Moving from US to Belgium during a pandemic

We moved our family from the US (Maryland, just in case you didn’t know yet) to Belgium - no big deal. During the COVID-19 pandemic, in July-August 2020 - now we’re talking … I wrote this post to document our journey. We were (and still are) extremely privileged to have been able to do this, in the conditions we did it. The journey is not over. I’ll update and continue to document it until we fall back into something more “normal” … [long post]

August 6, 2020 · 9 min · jepoirrier

Do you gain weight before moving to the USA?

I’ve been using several Fitbit devices since a few years and I decided to stop using them in 2017. My feeling (like many people experienced before) is that wearable devices don’t work. Yes, you’ve read correctly: I was a big supporter of wearables, following the adage “what you can’t measure you can’t manage”, but not anymore. Why do I write that? What works then? And what does that have to do with the title?

February 2, 2017 · 3 min · jepoirrier

Welcome again!

Hi, and welcome back on my blog. Following the progressive migration from epot.org to jepoirrier.net, you landed on the new address for my blog: http://www.jepoirrier.net/blog ( new RSS feed here). The migration process was easy, thanks to the WordPress eXtended RSS that contains posts, pages, comments, custom fields, categories, and tags. But there are two things left I wanted to keep: existing users and images which links are hard-coded in various posts. ...

February 28, 2009 · 2 min · jepoirrier

We moved

Everything is in the title. All the boxes and other furniture are all right (their owner too). Now my journeys to work will be much shorter and I’ll be able to resume my previous evening activities :-)

March 16, 2008 · 1 min · jepoirrier