Monday
Monday saw the end of the european final beta of WoW. While I was virtuously sitting at my workplace - not playing to the bitter end - I couldn’t refrain from watching the various forums. What I saw there reminded me of press coverage of war (somebody has a good translation for ‘Kriegsberichtserstattung’?). Every minute there were new pix of the burning legion of halfnaked chars dancing into armageddon. I bet CNN hadn’t as much material on the War in Iraq as the WoW-freaks posted that day about a virtual battle.
As I reported earlier I stopped doing the Karate thing. Since I needed some kind of replacement I met with Lili for a little swimming exercise. But before we could practice I had to get new trunks. So we went to Karstadt where I selected a simple thing which was approximately as green as my old one. Then I saw the price. 30 Euros. I was instantly wondering if there wasn’t something more reasonably priced. After all I only wanted to go swimming not catwalking. Soon enough I found trunks that looked nearly the same - they where red/blue but had the same cut - but was only 3 Euro. That left me wondering about the complex and probably wonderful world of bathing suit economics.
Tuesday
I agreed to do a presentation for a guy a now from work. He has a ambitious and scurrile programme: He has founded a association that wants to recover some airplanes which got lost in WWII and now are beneath 100 meters of ice. This evening they had a meetint which I also was invited to. As I was about to show them the first draft of the presentation (made with openoffice), I realised that these slides meant two totally different things. For me it was some clicking and some reading to find out how to scroll a text. For the other people [well except for the webdesigner maybe :) ] it was colorful and fullscreen. probably I wasn’t doing them a favor cause making a presentation is boring clickwork but because they wouldn’t know how to do it. I often forget that there are people who don’t know the things I do.
Wednesday
Had a meeting at the 2nd Force. Attendants were all workers, on vice-boss and one boss. I will not rant about the meeting here cause this might - through murphys law - make me another unemployed blogger. Most of the people who have seen me the days after this have witnessed my frustration. Thanks for your patience. The idea of blogging about this made me think about a second, closed blog - again.
waves to the mindreaderwriter.
Thursday
planning at the 2nd force was pretty much business as usual. Also we implemented one of our ideas which turned out better than we thought. After that I signed my contact at iBuG - oh joy! If only the bureaucracy hadn’t messed up the whole thing this could have happened two month earlier. Anyways, I’m grateful for the opportunity.
The evening brought another meeting this time of a more pleasurable nature. After a hour of official things all iBuGs swarmed the mexican restaurant we tested two weeks before.
Friday
I don’t recall what I exactly planned that day but I ended up setting up Sp’s network which I aptly named SpN. (This is an insider joke. probably only Sp and Ms. Klunkerbotte will understand.) playing with all that gadgets I became all fired up about getting WLAN for myself.
Two partys took place that day but I attended none, because I weren’t in the right mood for Lilis party (which didn’t matter cause she weren’t there either) and I really thought aA’s party was scheduled a week later. Instead I visited Squee where we had dinner and rent a movie. Don’t ever bother to watch “Zu Warriors” which is utter crap. Well, at least the Miramax version is. As an imdb-user pointed out:
“[Miramax] chopped down “Legend of Zu” from 104 minutes to 76 minutes. Important character elements are lopped off, but I guess Miramax thought that helped the “pacing” of the film.”
It has nice SFX tho…
Saturday
Breakfast with tp, Ms. Klunkerbotte and Sp which was nice and another playtime at midBros place with the usual suspects. There isn’t much to tell this time, except that I WON TWO TIMES.
w00t!
And I promised Squee to write it down so I can always be remembered about his when I start whining about unfair-games-that-make-me-loose-every-time. =)
Sunday
Spent the whole day looking for a tool that let’s me synchronize my T610 with my sunbird. Sunbird is a quite cool calendar app from the mozilla people. I hope they keep up the good work cause version 0.2 (which in fact is the standalone-version of version 0.(2+x) of the mozilla calendar extension) looks very promising.
Edited on Feb 18th 2005, 16:15 by jeck
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