Yesterday, Denise Luca and I went to the Winterefteling, we had reserved tickets through our “airmiles“ and where able to bypass the ticket selling points and head straight into the park. I noticed it was far more busier then years before that I went on the same day. Click the read more button to see the entire story including pictures! 
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Last night denise and I went to the movie Enchanted, a tale about a princess that finally gets to marry her prins, but then something evil happends (because of a witch queen) ; she comes in the real world and needs to find her way through that.
It’s a movie with loads of humor, magic, tales, singing, romance, etc. A very nice movie to visit; I certainly enjoyed the movie and Denise also did! We had another great evening
The past week had been a very busy week, like the week before I was in Amsterdam for a couple of days building up a new datacenter. And i have to admit we can succesfully look back at the week. Apart from a couple of problems with some BGP sessions (that couldn’t be synchronised due to badly formed netmasks..) everything is up and running just fine.
It took us quite some hours to get to that base though, we worked many many hours last week to get it straight and now it seems we can look ahead towards the next changes again :-).
Apart from that I wasn’t home a lot so nothing much happened there after my latest update, though Tonight I will be heading to the movies again with Denise, which I am really looking forward to!
Today I spend time relaxing; buying the cinema-tickets already (so that we dont have to wait for ages in the line, now we can just walk to the end of the line and bypass all those who are waiting to get in :-))
After the first part of the weekend, I also should describe the second half of the weekend, which started after I brought home Denise….
Luca and I woke up around 0745 and we headed down to watch some cartoons and eat etc. We played with the lego and Luca found another set of cars that I collected over the years; he had great fun with that :). After a while both Oma Hetty and Tijntje woke up and they got dressed and headed out for work but not after receiving a big hug from Luca ofcourse :-).
We both showered and he had great fun there as well, playing with a simple bucket and a little green frog, which he likes to play with a lot (little kids can be so happy with something so simple); after which it was time to head to the carwash, but sadly Luca didn’t want to come along, it was cold outside and he rather played with Opa Keessie, who woke up just before I left so all said and done, I have a clean car now and Luca played with Opa Keessie.
After that we played some more with the lego and headed over towards my granny, because she was having her 78th birthday. Some part of the family was there (some already had stopped by earlier in the day) and Luca played around and decided to taste several nuts, which were received with great joy by him because after he was content with the nuts, the bowl was empty…
We also ate there and after that it was time to return Luca to his home, where I met Denise again 
and I said goodbye to both.
After arriving at home I quickly joined the rest of the family at my granny’s for a little and after not too long time we headed home again; here my dad and I picked up the idea to build up the Lego infrastructure that we have, starting with the fire department, so that Luca can play with that the next time he’s in :-)…
The floor was one big pile of Lego and we first sorted out most colors upfront and put them into seperated boxes, and voila the first car had been made, now only all the other major infrastructure
I’ll see whether I can make up some photo’s of that
So the first half of the weekend started OK, on Friday I was at the Amsterdam datacenter again and was home late, did some regular things and just relaxed a bit
Yesterday I headed towards Denise and Luca’s home where we stayed for a little and headed over to his swimming pool area, Luca did a very good job in swimming again and he loveed it a lot he is a very good swimmer already (at least progressing very fast)….
Together with Denise and Luca we went to the city of Rotterdam, we ate a bit there, drunk some coffee and headed towards my home. We went to the shopping-center near my house, without Luca because he wanted to stay with Opa Keessie
Instead of Luca I hugged Martijn but it seems he couldn’t really appreciate that haha after that we visited my granny (oma nan) and we noticed my aunt being there.. Ow joy, (not), where we spend a little time. We fetched Luca afterwards and headed towards Oma Dien, who has her 78th birthday today, so we are heading back again today
So a nice good start of the weekend; today will be full of fun, cleaning the car ; heading to oma’s birthday, eating there with all the other boys etc.
More updates soon!
So, most of the last week at work I spend at / around Amsterdam, to be more precise, I spend time at the new datacenter of my current job. We build up the firewalls and networking infrastructure and I think we did a pretty good job there. We are one of the first teams that had progressed this much already
Ofcourse that is needed because the other teams cannot progress without our infrastructure 
With a bit of luck our infrastructure had been this well organised that we do not need to head over to the datacenter itself any longer, we had reachability from the Amsterdam network to The Hague already, so all looks good!
Hello dear reader,
I am helping out Martin Wilke, one of my ports-security team members and a huge, did I say huge contributor to the FreeBSD team(s). If you ever missed his assistance you slept under a rock, he is a speeding bullet in the team and helps wherever possible.
He also needs your help to get things better on track , something which I can really symphatize for since I know the feeling; if you want to have more information please visit his blog here.
Thanks in advance!
For the very first time a really private blog from me…
OK a lot of people did not know that I was a single guy for a little but that Denise and I recently got back together again
We both didn’t consider this as an option till recently but still it happened, and it feels soo good. This time it will be going OK and I am sure that we will have a lovely time. We already did some very nice things recently (Also with Luca) and we both enjoyed those things a lot.
Therefor I can no longer keep this a secret for you my readers..
So to make sure everyone knows; I am with Denise again, this time for a much longer period. IF you cant stand that fact, too bad for you, if you can, well we can only say “Thanks, we’ll invite you someday :-)”.
Denise; publically; I love you; You’re the sunshine in my Heart and together with Luca we will live our lives, no matter what others might think of it or do with it!
I selected a few pictures that I not too long ago took while testing out my camera, I liked them soo much that I wanted to share them with you. Ofcourse I am just an amateur photographer, but if you have tips or something, please let me know
One picture in particular is very nice, it was made by Gert-Jan (my teamleader at the moment) while seeing a tree through some water. Very nicely taken (I’ll write a notice around the picture). Please click on the read more button to see the actual pictures…
Last week I was struck with the flu (it’s not entirely over yet 
) and I remained home to get well soon, sadly the progress was minimal, even now after almost a week I still dont feel 100% OK, but at the moment I feel good enough to checkout The Hague again
One of the good things in the period was that I had a lot of contact with Denise, who also visited me friday in the evening, which was a really pleasant surprise and broke the week for me the evening was great (Thanks niesje!)
The day after Stefan, my nephew visited us to sleep over for the weekend; he played a lot and did the things he like and we played guitar for a little ( he loves that ) till the time came that he needed to go to bed… problem, he missed his mother, eventhough I read him a story before going to bed (What was wrong with “Koe en Mus” ? :)), so we comforted him but we were unable to ease him enough to go to bed again. Past midnight we decided to head to bed, and we instructed him to do the same, no problems at that point (We should have known earlier :)).
Today we awoke late in the morning and ate a bit etc. Stefan played the guitar again , played on the computer, played with lego and had a great time. In the evening my dad brought him home again
Later I was poked by Denise to write a little log again, so here it was telling about my past weekend I’ll try to keep up again with the logs (Sorry niesje ;))