We took a nice journey through ‘known’ terrain, by foot We had a nice start, a pacifier just lying in the middle of the track, maybe daddy or mommy think about it in time …

A nice and comfy round the woods, together. And obviously very Vital! For pictures see the Dutch post

Yup, that time again, this week I had to recertify. NetApp requests (and therefore demands) to have your certification present every two years. Not only by knowledge and skill, but more importantly by getting your exam. As they are still working on the new ‘top’ stack I decided to take the renewed exam. So on monday morning I was in one of the cubicles again at GK in Nieuwegein.

It took some sweat, not only the exam was (or appeared) heavier and it took me some longer than usual – both the PC of my neighbor and mine (he was doing a different exam) decided to ‘logout’ on us. According to the coordinator it was a ‘power dip’ but I’ve rarely seen power dips log off an XP machine. Fortunately after a long 10 minutes we could continue, fortunately we had enough time and the server ‘knew’ where we were when it lost the connection

A successful morning it turned out to be, although it took some time waiting for the official ‘extension’ till 2014 on CertMetrics! So finding all docs now and sending them of to Snow

As a company Snow B.V. likes to take care of here employees. They regularly analyze various things to see what can be improved. One of those things was a number of employees wanting to feel more consent, feel good and/or be more active (and might also like to loose some ‘handles’).

Positively received during the announcement at the x-mas dinner the program, “Snow Vitaal”, started last month and we couldn’t wait to join! Equipped with a step counter and scale that automagically transfer their data we are improving ourselves. Even more than before we carefully look at what we do and don’t accept in terms of food. Additionally my new assignment is within bicycle-range and I’m also not required to have a car to ‘jump into when needed elsewhere’! A number of co-workers won’t let the weather take the most of them and go round-about almost every day, that ‘ll put the counter to work

All in all it’s about changing patterns, which can be challenging, but with our consultancy background we are used to that. Every assignment has it’s own (good!) challenges and therefore ensures your adaptability level keeps up. Marianne supports me (and the other participants) by joining in and also the both of us got selected for the endurance program where we’ll get the intense coaching.

Up to now (1.5 week into the program) it’s very much fun! And the gadgets, books and methods just keep improving it. ‘ll kep you posted!

Today Peter’s ride was scheduled, so we all drove to VanDerValk in Zwolle to have some coffee and then start our tour ‘to Giethoorn and back’ (ending in Harderwijk). We had a great time! (As always with the MotorClubNieuwegein). So a nice movie to enjoy, from the front of the pack this time!

After our nieces FHC this morning we first visited the fields filled with different tulips and went on to the ‘Orchideeënhoeve’, enjoying all the beautiful plants, butterflygarden and practicing with the new gear

Butterflies are incredibly hard to capture, especially when it comes to the never resting blue ones Fortunately there were some other animals to capture!

See the Dutch post for the additional pictures!

Exactly! Time to prep some sateh And now including a recipe of how we make this. The nasi we combine it with is not an exact recipe as we change the ingredients every time we make it, at least you’ll have an idea of what we cook!

Pictured you’ll also see the new ‘spears’ we bought, very convenient ones as you can stick two of them through the meat and their also much easier to handle!