Weird dream…

it’s amazing how sometimes one integrates current events into dreams.

I am standing somewhere, no idea but I know where I am. I have to get to another place (Police tells me to) because my parents have been killed by terrorists in order to capture their Volkswagen Camper. With this camper, two terroristic actions have been conducted, some Libyan leader has been asassinated and some Israeli politician aswell.

As I inspect the damaged and bullet-riddled bus, I think of my parents.
I am standing on a ship and we are cruising somewhere on the ocean. All of a sudden, a strange mist comes up and we are lost in the middle of nowhere.
Strange shapes come into existence and I sonehow know that we have to be in the Bermuda-Triangle, where your wishes and dreams can manifest. So I wish for the submarine of Captain Nemo which promptly comes to existence. My parents are standing on top of it, naked.

I tell them to come onboard and explain them, what has been done with their VW camper and that they actually had died but that they have been resurrected.. (once you are in the Bermuda Triangle, what could you do…)

They are pretty confused as I ask them to step onboard but quicky walk inside to meet the others on the ship.. at this moment I realize that they are in fact still naked.

I wake up. :)

full house

for the current week we have my sister-in-law, my two cousins and from today on also my future brother-in-law in the house. It sure feels different to have so many people here.

on the other hand, I am having thought about becoming a houseman.. Anna is so ambitious, I could never work so hard on something. And someone has to bring up the kids :P

the bad thing about it is, that I was sick for 2 weeks (no work done there) and now I am pretty much paralyzed again.. but it’s fun to have so many people here.

And I have something from my family.. when I cook for 2, there can eat four.. now I cook for 6 and it’s enough for 10. Big family left its mark :)

jet-set? train-set?

Saturday morning, after Anna had decided not to join me for the wedding of Jan due to some kidney or bladder disease (poor one!), I left Ansterdam to watch Annika and Jan get married in Hamm. It was a cool party and despite the fact that Jan was sick himself I had very good time and met many nice people.

I was especially happy to meet the Schwabe family and the other guys from Göttingen (sorry, Hannes, for throwing you in the box with the others) again after such a long time.. felt nicely warm to meet old friends. :)

This morning I am already in Münster, visiting my sister-in-law.
I had breakfast in the train (coffee to go, Aspirin and a croissant) and used the bathroom of the train to shave myself (that’s the third time I am doing this now.. hmmm ;) )
Now I am sitting here, hung over but happy and tomorrow morning we will be heading to the airport in Cologne to fetch my cousins from Bulgaria. Back to Amsterdam with the ICE, then.. boy, this kind of life I could get used to. Doing ~1000 km every weekend :)

people are strange…

Where exactly is the kick in stealing the valves of other people’s bicycles?
I mean, they have a meterial value of, well.. 10 cents?
(Ok, the guy at the toolshop sells them for 50 cents.. but that’s economy)
The intellectual value is even less.. so WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU, GUYS?

If you need to steal, steal cars, maybe the radios in cars.. but valves of bicycles? We cannot afford cars, that’s why we ride bikes.

still sick

I can’t believe I am still sick..

I think I might have to go to the doc and fetch some antibiotics if it doesn’t stop, soon. :(

Problem is, my brain is just not working.. I can receive orders and do things but anything that involves thinking, fails.
Hmm.. as if it was any different, before :P

to mac or not to mac

Well, there I finally got a new laptop on friday, a shiny sexy white MacBook (yay!) and what happens? Anna goes on a business-trip on monday and her employer fails to provide her with a laptop. So I give it to her.. no big deal. (At least, that’s what I thought.)
It’s been 9 a.m. when she left for the airport and now it’s 1 p.m. and I am starting to get nervous.. maybe it wasn’t such a good idea after all :P

Anyway, I cought a flu (no kidding!) and cannot do anything anyway because I am in a state between headache, confusion and coughing. Unpleasant.

It’s 35 degree out there and I am having a cold.. how sick is that!?!?!?

Ubuntu and suspend2

I am using Ubuntu “Dapper Drake” for a while now and I am truly impressed how far the Linux community has pushed this. It’s nearly perfect.
Of course, some work is needed and one will actually have to read at least one website to get mp3 working (did I mention that patents and copyrights suck badly?)
But everything is usually resolved quickly after looking into the forums once.

What Ubuntu lacks at the moment is good hibernation support.
Software Suspend 2 is a project that gives Linux the ability to hibernate the PC just like in Windows XP. Problem is, you have to patch the kernel for it to work with Ubuntu. Beginners don’t like that. :P

Here’s a nice person that has written a nice howto and has provided custom (experimental) kernels to use with software suspend 2:
http://dagobah.ucc.asn.au/dapper-kernels/

Thank you very much!!!

P.S.: And to speed up the whole thing there is a neat script: faster-dapper

motivation

people like catzee can motivate me in a few minutes.. for hours.

why can’t I motivate myself like this?
why do I always need people to pull me into things.. like going to study?

Finally I find some motivation to stay in Aachen but I am needed in Amsterdam now. Or very soon.. and I cannot leave here without this §”$%* bachelors degree.
Fuck myself for being such a indecisive and lazy person.. lazy? maybe just unmotivated.

It’s such a beautiful time at the moment, summer at its finest and everything looks good I am just fucking with myself. :(

life sucks big deal at the moment..