Moved house

I was amazed this morning that it's only been a month since I moved house. So much has happened since.

For reasons that I won't go into, I've had to move house. Since I like living in Mechelen, not too far from work, however, I decided to search for something close by. And I did find something close by; I moved to "just around the corner". Which is a bit silly, but then blame the bureaucrats.

At any rate, I'm starting to feel at home in the new spot. It's a bit smaller and a bit more expensive than the old place, but it looks a lot better, and that more than makes up for it. And it's not like I needed the extra space in the old place -- I kept having this big empty spot in the middle of my living room, anyway.

To make matters more interesting, I've been on stage three times and out of the country once in this past month: One wedding, two concerts, and a work trip to Cork. I guess that's why it seemed like so much more time.

But that's over now, and recently I finally managed to make some time working on other projects. Today it was incorporating some patches (which turned out not to work entirely) and doing a release for nbd. That release was overdue by quite a bit; there were a few fairly serious bugs outstanding that I had commits for in the git repository already, I just had to get them out there. Oh well.

A few weeks back I've also managed to work a bit on ipcfg some more. The reason it has been so long since the last time I worked on it was that I had started to realize there were several things wrong with it, and I wasn't sure how to best move forward. But then not so long ago I had an epiphany, and I've now started to reimplement the broken bits—which is, well, most of it. But hey.

Moving isn't fun. Glad it's over. Almost.

Zingen

Al wie mij een beetje kent, weet dat ik graag zing. Ik zing dan ook al sinds m'n 16 vrijwel onafgebroken in een koor. Eerst was dat het koor Cantilene; maar dat koor heeft een leeftijdslimiet, dus toen ik 26 werd moest ik het koor verlaten.

Twee jaar later ben ik dan lid geworden van een nieuw-opgericht koor, Caljenté, en ik zing daar nog steeds. Which is fun. Alleen is het jammer genoeg zo dat er redelijk weinig mannen in dat koor meezingen; en dat wordt zo'n beetje een probleem. Net geen 10 mannen tegen meer dan 40 vrouwen, we moeten ons mannetje wel staan.

Dus, een oproep: als je graag zingt, tussen 25 en 45 jaar oud bent, ietwat toon kunt houden, en vrij bent op vrijdagavond, dan ben je absoluut welkom! Muziek kunnen lezen is geen vereiste. En als je komt meezingen, krijg je zelfs nog een fles cava gratis—'t is te zeggen, als je zegt dat ik je heb laten komen, krijg ik een fles cava gratis, maar ik hou niet zo van cava, dus...

Tot vrijdag?