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Update #1:<\/strong> I joint a gym to learn how to KickBoxing and Muay Thai! Here is the link to the site: http:\/\/www.samuraisports.nl\/<\/a> (little warning: this website is not a beauty)<\/div>\n
Update #2:<\/strong> Brummble the papertoy tribute to ThreeA vinyl: Heavy Bramble is online and ready for downloading: here<\/a>.<\/div>\n

It’s been a while … haven’t posted anything regular in a… year.
\nThat would have been the year 2011: the year I became for the first time a dad.<\/p>\n

So here a little update (for the one person who still reads this blog).<\/p>\n

2011 and a little bit before that<\/h3>\n

I had big plans; I wanted to show everybody that my live didn’t change when I got a kid…
\nBoy…was I mistaken.
\nDon’t get me wrong: this has been the best year of my live!!<\/strong>
\nBut the things I wanted to do this year, the plans I made… nothing of that happened.
\nMy daughter happened! and everything else followed HER<\/strong> plans.<\/p>\n

I wanted to be a part of her live and not only look after her in the weekends.
\nMy girlfriend and I both decided to have a 4 days work week so my daughter only has to goes to the daycare center for 3 days.
\nThe employer I was working for at that time didn’t want me to work 4 days. I tried to use a dutch-law: they said they would take me to court, etc, etc.
\nI don’t want to make this post about my former employer (if you want to know more about this story, just ask), so I decide that it would be best for the both of us to find another job (1.5 month before my daughter was born…. I know: I’m still bitter about that).
\nBut here is the good news (remember: the best year of my live) I found a great new job at noprotocol.nl<\/a>!!!
\nI could work there for 4 days, they are very flexible and an awesome group of talented people.
\nAND<\/strong> I didn’t miss anything daughter-related stuff, which I can recommend every dad to do: have a day alone with you kid<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

So the first 6 month of the year 2011 is mostly about being a dad (boring stuff for people who don’t have kids, nothing to explain to the people who have them). <\/p>\n

Professionally (during the day I’m a Flash Designer\/Developer) I learned about Robotlegs<\/a>, AS3-navigator<\/a>, LoaderMax<\/a>, etc. Had some interesting talks with the people of “the bigger boat” (group of freelancers). AND I can do the job in 4 days (sometimes with some creative time-management from my employer and myself) which I knew would be possible, but conformation is alway nice.
\nIn the next 6 months of 2011 I started to think about what I wanted. What makes me happy, what is making me happy right now and what will make me happy in the future. I miss the feeling I had when I started to work as a junior designer: wanting to learn EVERYTHING to become a senior. But now I am a senior… what’s next? Do I want to be a programmer for the rest of my live? Questions that are not answered yet.<\/p>\n

I’m also a papertoy designer (something I do at night). This year was not a good year for papertoys: I needed my sleep!
\nI have done 1 exhibition in Amsterdam and I did an exhibit at Sneakerness Amsterdam (also the first time that I sold papertoys).
\nBoth exhibition was done the rest of the dutch papertoy designers (3eyedbear<\/a>, Marshall Alexander<\/a>, Dolly Oblong<\/a>) and one german papertoy designer (Nick Knite<\/a>).
\nFor these events I made 2 new papertoys, but they will not be downloadable. Nick Knite and myself wanted to organize a papertoy calendar with papertoy designers we both like… sadly I had to cancel that: no time to start\/finish it \ud83d\ude41
\nAll and all not very productive year.<\/p>\n

2012<\/h3>\n

My live (and this blog) is more than just one specialty. So here a short list:<\/p>\n

Flash \/ Development<\/h4>\n

This is my job, this is how I make a living… and Flash is Dead! (again). I’m not worried so I will keep learning even more about that subject. But I need more! I have made a small CMS in 4 weeks in PHP (what an ugly language is that!) but that didn’t excited me much.
\nSo I want to learn haXe<\/a>! I’m quite excited about this language so I will be writing about that soon.
\nI would love to lead a team… or join a group of flash\/geek-superstars (whatever moves me forward)
\nI want to finish what I have started in 2011: <\/p>\n