After having arranged the move at my old work, there isn’t much for me to do anymore. Some odds and ends had to be dealt with for wrapping up my dissertation such as writing a Dutch summary, adding a short bio and such. Almost done… I’m waiting for the number of the SIKS dissertation series and am going to deal with the typo’s that Eva found. Then I’ll have to get in touch with the printer (and then uncle Hans) to create the final version of the cover. So all in all, almost done, time to take it easy.
Last Thursday I went to play cards with Perry in Nijmegen (actually: Wijchen). As happens so often, I wasn’t too awake during the first two boards. Not good. Have to do some bridge stuff before actually sitting down at the table. Either way, we had a lot of fun as we had to deal with some interesting bidding (and playing) problems. Afterwards we played a few deals with Wim who is partially responsible for getting the 12-14 NT in HeX, our bidding system.
When we got to Perry’s house we had a few drinks and talked a bit, mostly about bridge. Damn his bookshelf is impressive 
We did find a sollution to some of the bidding problems we had at the table but it requires agreements which are so advanced that I can safely say that they are beyond me. Too complicated. Oh, I also borrowed a nice book on math from him!
Friday I had another chance to relax. I drove to Tilburg to my old university and spend most of the afternoon catching up with old friends. I dropped by Lucie and Hans for coffee and from there I went to Hans (aka Beer) for we agreed to go to the sauna. After a lovely dinner, a big hug from Sabrina, we drove to the sauna and spent a relaxing evening there. I decided to drive back home afterwards to sleep in my own bad. I guess that having a car isn’t always a bad thing.