Faragon's blog

But I said ‘yes, yes, yes’ In July 2007 I hurt my back, I herniated two disks, and they never completely healed. Today I had an intake at RCA (Revalidatie Centrum Amsterdam, Dutch site) a rehab center, as they have a special program (PDF, Dutch) for patients with chronic pain problems. It comes down to [...]

I have cleaned up my apartment, that is to say, my bedroom is a semi mess, but that’s just because of the amount of unfolded laundry, should only take me one evening to sort that out as well (probably tomorrow night, as tonight is the last sunny evening in a while) I have had two [...]

I have just decided that I’ll throw my life around. I’ll clean up my apartment, starting tonight. I’m going to entertain people at my place more often again, I loved doing that, and I just never get around to it anymore. I might change the setup of the living room. I might close off the [...]

Sometimes you have one of those days, where you just suddenly realize what you want to do about something, a bit of inspiration here, a little bit of time there, and before you know it, nothing comes of any of your good plans to do one thing or another and you’re working away on something [...]

You cannot perceive beauty but with a serene mind. – Henry David Thoreau I pondered on that for a little while. I just realized that my life is so good right now, it’s the little things that make you see it. Someone was wining on IRC tonight, like this person had been doing all week, [...]

This morning, as I was walking Jael, the world looked like a fairy-tale land, all the grass and fall leaves were frosted over, and each individual strand of grass made me think of elvish popsicles… The air was incredibly cold, it was already 9:30 and it was still freezing, but everything was so pristine and [...]

About my firsts…
My first diving lesson.
My first driving lesson.
My firsts of things I was afraid of… And how I’m not anymore.

faragon@coffee$ smoketimer Two months, 5 days, 8 hours, 11 minutes, 13 seconds. 1010 cigarettess not smoked, saving EUR 213.11. Life saved: 4 Days, 5 hours. I like the amount of cigarettes not smoked :-) And the amount of money saved of course ;-) It’s incredible to think I spent about a hundred Eu a month [...]

We have all, the time in the world Time enough for life To unfold All the prescious things Love has in store It’s funny how much time one can have on ones hands, and the thoughts that enfold from that. Thinking about that, and the lyrics to the song “We have all the time in [...]

I wonder if it’s possible to have an IM overdose. Right now, I’ve had it with all the fast media. If someone needs me, I’ll be available over phone, during office hours. And via email. Let’s see how long I last, I can clearly remember my last week without Internet access, it was in Switzerland, [...]