Jacob Klijnsma posted an article on Old Sailor - Feb 4, 2012, 10:56 am
Dear Bloggers, The title of this blog is one of the most appreciated, but rare slogans in the Netherlands. When it is used, usually by radio or television, it means that it has frozen in the Netherlands; not just a little for a short time, but really hard and for a lon...
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Jacob Klijnsma posted an article on Old Sailor - Jan 24, 2012, 6:05 am
Dear Bloggers, As we all could see and hear on the news that a modern Cruise liner went of it’s normal position and sank close to the Italian island Giglio on Friday the 13th is a strange combination of human error and bad luck. Or are the supersticious people right about this special day, q...
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Jacob Klijnsma posted an article on Old Sailor - Jan 16, 2012, 4:21 am
Dear Bloggers, I am familiar for a while now with the diagnoses diabetes but no one is telling you about the risk that you might possibly die of this bloody disease in the Netherlands about 40 of a 1000 men will die due to being overweight, high bloodpressure, kidney faillure or vascular problems. S...
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Jacob Klijnsma posted an article on Old Sailor - Jan 10, 2012, 6:30 pm
Dear Bloggers, The new year just has started and nothing really has changed, our house is still for sale and I am still married to the the same women that I have met nineteen years ago. My god I am getting old as I talk about my yesteryears. Yes I have f***ked up life pretty much but who cares I wa...
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Jacob Klijnsma posted an article on Old Sailor - Jan 1, 2012, 8:09 am
Dear Bloggers, First of all happy 2012 to you all that read my blog, I went to bed early last night around 2 o'clock because I’ve been down with a nasty bug the last few days of 2011. I snuggled down into my covers with pillows surrounding me and fell into blessed sleep. I woke at 7 AM this needin...
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Jacob Klijnsma posted an article on Old Sailor - Dec 23, 2011, 5:09 pm
Dear Bloggers, Today I will link my blog to the action of the Dutch radiostation 3FM and the Red Cross. Timur Perlin, Gerard Ekdom and Coen Swijnenberg 3 Radio jocks lock themselves in a glass house for six nights and days and make non stop radio and out of solidarity they will not eat for six...
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Jacob Klijnsma posted an article on Old Sailor - Dec 17, 2011, 8:40 pm
Dear Bloggers, This Christmas, I am sidestepping as host in my kitchen and moving over to give my oldest daughter the honors of putting together her now very famous Tomato and Mushroom Soup! Being the good sport that I am, I will graciously surrender our kitchen and temporarily relinquish my r...
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Jacob Klijnsma posted an article on Old Sailor - Dec 8, 2011, 5:02 am
Dear Bloggers, It’s been a busy month at our house. The main event during this hectic month that just passed is my youngest daughter’s got her second swimming diploma. We’ve been celebrating since last month when she received her diploma and in the mean time Sinterklaas had arrived. Foll...
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Jacob Klijnsma posted an article on Old Sailor - Nov 27, 2011, 4:39 am
Dear Bloggers,As we all know the hard times are coming if you’re loving the sweet life. The candy that we got for Saint Martin (Same kind of thing as Halloween.) and now Sinterklaas is in the country and he is bringing sweets and chocolate. Next things in line are Christmas and New Year. Huge eati...
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Jacob Klijnsma posted an article on Old Sailor - Nov 12, 2011, 6:27 pm
Dear Bloggers, This week I went to a fysiotherapist that is booking good results with learning fibromyalgia patients a different way of live and an other way of breathing. The so called breathing from within. I have trouble to believe in these kind of health guru’s but this time this rather ...
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Jacob Klijnsma posted an article on Old Sailor - Oct 31, 2011, 6:40 am
Dear Bloggers, Again a 44 year old guy that I knew died al of a sudden for no known reason. How bitter can life be in these moments you wonder if it is all worth it. This is a tremendous load to carry for the ones that stay behind and have to go on with their lives. It is time to start l...
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Jacob Klijnsma posted an article on Old Sailor - Oct 23, 2011, 2:53 am
Dear Bloggers, This week I have been transfered again to my old station and had to pick up on my knowledge again. In a way I feel happy on the other hand reality is that they could not find anyone else. I have at this moment the feeling that the things that happened in my life so far have only...
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Jacob Klijnsma posted an article on Old Sailor - Oct 14, 2011, 6:33 pm
Dear Bloggers, This morning it was five o’clock to get up and get to work. As soon as I had my breakfast and rubbed the sleep out of my face, I open the curtains to few the world who looks brutal and dark at this time of day. When I walk to the car I feel the cold air tipping on my nose. It ...
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Jacob Klijnsma posted an article on Old Sailor - Sep 29, 2011, 5:38 pm
Dear Bloggers, This week I started with getting in shape again, as I am not the richest guy I looked for some good bargains on the internet to buy a exercise bike. The cheapest that I found would cost me € 30.00 when I called the advertiser he said that he was sorry and that he brought the s...
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Jacob Klijnsma posted an article on Old Sailor - Sep 19, 2011, 3:28 pm
Dear Bloggers, Last Friday I had a gentleman on the bus who had a difficulty with his speech, no problem in this case as I had a waiting time of more than twenty minutes. We talked about what had happened to him and how difficult this was feeling. He suffered from a brain trauma and lost a lot...
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Jacob Klijnsma posted an article on Old Sailor - Sep 10, 2011, 2:41 am
Dear Bloggers, When I got up today I turned on the radio and during my breakfast I listened to the weatherforecast. It must be a depressive job, I think only predicting rain and here and there a little bit of sunny spells. The rain is really pooring down and my garden turned into a swamp.
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Jacob Klijnsma posted an article on Old Sailor - Sep 3, 2011, 4:01 am
Dear Bloggers, As it is the last weekend before the summer holidays are ending and the kids are getting ready for going to school again. We did all the lousy work as placing covers around the school books and buying stuff that you would need this coming semester. It has been a long summer this...
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Jacob Klijnsma posted an article on Old Sailor - Aug 24, 2011, 7:55 pm
Dear Bloggers, Today my mind just dozed off to the past times again and I was trying to memorize the girls that were in my life and made my heart bounce got butterflies in my stomach and eventually most of them broke it. It became a heart with many cracks and my road of love was quite bumpy. S...
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Jacob Klijnsma posted an article on Old Sailor - Aug 15, 2011, 7:36 am
Dear Bloggers, Last friday I had a day off and the neighbors of my inlaws asked if we would join them on a boat trip on the Frisian lakes and watch the final of Skûtsjesilen on the lake (Sneekermeer). Of course as an old sailor I said yes that would be great eventhough the weather forecast pr...
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Jacob Klijnsma posted an article on Old Sailor - Aug 6, 2011, 8:16 am
Dear Bloggers, Today I will write about so called senseless violence, it is one of the items that kept my family busy after the horrible news from Norway on 22th of July. We wandered what happens to person that can get so violent without any regrets killing a large amount of people. The attack...
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Jacob Klijnsma posted an article on Old Sailor - Jul 26, 2011, 12:12 pm
Dear Bloggers, Yesterday morning I had to consult my doctor due to some earlier done bloodtests as my hands have been painful all day long for the last three months. When I phoned two weeks ago for the results the doctor’s assistant advised me to make an appointment after his holidays as th...
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Jacob Klijnsma posted an article on Old Sailor - Jul 15, 2011, 5:47 pm
Dear Bloggers, Last week we were watching a local TV soap they talked about environmental problems My youngest daughter all of a sudden spread her eyes wide open and said to me. “If they keep on doing this we will all get killed”. I gathered her into my arms. How could I soothe my daughter...
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Jacob Klijnsma posted an article on Old Sailor - Jul 3, 2011, 2:21 pm
Dear Bloggers, Hmmmm.......Honey not now I am so tired of Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin and Hyves What did I read last week into the Spits? (a free newspaper like Metro being spread in public areas and public transport)". Young people prefer smartphones over sex. Is this really stated there? I have ...
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Jacob Klijnsma posted an article on Old Sailor - Jun 24, 2011, 7:27 pm
Dear Bloggers, Where has the time gone...it seems like yesterday, the day that you were born, made your fist steps and soon I was sending you off to school for your first day of kindergarten and now you're going to high school... Just typing those words makes me uneasy and a bit sad. Whe...
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Jacob Klijnsma posted an article on Old Sailor - Jun 13, 2011, 11:43 am
Dear Bloggers, My head was empty like my bus on the last journey, I was bored and had no inspiration at all. Until hailstones and thunderstorms came out of nothing it pushed my my mind into the second gear again. A sudden strike of inspiration. I grab my smartpone and pick up my p...
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Jacob Klijnsma posted an article on Old Sailor - Jun 9, 2011, 5:45 am
Dear Bloggers, Childhood memories are special for everyone. I have a very happy memory of my childhood and always reminisce it with nostalgia. I was born and brought up in a small family which included my mother, father, brother and my two elder sisters. I have very fond memories of playing in...
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Jacob Klijnsma posted an article on Old Sailor - May 28, 2011, 5:40 am
Dear Bloggers, This week I have been setting my mind to the differences between man and woman. I hear a lot of conversations in my daily life. Most interesting I found this one. It was the frustrating world of two men having a relationship with their wife who was getting frigid. As they were i...
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Jacob Klijnsma posted an article on Old Sailor - Apr 19, 2011, 3:01 pm
Dear Bloggers, As the common readers know that I am driving commuters busses from town to town in the Northern regions of the Netherlands. During one of my journeys as a bus driver it all of a sudden came to me, I looked in the mirror to overview my passengers and even this ride is more than 4...
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Jacob Klijnsma posted an article on Old Sailor - Apr 9, 2011, 5:56 am
Dear Bloggers, First of all let me say sorry that I had you readers waiting but my body was together with my mind more inspired by getting the flu. And of course there was no chance to get sick according to my common sense. So I had a bit of a struggle to get to work this week and therefor I n...
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Jacob Klijnsma posted an article on Old Sailor - Mar 31, 2011, 4:39 am
Dear Bloggers, The spring of the year is a favorite season for many people, and it is certainly easy to understand why this is so. The spring is when the earth comes back to life slowly after a long and cold winter, and it is in the spring when the first flowers begin to bloom and the green world b...
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Jacob Klijnsma posted an article on Old Sailor - Mar 24, 2011, 5:52 am
Dear Bloggers, I was overthinking the times that Fibromyalgia was just coming into my life and I did have a pretty “normal” life. I was not a superman that did loads of sports I was just an average guy. From the age of 16 I got stiff fingers in the wintertime and I blamed it on the cold we...
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Jacob Klijnsma posted an article on Old Sailor - Mar 18, 2011, 5:12 pm
Dear Bloggers, And yes last week it happened again for the so maniest time or at least I nearly won the lottery again, I only missed by several digits. (only the last one was right.) My actual winnings were € 27,50 this time just not enough to buy new tickets from. Well maybe next month it w...
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Jacob Klijnsma posted an article on Old Sailor - Mar 12, 2011, 10:48 am
Dear Bloggers, Today I am taking a day off to celebrate another year that lies past me. Some would call it the day of the big things that came to us. On of the first things that i remember is that we switched from normal black and white to colour television, and we could receive more ch...
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Jacob Klijnsma posted an article on Old Sailor - Mar 5, 2011, 6:53 pm
Hang in there! Spring will be here soon. Dear Bloggers, Finally winter is moving out as cold and moisty weather is not my best friend I am looking forward to the Spring and Summertime again. The best part of spring is the great smells of new life in the garden. I think that this is natur...
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Jacob Klijnsma posted an article on Old Sailor - Feb 23, 2011, 9:33 pm
Dear Bloggers, For nearly everyone I know with Fibromylagia, it is not the pain, or the fatigue, or even the restless sleep that frustrates them the most, it is the feeling of no longer being productive or able to contribute to a normal society. Also the misunderstanding of the illness by other fa...
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Jacob Klijnsma posted an article on Old Sailor - Feb 14, 2011, 8:32 am
Dear Bloggers, You may consider me harsh for making such a statement, but the truth remains: the majority of the world will remain slaves to the "Rat Race" system for the rest of their lives. I speak with a lot of people on a daily basis who say that they are serious about starting their own Home Ba...
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Jacob Klijnsma posted an article on Old Sailor - Feb 6, 2011, 6:12 am
Dear Bloggers, Life is just one big gamble - I am convinced of it. Although such as philosophy is generally alien to me, I found myself in a situation the night prior to beginning this blog which really got me thinking.It was Friday evening. I had stopped working only to sleep in the previous two da...
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Jacob Klijnsma posted an article on Old Sailor - Jan 23, 2011, 8:26 am
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Jacob Klijnsma posted an article on Old Sailor - Jan 23, 2011, 7:48 am
Dear Bloggers, This morning I woke up at five and had a sad kind of feeling over me. My thoughts wandered of again to my younger days. I do not have that many memories left after my accident unless the memories had a very deep impact on my live. But first of all let me do some introducion on t...
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Jacob Klijnsma posted an article on Old Sailor - Jan 16, 2011, 3:11 pm
Dear Bloggers, First of all I would like to say that I am sorry that I have not been around for a little while due to the fact that I have started my new job at another station in the company therefor I have to learn many new routes in an area that I am not to familiar with. The good old b...
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Jacob Klijnsma posted an article on Old Sailor - Dec 27, 2010, 5:18 am
Dear Bloggers, One of the best moments of Christmas comes when it is over. I say that not as a party-pooper - I love it when it is happening - but because we now can get on with real life, which is not that bad for most of us. Much as we love visitors, and especially small ones, the sil...
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Jacob Klijnsma posted an article on Old Sailor - Dec 16, 2010, 5:04 am
Dear Bloggers, Unfortunately I am getting unemployed again and I really start to think that it is a fetish to bosses to lay off staff just before or during Christmas. As this is not the first time that it happens and yes I can handle it, but some of my fellow drivers can’t. One of them ran s...
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Jacob Klijnsma posted an article on Old Sailor - Dec 8, 2010, 4:51 am
Dear Bloggers, Today I’d like to share a few of my favorite timeless tips for improving your social life. As we are all thinking that facebook, twitter and hyves are the answer of having success in life. Wrong answer the main key in this network is you as a person, not a wannabee you. ...
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Jacob Klijnsma posted an article on Old Sailor - Nov 29, 2010, 9:07 am
Dear Bloggers, I am not the worlds example of being slim. And I do not feel the need to be that at all. Only trouble is that I have trouble to resist stuff that is high on the wrong kinds of calories and fat, and yes I love the good tradition of dining together during the holidays. Any other p...
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Jacob Klijnsma posted an article on Old Sailor - Nov 22, 2010, 5:36 am
Dear Bloggers, Today it is a nice and sunny autumn day but thios will change rapidly by the end of the week. The balmy temperatures of today will be a distant memory as winter weather will arrive in Northern parts of The Netherlands this week, the wind will get from colder areas and snow...
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Jacob Klijnsma posted an article on Old Sailor - Nov 14, 2010, 12:19 pm
Dear Bloggers, This week I talked to a young lady in the bus during one of the lonely and stormy nightshifts all of a sudden we entered the subject of loosing a person near to you. She told about the loss of her dad, when his business stranded due to the financial trouble a few years ago he di...
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Jacob Klijnsma posted an article on Old Sailor - Nov 7, 2010, 3:54 am
Dear Bloggers, Being happy doesn't mean everything is perfect. It means you have decided to look beyond the imperfections. Happy Birthday to myself Yes, it was 3 years ago today — November 8th, 2007 — that I burst out of the starting blocks. In the blogosphere, 3 years is a long tim...
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Jacob Klijnsma posted an article on Old Sailor - Oct 31, 2010, 12:19 pm
Dear Bloggers, This is my second year of being diagnosed with Fibromyalgia and I must say that I have picked up my “new life style” quite well. Eventhough pain is my biggest enemy, I walk up straight and smile to my passengers. I never realized before that deep down in me there has been a ...
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Jacob Klijnsma posted an article on Old Sailor - Oct 27, 2010, 5:10 pm
Dear Bloggers, As you probably know I am father to two beautiful daughters and to me they are the most precious things that are in my life. And yes I realize that one day the will leave the warm nest that we call home. I have the feeling that time goes so quick at the moment that before I know...
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Jacob Klijnsma posted an article on Old Sailor - Oct 18, 2010, 4:04 pm
Dear Bloggers, Today I had to ask for a loan from a relative and this all due to the fact that our car broke down, the tax office had their things sorted and send a huge bill and on top of it all I got fined for a accident that I cannot proof if it was me who caused it. Good gracious where sho...
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