Alpha Core

Two weeks ago we went to visit Alain and Wendy in Liempde (in The Netherlands). This visit was already postponed far too much and it was great to finally see them again.

Here’s also a great video compilation of our efforts to try and play mini golf in not too much of a ridiculous fashion (at which I at least failed miserably). For your amusement!

Update (February, 12th): unfortunately, the video compilation is not available anymore from now on.

This evening we (Astrid, Doro and me) went to the premiere of Karl May in Bad Segeberg. Every year they give a show there about Winnetou (the Apache indian) and this year they chose ‘Winnetou I’, the first book in the series by Karl May.

I found out that I already understood a lot more about the story being told compared to last year. Either that means my German is actually improving or they decided to simplify the story and just do crazy action scenes instead this year. I’m more willing to accept the second possibility. Anyway, we enjoyed it!

Very, very, very addictive is this online game called Xeno Tactic. The first five levels are OK, but the sixth one I find impossible (reached wave sixty something there). The game is still beta so things are still changing a bit, however it feels quite finished already. Enjoy!

Hey, we’re Tom and Doro. For the very first time (cough) something is finally happening on Alpha Core (and the crowd goes wild). A new WordPress got installed and we can finally start sharing our lives (or at least a tiny part of it) with the rest of the internet. The idea is for Alpha Core to become more of a photoblog than a normal weblog in a sense that there will be little textual content and more pictures that give merely an impression of what it is we do.

Our latest new hobby is geocaching and that one really got a firm grip around us, so you’ll have to endure the first 50 posts about geocaching. After carefully reading probably every review in existence about GPS devices, we already ordered our very own one at Futurumshop: a brand new Magellan eXplorist 210. We’re hoping it arrives soon so we can go on a huge geocaching tour. Some pictures will follow for sure!

Anyway, enjoy your stay here and we’ll try to keep this as interesting as possible here.