2002-10-20 10:21:00
I'm _very_ (not even fashionably anymore) late in reporting this, but at the beginning of September the Anime 2003 convetion opened up their on-line ticket booth! So next years con is really going to happen! Wai! Hoe-hoe! And not only will we be visiting the con, but I'll be gophering too! I have no idea yet what I'm gonna do, but I reckon the staff'll tell me soon enough
I already ordered tickets for me and Mar and the hotel room's been booked too :) Peter already got his reservations in too (was one of the first people to do so!) and Menno'll get his reservation sometime soon too. Now we're just waiting for Bas and all of the friends of friends to book everything and we're set!
I just can't wait! To find the cons site, go to the Linkage page.
kilala.nl tags: anime 2003, anime 200x,
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2002-10-20 10:11:00
Boy, it's been a while since I've worked on this website! /me looks down... :eek: It's been more than three months already!
I've finaly found out that nasty CSS bug that was causing my page to look b0rked in Opera and Mozilla.. I'm definately _not_ a CSS wiz, so it took some fiddling with random parameters in the stylesheet I once downloaded and apparently it worked :) From now on you friendly Linux users (I'm one myself, so you can understand my troubles with this page) won't have the problems of the header's contents dropping down into the text ^_^
In local news: About two months ago (as per the 1st of September actualy!) me and Mar _finaly_ moved into our new house! Yay! It took a couple of weeks, but now we're settled in nicely. Everything's great actualy :) The house is really neat, we decorated it nicely, we don't have any money shortages (/me drops down to his knees..."Thank you Gaia!") and even Blackie found her own little spot in the house.
In the work department things appear to be picking up. After a couple of dreary weeks/months at the office I'm finaly getting back into the groove, setting my teeth into some really nice projects. Marlijne's been busy trying to find a job too... She mailed two letters of application a couple of days ago and the employment agency's trying to get her a job as a delivery driver.
Re: the website. Well, as you see I've finaly taken a look at the site again after a very long time. In the near future you can expect some new pictures of my case, a load of info on the new house (pictures are sure to follow) and hopefully I'll get around to writing some stuff on anime and manga too.
Cheers!
kilala.nl tags: work, house, life, website,
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2002-10-20 09:53:00
/me looks up... Wow! That was a long time ago!! That story needs some serious updating!
First off, I bailed out of Spherion a while ago. Halfway through August I made the jump to ING and it looks like I'll be employed over there for at least a couple of years. It looks like a pretty nice company to work for: nice people, the pay's good (a bit less than Spherion, but at least ING guarantees stability!) and I learn a _LOT_ more over here than at any of the other customers of Spherion. ING put me in a team of seven guys (both internals and externals) who're in charge of supporting the sixty-something Sun boxen which hang around at two major locations of the bank. Architectures vary from the small and humble Ulta-10 to the big iron Sun Fire 6800. It's rumored that there's even an 10K hanging around!
Aniway... What else? Of course I'm still very happily living together with Mar and.. What? Yes, living together! As you may have read on the front page, we started living together in our own little house in September :) So not only do I have a girlfriend who runs around the house like crazy and who drinks from the tap, but I've also got a lovely cat (Blackie) to cuddle up to at night... :eek: or was it the other way'round? :p
In the hobbies department you can scratch Warhammer 40k off the list, since I haven't played that in years... Same goes for Roleplaying Games (though I'd like to get back into the habbit though).
But everybody still keeps me busy; rest assured! ^_^ That, and paying the bills is a lot of hard work! :3
EDIT:
/me takes a look at the picture he just took of himself
:eek!: I reckon I'm in dire need of a hair cut! Remind me to drop by there on wednesday!
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2002-10-20 09:42:00
Well, there's not much to say is there? :)
There's a new picture of my sweetie up there on the left and I already talked about the "living together" part loads of times... But it's too nice not to talk about! :D Mar and me are finaly sharing a house! Yay!
Aside from volunteering at the community center where she did her internship there's not much to do for Mar but send out letters of application, taking trips to the employment office and doing a bit of the household work. All of the sitting around the house is getting to her though and she'd love to finaly get a job!
kilala.nl tags: family,
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2002-10-20 00:00:00
Well, it looks like there won't be any cosplaying for me and Mar at the next con ;_;
A lack of funds and time to prepare the costumes will prevent us from coming in proper attire. If time allows for it we may look into fixing up something simple. It'll probably be Mar toying around with my cats ears and tail from last year and me dressing up like Hayami from Blue Submarine 6 or Karl from Serial Experiments Lain.
I may as well tell you guys what I was planning for myself though (no sense in keep that surprise ^_^). It was going to be quite a large undertaking, but I planned on going as Ryu Kazuhiko from CLAMPs series "Clover". I was going to make his formal uniform, consisting of slacks, a tight shirt and his uniform/overcoat (with all of the insignias and trimmings). If I can get my scanner to work with Linux I'll put up a picture of the guys :)
kilala.nl tags: creative, anime, manga,
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