All in all it was a quite, let’s say, interesting journey. We had our first near-death experience on our way to the airport in Vienna when our driver nod off. Arrived in Madrid a few hours later, with a stopover in Munich.

The hotel in Madrid was dreadful, but we quickly made it to the next Tapas bar. Meeting with our customer the next morning, next crazy taxi driver, but I guess we were just not relaxed enough to cross the street just before the truck. On our way to Barajas after the meeting our taxi driver, guess what, was sleepy again. So talking with him about god and the world - quite a challenge because our Spanish is non existing, as is his English.

Our flight was quite late because of some fog in Munich, so we didn’t get our connection flight to Vienna and instead rented a Mini Cooper to get home. Awesome car! Arrived in Vienna at about 3.30 a.m. and took me two days to catch up on lost sleep of the last few days.

Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.

Another link which emphasizes the above quote comes from one of the Github founders, Chris Wanstrath, who gave a keynote at Ruby Hoedown. Time to look at my github account again and devote some hours to some projects (anyone in need of a OpenStreetMap -> Shape-File converter?).

I can’t name them either.

But I’m working on it, even if I actually don’t want to. Today I discovered one of them.

I’m impatient. I guess I’ve always been. When I was still a kid, not too young anymore, I knew where my mum hid my christmas presents. I did have a look at some of them, not all, but some. That didn’t annul the joy when I actually got them, because I know what was lying under the christmas tree (again, not all of them, I didn’t unpack them or so).

I was also one of the guys who where quite unhappy when it came to the mid of summer because I knew school was still not going to start for a long time. And I guess I’m a doer. I was never one of those guys who was passive at school, who waited for other students to say something or to act. I wanted to show what I can do and I did.

Now I’m no longer a student, but an employee. And it makes me quite nervous to see what our competition did while we were talking about what we might can do. I wanna build things, I wanna do something, I wanna make progress, actively.

I guess that’s also one of my flaws in my personal life (well, no, I do know that it is a flaw). I can’t wait for things to happen, I need them to happen, I want to influence them and just can’t wait for it). Why do I write all that? Well, because I guess things are changing here. And I can only wait and see. Which makes me uncomfortable and pretty much puzzled.

So yesterday I purchased a replacement, a silver iPod nano, 4gb. It has the perfect size for me and enough space to hold the most recent music. Perfect. And even better are the new headphones, which are smaller than the ones I had until now (Sennheiser and original Apple headphones) which makes them much more comfortable.

It works great, still have to do some improvements here and there but my main goal is to get it running with IE, which doesn’t support the <canvas> tag (which is really a pity).

Do you know any alternatives? It’s enough if I could draw basic shapes like rectangles and lines, nothing fancy.

[to be continued]

It’s also nearly the end of my studies at my university, I will write my second bachelor thesis, do the exam and then I am finally done. Plans for the future? Definitely, but I won’t tell - yet.

Seems like I had a busy day.

The only problem I have at the moment is the keyboard. I’ve chosen the german version, which does not have labels for all characters on a key. So finding some strange shortcuts can be quite tricky sometimes.

Pictures and further insights will follow.