Oct 23
On the 11th of October it was that day. That day that we were going to drive to Arnhem to see Marco Borsato in concert with his “Wit Licht” tour. We were going there with the six of us, Denise, Martijn, my parents, Justin (the J from JR-Hosting), and myself. Justin joined us later because he needed to work first and then headed over by train.
While driving towards Arnhem we had dinner near Geldermalsen (hi snow office!) and continued driving towards the city of Arnhem, where we arrived at 17.30 in one of the parking spaces reserved for the concert. For the cost of 10E we could park the car all night long and take the coach towards the Gelredome (the stadium); where we arrived at 18.00hours.
At 18.30 we entered the stadium and waited till 19.15 till Justin arrived (I sat on my brother’s neck, which made it possible to see a lot of the stadium and Justin saw me because of that as well); he was Just in time to see the concert starting 
Marco played all known songs including a few new ones which are terrific! At the end of the day I didn’t had much voice left but it was worth it! Eventhough the “Rood” concert was very different (more happened on stage etc) this was a worthwhile event!
After the concert we had a tad of bad luck when the coach was unable to go away, after being stuck for an hour we finally got at the parking lot where our other car was almost in Rotterdam already.
Tired but happy we arrived in Rotterdam a good hour and a half later. Thanks Marco and all that were there!
Aug 23
Last week Denise and I had been shopping at Ikea’s where we bought some new things for our upcoming house, yes OUR house , and we did an inventory of potential victim’s eh furniture for our house. We had a great time looking around and talking to eachother over what we liked and disliked for the house. I think we have around the same ideas wrt. how to build up the house. That said, we have at least one good candidate house so far, and we are going to inspect another house this week if possible. We envy one of the houses we saw (i wont tell which one ) so that is a potential (did i say good potential) candidate for our future house.
We also share more and more time together, with Luca and with the two of us, so we are really really progressing forward. Perhaps not as fast as people would have hoped, but hey, we do not overrush things now so that we can do it right.
We had visited Jeugdland yesterday btw, and that was great, Luca had a great time and we walked around and did things with him that he really really enjoyed. Good idea Denise!
Personally my progression is also going well, I am learning a lot at my current assignment, doing much Juniper/Cisco work and some uSyscom (UMTS) and other related machines as well as Windows management (yes I am an Unix Specialist but hey, I understand this as well, which is not that bad, but I still envy the various *nix distributions, it’s so much easier in a networking environment).
I also received my first Juniper certification and I am planning the second one already, including my CISSP and other things (which I will do at a little lower pace because those projects are somewhat bigger to obtain, more theory and more to learn). It remains great that Snow supports me this well!
