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Derek Vandivere @vandivere.net · 8h

Today's gig: Karlovy Vary, Czechia, with about 100 natural springs.

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Derek Vandivere @vandivere.net · 13h

Even in Czechia, they know where there's always money

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Derek Vandivere @vandivere.net · 08/10/2026

Guess I don't need to worry too much about how my hair will be received here in Czechia - got a big thumbs up from a few salon workers.

Purple haired man posing in front of an ad with a blue haired woman.

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Derek Vandivere @vandivere.net · 08/10/2026

Today's gig - rehearsing in a spa hotel somewhere in Bohemia.... #trombone

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Derek Vandivere @vandivere.net · 04/10/2026

We just got home from a walk, this one ran off looking guilty, my Mac was playing music instead of being asleep, and I'm now locked out of my account. I think she must have been looking for kitty porn.

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Derek Vandivere @vandivere.net · 28/09/2026

The sophisticated beauty of a cat that just managed to tip her bed off the desk and fall to the floor. In the middle of a Zoom call. I may need to find a new intern.

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Derek Vandivere @vandivere.net · 27/09/2026

By the way, the first solo on this number we haven't played for at least six months and on which you've never soloed is for you...

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Derek Vandivere @vandivere.net · 23/09/2026

And Ninja who is a very large lad

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Derek Vandivere @vandivere.net · 23/09/2026

Pomme, my office assistant

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Derek Vandivere @vandivere.net · 23/09/2026

Here's Shitten, demurely sippin'

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Derek Vandivere @vandivere.net · 18/09/2026

Business cat has some feedback on my KPIs... (kitty petting indicators)

Tuxedo cat luxuriously reclining in an LL Bean briefcase

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Derek Vandivere @vandivere.net · 14/09/2026

Discovered that I'd accidentally been carpooling (bikepooling?) today. She seemed annoyed that I destroyed her web cycling home but was already busy reconstructing.

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Derek Vandivere @vandivere.net · 10/09/2026

Just about twenty years ago, I got engaged. At Oktoberfest. On a roller coaster. That was a cheap Star Wars knockoff. While wearing a mask. It's going well so far.

Two very young people who have just become engaged, wearing plastic masks and showing off a bit of string used as an ersatz engagement ring.

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Derek Vandivere @vandivere.net · 08/09/2026

Had a pretty good boat ride and sunset last Sunday...

My wife and I on our boat, on the Singel in Amsterdam just behind the flower market.

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Derek Vandivere @vandivere.net · 02/09/2026

Always good to have a massive plate of vegan diner right before a 2 1/2 hour orchestra rehearsal. Oh boy was it good, though.

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Derek Vandivere @vandivere.net · 30/08/2026

Every time we eat dinner out on our bench, we get judged from above by Shitten.

A white cat staring down at us from the first floor.

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Derek Vandivere @vandivere.net · 29/08/2026

DuoLingo getting frighteningly accurate...

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Derek Vandivere @vandivere.net · 29/08/2026

I told Abbie I was going to buy the painting and glue it to the bedroom ceiling

A photo of my wife standing next to a painting of my wife

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Derek Vandivere @vandivere.net · 25/08/2026

Mahler 7 tonight...only one more summer concert to go....

Interior of the Concertgebouw in on Amsterdam

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Derek Vandivere @vandivere.net · 23/08/2026

Today's fun solve-at-home mystery: who pissed in the laundry hamper?

A small white cat who may have pissed in the laundry hamper

An older black cat who may have pissed in the laundry hamper

A large white cat who consistently shits on the floor but is probably too big to have pissed in the laundry hamper

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Derek Vandivere @vandivere.net · 17/08/2026

So this ceiling lamp for some reason waita a random amount of time to turn on - anywhere from a minute to a few hours. Working in the dark this morning for two hours, then in a Zoom my colleague asks if I can shed some light on a topic. The timing was PERFECT.

A ceiling lamp that finally decided to turn on two hours after I flipped the switch

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Derek Vandivere @vandivere.net · 14/08/2026

Tonight it's the Sibelius violin concerto and Tchaikovsky's 6th - Pathetique.

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Derek Vandivere @vandivere.net · 13/08/2026

We got a ceramic one that looks nice and all three cats drink a lot more than they used to. The burbling is a nice sound feature, too.

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Derek Vandivere @vandivere.net · 12/08/2026

A unique way to watch the eclipse in Amsterdam!

Someone treading water in the Amsterdam inner harbor hoisting a flag and watching the eclipse.

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Derek Vandivere @vandivere.net · 12/08/2026

So I'm watching the Sesame Street Tiny Desk Concert, and remembering my favorite book as a child and my favorite muppet, and I'm starting to suspect why I started dying my hair purple and blue a few years ago.

Cover of The Monster at the End of This Book, starrring Grover from the muppets.

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Derek Vandivere @vandivere.net · 09/08/2026

Wagner and Mahler 5 tonight

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Derek Vandivere @vandivere.net · 09/08/2026

Using some courgettes from our friend Jolijn's garden. Puff pastry with a base of whipped mascarpone, feta, mint, pomegranate syrup, and pickled lemon. No idea how it's going to turn out

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Derek Vandivere @vandivere.net · 04/08/2026

Ninja, guarding the entrance

White cat starting down at me in judgement

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Derek Vandivere @vandivere.net · 04/08/2026

Abbie came home with a new condiment - jar has not been opened and we've washed it and it's still overwhelmingly odiferous.

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Derek Vandivere @vandivere.net · 01/08/2026

A funny juxtaposition just now in #amsterdam

Photo of a building: a woman is cleaning the window in the first floor, a topless guy is taking a photo from the second.

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Derek Vandivere @vandivere.net · 30/07/2026

First picture with the new camera

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Derek Vandivere @vandivere.net · 30/07/2026

Playing with a new camera at Wijnand Fockink.

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Derek Vandivere @vandivere.net · 29/07/2026

Tonight's concert - Rachmaninovs 3rd piano concerto and Mussorgsky!

Before the concert begins at the Concertgebouw

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Derek Vandivere @vandivere.net · 27/07/2026

And how did your weekend go?

Man in a navy jacket and captains hat with an octopus on his shoulder, dirving a boat in the Amstel river.

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Derek Vandivere @vandivere.net · 20/07/2026

Today's concert Dvorak cello concerto and Tchaikovsky's 4th symphony, performed by the Janacek Philharmonic.

Applause for the Janacek Philharmonic in the Concertgebouw

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Derek Vandivere @vandivere.net · 18/07/2026

Hanging out with the neighbors. #amsterdam

A blauw (grey in English) Heron in an Amsterdam canal

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Derek Vandivere @vandivere.net · 18/07/2026

Considering the outside world, but not very much impressed by it.

A black cat and a white cat sitting just inside a doorway

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Derek Vandivere @vandivere.net · 17/07/2026

It never fails - I go out to buy two things and can barely fit the groceries in my bag. Luckily, it has dedicated tofu and xao hsing pockets!

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Derek Vandivere @vandivere.net · 15/07/2026

I'm walking in my neighborhoor at around 12:30 last week Tuesday night, turn this corner, and come across a couple having loud and admirably enthusiastic sex. Not sure what the proper Amsterdam response is - ignore them? acknowlege them? encourage the fella with a firm, encouraging slap on the ass?