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Maand: maart 2009

In the paper

Last week a journalist from ‘De Gelderlander’ called. They were doing this piece on design and wanted to interview me… So friday he asked me a lot of questions and this is the result! For the few people who don’t understand Dutch 😉 it’s about us being a company that designs all sorts of stuff… can’t translate the whole piece, but it’s nice!

I-BRIX thinks of everything!
I-BRIX thinks of everything!

Maintainance

As you might have read, I’ve bought this Buggy a few weeks ago. And allready I drove 800km with it, so now, because it’s a brand new one, the first maintainance is due. I’ve called the guy who’s doing this, but I have to wait until saturday the 28th. And I can’t drive in the meantime! So that’s a real challenge… why.. well you just should try it. One of the newly discovered passions I have is snowboarding, and the fresh air and the feeling of being outside and doing something cool is similar when I’m out with the buggy. I’ve not yet gone all the way (that is, drove through deep puddles), because I want to get to know the vehicle… (change a few words and this sentence gets a whole other meaning!).

The other thing is, I can’t drive the buggy to this guy (it’s a town 60 km from here) so I have to borough a trailer to take it. Fortunately there is this very nice guy which let’s me lend it for free! What problems I have 😉 🙂

Keeping fit

As I am sitting on the hometrainer at my local Gym I decided to post this blog! That’s the advantage of having an iPhone! Today was left-over day! Not in terms of dinner but regarding work! I’ve cleaned away several little todo’s and so needed something to keep my interns busy! I’ve decided to replace our normal site by a wordpress weblog! It kept them busy and smiling! Making fun of me !

Flowers

When I got home yesterday the Rabobank had flowers delivered! As a ‘Thank you’. Always nice, did think of removing the card and replace it with my own for Loes…….

Murphy's law

Why is it that whenever we need to finish something in time stuff goes wrong. I’m not used to that. Usually the closer to the deadly the more productive I become and luminous ideas come to mind. Today I did a lot of last-minute work on the dificult calculations which we had finished yesterday, but which needed alterations again today. And when my business partner tried to finish it, something went wrong with Zend for Eclipse (an editing application we use) and somehow an older version (the one without my alterations) was saved over my file… so I spend the last one and a half hour redoing the work!… shit happens!

Pleasure and Pressure

By tuesday we have to deliver a project to one of our clients. And, as part of this is pretty unpredictable I had to work on it today. But this morning I couldn’t get myself to start with it, so I decided to clean out the garage (at least most of the rubbish) and after that treat myself to another trip in the Buggy. Armed with my iPod, warm clothing and a full tank of gas, I started on a tour of 40km which took me about two hours… It was great… the sun was shining, I found some good trails where I can legally drive and had a lot of fun. 

Arriving back home with the buggy covered in mud I finally had to face the fact that I had to force myself to get to work… and guess what, it actually went o.k. I’ve been working on it for several hours, but fortunately everything I planned to do today is finished. Hopefully the rest of the project goes as smoothly and we’ll be finished by tomorrow evening.

I really should take some more time off

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