“If you can guess the two things in the box, I’ll bring cake to work next week!” My (new, temporary) colleagues did in the end guess that the main thing in the big box I had just walked in with was a saxophone. The fact that it also contained two chorizo sausages saved me from [...]
Do you know those people who go: “Blablabla. Bla. Blabla bla blablablabla!”? Who do nothing but talk, never produce a single thing? Well, if you’re lucky they’ll produce a document. Which is full of “Blabla bla blabla” as well. Consultants! I really dislike those people. They always have such high ideas, about how to change [...]
It was a Saturday night. The sky was clear, yet something was brooding, a quality in the air that spoke of things to come. None of them any good. But perhaps not bad either. He walked into the apartment, dropped his coat where he stood, wishing he could shed the rest of his problems, perhaps [...]
Usually when I go traveling I want to see and do it all. Walk through town, see the museum, try a local dish, look at the pretty church / temple / mosque, look out over the city, visit the zoo, meet the people, observe the local customs, etc. Last weekend I was in Alicante, Spain. [...]
Once upon a time I was working for a company. I had a job description which give some indication of what I was to do and I had a few levels of higher and lower management above me who were more than happy to help me figure out how to spend my time (“Bastiaan, I [...]