Sunday, August 28, 2011
Saturday, August 27, 2011
Ubiquity
I drove with Sonja in a taxi to the airport this morning. She's always taking taxis, because the boss pays, and I can't help considering it an unnecessary luxury. The Indian or Pakistani taxi driver was very talkative. After he told me (only me; he spoke Dutch) that 3 people died yesterday in an accident on the stretch of highway we were driving on, he almost made a repeat by narrowly jumping out of the way of a car as we entered Schiphol.
Sonja and me had a hurried goodbye. I looked for a post office on the airport but found none. Drank a Starbucks tall latte (at the moment, the Starbucks on Schiphol is the only one in the entire country -- I'm sure that's changed in 2011) and caught the train to work.
I'm getting obsessive over building our new R6 interface, spending almost no time on what my job title says I should be doing (tech writing). At lunchtime, I speedwalked to the post office and back to run an errand for Sonja: delivering gifts for the newborn baby of one of her business associates, the Dutch lawyer in her arbitration case. Good exercise, we're trying to lose weight.
At the end of the day I saw a demo online for Ubiquity, an exciting new add-on for the Firefox browser (does that still exist?). I mailed it to Ingrid, my former fellow tech writer turned marketing person, but she didn't respond. I wonder if she's OK, I could swear I saw her teary-eyed while talking to our colleague Otto.
On the way home, I read Dictionary of the Khazars (almost finished, will probably finish today).
I tried to eat healthy but ended up eating too much. I'm still below my daily calorie intake according to a Dutch site.
Haven't heard from Sonja since she called me from takeoff. Will call her soon.
Sonja and me had a hurried goodbye. I looked for a post office on the airport but found none. Drank a Starbucks tall latte (at the moment, the Starbucks on Schiphol is the only one in the entire country -- I'm sure that's changed in 2011) and caught the train to work.
I'm getting obsessive over building our new R6 interface, spending almost no time on what my job title says I should be doing (tech writing). At lunchtime, I speedwalked to the post office and back to run an errand for Sonja: delivering gifts for the newborn baby of one of her business associates, the Dutch lawyer in her arbitration case. Good exercise, we're trying to lose weight.
At the end of the day I saw a demo online for Ubiquity, an exciting new add-on for the Firefox browser (does that still exist?). I mailed it to Ingrid, my former fellow tech writer turned marketing person, but she didn't respond. I wonder if she's OK, I could swear I saw her teary-eyed while talking to our colleague Otto.
On the way home, I read Dictionary of the Khazars (almost finished, will probably finish today).
I tried to eat healthy but ended up eating too much. I'm still below my daily calorie intake according to a Dutch site.
Haven't heard from Sonja since she called me from takeoff. Will call her soon.
Friday, August 26, 2011
Hello future me
Today is August 27th. 2008 for me, 2011 for you. You (I) won't see this text until three years have passed. I wonder what you will still remember from three years ago?
The idea for this blog came to me when I was reading the book 'Dictionary of the Khazars', in which a characters writes letters to herself.
Just to fill you in on what's going on in my life at the moment.
Sonja and me are living together in a rented apartment near Amstel station in Amsterdam. I'm working as a technical writer turning into a functional designer/usability expert at SDL Tridion. Sonja is working for KD Group as a corporate lawyer. She's currently representing her company in an arbitration case.
We're getting serious about buying a house in the West of the city, where we used to live, and are taking concrete steps, talking to mortgage people. We've recently taken Romina to Paris, where both she and Sonja had a rotten time, and me too, to be honest. Sonja is reading a 1000-page biography of Hitler: the Holocaust and the nazis continue to fascinate her.
As for my family: my dad is his old, unchanging self in Den Haag; my mother is living in Apeldoorn, giving money to the offspring that needs it; Jessica is living in Amsterdam, fairly close to us. DB just moved up one floor in his Rotterdam apartment.
Have to stop now: Sonja is packing for Ljubljana, I'll be following her at the end of the week.
DB has just moved
The idea for this blog came to me when I was reading the book 'Dictionary of the Khazars', in which a characters writes letters to herself.
Just to fill you in on what's going on in my life at the moment.
Sonja and me are living together in a rented apartment near Amstel station in Amsterdam. I'm working as a technical writer turning into a functional designer/usability expert at SDL Tridion. Sonja is working for KD Group as a corporate lawyer. She's currently representing her company in an arbitration case.
We're getting serious about buying a house in the West of the city, where we used to live, and are taking concrete steps, talking to mortgage people. We've recently taken Romina to Paris, where both she and Sonja had a rotten time, and me too, to be honest. Sonja is reading a 1000-page biography of Hitler: the Holocaust and the nazis continue to fascinate her.
As for my family: my dad is his old, unchanging self in Den Haag; my mother is living in Apeldoorn, giving money to the offspring that needs it; Jessica is living in Amsterdam, fairly close to us. DB just moved up one floor in his Rotterdam apartment.
Have to stop now: Sonja is packing for Ljubljana, I'll be following her at the end of the week.
DB has just moved
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