Category Archives: Climbing

Final post from Croatia (kind of)

’nuff said! It was legendary! Thanks Stephan and Vera for the GREAT GREAT GREAT time I had!!!!

Winter mayhem, Code, Climbing, Solitude

Whoa, time flies when you’re busy, right? I am quite busy, actually ๐Ÿ˜‰

So what has happened since my last post? Ah right, a new year started! Unfortunately, I could not attend the cool party I was invited to due to feeling sick for three days… But fortunately, I was invited to another party at my hometown so I decided to fill myself up with Aspirin and go there to meet lots of friends – of whom I’ve known some for almost 18 years already – at 11 p.m. :mrgreen:

The following days were very calm and peaceful: Just stayed at home, had great food and slept a lot. That’s always a good thing to do when you have the chance to! But on January 5th, I finally emerged from my laziness and hopped over to England where I rejoined the coding team of Booka. Ever since then, I barely left the house because I basically do nothing but working here ๐Ÿ˜Ž

England… It’s so funny! We got a little bit of snow here and the whole country descends into pure mayhem… Seriously – in many parts of Germany these amounts of snow are just normal and the same procedure as every year! But because the snow clearing services are not that good (or, seem not to be existing) here, it takes days or even weeks until several roads are clear again. Combined with the fact that snow tires are almost unknown here… Well, you can imagine what’s going on! ๐Ÿ˜‰ All airports face severe problems, too!ย  So I can call myself lucky that I came home on December 24th without bigger delays… But the view I get to see is great:

Alright, back to my topic-checklist: climbing! Yes, climbing! Even though my skin has not yet recovered from my first attempts in December, I couldn’t resist going bouldering together with the other guys ๐Ÿ˜€ and now my hands are wrecked again… But it’s fun and I’ll just continue until my skin turns into leather :mrgreen:

Next topic? Ah yes, solitude. Solitude? You ask? Well, it seems we’re having some kind of epidemic here: Adrian’s sick, Booka’s sick, Miri doesn’t feel so well… So therefore I’m sitting at my desk all alone ๐Ÿ™

“It doesn’t have to be fun to be fun”

Climbing starts to be a lot of fun … and quite painful if your skin isn’t as rough as you think it should be and your arms still have power to go on bouldering. So kids, here’s a question: What happens when you continue climbing at your limit (which, in my case, is not really that advanced…) even though you got blisters on almost all fingers? Right! It hurts! ๐Ÿ™‚ But never mind, what did we buy lots of tape for?

Ouch! But climbing is great fun, anyway...

Cereals’n’Java

Hello, world! I’ve been quite busy working here in England at a 14/6 pace and just didn’t find the time for blogging… Ok, that sounds worse than it actually is:

  • I’m coding together with my cousin Booka which is always fun
  • The project is really interesting and challenging
  • I finally get to use Java and not just study it in theory
  • We go climbing every now and then
  • We live in this fancy palace-like house
  • Everything’s taken care of: cooking, laundry, shopping, etc.

To be honest, it’s really cool here. I like working together with Bookie in this environment where everything’s tuned for maximum efficiency and creativity at the same time. The only problem is: We have three four-hour slots of work per day which drives your feeling of time totally bananas. At the end of one day, events from the very same day’s morning feel like as if they’ve happened two or three days in the past because one’s usually not adjusted to three half work days per day ๐Ÿ™‚

But because it’s the Booka and he’s the biggest climbing-nerd I know, we often go bouldering or climbing and it’s awesome! Finally, I get to train that crap properly ๐Ÿ˜€ My very personal problem is: I’m too heavy for my forearms! Damn, gotta slim…

Alright, gotta start working. Here are two random pics: