Pretty sure Sasha and I have the illness that was bothering Nora last week. She has totally recovered, we're still on our way back. Today I went for a run. Didn't go so bad as I had feared.
After many years I said goodbye to Blackberry today. Yesterday the charging port of my Blackberry Storm 2 fell out of the phone.
Today I went to the Verizon reseller in the mall at my work and got the HTC One M8, an Android phone.
I am looking forward to installing apps I haven't been able to use, such as Waze, Uber and Anki SRS, and the phone has been nice to play with so far. My corporate email hasn't switched over yet, hopefully tomorrow.
It's been six years since my first smartphone, a BlackBerry Pearl.
Today I talked with man who used to be a supervisor of programmers at the Pentagon. He looked fit -- but he was 90 years old, born in 1923.
We were in the mall and Nora was eating a pear while I listened to his stories about the first mainframes ("we upgraded from 20,000 tubes to 40,000 tubes"). He had teams working in 3 shifts, to use the machines 24/7. He said with a smile: "I would get calls at 2.00 or 3.00 am. The problems always got resolved but I got an ulcer."
He mentioned that he created a detailed flowchart for a new office in New York, which showed the connection between the various machines: CPUs, card readers, tape units, printer etc. He said: "the diagram was 15 foot long, on thick brown paper. My boss wanted to show it off, to Congress, but when he unrolled it they just said: 'oh sure, that looks fine' and approved it".
It was special to talk with someone who shares my profession -- but who did so 30 years before I was born.
Nora had finished her pear, and the man's wife --just as spry-- came back from shopping and we said goodbye.
It's been a rough two weeks, with the new door, Sasha going to Vancouver, and now Nora with a cold. I slept very deeply and woke up at 8.30 am. Maybe even a little bit feverish.
Still, went for a good run. It was warm and I've been drinking water all day to recover.
This morning we spoke with Opa and Oma, who just came back from a camping trip with Ettie & Gerben, and then we left to the Frying Pan Farm.
Nora was looking forward to it and remembered her previous visits. She knew where the turkeys where, and the pigs, and we both wanted to see the horse ("aan het nadenken") but the horse was somewhere else this time.
We had a good time. Nora even touched a calf ("aaien!"). She was very impressed by the sheep shearing and wasn't sure what to make of it.
We spent maybe an hour on the farm but it tired her. When we were on our way back we passed the poultry barn and I asked: "wil je de kalkoenen weer zien?" (would you like to see the turkeys again) and she said that no, she'd prefer to go home. Then she said: "en de kalkoenen gaan naar huis." -- she projects her own situation on others. When Nora gets tired, she will start talking about how other things "start to sleep". So she'll see kids and then say: "de kindertjes gaan slapen" -- a sure sign that she is tired.
After many years I said goodbye to Blackberry today. Yesterday the charging port of my Blackberry Storm 2 fell out of the phone. 
Nora still has a cold, she started coughing yesterday and has a stuffy nose. She doesn't seem to be too unhappy, thankfully.
This morning we spoke with Opa and Oma, who just came back from a camping trip with Ettie & Gerben, and then we left to the Frying Pan Farm. 
