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A disadvantage of working full time is that in most cases, the weekend is fully packed with stuff like (vacuum) cleaning, grocery shopping, washing my clothes, and “cleaning up the week”. Because during the week, I’m really good in postponing errands to the weekend since I don’t have very much energy left in the evenings :-p.

Today is just like one of these weekend-days. First I had to clean up, then I went to the recycling station to get rid of all the mess, next stop was the pet shop, and then I went to the mall where I visited several stores to run all my errands. Back at home around 2 PM, pretty tired of running around and a short night (went to bed late, and can’t really sleep in anymore).

But luckily the weekend has 2 days, and usually I have all my errands done on Saturday (except today… didn’t do the vacuum cleaning :-s), so I can spend Sunday on other things . I rather call these things ‘todo’s', in stead of ‘errands’. The difference to me is that todo’s are fun and not that urgent.

Last week has been rather busy. Started with a new project at work, spent most of the week on collecting documentation so we could test the SOx controls. Unfortunately, several documents weren’t prepared yet, and our deadline is very tight, so it’s going to be an exciting day on Monday: are we going to make our deadline?!

I also had my mid-year review last Tuesday! Beforehand I collected a few reviews from managers, and they were all good, so the mid-year review wasn’t that exciting. But it’s always nice to hear that people are happy with you and you are performing good .

Tags: weekend, work

I’m really going to try to regularly post some content on my website (more than the daily tweets :-p), but my iPhone and the WordPress app are going to make that really easy! With the app I can post a blog post from my phone, like I’m doing now, sitting on the couch with the cat on my lap .

First experiences with WordPress are very good, much easier to use than Drupal, but (as far as I’ve seen so far) still with a lot of available plugins and different themes. When I started my website more than 3 years ago, I also made the choice between WordPress and Drupal, but than WordPress wasn’t much more than a blog (hopefully I’m remembering it correctly :-p). But now, I think WordPress has moved more and more to the functionalities of Drupal, although I’m under the impression that Drupal is still more advanced, which, at the moment, makes it too difficult and complicated for me. So I’m giving WordPress a chance for now . It’s a bit sad that all the content of my previous website is gone, so just see this website as part of the new phase in my life, being all graduated and working :-p.

Tags: drupal, iphone, website, wordpress

It’s been a long time since I wrote my last blog post… I had some problems upgrading Drupal and getting all the modules working properly again. After several attempts, consulting the forum and spending lots of hours, I was just sick of it and decided to start an entire new website, using WordPress. It’s always fun to try something new, and the first impressions are really good!

This week I’ll use to fine-tune my website, getting all kind of fun and handy plugins. Hopefully I can get back to the regular blogging within a short period of time!

Tags: website, wordpress