Hi friends and family,

After not writing in the blogs for nearly 3 months a mailing at least to make sure you are a bit up-to-date with us.

As in the title, we are going to Holland for two weeks for my tentam/exam and for the car (EØS or APK check). We will travel wednesday 28th of May to Holland and arrive somewhere in the evening. We will leave again at thursday 12th of June. My exam is at the 9th of June. The car goes in check at the 29th of May.

During my stay you can reach me through my mobile phone (+47 95 17 43 45) although I prefer you just call my relatives (Fam. Esser) or Wouter, as their telephone numbers are much cheaper. Otherwise I will be online a lot so my normal ways of contacting, such as steven@essercommunications.nl works very fine. My company dutch numbers etc will be forwarded to the mobile phone.

I'll be doing my homework (learning for my exams) mostly on daytime (except for the weekends there the time dividing is a bit different) and will spend time with family and friends in the other parts of the day. I believe I will stay the first few days at Wouters place and the last few days with my parents. Planning wise the best way.

We have a few things we really have to attend to:
- travel to Holland 28th May
- APK Check 29th May
- Server shutdown & pickup in Amsterdam 31st May
- Some visit at friends in Germany (somebody recently married so we got to visit them).
- Perhaps some other visits in Germany (close friends of Theresa as she was born there).
- Visit to friend in Almere Buiten
- Visit to some other friends in Holland living further away
- Visit to family living in the west of Holland
- Some general stuff to do with paperwork in Holland
- Exam in Amsterdam at the 9th of June
- Travel back to Norway, 12th of June morning.

Although I didn't update the website for a long time, some might have seen the new weather channel, the links page stuff is getting added and in the background there are several photos waiting to be uploaded, articles to be filled in and also a system that keeps you more up-to-date of what is happening on the blog website.
The good thought behind a website that doesn't get too much updated, is that we have been very very busy at least (which is good).

A very short sum up of that:
- We have had a fantastic trip to England with a marvelous wedding and party and afterparty and visiting friends around Stockport and Stoke in March.
- We have business contacts with a company in England and work together on some products for the world.
- We had a trip to Oslo and visited friends
- I opened an office (physical place) in Norway for Esser Communications in May
- We opened Theresa's gameshop online (will perhaps go offline again for a bit until a new design has been applied).
- We had a commercial running during the National 17th May day for both companies
- We replaced a warm water heater kettle in the cellar, the new one has 200 liters of warm water instead of 70 (old one) so we can take a bath and visitors of us can also take their washes and we can still do the dishes afterwards, this is very nice.
- We stopped renting the flat and moved all the stuff to the main house, much better this way!
- We reorganised the house and stuff seams to get in place, although at this moment we will leave the house in chaos behind while going to Holland, too less time.
- We planned holidays for several friends and family for the coming summer, so we will get a lot of fun while working our bums off for money.
- We are getting the application stuff sorted, the companies slowly on tracks
- We were and are moving servers in Holland (very stressy thing for months now).
- We are happy to go down to Holland for two weeks of seeing people again and finishing my exam.

I just wished we had money for the electricity change and the cellar bathroom plan, but it has to wait till money has been earned. Unfortunately our guests will have to use the ultra small bathroom during their stay this summer. Not to forget the amount of boxes that is now piled up about everywhere. Hopefully I can get most of it away before the end of June visitors. For some people it is maybe back to basics ;) We can use a maximum of about 4kw at a time, so use a bit more and the whole thing blows again (another fuse). Luckily its summer.

Well those who I won't see during this summer, I hope to see or hear from you. Those who I see soon! See you soon! haha.

Greetings,

Steven & Theresa
steven@essercommunications.nl
+47 95 17 43 45