Geekdinner: good waffles!

So, 12 out of 15 people showed up at Geekdinner
Paal and I had a good time.
I came in far too late myself, as I was stuck until 19:00 in Ghent at IBBT where I was invited for a discussion about
the recruitment of international high-profile ICT candidates in Belgium. I
gathered some very good insights there, I must say. Happy to know that there
will be a follow up on that.

Anyway, I made it just in time for the soup, so I didn’t miss all that much
after all. I was happy to see some new faces, like Rein, Frank and Ywein. Welcome! :-)

The food was good, but I’m not so happy with the restaurant though. When I was
making the reservation last week, they really made a big fuss out of it. They
were too busy, asked me if I couldn’t arrange it on another date, asked me to
provide full menu insight on beforehand, wanted to shove up vegetarians a fish
meal, etc… It turned out that, except for us, only 5 more customers were present that
evening. Talking about planning and customer services… Next Geekdinner
Limburg will be held somewhere else, probably just in Hasselt, as nobody really
seemed to mind the distance (and apparently we can handle without the Ghent
troup :-p). Kris even mentioned
Ostend or Roeselare as location for a next Geekdinner! :-)

After the meal, everybody moved over to our
office for the waffle dessert prepared voluntarily by Wouter. I catered for the ingredients and the
location and stuff, while he did the actual cooking. I didn’t get enough eggs
though, and apparently he wasn’t too happy
about that. Sorry, Wouter! Anyway, I do think that making waffles for 5 or
for 10 people doesn’t make that much of a difference, whereas for preparing a
whole meal, the amount of people really does have an impact.

Just found out now that we didn’t take any photos. Too bad!

Thanks to all those who showed up. May I, by the way, remind you that this was
the first Geekdinner to have more than one girl? ;-)