The day before yesterday I experienced some technical problems with the server. Everything is back to normal again. Now I only have to (try to) recover some of my databases. All weblog items posted until this date, will be gone forever unless I can retrieve some of the databases.

It was quite a day yesterday. A lot of fun, but exhausting (that heat too!) Anyway, the report is on Simsnetwork and on Simsnetwerk (in Dutch)

Please let me know (in the shoutbox) what you think of my *new* site. Yeah, it’s new, but I’m getting a little bit tired of it already. I find it too boring. Your feedback please

It took me two days but now the site is almost done. I spent a lot of time registering at fanlistings. It turned out to be quite many. All links are working, I just have to fix a thing in the mail form.. And you won’t find anything under Gallery yet. Furthermore you’ll find something everywhere. The site will also get multiple layouts from which you can choose soon. They are small and simple, cost me little time and the site will improve because of it.

I’m still in doubt about whether I should move my artwork (pixel art and vector art) to this website. I mean, I have made a completely separate layout for it and I am still attached to it. My fonts will appear on this site though. The cats will keep their own site, I can put up pictures here but I have made them a site for a reason. Besides my mother’s cats are also on that site. And it would be a little weird if I put her cats on this site.. Well, I’m just difficult.

Today was father’s day. Yes, it actually still is father’s day. It begun as a stressful day. In the beginning we had a fight because we were late. I would be attending a baptize in the Saint Jans church in Waalwijk at 13.45h. After that we would go to Yero’s parents (Eddy and Sharon) for a cup of coffee and cake. Everything was running a bit late though, which made the rest of the plans go to waste.

Together with my mother we would visit my grandpa’s grave, my father’s grave and my uncle Toon’s grave. But we didn’t leave until after 18.00h, because it was running late. This triggered a fight and made me release all my stress. I feel relieved now but hate that I didn’t visit the graves anymore. I promise (myself) that I will go by all the graves this month. It’s also the thought that counts, but it didn’t really make a difference.

We just came home and I got a baby carrier from Sharon and Eddy, thank you for that. Anyway, Snowy is continuously watching “What is that thing, does it bite?” Hahaha, lol. At least now I have a baby carrier, play pen, and small stuff like clothes and stuffed animals.

I was just watching F1 and it’s a disaster, Michelin. The tires were too risky so they’re only driving cars with Bridgestone tires. That means 3 teams, each of which has 2 cars. 6 Cars in total in the US of A. And they are angry. I understand. $250 for a ticket, each, is expensive. Becoming a premium at Simsnetwork is a much better deal.

Yesterday I made some quick calculations, in which I assume to post about 30 downloads a day on the sites. That will come down to 210 downloads each week, 10950 downloads a year. 30 Is a nice round figure. If I got rid of the late work and there are no downloads left, then I can make 30 skins in no-time, and it’s fun. Packing and uploading 30 skins takes me about 10 minutes, since I make them myself and know those by heart and so I can finish them quicker than somebody else’s downloads. Nice lookout. At least 10.000 downloads a year. Just not this November, because we’re planning to go to Paris for a few days. Well that’s all for now. Like anybody reads this hahaha.. See you next time..

Simgek (Lia) created some really cool recolors a while ago, but due to all the stuff going on and around SNW I was unable to upload these items. They’re online now, available for download!

So I already told you yesterday that I am going to meet & greet Tim LeTourneau next Friday. Tonight there was a chat and I got no questions answered this time, but did get to know a few things. I am busy writing down all questions, so I can ask them next week. By the way, nobody knows, except EA, what that one surprise will be, but I have a hunch.

I completely forgot to mention but it does need its own piece of text… I am going to Tim LeTourneau (Senior Producer of The Sims 2) next week at EA Benelux. There I will ask all possible questions which are not yet known about the second expansion pack of The Sims 2: Nightlife. Nightlife will be out 15 September in the Netherlands, a year after The Sims 2 itself. It is the second expansion pack and according to EA it will have the same system requirements. I don’t really believe that last bit, but ok… What they want..

If you have any questions regarding the second expansion pack (Nightlife) then leave me a message here or talk to me on MSN. I will write down all (not yet known) questions and will ask Tim LeTourneau them one by one. The previous meeting (press conference) with Tim LeTourneau was a lot of fun and I think it will be fun again this time. Now let’s just hope we can take pictures.

Tomorrow we’ll post some downloads made by Simgek a.k.a. Lia on SNW. She has made some cool recolors, so be sure to visit

I’ve uploaded a photo of my new hairdo (interesting huh). Jeffrey wanted to know exactly how orange my hair really was. Well, see for yourself:
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Last Friday I went to a café with some of my old colleagues. It was a lot of fun. It was so much fun that I was too wasted to walk home properly. Won’t give you any details on that

On Saturday I decided to exercise a little alongside the television. I did it for 2-3 hours.

On Sunday I went to see the Red Bull Air Race. I’ve only viewed it for an hour or so, but it was kinda fun. But now I have blisters on both my heels. Not used to anything I guess.

On Monday I was too exhausted and lazy to do anything. Very fascinating :p

On Tuesday I made a few University dorms/homes for SNW. Yesterday I created some new items (clothing, hairdos) in University/college style of course. For images I suggest you visit SNW.