Marien van Os

Today we’ve decided to go back to the Netherlands on Saturday 29th of September. In the upcoming week I’ll have to cancel our Internet connection because we probably don’t need the connection in Aubenton the coming months. And since i don’t have a connection in my new house yet I will probably don’t have acces to the internet for a couple of weeks. I’ll have to check my e-mail in the local cafe or spend some time at a friends house. When I’m back to Amsterdam I will be living in my new house, something I’m looking forward to. Of course I’ve missed my life in Amsterdam, but the sickness of my father is slowly getting worse. We’re now making appointments with several care companies and personal caregivers. And I think I will be helping out for one or two days a week. So we’ll have to see how that will develop.

In the coming weeks I will probably be spending a lot of time setting everything up in my new house. I have to rebuild my old Bruynzeel kitchen which was originally designed by Piet Zwart. I hope that i can still fit all of the pieces together.
And when i’m finished I will start working as a free-lance front-end developer so I still have to build some info pages with my portofolio and things like that. I guess i’ll see to that when I’m back in Amsterdam.

Since I’m a front-end developer who wants to stay up to date with the latest and greatest I’ve ordered a few books at Amazon.com. Don’t now what kind of IDE I’m gonna use with the books maybe Flex or Flash. I’ve some experience with Flex but that’s already a long time ago since I made an apllication with it. And nowadays it doesn’t really matter which kind of IDE you use you just write some classes. But I still prefer to use flash since the kind of applications I make are mostly designed in Illustrator or Photoshop and are mostly some sort of image viewer with a little animation or navigational User Interface. See for example my latest Flash application I made for Mirabeau. And i think it’s easier to just make some movieclips and tie them together with a separate class file. At least that’s what i think right now maybe ths will change when I’ve read the books. Well here is the list of the books I’ve ordered at Amazon.com. I believe they will arrive here in Aubenton around the 12th of September so I still have some time to read/examine maybe one or two before I’m back in Amsterdam.

So when i’ve completed the books I think you can call me a AS3.0 expert. But don’t know when that will be. I will first read this article Getting Started with ActionScript 3.0 in Adobe Flash CS3 at the excellent site of senocular.com.

I’ve registered myself for the Amsterdam Marathon not the full one but the half which is still 21km. I’ve setup a schedule on a Dutch site called hardloopschema.nl which is a very helpfull site if you’re training for a running event. I even have my own training schedule page which i try to follow. If I strictly follow the schedule I must be able to break my record of 1:47:56 (which I ran in 2005) with 1:35 to 1:40. And for my own body statistics I’ve setup my Suunto T6 watch again so I can follow my heartbeat and all kinds of other stuff and see if the training schedule has any effect on my physical condition. The event is on the 21th of October so I’ll let you know in which time I completed it. In the mean time I have quite much training days ahead of me so I’ll hope these will go well and that i can keep up with the schedule. And since i’m still living in Aubenton I guess I’ll be seeing a lot of cows and green hill landscapes.

And between my trainings I made some pictures of our garden just after I mowed it see them over here.