The Final Countdown!

So here goes my final blog for Quantum Diaries. I have just looked over my blogs of this year, and I think it's safe to say that  it has been a definitive year in my life. First of all I finished university with a Master's degree. I chose to continue in science and obtained a PhD position at my institute (NIKHEF). I spent some weeks at CERN helping out with testing and installation of the muon chambers.
This year my band has been very active and we have played more countries in a year then ever before. If I count quickly I come up with at least 20 countries me and my band have played, starting in Iceland and all over Europe and finishing in Asia with Indonesia and Malaysia. Politically much was happening in Holland and outside as well. My organization has decided that to build political alternatives in the Netherlands, it is necessary to join our forces with the forces of the much bigger SP (Socialistische Partij). This will be an interesting task/test for us over the coming year as elections draw near. And I stepped over a quarter of a century two weeks ago.
But the coming year is gonna be even more interesting, hectic and exciting for me. Starting from january up until the end of june I will be spending 3 months at CERN. The ATLAS spectrometer has to be finished for the greater part till that time, so me and a fellow PhD Zdenko will be spending many weeks in Geneva testing, installing chambers and doing everything necessary to finish on time.
My band is also gearing up as a tour of Brazil is in the pipeline, as well as several short tours of Europe and maybe even US for a couple of weeks at the end of the year. We will also be looking into getting more of an official recognition in the Netherlands, which started this year with our acception into the Dutch online music encyclopedia.
I'm looking forward to the New Year! Hopefully it won't be over as fast as 2005! Have fun, cause I sure know that I will!!!