We did a road tour to a few Zoo’s: the first is Noorder Dierenpark in Emmen.
Lovely park, however strangely divided into two parts.
They feature a great set of animals, all held in pretty enclosures. Their speciality are the vast amount of baboons, elephants and Humboldt’s penguins. We’ve had a blast cruising the zoo, yet found it to be about a 5 hour trip all around it. Too bad that’s about the time it took us to get there in the first place. 
Remember me buying my new flashy hardware?
Well, I still like it a lot. 
I also made a whole lot of pics with it attached to my camera, and as I promised: here’s an very small excerpt of those.
We had to wash our rabbits with special shampoo to cure a skin condition, which was troubling them and making one in particular very grumpy. Here’s them both undergoing ‘treatment’. I can safely assure you: bunnies don’t take lightly to water!
Unfortunately I wasn’t able to make comparison-pictures to show the difference my external flash makes. You’ll have to do with the above, and trust me on the previous point.
The weekend before last (being Saturday February 14th and Sunday February 15th) my girlfriend and I participated in a tournament at Delft.
It’s called the Delft ABCD 2009 tournament, and enables players of all four levels to compete against each other in the levely scenery of the hall.
We have attended the tournament before, yet weren’t able to win anything. Last year I ended up losing the semi-final in the men’s singles, and didn’t get far with the other disciplines (mixed doubles or men’s doubles).
This year, all is different! I played in the C-level, which isn’t too bad. I’m wishing I could do better, but the B-level is just very tough. Maybe next year?
Together with a dear friend, we lost the men’s doubles game just before the semi-finals (3rd round) which was kind of disappointing. Luckily we lost to the winners of the tournament, so all’s not lost.
The men’s singles didn’t work out differently from last year; I lost the semi-final match. (Also to the winner of the tournament, although that’s a bad excuse.)
What cheered me up though was the fact that my girlfriend and I won the semi-final in the mixed doubles! So we were obliged to compete in the finals of a tournament! A first for us.
Sunday, around 4 PM (and about 2.5 hours late) we started playing the final match, and gloriously won! I’m still amazed at this.
Here’s the proof of my losing the semi-final and winning the tournament for mixed doubles on the C-level!
Winners & my tournament.
Next weekend is the next tournament. We’ll see what happens there!
I couldn’t put it more accurately I guess, but from where I stand it’s true.
Autumn is the most depressing time of year. Lots of wind, rain and cold stuff. But still too warm to get the snowy wintery fun that is due in a few months.
Suffering from colds throughout the entire Autumn seems to be my destiny this year, as my head has been clogged up non-stop for quite some time now. Ugh. Also, I’m refusing to be home sick at all, so it might just be me then.
It being the first day of the new month always lets me reflect the previous month. A lot of stuff has happened in July, of which not all was good.
At this very moment though, the guy from the supplier is installing our lavabo and the previously mentioned accessories and he’s due to be done in a few hours.
I’m really eager to see what it’s like and how it fits in the small space that is our bathroom.
Luckily, I’ve been able to get past all Oracle-install issues and finally got DBXE, SoaSuite 10.1.3.3, JDev 10.1.3.3 and BAM 10.1.3.3 running one the very same box.
All is working well, and with 10.1.3.4 being released just a few days ago, I’m due to do some more installing and upgrading soon. I’ll post some hints and tips to do some tedious jobs when installing the software, as it nearly always fails to install properly on the first try.
*runs to the coffee machine*