I might have more problems with noise than other people. I just thought that...