At the exact moment of this blog entry the Winter Solstice is a fact. We up on the northern hemisphere can finally look forward to gradually more sunlight as the days up to the Summer Solstice (in June) pass by.I will celebrate this day of darkness with lots of lights, food and with my family around me in 3 days, on December 24th: Yule Evening.

"Near Death – Delusions of Godlike power" And that’s after just a cup of tea. I don’t even want to think about how I am after a cup of coffee.Try it for yourself here:The Caffeine Click Test – How Caffeinated Are You?

During the next weeks I’ll be reminiscing some of my experiences during my big USA vacation. I’ll start off by talking about t-shirts. This might not sound very exciting, but some of the T-shirts I wore created some funny situations. In Las Vegas, when I took the elevator up to the restaurant in Stratosphere Tower a maintenance guy took the elevator with me (in addition to the female elevator operator). I was wearing my "Save the cheerleader…" t-shirt (advertising the TV-show "Heroes"), but the maintenance guy didn’t see the Heroes logo and was wondering if I was a cheerleader. I said "No" and pointed to the Heroes logo and explained that it was a TV show. The elevator operator then continued asking him if it […] Read more

Yesterday I bought a new TV. Not a big screen TV, but a huge screen TV. The specific make and model is Sony KDL-52W4500. It has excellent black levels and colours, plenty of peripheral inputs, and, of course, an enormous screen. If a movie is showing and the camera pans across some nature shots, I can’t even walk beside the TV without getting dizzy.This is definitely a big upgrade (pun intended) from my previous TV, which will see its final days in my parents downstairs living room.