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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 [...]

No, this is not a post on the difference between good and evil, although I of course am obviously good and everything that opposes me is therefor clearly evil, this is a post about the difference between brilliant art and art that is anything else. I take art very liberally, I mean books, music, movies, [...]

This: Latest tweet RT @RickDeckardt: Naast giro 555 is er nu ook giro 666, voor het hek om dat land, jaartje wachten, goedkoop t landje verdelen, profit! http://twitter.com/Moi_Faragon Might be a bit harsh for me. Normally I don’t condone such remarks, but lately I have noticed that we’ve all become (in my eyes) overly concerned [...]

I let my mind wander and wondered about the things we don’t say. I expect (and usually get) honesty, but not only that, openness and a direct approach are high on my list too. Yet I’m not sure I pay others the same courtesy as I expect of them[...]

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 [...]

Do you know where your towel is? (Which Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy character are you?) Ford Prefect (Ix) Kyah, almost the funnest guy in the known universe besides your pal Zaphod. You know how to have a good time, even if all the sods around you dont. Why dont you ditch Arthur already and [...]

CEST 2008 May 13 01:36:19 -!- Faragon [~faragon@83.68.0.49] has quit [Ping timeout] May 14 10:10:34 coffee spamd[722]: spamd: connection from localhost [127.0.0.1] at port 3622 A total downtime of approximately 1 day, 8 hours and 34 minutes. (If you take into account that I “normally” receive spam every second, and 15 seconds, but who’s counting? [...]

* Faragon shivers It’s very freakin’ early and it’s very freakin’ cold! I *love* my job, somehow a minor ajustment on my part resulted in the feeling that I have a completely new and even greater job. However, if I have to get up at 4:30 (ish) to get to work in time (5:45), I [...]

Think alike :-) Walking on Geneva airport yesterday, I remembered that I *NEED* a watch, I’ve been going without it for about two years again, and I just keep forgetting to buy me a nice one. I found Body and soul, a self winding watch of good quality (I know someone who has used it [...]