Actually, the whole family was supposed to spend the weekend out at Stolzenhagen (that neat little place outside Berlin, where I spent my last years’ entire holiday of a whopping five days…) at their annual Familiy Weekend… We had already attended last years’ and it was simply great.

However, this year I unfortunately made an extremely untimely aquaintance with something “that scientists call very, very small”[tm] - in laymen’s words, “Daddy caught a nasty tummy bug this week and lost two days of work that he now needs to catch up on over the weekend.”

While perhaps just a few months ago I’d have welcomed the outlook of a peaceful, lonely, tranquil weekend without the family I’ve meanwhile (apparently) managed to embrace my fatherhood even on a subconscious level and thus find myself missing the fun and action… Yes, it’s true - and I’m stating it here for the whole world to witness - this geek has lost his innocence and has stepped over to the Dark Side[tm]… in other words, I’d rather give up two days Internet access than two days with my family!! Whoha…

Alas, the facts speak a harsher story and an already ridiculously overdue project would not benefit from two further days of delay…

Well, as much as this entry might come across as lamenting, I’m definitely not feeling that way! Instead, I’m a) rather pleased to notice in such an undeniable fashion, that my family has become so thoroughly important to my wellbeing and b) that I’ve managed to get some really good work done!

Anyhoo… Carsten should be arriving here any moment now and he and I will have a proper ‘boys evening’ (coupla beers, talking about computers and… uh… well… you know!) And with todays groundwork, I have all reason to believe, that I’ll actually wrap up this project tomorrow ;-)

Stick around, see ya’ soon…