I finally saw U2 in concert. This Friday Ann and I and two of our friends (Ian and Katja) saw the Vertigo tour at Heysel stadium in Brussels. It was a beautiful day which turned into a cool night. There were two decent opening acts before U2 took the stage Read more…
It was 9:30. I was running late, just about to head out the door, when all of a sudden the light in the bathroom went out. Like an idiot, I pulled the plug a few times, just to make sure the light wouldn’t self-correct. Progressing through the “power’s out and Read more…
I miss them so much. I miss their dense, bagely goodness. I miss sesame seeds, poppy seeds. That smooth glazed exterior of a good kettle-boiled bagel. We used to buy ours every Saturday or Sunday from Wegmans. Fresh from the oven. Steaming up the plastic baggies so we knew they Read more…
It’s come to this. I’m back to playing poker online. About two years ago I tried out an online poker site for about a week or so. Lost almost two hundred dollars before I realized how stupid I was being. Nothing has changed in terms of the security of online Read more…
Ann and I took the Eurostar high-speed train to London last weekend. Sadly, there were no more seats available in coach, so we had to go first class. I have to say, it was pretty damn cool. On the way there we had breakfast, which I slept through, but which Read more…
The bathrooms here in the Netherlands always have full floor to celing doors. All of them. Even the public ones (which you have to pay fifty cents or so to use). I don’t get how on the one hand you can have a sophisticated quality-of-life improvement like fully-contained toilets, but Read more…
Tom’s Tourney 2005 – Part 2 So we left off with me at the Brugge train station trying to get to the fields. It’s 10:15am. The tournament started at 9:30. I hopped a cab and the driver luckily knew the sportpark. I get to the fields and they are just Read more…
I should be studying for my MBA class. Or sleeping. Or learning a new song on the guitar. Or sleeping. But in an attempt to make myself fall asleep at the keys, I will instead tell you the story of my tournament this weekend in Brugge, Belgium. So I’m on Read more…
Last week my company had its Global Marketing Meeting. About 100 employees from at least five different offices in four different countries were gathered in Heidelberg, Germany. The Dordrecht marketing staff rented cars and drove. The meeting where the travel arrangements were planned was held in English for about five Read more…
In a previous post I talked about the porn at the gas station. We recently drove from Dordrecht to Heidelberg for our Global Marketing Meeting and this time when we stopped off to get gas I got some proof. Notice the ingenius co-marketing of the “Betty Boop” video right below Read more…