A Hard Day's Day(s)

Catching the minibus to the airport at 4:50 am was just the beginning. The flight, which should have taken off at 7:10 was stranded at BUD for 45 minutes, because the weather was quite foggy in MUC. At least we got an extra orange juice during the wait. Our connecting flight was only 20 minutes late, at least that was written on the board, but the take off only happened like 30 minutes later, again, because of the fog. When I looked out the window while we were on the runway, I did not even see the wing of the plane. That's a reassuring sight, I must tell you :) Going a few hundred kmh with virtually no visibility is definitely a lot of fun :) The layer of fog was only like 10 meters thich though, and the weather was fine and sunny above :) Strangely enough basically only the Munich Airport (name after the late Franz Josef Strauß, minister-president of Bavaria) and it's surroundings were still covered with fog whe we were already airborne, which is either very unlucky or a very bad choice of place for an airport.
So anyhow, the journey ended well, we had a good lunch (lasagne and canelloni at the usual Italian restaurant), and a very exhausting day of bugfixing for me after. I had a good dinner, and just chilled out in the evening for a few hours watching Desperate Housewives, Dead Like Me and reading Good Omens. Terry Pratchett + Neil Gaiman = tons of fun. My colleague, who stayed here for the weekend to get visited by his family borrowed my camera for the weekend, and after work he dropped in to return it, he was quite satisfied with it. I might have convinced him to buy a Kodak :)
Today...Maybe even worse than Monday? :) Crazy bugs, crazier fixes, but it's more or less over for today. Oh yeah, and I guess I did not even mention that on Friday there was not ticket waiting for me at the airport, as promised, so it took a few minutes to sort everything out for my trip home. These last 3 days were not that good for work :)
One good thing might be that I was asked if it would be okay to work on a project in March from here...We'll see how that turns out :)

Well, enough of me for today!
M.

Short report

I'm having my first visitors here! They arrived on Wednesday at 3am, after a long and tiring drive, and will stay here until Sunday. I took Wednesday off (it's a national holiday in Hungary, so it would have been free anyhow), and we visited the Schloß Rheinberg, castle of Prince Heinrich in the late 18th century, where we had a guided tour just for the 3 of us, with a guide speaking a quite strange German. But it was fun, after the repairs going on in the castle insides are finished, it will be a very beautiful building - now it was "only" very nice :) It's strange somehow that this was my first trip outside the city limits in the past 6 weeks, but it was definitely worth it. My friends did some sightseeing yesterday and today, and we're going to check out Postdam and the Sanssouci Castle together tomorrow. So it's going to be an interesting weekend again.
Oh yeah, and it turned very cold this week. I will have to buy a scarf. Which will probably happen next week, since nothing is open on Sunday, the only day I'll spend in Berlin this weekend.

That's all for now :)
M.