Well, I am back. The vacation was absolutely lovely. I don't think I ever had an entire week of sunshine during a skiing vacation ( Read more... )

I am off for a week of well-deserved skiing vacation. So for the upcoming week, I am not just lurking, I am officially not at home ( Read more... )

After a week of the best dreary German winter weather (aka the Dawnless Week), we have now those clear cold winter days I absolutely love. And since I was too tired to get any work done on the train to work this morning (that's what watching Sharpe DVDs until past midnight when one has to get up at 6.45 am does to you), I tried to wake up by ( Read more... )

We came home yesterday evening to find my christmas present waiting: the Sharpe DVDs that where still missing in my collection. Definitely something for long winter evenings :-) *hugs Significant Other ( Read more... )

My suitcase is packed, the kitchen is cleaned in so far as I don't expect any creepy-crawlies to greet me upon my return next week, so all that remains to be done before I head to my parent's home tomorrow afternoon is to wish you all very happy and peaceful holidays ( Read more... )

And here I thought that once our software is delivered, things would slow down and I would have the opportunity to cut short on my working hours as a compensation for working overtime for the past two months ( Read more... )

I am so annoyed I even don't know where to start ( Read more... )

From juno_magic

I am the guy who came out to the entire school in his senior speech and got a standing ovation for his courage ( Read more... )

I am back, sort of. At least I am back from my well-earned though too short vacation. Corsica was lovely and I really enjoyed spending so much time with my nieces (though reading the same stories over and over and over again can get a bit tiresome ;-)). Yet the vacation would have been even more lovely had my significant other not been forced to ( Read more... )

It's done. We have moved. Now we only have to figure out what to put where in the new flat. We didn't really have much time to think about it before we moved; we only barely managed to get everything packed and all the furniture dismantled (I am not a religious person, but I'll surely worship whoever invented the powerless screwdriver [edit: make ( Read more... )