Today I had something to celebrate. Last night I went through my mail and found my long awaited PRINCE2 Foundations certificate. My parents offered to get something nice for dinner.

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Yesterday I came across an article on philly.com on a 15 year-old girl facing child pornography charges in Clearfield county. The girl apparently sent nude pictures of herself to a 27-year old man. The man has been arrested and is also facing charges.

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As I mentioned in my previous post we (that is, me and my friend who is co-owner) decided to stop with our web hosting business. The reason is pretty simple: it’s getting too expensive for us.

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It’s been quite an interesting week, although I probably would not categorize it as a good one.

It practically started of with me going back to work with one heck of a jetlag. I thought just sunday as a rest day was enough. Guess I got that wrong. Monday felt like I was dragging my heels everywhere. Frankly I remember very little of how I got by that day. I was just glad it was over.

The following days were better, or at least I was not as fatigued as I was. My wife is still in the States taking care of things for her father, who suffered a stroke. This week has been one of loneliness. I am glad I can stay over at my parents for the time being and was happy to get out on wednesday and have some food and laughs with friends.

Thursday things took yet another turn for the ‘interesting’. My father, who tried to unblock my drain in the kitchen managed to punch a hole out of the wrong side of the drain. This is not as much the doing of my poor father, who -after all- just wanted to help, but the death throes of a drain that had apparently been abused by unblocking chemicals too much and decided to give in. Next thursday the plumber will come to fix the problem.

That evening it was also decided that my hosting company, which I co-own with a friend, is going to close its doors. The reason being the ever increasing costs of co-location and fees for registering domains versus the relatively small volume of customers. Frankly, the fun had already been taken out of  the job for some time now as the NOC decided to raise prices by more than 50% twice a year.

Can’t wait to see what next week will look like.

I’m back in Holland but live is not quite back to normal.

I landed this morning at 7.00am at Schiphol airport after a 17 hour trip. Alone, I might add. Megan, my sweet wife, has stayed behind to take care of the affairs surrounding the transition of David from the hospital to the rehab facility. There is also the matter of making the house accessible for him.

All of this results in us being apart for little over three weeks, which is a novum in our relationship. I have no illusion on the fact it’s going to be hard; how hard exactly is something time will teach me.

I guess I will be charging up my Skype credits for a great host of future calls.