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Nov 17, 2024: I still need to figure out how this little fellow managed to get in there…

Nov 17, 2024: Looks like the weather is gonna change…

Nov 17, 2024: 🏃‍♂️ Yesterday I ran the 7 km Seven Hills Nightrun. I was so happy with the result that I looked for more runs in the upcoming months. This is the …

Nov 16, 2024: 🏃‍♂️ Completed the 7 km Seven Hills Night Run in Nijmegen in 38.21 minutes. A Total of 8933 runners of which 450 in the category ‘Men 60-65 years’. I …

Nov 13, 2024: We had tailwind from Stockholm to Amsterdam and arrived almost 30 minutes ahead of schedule. Downside was that the groundcrew was not available yet, …

Nov 13, 2024: Heading for home. Bye bye Sweden.

Nov 12, 2024: “Freshly painted”

Nov 12, 2024: This is the theme park opposite the street when you exit Gothia Towers hotel. Maybe during one of my next visits to Gothenburg I should give it a try.

Nov 12, 2024: Woke up just before the alarm (6 AM) after an uninterrupted deep sleep from 10 PM. I needed it obviously. Breakfast at Gothia Towers was great. Now …

Nov 11, 2024: Ended up this evening after a long day at the hotelbar with a colleague who told about his stepfather being in the hospital with cancer. We never had …

Nov 11, 2024: Layover in Stockholm where I arrived at terminal 2 or 3. Decided to take a walk to Terminal 5 for flight to Gothenburg but didn’t realize I had to …

Nov 11, 2024: (Very) early flight to Gothenburg (with layover in Stockholm). Not so crowded at Schiphol this morning. Flight delayed with 15 minutes.

Nov 10, 2024: We’ve accomplished the Power user testing with good results, and global milestone meeting voted for Continue. We’ve passed the point of no …

Nov 10, 2024: Last week I wasn’t much online, not because of the dramatic outcome (my honest opinion) of the US elections (although not a US citizen, …

Nov 9, 2024: 🏃‍♂️ Evening run 5 km. When I was done, I jogged slowly back home. Not many people outside with the exception of two fishermen searching for the …

Nov 8, 2024: 📺 Justice (2024) Slow moving but very intriguing crime story, situated in Poland somewhere in the nineties. Discharged police officer (due to his …

Nov 3, 2024: 🏃‍♂️ Evening run 10 km completed just before sunset.

Nov 3, 2024: Silent Sunday

Nov 3, 2024: In less than two weeks I will participate in the 7 km Seven Hills Night Run in Nijmegen. To support me you can make a donation to the Youth Fund for …

Nov 3, 2024: “The very first urban pet cemetery was founded in 1881 in Hyde Park, London, following the death of a (reportedly very sweet) little Maltese dog …

Nov 3, 2024: Sunny Sunday November morning

Nov 2, 2024: Leave me alone… #caturday

Nov 2, 2024: Today I registered allofpel.com at micro.blog and will start to migrate my blog archive (mainly in dutch) to this domain. I hope I do nothing wrong to …

Nov 1, 2024: Working day finished. 🏃‍♂️ Evening run 8.5 km completed (and on track for 7 km Seven Hills night run in Nijmegen at 16 Nov). Let the weekend begin!

Nov 1, 2024: Working from home today on a misty morning. Not so many conference calls so finally some time to finish (a lot) open actions. Looking forward to go …

Oct 30, 2024: 🏃‍♂️ Evening run 5,5 km. It was already dark when I left. So ‘happy’ with the daylight savings time change (not).

Oct 29, 2024: Nothing wrong with my hearing 🧏‍♂️

Oct 28, 2024: A colleague came back from visiting her family in China and brought little presents for all of us.

Oct 28, 2024: Another day in the office. Not so many people around due to Autumn vacation in this area. I’m planning to have a week off later in November when …

Oct 27, 2024: 🏃‍♂️Evening run 5 km The cows were supporting me 😅

Oct 27, 2024: Sunday morning. Returning yesterday from Romania where we had a one-hour difference, and with another clock-change last night for daylight saving, I …

Oct 26, 2024: Pleidooi voor een schaamteloze benaming => Weg met het woord ‘schaamlippen’. Taal doet er toe www.nrc.nl/nieuws/20… …

Oct 26, 2024: “Are we so made that we have to take death in small doses daily or we could not go on with the business of living?” Orlando - Virginia Woolf I had to …

Oct 26, 2024: I’m ‘Discover’ing new people to follow. About Me: Dutch 60+ man living together with my wife close to the German border. Two kids and three grandkids …

Oct 26, 2024: I rejoined MB about a week ago, started to follow people and was surprised to see that a few days later I was only following the MB news updates. Not …

Oct 26, 2024: From last evenings walk in Cluj-Napoca. Today I’m heading back home.

Oct 25, 2024: I’m not in Rome.

Oct 24, 2024: Dinner with the team in old town of Cluj-Napoca.

Oct 23, 2024: After a long day in the office we walked from the hotel to an Italian restaurant for dinner. The weather was nice, the walk was relaxing, the food was …

Oct 22, 2024: Last hour before midnight I will read in ‘Orlando’ from Virginia Woolf. First time read and I’m intrigued by it. Such a wonderful prose.

Oct 22, 2024: Eindhoven Airport- waiting for WizzAir flight to Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

Oct 20, 2024: Another podcast I listened to today while working in the garden was on the philosophical works of Susanne Langer (1895-1985) => …

Oct 20, 2024: While working in the garden I listened to a podcast on ‘In Cold Blood’ by Truman Capote: podcasts.apple.com/nl/podcas…

Oct 20, 2024: Got a new company mobile (iPhone 15) and started to use dualsim so I no longer have to walk around with two devices (one for personal, and one for …

Oct 20, 2024: Mushrooms in a walnut.

Oct 20, 2024: New start on micro.blog Older post are imported.

Jul 21, 2024: Veel te vroeg wakker (05:00 uur). Waarschijnlijk vanwege het warme weer. Nog even omgedraaid en uiteindelijk om 06:30 uur opgestaan. Op m'n gemak de …

Jul 13, 2024: We hadden onze kleindochter te logeren. Vanochtend rond 9 uur werd ze netjes op tijd bezorgd door haar ouders. Die hadden een uitje met vrienden in …

Jul 7, 2024: De komende week heb ik een paar dagen vakantie. Eigenlijk afgelopen vrijdag al maar door het ingelaste tripje naar Stavanger ben ik toch gaan werken …

Jul 6, 2024: Vanochtend vroeg opgestaan om de poort open te doen voor de twee werklui die we ingehuurd hebben voor wat klussen achter in de tuin. Ze konden vandaag …

Jul 4, 2024: Het verblijf in Stavanger zit er weer op. Normaal gesproken zou ik gisteravond naar huis zijn gevlogen maar omdat ik waarschijnlijk nogal laat was met …

Aug 6, 2022: Vorig jaar las ik het monumentale boek Anna Karenina geschreven door Leo Tolstoj. Voordat ik aan het boek begon dacht ik dat het verhaal zich …