Archive for the 'Personal' Category

Life after OPP…

Saturday, November 14th, 2009

As I am writing this I am on a plane ride back from Atlanta to Amsterdam. I had a great time in Atlanta during OPP. I also enjoyed doing the sessions I presented. One was on ‘Table Functions’ and another was on Collections and Bulk Operations. Both these session were scheduled in the same timeslot [...]

I got tagged!

Friday, January 11th, 2008

Jornica tagged me. Thanks for the invitation. Here are a couple of things you may, or may not, know about me.

My nickname was given to me about 13 years ago, by a friend. Patch is shorter than Patrick.
I am married to Dana.
We have 3 kids, Quinty (9), Kayleigh (7) and Mitchell (4).
I [...]

Seasons greetings…

Monday, December 24th, 2007

I know December is quite a busy month for everybody, especially for me, with the birthday of my eldest daughter (December 18th), X-mas and my own birthday (December 29th). That’s why things have been quite slow on my blog ;-). But hopefully you will be having a nice end of year and I wish [...]

Change has come…

Thursday, October 25th, 2007

I have been busy with a lot of personal stuff lately. Took my daughters on a short camp with about 60 other girls. Visited a couple of friends, attended some birthday parties, had Steven over for a day, that kind of stuff. That means I didn’t really have the time to write up something for the blog.

Finally…

Monday, October 15th, 2007

Steven has arrived in The Netherlands. After having his flight from Oslo canceled due to technical problems (did they loose a wing or something like that) he arrived at Schiphol airport around 21:30. About 2 hours later than expected but definitely on time for the events scheduled for tomorrow.
First there is the TOAD User [...]