Here’s some of the fun things I did. I am thankful for last year. Not to some god or another, I don’t believe in that sort of stuff. But I am thankful to my friends, to my family, and to anyone else who crossed my path last year and made it into the year it’s turned out to be. You should take ten minutes and make your own list. Then look back and read it when you’re facing difficult times. It’s nice.

• recorded two songs with Cissi and Steve
• bought an apartment with Sini
• celebrated my brother’s birthday in Tilburg
• went to a captain Credible concert
• digitized my postcard collection
• had many diners and drinks with friends
• visited my mom at the Mek
• helped Steve move to his new place
• visited Tilgin
• had diner at an Ethiopian restaurant
• cleaned my BCR2000 then threw it away
• traveled to Porto with friends
• spent many days and nights in Linköping for work
• saw Caroline’s first concert
• went to a Jools Holland concert
• went to see Dirk’s graduating exhibition
• drove a taxi motorboat on the Maas
• went to the IWF in London
• went Snowscootering with Sini and Thomas!
• visited a Swedish coppermine
• went Skiing in Romme with friends and a 9p bus
• worked on perfecting my studio setup
• saw an Ice Hockey match in Hovet
• saw the Jazz Festival in Breda
• introduced friends to each other
• starting writing a Java editor for my SID station
• visited the Delta works
• cheered for Sini, Jens and Thomas in Göteborg
• was at the JWG ALV2010
• helped Jasper and Mika move to their new house
• saw the Royal Swedish wedding
• visited Vienna several times
• went to a wine tasting in Vienna
• visited Bern
• watched Holland-Kameroen at the Dutch embassy
• joined the Dutch club Stockholm
• celebrated Midsommar in Hampetorp
• went kayaking and camping in Utö
• watched the WK finals at the Dutch embassy
• took the Globen skyride
• went roadtripping in the US including many cool events
• got a speeding ticket on my way to Farmville
• got a new Mac
• sold my old Mac
• recorded several songs with Caroline
• had my family over in Stockholm
• cheered for Jens and Thomas at the Stockholm marathon
• went bowling with my old department
• visited Berlin
• saw a Monster truck race
• worked a day in my old Dutch office
• celebrated Sinterklaas with Sini
• saw Sint
• visited Marco and Jasminka in their new apartment
• had an awesome housewarming party
• met Jan’s girlfriend
• celebrated a Swedish Christmas with Sini’s family
• went to JWG winterkamp
• met Plop after not having seen him for two years
• generally made a lot of music
• drove back and forth to Holland to celebrate new year’s

Of course the weekend was again too short to do all the things I would have liked to do, but very cool nevertheless. And I have a fresh supply of Senseo pads

Snygga frilla eller hur?

Spending the weekend in Örebro with Sinis parents. Yesterday we went hiking in Kilsbergen, a beautiful Scandinavian forest area with mountainbike roads and stuff. At night we went to see the second movie in the Stieg Larsson Millennium trilogy called Flickan som lekte med elden. Cool movie, though there was something weird about it. Some parts were slow, others were suddenly fast. First time I ever saw a movie in a cinema which was completely Swedish!

In other news: Rutger and I started blabbing about our punk rock ambitions yesterday, and it’s made us ambitious again. Next weekend I’ll be recording some live drums to Welcome to Sanity and I’m on a Roll. You can find an earlier recording of the latter song here, but it’s got a dodgy drumtrack which basicly came straight out of the sampler. Will be fun, I’ll finally get to try out Logic Pro 9, it’s been sitting on my desk for a week…

And on request, here’s a short video that captures the last part of the ride to Weeze Airport, including the prices of the parking lots, if you can read it….