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It seems there’s something to be celebrated today, so my girlfriend went and bought this little gem for me called the Gear4 HouseParty II. Its design is pretty cool, and I must say the quality of the sound comming out of that little box (approx. 25 cm wide) is pretty stunning! It comes with docks for all iPods (except for the shuffle) and even has its own remote, which lets you skip songs, change the volume and even use the iPod menu. Thanks Kaatje, for this pretty neat present!

After managing to dodge tags for quite some time, I’ve been tagged twice this week. Both PJ van de Sande and Marcel Boersma tagged me, so here we go…

1. **We named our cat after a dog
   ** Our cat’s name is ‘Dribbel’, which is the Dutch name for the dog ‘Spot’. The most important reason for naming the cat like that, is because of a big white spot on its back and a smaller black spot on its nose. Next to that, ‘dribbelen’ is Dutch for a certain way of walking which Dribbel does too… And of course, we just liked the name ;).

It’s almost here… Next monday me and about 30 LogicaCMG colleagues will be heading to Redmond. I’m pretty excited: we’ll be attending some pretty cool sessions, and some of us will get the opportunity to take a look at Microsofts vision of the future home in their Microsoft Home. Besides that I’ll stay a few days longer, so I can see something of America. My first trip over there ever … !

Maybe I mentioned it earlier: I play in a musical in the month December (Veldhovense Revue). We started rehearsing twice a week in March. Now, we’ve played 4 shows already, and we’ve got 10 more to go. We’ve been really busy the last couple of weeks to make it a great show, and I think we succeeded.

I tried using Windows Live Writer as soon as it got out, but because of proxy settings at the company I was working publishing posts wasn’t possible. I only now got time to try it at home, because I’ve been at home ill the past days. I’m still not 100% well, but I’ll keep quiet to get well soon. So maybe it’s better if I go and rest now…

I’m back again. The past four weeks I’ve been entertaining kids on a summer camp (one week) and we’ve moved into our new house! After lots of painting, demolition and other stuff, our new house is ready (enough) to live in. In the near future, our new furniture will arrive and our bathroom will be renewed. So: lots of upcoming milestones!

The next couple of weeks there will be low activity on my blog. First, I’ll be guiding a total of almost 100 kids through a summercamp for a week (we’re leaving today), next we will start working on our new house! We get the key a week from monday, so that’s two days after we come back from camp. Two days of resting…… I hope 😉

Lots of stuff happened the past few months, so it’s time for a personal update. Here we go…

• I’ll be attending an MSF4 Agile Masterclass @ Microsoft in July

• In August my girlfriend and I will be the proud owners of a house in Grasrijk (a part of Eindhoven). We can’t wait … !

I’m not blogging about the wellknown song by the Dutch band Lucifer from the year 1975, but to let you know we (my girlfriend and me) have bought a new house! Somewhere in August of this year, we will be the proud owners of a house in ‘Grasrijk’, a new part of Eindhoven right next to Veldhoven. After three-somewhat years in our current home we are ready for the next step. And now we can’t wait …. !

I’ve received lot’s of positive reactions on the post about organizing a bloggingabout.net meeting. I’ll  try to squeeze in organizing a meeting in the near future. But see the near future somewhere between now and a few months. As you can image lot’s of stuff should be taken care of: a place to have the meeting, food & drinks, a decent agenda and maybe even guestspeakers. And to keep everything affordable for all the visitors: maybe we should consider finding a sponsor. But before we go there it’s important to make sure it’s possible.

I’ve been thinking: would there be any interest for a bloggingabout .net meeting among the bloggers? We are all into .NET and most of us seem to enjoy a good discussion. Maybe we can organize a platform for those discussions in real life in stead of through posts and comments. It could be about anything, but has to have a predefined agenda to make sure the meeting has a goal.

After years of loyal service, I’m going to sell my current digital camera. I’m interested in buying an even better one (7.1 MP), although the Sony DSC-S85 I have now (4.1 MP) has brought me lots of great  pictures.