An evening
April 3rd, 2010
I spent yesterday evening with Carlijn in Den Haag, catching up and having fun drinking beers, wine and cocktails 
. We didn’t make it very late, though, because Carlijn wants to spend this weekend writing her thesis. I was home at around 11pm and went out with my camera after that. I started in my own street (it looked so pretty after 2 cocktails), but seeing these pictures now they don’t inspire me at all. I also visited some university buildings at the Faculty of Arts, and I am quite pleased with them.
You can see them in a larger size on my photoblog over the next few days.
A Storm
March 31st, 2010
As a small storm crossed over Holland yesterday, I took the opportunity to take a few pictures of its front approaching Leiden:
Clouds over water
March 28th, 2010
Vlietlanden, March 28th
A Few Pictures
March 21st, 2010
“Don’t wait for your ship to come in – swim out to it.” (Unknown)
Photographs from Leiderdorp after the jump.
What a week.
March 20th, 2010
Starting on Friday night, I went out with Alexandra and Eva after seeing a crappy show by Leine & Roebana. We had some beers at Meneer Jansen and after dropping Eva off at the station, Alexandra and me continued the night eating falafel and chips, and went home at around 2am. Great night out.
Saturday
A delightful evening at Imperium, serving people drinks, with Rene. Actually managed to read a few pages during the day!
Sunday
Washing clothes, cleaning my apartment, making soup–all the delights of being at home. And getting to know my cat again, she must be wondering who that fella is that keeps feeding her and cleaning her litterbox.
Monday
Seeing the doctor for an irritating beep in my ears first thing in the morning. Then off to work till 6.30 (to make up for the time spent at the doctor’s office), then in the evening rehearsals at Imperium. There we managed to play the entire piece albeit that it’s only the framework that’s there. Many details still need to be colored in, but hey, we still have 7 weeks before our opening night!
Tuesday
Rushing to Toverlei after work for a meeting. Most of the first half of the meeting I was alert, but after a short break I started dozing off and missing the point of what was said altogether. So after some suggestions from others around the table I went home before the end of the meeting–which I didn’t mind at all.
Wednesday
Rehearsals again at Imperium! This time we focussed on a small bit between me and Anna, and we practiced moaning and breathing really bad German pornography lines on the cheesiest music you can think of. That was fun! During the day I was delighted to receive messages from somebody as yet unmentioned here, and they drew a fair bit of my attention away from work. 
Thursday
Eating at Manuela and rehearsals at Toverlei. We managed a complete run of the first part of the piece, and like the piece at Imperium the framework is there, but all the details still need to be colored in. But all in all it was a good run!
Friday
Even though I had a ticket to a show at the LAK theater, I stayed home and went to bed early. I was very tired. Too bad about the show.
Saturday
Checking out a potential house for me to buy in Leiden (Medusastraat 35), I went to see the wedding of John and Anik at the Zen center in Leiden for the ceremony, and later in Den Haag for the reception. Tasted mede for the second time in my life, and met some new people. Also talked to Frodo and Petra again!
Now
It’s off to bed as I am really tired and need to catch up on some sleep!
Snow in January
March 7th, 2010
A Dutch poem
March 5th, 2010
After 15 years of not writing even a scratch of something poetic (and before that not writing more than two lines of it), I’ve finally, finally, come up with something that remotely resembles a poetic (and seriously tragic but also recognisable) idea. It’s Dutch, and here it is:
wolken
op jouw voorruit
door mijn binnenspiegel
maken je warmer
Korzo at 5Hoog & Japanese bookbinding at UB
February 28th, 2010
Last Friday I joined a small workshop on Japanese Bookbinding at the UB. It was quite interesting to learn about its tradition and to spend 20 minutes fiddling with paper, needle and thread, glue and objects to hammer with. But most spectacular were the Japanese books on exhibit just for this workshop. They were taken from the Siebold House’s vault and worth a fortune. Maps, travel-guides for Tokio’s eighteenth-century’s red-light district, anatomy books with folding-away limbs and strategically placed towels (no really!) were on display. Seriously impressive stuff if you’re into books!
After the workshop Alexandra and me went for beers and spontaneously decided to go see a dance show in Den Haag. We got on the train and walked for about 15 minutes to the theatre 5Hoog, which is actually an old and empty office building close to the railroad tracks. The show was crap (something about a dream–which doesn’t help trying to interpret the show), but the view from the cafe was breathtaking! We got back to Leiden at about 23:30, after eating at a small take-away Falafel off of Spui, and despite biking home through the rain in Leiden I thought the day splendid.
iPod synchronisation error (-48)
February 28th, 2010
I ran into a problem with iTunes this morning where it would tell me that it couldn’t synch my iPod—which wasn’t a problem until this morning. I’ve had issues before concerning synchronizing and copying music to my iPod, which had to do with the speed of the usb port I used. Apparently the usb ports on the front of you pc are slower than the ones at the back. Changing to one at the back solved my copying problem.
And now this. For some reason a negative error-code looks scarier than a positive one so I thought I’d be in a fix and no mistake. I could still copy music to my iPod but I’d get the Dutch errormessage “Er heeft zich een onbekende fout voorgedaan (-48)” every 30 seconds or so.
A quick google suggested the solution: run chkdsk on your iPod’s associated drive letter, using the \F switch. This means Windows checks the physical HD of your iPod and fixes any errors it may find.
And it fixed my problem!
My reading place
February 21st, 2010
One sure window into a person’s soul is his reading list.
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My name is Marco Hokke. My blog is about the things that interest me and things I might forget if I would not blog them.