MSN Messenger has a great option which let's you have Microsoft donate money to your favourite charity.

Read more on: http://im.live.com/Messenger/IM/Home/

The strangest thing happened on my NWA flight today. The flight was overbooked and everyone had already passed through the security check. The NWA attendent at the gate gets up and informs us that our flight is overbooked and we need 4 people to give up their seat. A $300 travel voucher will be awarded to anyone giving up their seat.

Nobody gets up to respond, after a 2 minutes I get up and tell them that if they can get me to Amsterdam via a different flight I could take a later flight, alas, after clicking away on the computer they informed me all flights were full, so I told them I couldn't give up my seat, my customer needs me in Amsterdam Monday morning. Anyway, a couple more minutes pass... no one gives up their seat. The guy now informs us that if no one comes forward 4 people will be picked at random... still no volunteers.

Next announcement: everyone board now, the last four persons to board will stay behind!!!

 

Imagine the stampede for the door...

 

True story. Crazy right?

I guess sometimes things just appear freaky.

The picture below was grabbed from www.cnn.com.

To list the burial as entertainment seems kinda tasteless...

 

Last week we went to the Houlton Car Show organized by Hogan Tire. I've uploaded some pictures. The bigfoot demonstration was awesome!

Bert, Alex, Marc, Jurgen and Hanneke went to China. Bert has posted his pictures online at: http://sassen.xs4all.nl/chinatibetnepal/

In June we went on a little weekend camping trip, I've just uploaded the pictures.

There are some more pictures of the house in the photo album labelled 'Our house'.

We bought a new truck this week... very cool fully loaded and just very very nice!

 

Look at the photos for more info :-)

 

I've also taken some pictures of Watson and Logan to test my new camera... a Nikon D70s... nice :-)

 

Me, Jeremy and Andy went to the Kenduskeag Canoe Race 2006. Jeremy and Andy were part of the rescue crew at 6 mile falls.  I just made myself usefull as photographer :-)  The pictures are in an album on this site.

Just uploaded some pictures of Watson and Logan together.

Yahoo! At 165ft we hit a good well. We're getting 15 gallons a minute so this promises to be good water pressure.

 

I've added some pictures of the progress on the house.

 

 

Here is the first picture of Mark Jr.  :-)

 

 

 

I've added some pictures of Watson. He's got his own album now.

The progress on our house is slow but steady.

We've ordered our appliances for the kitchen.

 

Dishwasher:

 

 

 

Stove:

 

 

Fridge:

 

 

Looks like the 20th of December is going to be a very special day.

 

Tory is pregnant and we've seen the doctor today, for now the expected date is the 20th of December 2006!

Yahoo, just passed my driving exam. I'll go into Bangor on Monday to collect my Maine drivers license.

Due to an unfortunate incident with my old phone ( ahum, I put it in the washing machine ) I now have a new gadget. It's the Eten M600. It's a great phone running Windows Mobile 5.0 and has a processor that is fast enough to use Skype on it. So now when I travel, as soon as there is WiFi I'll be able to connect to Skype.

 

 More info on:

- http://www.etencorp.com  
- http://www.etencorp.com/products/Communication/product/600index.swf

 

Yesterday I got Tory's birthday present. His name is Watson and somewhere in May he will join our crazy animal family.

 

 

Maine: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maine

 

Netherlands: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netherlands