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Week 32 of 2026: finish This week World Pride Amsterdam finished, and I finished a book, my time on the pirate island and last but not least, I ran a PR in the second World Pride Run this Saturday. After that I took a shower at home, a walk along the final Pride March and went to the Tropikali party at Paradiso. The following day – and still today as I am writing this – I was completely finished.…
Vandaag hoorde ik iemand praten over 'de bouwvak' en het viel me op dat dat eigenlijk een gek woord is. Officieel is dit natuurlijk een het-woord: 'het bouwvak', zoals ook 'het boekvak' en 'het kappersvak', maar ik neem aan dat de meeste mensen zonder context weten dat 'de bouwvak' opeens iets heel anders betekent: het is kort voor 'de bouwvakvakantie', de periode in de zomer waarin je er vanuit…
How I’ve been running Mausritter, part 3 I wanted to post this weeks ago, but apparently it never left my drafts folder. Read this as if it’s posted on 14 July, please! Last week I played the fifteenth episode of the Mausritter campaign I’ve been writing about before ( part 1 after episode five and part 2 after episode ten). I also made it the season finale, taking a break of a few weeks for the…
Week 31 of 2026: World Pride On Saturday it was the Canal Parade in the context of World Pride. I ended up celebrating it with friends at a woonboot on Prinsengracht, and after a year in which a broke my foot, followed by a year I volunteered to help dismantle the boat I was on, this was my most relaxed yet amazing pride in years. I loved it. Read continued The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin Watched…
Siri reminders in Dutch As a Dutch person, I'm used to Apple features that have to do with language being later. Siri in English always seems to be more advanced than her Dutch counterpart. But for this post, I wanted to nerd out on how the Dutch grammar itself makes setting a reminder in Siri much harder than it would be in English. Let's hypothetically say we have a cat and it really really…
Week 30 of 2026: walking It was Vierdaagse in Nijmegen this week, and like last year I took the friday off to see the walkers finish their final day. It was weirdly overwhelming – I knew it would, but it didn’t feel great once I was there – but I really enjoyed the walk through the Heumensoord forest, making it a relaxing day off anyway. Also World Pride started in Amsterdam this Saturday, so I…
The privilege of the invisible gay So, it's World Pride in Amsterdam and with that come a lot of activities. Lots of them are parties, but also quite a few have a more political and activist background too. Today I went to the Pride Walk, one of the protest marches that went from Dam Square (with speeches) to Vondelpark (where there was a Pride Market). Because my running schedule also included…
Week 29 of 2026: beach theme Just a nice week of being productive at work, doing my hobbies and actual good weather (warm but not too hot). Also, I finally got a haircut and volleyball moved to the sand outside. Read continued The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin This is such an interesting book, especially after the (pardon the term) pulp I've been reading in the past months. That's ok: light reading…
Heart rates over the years I’ve been training with Runna for a year now and I thought I’d share some of my progress. Since March I’ve also been running for ten years, but not without breaks. My current streak on Strava is 57 weeks, though, which means I’ve been running at least once a week for over a year now. My main takeaway is that I should take it slower . Most of your kilometers should be…
Week 28 of 2026: finales This week was a week of stomach issues. I will not describe too much detail, but it started Tuesday and I thought it was finished Thursday, only to return with a huge punch on Saturday when I thought I could eat anything I liked again on Friday. Saturday I went to The Hague for some volleyball matches: I saw the women’s U22 semifinals match between Serbia and The…
Week 27 of 2026: yacht rock Yet another week where the most exciting things where just the “normal” RPGs. I really like this hobby and I love that I get to play as much as I do. Also happy the weather is “good” again, in the new definition where +30ºC is not good and a light rain at 20ºC feels very nice. The title refers to the music genre I’ve been listening a lot to lately. Read continued In…
Week 26 of 2026: heat Last week was very hot and ended in a thunderstorm that flooded our bike parking and the rest of the ground floor of our building. But cancelled plans lead to other plans and although I don’t consider weather above 30ºC “nice” anymore, I still had a great summer week. Read The book about sign language is not finished, but I just didn’t get to it this week. I guess motivation…
Week 25 of 2026: long days This week I obtained the Nederland Dal Vrij subscription, which means I can travel all across The Netherlands outside of rush hour for just €49 per month. Apart from my usual trip to Utrecht on Wednesday I haven’t used it that much yet, but gives a great feeling of freedom. Oh and I guess we’re in the period of the year with the longest days. I love it. Read Slow…
Week 24 of 2026: Tropikali Oops, I didn’t post this yet. It’s Wednesday, captain! I went to a festival on Saturday! Unfortunately it wasn’t the greatest weather the name Tropikali gets associated with, but it was still nice to dance to all these sunny beats. Read continued Gebarentaalwetenschap by Baker, Van den Bogaerde, Pfau and Schermer continued In Deeper Waters by F.T. Lukens Played On…
Week 23 of 2026: jarig It was my Birthday in Wednesday, so I spent most of the week celebrating it. I ran a special RPG finale on Tuesday and played a normal one on my birthday itself. I went to my mom on Thursday, played boardgames with friends before going to a pop party on Friday, went to Utrecht Pride on Saturday and finally visited my dad on Sunday. All in all a busy but festive week. Read…
Brindlewood Bay as an open campaign For the last few months I’ve been running two simultaneous open table roleplaying campaigns: every Tuesday, in odd weeks, I run Brindlewood Bay – in which you are cozy elderly women investigating increasing dark murder mysteries – and in even weeks I run Mausritter – in which you are mice with swords and magic in a world that is just like ours, but a little…
Week 22 of 2026: Utrecht This was another one of those broken weeks, with Pinkstermaandag as a public holiday. I am honestly glad that we’re through them, and I hope we can at some point move these holidays in a more sensible distribution over the year. By the time it’s Pinksteren I have no idea what to do with myself anymore, but hey, there’s worse things going on in the world right now. Read…
This is a letter from my character in the game Wanderhome – a mail delivering meerkat named Sam, to the lover he always writes and hopefully one day will meet. Dear Roy, I have not yet received a reply from you – maybe you sent it – and I don’t want to come across as impatient. I just send you this new letter because I made some new friends and I want to tell you about them. Yesterday, I could…
Week 21 of 2026: long days Weird week in between the many holidays of April and May. This time of year always throws me off, which is a shame because I also love it when the days are this long. Read continued in Heated Rivalry by Rachel Reid Mild spoilers after my complaints in previous weeks: it finally gets romantic and more (self) accepting, and that made me pick up the pace again. Not finished…
Week 20 of 2026: Bijlmerrun This was a weird short week, with Thursday being Hemelvaart and – as is tradition – taking the Friday off too to get an extremely long weekend. I surprise-visited my mom on a ceramics market in Dwingeloo, went to Nijmegen for some RPG festival (see below), ran way too much in Bijlmer (see below) and visited my dad too. Read I didn’t read much, and I think I’m putting…
Week 19 of 2026: Elfia On Saturday I went to Elfia, dressed as an elf. Or, as I liked to joke, a suspiciously tall hobbit. My outfit was one of the lesser executed ones – I saw so many great ones – but luckily I also did enough to blend in. I wore elven ears, earth colors, many trinkets I had since I was fifteen years old and no shoes. That last part of the “outfit” was really what made it for me,…