Mar
07
Kasteelpark Born
We had a fun day out at Kasteelpark Born. Lots of animals and lots of playthings for the kids and we’re definitely going back there in spring or summer to see what it looks like all green.
Mar
01
Robots
Interesting expo at the Industrion in Kerkrade showing the history of robots. It was nice to see some examples up close, like the one from Metropolis or even the one from the Björk video.
Jan
11
Bonnefantenmuseum Maastricht
Interesting to see some of the old masters at the Bonnefantenmuseum, the modern art section was a bit of a let down by comparison.
Jan
05
Snow and sledding
Tried to get to work this morning, but after 30 minutes I was only 2 streets from home, and on the radio they said there was a 50 km traffic jam on the 65 km route to work… so I turned around and told the missus to get ready to go out in the snow. Bought a sled and off we went to the local pond which was frozen over and had some people skating on it. A lovely start of the year, I just hope it won’t get too bad with the snow this night.
Jan
02
First post of 2009
Still have to get used to the sound of that. Another year has flown by faster than a speeding bullet. Best wishes to all of you and lots of luck in all your endeavors this year.
May it be a happy one.
Dec
02
Winterland Maastricht
Some pictures from last Saturday when we ended up in Maastricht where het Vrijthof, the old city center square, was turned into a so called Winterland.
Nov
16
Sinterklaas & Kerstmarkt
Being married to a Christmas fanatic we decided to go to Valkenburg today to check out the Kerstmarkt in the underground caves, quite a sight. On the way there we were held up in traffic because of what turned out to be Sinterklaas his big entrance in Valkenburg. Seeing as we were already there we went to have a peek. The poor people there waiting in the rain were a bit disappointed, he was about 45 minutes late and then left in such a hurry that all the kids and parents were left standing going ‘eh…’.
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Oct
06
October again already
Finally watched Iron Man (funnier than I figured it’d be, and damn the suit looked cool), finished watching Itazura Na Kiss (I would have liked this to go on for longer, but then again that’s the sign of any good series), played and finished Professor Layton and the Curious Village for the Nintendo DS (brilliant little game) and caught up with a buttload of paperwork not counting all the stuff that’s still ‘in progress’. I hate bureaucracy. But life’s good. Just a tad busy.
Oh, and somewhere last week I missed Fortis and ABN Amro being bought by the Dutch government. Good news for some of us. Ah, and every now and again I spend an hour working on X111.org hoping to wrap that up soon. I updated our member blogs but I doubt anyone noticed or cared so I stopped posting news updates there. Pretty soon I hope to spend some more time beefing up the Triforce section if I can find some people interested in posting about anime, manga, games or Final Fantasy.
Thoughts of Imbalanced Mind