No, those are not the essential things in life… It’s what kept me busy today though.

I started out today by doing lots of stuff in front the computer, from reviewing documents, to setting up training material, to preparing presentations and more stuff like that. At 4.30 I kind of was a bit tired of it and went out for a while. I figured I should get some books. I’m starting a world tour in a few days (well, that’s maybe exaggerating it a little bit, but I will be traveling quite a bit the next few weeks) so there was a definite need for some reading material. I got myself the following books:

• The Lost Diaries of Adrian Mole - by Sue Townsend
• The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - Junot Díaz
• Gentlemen of the Road - Michael Chabon
• The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas - John Doyne
• The White Tiger - Aravind Adiga

Then as I walked home, I decided to take a different route and came across a new take-out place creatively called the Food Shop. It’s on the Oude Gracht opposite the Rembrandt Cinema. I’m eating the food they prepared for me as we speak (still busy reviewing some documents) and it’s quite good. There was some potato gratin, beef stew with onions and tomotoes and some mixed grilled veggies and a salad. Pretty edible

Last but not least in about an hour, I’m heading towards Laren, to have one of my kites repaired. Tomorrow the winds are blowing again (about 20 knots) and although I won’t be able to use my 8sqm I guess, I still have to have it repaired after I ripped it a bit… The place I’m heading is called Kitereparatie.nl. It’s just a guy who’s good at fixing kites…

In the meantime, Boards of Canada started playing, which reminds me of the last few songs I heard on Last.FM. I subscribed to Last.FM by the way. It doesn’t bring you a whole lot, apart from your loves songs now being a radio station you can listen to, but well, I think the service is really useful, so I’ll gladly pay up.

Tonight I’m not going to do a whole lot. I’m going to have a few beers with Jack (a friend of mine). Tomorrow it’s kiting day. I’ll also drop by at my parents. They just got back from a holiday and then I’ll be going to Amsterdam to have a few drinks there… On Sunday, I’ll probably do some kiting again and later in the day, I’ll fly to Copenhagen. Denmark and Sweden, that’s what it’s going to be this week.

• Electric President - Hum
• Piana - Winter Sleep

- cool Japanese ambient music

• John Afterglow - Raw Like Sushi

- some really cool Swedish electro!