The kids are away at camp, the house is full of hackers hacking away (Boudewijn is hosting the Krita Hackathon) so it ought to be easy to make some writing progress.

Erm, no. It flows like treacle; very sticky.

Probably because this is one of those awkward scenes that don’t write themselves and can’t be glossed over to fix in the second draft. It’s a court case, and I simply don’t know enough to let that write itself, I have to pay attention to every detail. I’m tempted, and about to give in to the temptation, to have the accused (the about-to-be king and his consort) simply split and leave everything dangling. They’re that kind of people.

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I’ve been wearing glasses for two and a half weeks now, and I must say that I like it. Not only the pure vision effect —I do really see a lot better, though the 3-D has lost its ‘wow’ factor— but it suits me to be a bespectacled person.

I think I’ve had everything now: rain, sleet, grease, condensation from opening the oven (I hadn’t expected that) or from drinking something hot (I hadn’t expected that either, and it made an old hand at glasses-wearing laugh at me at coffee after church), bumping into things because parts of my face are an inch or so further forward than I expect, kisses going ‘clank’ instead of ‘smack’. Oh, and all the little flies that used to fly into my eyes while I was cycling and don’t any more.

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All of this cost me the net sum of 59 cents.

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Trouw brought it as breaking news: Children perform best without TV, but with computer. (disclaimer: this may be free for subscribers of the paper newspaper only, but everything is in the articles it refers to). The girls were thrilled: they’d always known that it’s watching too much TV that makes the rest of the class stupid. Hours later, I found the same item on the news site nu.nl.

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