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dEUS In San Francisco

Woohoo!!! It was electrifyingly swingingly incredible!!!! dEUS played in Cafe du Nord in SF on March 19th for not much more than 100 people … amazing to see those guys perform in such an intimate setting. And they went for…

Concert and Performance week

We started on Sunday Nov 6th with a very enjoyable performance by Toots Thielemans, the Belgian jazz/harmonica player, who was here to close the 23rd annual San Francisco Jazz Festival. Last night Tue Nov 8th we enjoyed U2 at the…

Kim wins at Stanford.

Caroline was fortunate enough to get her hands on a last minute ticket for a very good seat to be able to enjoy the final at the ‘Bank of the West Classic’ Tennis Tournament to see Kim Clijsters defeat Venus…

BCNC National Day Picnic

It was an absolutely perfect day for the Belgian National Day Picnic. This year it was held on Sunday, July 24th at Paradise Beach County Park in Tiburon. The BCNC (Belgian Club of Northern California) had reserved 8 large tables…

DINK’s Again!

DINK: ‘Dual Income No Kids’. Yes, you read it right… I am working! Mind you though, only 2 days a week (no weekends and possibly only a summer-thing), no need to over-do it now, is there? Yesterday was my first…

Home-owners again!

It’s official! As of today Stephen and I are home-owners again! We signed the title deed last Friday and today it recorded at City Hall! Yihaa!!! Things went pretty fast in the last few weeks. We had been thinking about…

Cherry Trees

This is our 5th Spring in San Francisco and we finally made it to the cherry trees in bloom in Golden Gate Park. Had we waited another couple of weeks we would have missed their splendor again! While there we…

Back to Work!

The good life is over. Time to re-join the work force. I will be working for a start-up located in Berkeley just a short trip east of where we live. The company is called Idetic and brings Live Television to…

The New Year / New Job

Well, it might be time for me to look for work. So the job search will (probably) start in earnest! I did think of going up Denali (Mt McKinley) this year, but looks like these plans will be postponed a…

Back in San Francisco.

It’s been a week now since we moved into a new apartement in San Francisco’s South Beach area, next to the Giants Baseball Stadium. We are in the same building as before, with the same fantastic view and signed a…