Lake Starnberg...

... is just around the corner. Behold Luke, our dog. He enjoys the view not like I do. In fact he doesn't care at all. But that makes the moment not less beautiful. This picture has been taken today, an hour before sunset. Too bad I didn't have a panorama camera ;-)

It's been a while

I'm back. I haven't blogged in a while and there is no reason for that other than normal course of life. During the week I'm busy at work. I get out early and return late. And this is the first weekend since I don't know when that I'm at home without an agenda.

Last weekend we were at the wedding of my good friend Chris. It was great to see him do the marriage vow. He has been the one that alwas said "I'm not going to marry". He is godfather of my daughter Angelina and when that ceremony happened he said "my family plan is closed now with two godchildren". Did I mention his little daughter Paula is just four weeks younger than my sweet little Christina. So we sort of went through the pregnancy together *grin*. And of course the wedding and the feast - there is no better word for it - was back in Palatinate.

Now that I read what I wrote I realize that it's kind of odd. I was speaking about "boring" normal days and then I mention a wedding and a feast. Let's say the proportion saves me. Interesting side show to the wedding trip. We took only Christina (she is currently screaming so loud I can't even hear the computers keyboard clicking as I type) on that day. So everyone asked "Where's Angelina?" and I alsways answered "She's got too much appointments". And that's the truth. As it was clear we would spend the week back in the old home she made plans to visit all her friends. She spent time with her grandmas adn with Fabi9enne and Lennar, her two best friends. That made four appointments in two days. She was a busy little girl...

My mum will visit us later this week. So that will also be good for Angelina. Too bad that currently the weather is a mess again. Yesterday it rained tho whole day after tha last week was quite hot. We had storm warnings for friday evening and yesterday heard that there were a lot of damaged around upper bavaria. Lucky for us none close to us. When we drove to Weilheim for shopping we missed our magnificent view. Between Bauerbach and Haunshofen, the next two villages between Bernried and Weilheim, there's a spot where one has a wonderfull panorama. I must remember to take a camera with me the next time I go there (and the weather is fine).

Quick addition

I found a picture taken with our camera. It's a lot better in quality. And to make this clear: This is what we see every morning when we get up. It's taken from the balcony in our bedroom...

Back to the future

We're online. German Telekom finally managed to activate our phone line. Interesting is that they sent a technician. I never ordered them to. And I'm not going to pay for that. Lucky me I have a written note from them that I didn't order installation service. We'll see. Tomorrow I'm going to see my laywer for a nice dinner so no stress on that account.

Now that I'm equipped with bandwidth I'm going to upload some pictures of my new home. For the start I have some with very bad resolution as I took them with my cell phone (no, not a phone by Apple...). Don't blame me for the bad quality:

On saturday we went to a big furniture store. This trip was like hell for our children. Especially Christina is way to young for that. It is just too much stress for her. Nevertheless we bought a few things. Two sideboards that normally cost 175 euros each. We got them together for 70 bucks. Then we ordered two couches, one for the guest room and one for Angelinas room. Interestingly when we left a German pop singer started to perform at that store. Her name is Sarah Connor and I can't stand that bitch. My favorite Oliver Kalkofe did his part in making fun of her and the reality TV show she starred. If he knew that she now sings at furniture store jubilees... Sometimes god is just.

First new friend

Finally my daughter Angelina has found a new friend. His name is frederik, he's four and a half years old and lives only a few meters away. He comes over to play in our garden and since this is possible Angelina seems to relax. She also now attends kids' gymnastics. Yesterday she was there and my wife could go away during almost an hour. It was without any problems, which feels very astonishing. Sometimes I feel she won't really stand only one hour without her mum but when she's really occupied with something it is no problem AT ALL...

Yesterday night I asked my wife how happy on a scale from 0 to ten she currently is. She said she was pretty happy now in Bernried. Of course westill have some issues to be resolved. Our TV doesn't work correctly as we have a DVB-S based Pay-TV subscription and the satellite antenna on the roof is currently an old analogous one. So a lot of channels are just broken. To compensate we just watch DVDs. We bought the "Pippi Longstocking" DVD box for Angelina and she enjoys that alot. Its fun watching her when she's really deeply sunken into the world of Pippi.

Then the heating doesn't work yet. Ok, it produces hot water to bath and shower but it won't heat the rooms. It is not cold at the moment (see the title of my last post) but for our little baby girl it is necessary to have the bathroom quite warm. The thing is that water is missing from the heatings circuit. It has been refilled several times but always without having us informed before. So the air in the empty radiators prevent the water from reaching our radiators. *duh*

And we haven't found the time to do all of the official stuff and paper work. The cars will have to get new numberplates but that just hasn't happened yet.

At the company there's going to be some restructuring. I was told that I'll change the desk here on the floor. We're changing the team structure and every application team will be assigned an architect. Thus from being one architect of severals I will be "promoted" to being the architect of the logistics team. The team lead of that team will be the superior for functional decisions and I will be the one for technical ones. And that after two months. *grin*

Interesting is that today one of the programmers was fired. And that does NOT feel like it did in the old company because last week we had like five different candidates here. In almost two weeks a new architect will start working here and in september another one. We're still growing, so loosing one or another on the way is more a sign of improvement that a sign of decay.

So much for now.

Ah, by the way: German "Telekom" didn't manage to activate our new phone line yet. It'll take until monday now. And until then I will have to continue to go online wherever I can because at home there's no internet :(

But a blessing in disguise I will get 16 MBit/s instead of the 6 MBit/s I used to have back in Palatinate. Even more bandwith I will not be able to exhaust.