Baltic Sea once again

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Spontaneous trip to the sea. booking a room was easy enough. leaving at 5:30 we manged too, since I had finished my "cutting the grass" job in time... 2 hours drive to the sea, unpacking, off to the beach... splendid sunset :)
Saturday more time at the beach (weather was more so and so), and when we got ready to leave, the sun came out. of course we didn't leave and stayed until the sun was gone again (it lasted for tremendous 30 mins)... back home, quick coffee at Karstens house, and lurvely Thai curry in the evening.
Sunday a trip to Prohnstorf, for some music and entertainment (SHMF) -

Beas Burfday

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is today. I think she's about to hit 28 today or so ;) pressie will be giving to her next monday... and no, I won't be calling her today, leaving the impression I forgot her burfday :-D

Wednesday action

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got up early (well, ok, like 07:30 a.m. is early!). arrived at coffe+cakes at a quarter to 9, Carsten got there just a few mins after. Kamil of course was late (09:20), but hey, he's the lil one, so it's ok :-D
Lunch in http://www.literaturhaus-hamburg.de/ with Claudia T.. hadn't seen her in 2 years, caught up rather quickly though. After an Espresso in http://www.alsterperle.com/ back to work... now just one more conf_call at 5, then off for today. nice one, or?

Xing

well, I finally overcame my reservations against Xing and registered (some of you might know what the issue was). And Io, behold, so many people I found... Susanne Z., Jens. Q, Rauschi, Maike K., Kathrin E., Nicole E., Cyrus, Charly, Holger K., where some people I haven't talked to in as many as 18 years... Plus Mike F., who I found using google (no contact for 18 years too), that makes for quite a lot of interesting conversations in the coming weeks...

nice one :)

Sailing in Heiligenhafen

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Saturday, again time for me to leave my home *sniff*, as C. had friends staying at our flat...("come on, you wanted to leave us alone, so switch off the x-box and go now :-P " ) anyways, the drive to Heiligenhafen (Baltic Sea) was pretty short, but rainy...apparently about 1200 people were out and working, due to the heavy rain (flood prevention, firemen etc.).. Found the place no problem (last time I've been there was 2004 or so iirc...). Happy to see Stanze again :)

worked a bit - preparing a place where the litterboxes can stand. In the eve one of the guys made pasta - delicious :-D
Linne Liquor (45 volume %), shot glasses with inbuilt LED's, accordion tunes and singing...Decided to make the attempt and sleep in the car - went ok. not perfect, but doable.

Next morning - fine weather, went sailing with Stanze and Katze . now that was fun!
Bummer I had to leave early...but at least I had my fresh cod before I left.
P.:S: and as someone said: sailing is sometimes a peculiar sport...quite often it attracts people which, let's put it that way, have personalities deviating a good bit from that of the avg. person...

Smart and the Arc de Triomphe

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Was trying to get a pic of the group (Kim, Bogdan and Maurice) AND the Arc AND a smart car... well, great shot, innit ;)

Went to this Vietnamese place, great food. night cap #1 in this bar, where I was able to snag one of those lovely Ricard bottles. nightcap # 2 with this american guy and Andrew, talking til 2 a.m. about WWII and stuff... a tad tired this morning.
meeting? "one shot migration", "thorough QA prevents errors", and of course all of a sudden the very "drafty slides" from the previous day come across as facts...;)

Paris

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got up at 5:15, shower, finish packing, taxi came at 5:45...to the airport, quick check in (thank god for etix). lost my boarding pass, first coffee and first croissant (suprisingly tasty for a german one...). getting a new boarding pass from a very friendly air france crew member took only 2 mins. Met Phillip D.. flight on time, 3 seats for meself. second croissant and tea. drafty projectplan, and yes, doable  until sept. 15. landed on time, 4 of us in the taxi to the office, where I shot this one here. 1 more croissant plus one chocolote croissant plus 3 of these delicios lil cakes... introduction round, realised Kim is here. delighted to see her again, has been like 4 years??? Maurice and David here too, good :)new risk # 1: business ownership for this project changed. US guy really fast, only 5 mins. bravo :) now a good bit sales stuff instead of focusing on rqmts... yawn...

On the way to the baltic sea

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Last Sat I stopped over at Angelas house to bring her the promised 10 sausages. well, after a 45 mins chat, instead of driving to the Baltic Sea I ended up at Karstens gaff. he needed a hand mounting his new windshield, so I stayed. and after we played a few rounds of table tennis, where I didn't do too bad really... after he had a bottle of wine he even mentioned, that I could ride his bike for a day... I am sure he wont mention it again when sober ;)

Tuesdays Table Tennis session

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got home at around 6:30, it was wet and rainy, and I thought "gosh, here goes another Tuesday without table tennis"... but surprise, Anni rang, and at around 8 we had Maria, Anni, Claudia, Carsten, Heschi, Tomson and Bali playing frantically...well, almost, Tom simply sipped away his http://www.bionade.de/ , cause he didn't feel well really. the rest enjoyed the http://www.jever.de/ . a rain shower in between then produced this fine rainbow...
playing cardgames after 10 lead to more drinks, and around midnight we "expulsed" the guys from our home. I slept like a baby ;)