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Why is it always so hard to start working again after a vacation? I came back this Saturday from Florida, and starting this Monday was pretty annoying. I kind off walked in like a zombie and even three mugs of coffee later, I didn’t feel very alert. It also turned out that some people I work with suddenly are on a holiday too, even though they said they were not going for a while. Annoying too, because its not like I can decide on all kinds of things without conferring with them first. Anyway, tomorrow its Wednesday and we are […]

Jet lag is a bitch. Flying back from Carrie is always the worst; I loose a day and it feels just like that. When I arrived yesterday, I felt pretty ok. I slept for one and a half hour and stayed up till 11:30pm which is good I think. But this morning I feel like I have a bad hangover. I got up at 10am after sleeping real good (I only woke up twice) had a large coffee, but still it feels like my engine hasn’t started. I guess what adds to the jetlag this time, is the fact that […]

Car trouble (1)   The last week of my vacation here started with some anxious moments. My baby was supposed to go to work at 8:30 am, but less than 2 minutes after she left her home, she pulled back in to the carport. The car was running real weird and it didn’t even want to stop running when she turned the key off.   A little panic struck me (and her too I’m sure). One bad thing is, that I know absolutely nothing about car mechanics. I do understand how they work and stuff, but whenever I pull the […]

I just came back from New Orleans after a three day visit there with my girlfriend Carrie. Boy, it was a blast although way too hot for me – and suprisingly also too hot for Carrie (her being from Florida)..    To our suprise New Orleans looks a lot like some European cities we visited. Mostly I could see a resemblence to Paris in some ways, which off course isn’t surprising since New Orleans exactly means wat the name says: its  a new version of the French city Orleans.   Anyway, we went around town, had dinner in a fancy restaurant (Oliviers), went […]

Ok guys, I’m ready to go to the good oll’ US of A! I packed my bags, have my carry-on full with gizmo’s and I’m ready to put on the sun tanning lotion! I’m just wrapping up some PC stuff over here and I will be on the road (air, actually) for some 15+ hours crammed in a plane. Off course I got to have some tunes on the go. So thats why I have my iRiver IHP-120 packed. I just love the chill-out tunes and old seventies stuff. So If you have a chance, tune in to my Radio […]

I guess everyone remembers that feeling you got when you were a little kid and it was just 1 day before your birthday and you were waiting for that 1 gift you wanted. That feeling of anticipation that gave you little butterflies in your tummy. Well, even though I’m 37, I still get that feeling from time to time. Today it’s because I am expecting the arrival of a new toy/gadget: a brand new digital camera. After holding back 4 years, I finally decided to give in and buy myself a piece of the new digital photography era: an Olympus […]

Well, I guess I should not try to make any predictions anymore. The winner of the EU Soccer Cup is….. Greece! I would have bet on the Tjechs to win, but I would have lost (Portugal beat the Tjechs). The amazing thing is that Greece is like a soccer lilliputter. They never ever got into any final and never ever won a tournament before. They were always the first country to get out of the tournament, but somehow they stumbled through this EU cup. And now they beat the Portugese 1-0. Just one lucky moment to decide a match. The […]

Only 8 more days, then I’m on the plane to visit my honey 😉 Two weeks vacation to try and forget all the stuff going on at my work. Last summer Carrie (thats her name) visited Europe and we went to go see Paris. This year we will go on a (short) trip to New Orleans. I am very much looking forward to this. A lot of fun goes into looking for information on this nice town. Well, I did find a nice website (albeit a bit shallow) called:Things to do in New Orleans. Carrie lives in Florida, Tallahassee to […]

What nobody expected, happened. The Greek beat the Tsjechs and will face the Portugese this weekend in the 2004 European Soccer cup finals. Its amazing because the Tjechs so far had won every game and the Greek never ever before even got into the quater finals, let alone the semi finals! Its going to be an interesting match for sure: the Greek who have nothing to loose and the Portugese that are organizing the tournament and are playing for their own countrymen. I don’t dare to do any predictions for this match… We’ll just have to see