Mitchel Lensink

If you don’t count the final touches I did on the logo for De Ontluiking I did this afternoon, nothing much happened today. If you do see that as being substantial enough to write about, then I would tell you that I’m proud and satisfied of and with the results. If you then tell me I constructed those sentences way more complex than they need to be, I’d tell you it might be better to just take a quick glance at the updated logo below and move on with your life. I will then do the same.

My mind is overflowing so I hope you don't mind me venting a little1. Meetings aren't supposed to be at 8PM anyway. Sometimes we do whatever is necessary though and this meeting was necessary. It's so easy to loose track of what you're doing and whatever progress you are making. Until you talk about it. Then it all suddenly makes sense again. So this meeting was necessary for exactly that reason — mental clarity is a beautiful thing. I'll do anything for it. Even if that means I'm hyped and o

Whoops, I was already nodding off on the couch with my YouTube video but then I realised there have not been any writing of words today yet. Luckily, the computer was still within an arm's length of myself so here I am typing away some random sentences. I hope you can appreciate that I at least keep the effort up to do this everyday. Other than that, there isn't much to share again today. I tinkered with my website redesign a little, which is starting to take shape now. I then noticed I have a

As a now proud owner of an Apple Watch (let me finish, this won't get technical! Promised.) I have noticed a trend slowly starting to develop itself. This evening was one of the most extreme examples recorded of this developing trend so far. Just as I rode my bike up to my home, I glanced over at the Watch's screen and noticed I was on 86% of my, admittedly already modest, Movement goal. Usually, I wouldn't have thought twice about this and just parked my bike to prepare myself for winding down

I’m so lazy and tired today I even considered breaking my streak of daily writing. But I won’t. The streak continues.

The trees are passing by rapidly as the sun slowly sets behind them. I’m simply staring out the window, trying to drown in the tunes that are playing through my headphones. I’m intermittently closing my eyes to combat the burning sensation. I should’ve put my glasses on instead of opting for contacts this morning. That’s my mistake for thinking my eye-infection was over. No worries though, the next thirty minutes are guaranteed shut-eye. This train will carry me aaaallll the way home.

Mindlessly scrolling around the internet in the little time I had today, I learned something. A thing that is good to remember as an idea to be expanded on. That thing being to ‘write like a camera’. I’m not entirely sure what it can mean, though I have an idea, but that sentences resonated with me a lot. For reasons I hope are obvious enough I hopefully needn’t clarify.

Can’t talk because tonight is all about the cheese fondue Charlotte is cooking up right now! Our first in years and my first home cooked one, I think. Super exciting stuff this is! So let’s cover the house in candle light for ultimate coziness and one functional light to keep the fondue warm while we indulge. A steaming pot of creamy cheese, some bread and veggies to dip, a good glass of red wine. Oooeehhh what more do you need? The darker days aren’t so bad when there’s this much light inside.

Guess what? Never mind, you’ll never guess it. Chapter three of ‘De Ontluiking’ is online! Ah maybe you could’ve guessed that one. In the meantime, the government is slowest reinstating past restrictions. Despite our hopes we might not be out of this pandemic thing yet. We’ll continue the documentations regardless though. Anyway, placing the third chapter online is also the single biggest task I’ve completed today, so there is nothing else to share. Oh no, wait! Today is also the day the cats

Here's a thought: I write better in the mornings and I read better at night. The reason for that, is that my mind in the morning is still unscattered from the hectics of a day. In the morning, I'm still zoned into my own thoughts and ideas and have not been polluted yet with external influences. This ultimately helps me better structure my thoughts, which leads to better writing. At night, I'm mostly tired and worn down by the day and have experienced too many different things to still focus on

It's a little past 10 PM and everybody is giving into their sleepiness. Darkness sets in at around half past five now that daylight saving time is back for the next few months and our natural melatonine adjusts accordingly. Everybody is slowly sinking into hibernation. Everybody except for one little four-legger. This tiny animal thought it a good idea to loudly start playing with his toys when we could all use some quiet. Who can blame him though, as he's not concerned with conventional schedu

Do you know those days where your mind is just blank? Nothing in particular happening in there? Good. Me too.

The new computer is treating me nicely. I had a shoot in the studio today (I can't really call it work, as it was with/for friends but it's also not necessarily free work for myself) and I felt excited to sit down for the edit. That has been a while. In fact, the last time that happened was when I got my previous MacBook, which was my first. Back then, I was still shooting the ol' Fujifilm X-T1 that had way smaller files though. The X-Pro3 and X100V produce some hefty files, even when shooting c

This man was sitting by the door aaaaalll day. Literally, the delivery could come between 9AM and 9PM so I stayed in until the package came. Which was at 8AM. Of course it was. Anyway, I bought a new MacBook right after the new one's dropped and ever since I've been looking forward to this moment. Not that this new machine would be revolutionary for anything I do but I just couldn't wait to give my workflow a significant performance boost. And oh boy it certainly boosts. This story is, of cours

Okay it’s getting late and I need to put my words in for the day. Man, can you believe it has been over 300 days of writing already? That’s right, today is day number 302 (to be clear, I'm counting from December 31st, which was day 000)! I didn’t miss the moment I hit day number 300 but I also didn’t feel the need to reflect at that time. To be honest, and I know I have said this before, I don’t know what I still want to share in these Monologues anymore. At this point, I feel like I either star

My god, can you believe it? I have turned into a coder. You know, like, a developer type kind or something. Sure, I’m a real bad one because I have to google everything and I have to save and check, save and check, save and check, to see if I haven’t done anything wrong. But stumbling through all that trial and error, who would’ve guessed it, something is actually emerging. To be frank, I’m still not sure if I like doing all this stuff or if I just like the idea of doing something so… pure? I m

Today I’ve decided to leave Wordpress for Ghost. After playing around with the idea for a bit, tempted by the incredible speed and performance the Ghost platform offers, I have started moving over all the content on my current website to the new one. It’s no small task and I am trying to get it done as quickly as possible. After all, each day I wait produces an additional Monologue that needs transferring. In addition, I do have some challenges to overcome regarding my e-commerce solution but I

I can barely move because both of the cats are snuggling up against me and they’re the cutest little things right now. I’m pretty sure one of them is sleeping as well and I don’t want to wake him. Not completely unrelated, typing this is super uncomfortable. The things I do for a 365 project, right? I’m kidding, I am totally doing this for the cats. I’m such a wuss.