Jeffrey de Wit

Category: My American Adventures

  • The one where I do explain my pictures

    So a few weeks ago I shot one black and white picture of my every day life each day for seven days. There were not supposed to be any explanations, but this is my blog and I can do whatever the hell I want. :) Day 1 – Publix The first day, a Tuesday, just…

  • The End of an Era (and the start of a new one!)

    Friday the 14th of October was my last day at Highforge. Just half a month shy of 4 years I am resigning my position there to take the next step in my career. A career that has, thusfar, lacked definition. I’ve always been a bit of a “jack of all trades” and if I described…

  • Bienvenidos a Miami: A recap of WordCamp Miami 2015

    This WordCamp has been a number of firsts for me. It would be the first WordCamp outside of Orlando, and also the first time for me to visit Miami. It’s also the first road trip we’ve taken by ourselves as a married couple. All around good stuff. I am fully aware that this post has…

  • The end of the year, 2013 and holidays

    I’ve been sitting on this post for months, mostly because I’m trying to find time to restructure my site’s multilingual portion, trim plugins and figure out AWS. But more on that in a later post. Now, on with the original post! And just like that, 2012 is over and done with and I’ve been in…

  • The story so far…

    So I’ve now long passed the 6 month mark in my new home country America and there have been a number of changes since my last post about obtaining my SSN and bank account and getting married. Employment and things First of all, I’m finally able to work legally in this country. It took almost 3 months to finally get…

  • American adventures part 1 – SSN and bankaccount

    I´ve been here for about two months now and slowly getting the things I need done. My first objective after getting married(More on that in another post, after the ceremonial wedding :)) was getting a social security number(SSN). First attempt at getting one failed pretty horribly. As it turns out, the nearest Social Security Administration(SSA)…