It should be clear to anyone that I like working for my current employer. And it is also logical that with in such organization there are people you can get better along with that others. Nothing strange about that. Today we had to say goodbye to Carla. She worked at the Human Resource department of…
Month: October 2009
“De Blanckenborgh”
In the last weeks before Marion will leave for the US, we decided to do all kind of nice things together. We already talked for times to have once dinner at “De Blanckenborgh” in the town of Haaksbergen. We have been there once before, but that was more a quick visit and this time we…
An enjoyable evening in Amsterdam.
Last Sunday when I traveled from Haaksbergen back to Amsterdam, I was unpleasantly surprised by the fact the Dutch railroad company was working on the tracks between the cities of Almelo and Apeldoorn. Instead of the train you had to do that part by bus and by the unlucky route that the bus followed my…
Faith, Power & Glory
Last Thursday I have been with Patrick to a concert at the new Metropool in the city of Hengelo. He lured me into it…. “If you like Blut Engel, you will like this too!” And dawn it, he was right… First band of the line up was Ayria from Canada. The music was nice, but…
Drawing off my own beer :-)
I got a small gift from Marion… a Grolsch Cheersch. With the Grolsch Cheersch you can draw off your own beer at home. It has the small fresh taste as the beer you get in a café. I think this because it also draw off under pressure with CO2. I like this better then beer…
Buma-Stemra and their foolisch idea…. (Updated)
The Buma-Stemra is an organization that protects the right of artists and their music… at least they say so. Normally they want people to pay a little when using the music of the artists who are connected to them. Basically that is not a wrong idea….. But… Now they have come with something that is…
Aion, The Tower of Eternity (updated)
Most people will know that I play MMORPG’s (Massively Multiplayer Online Roleplaying Games). It all started with Ultima Online many years ago and since then quite some games passed by… games as Star Wars Gallaxies, Arsherons Call, City of Villains, Lineage II and of course the game I still play, Everquest II. There has been…