Archive for July, 2005

2 Balconies and a bush

Friday, July 15th, 2005

If you thought, you’d get away today without reading another blog entry, then you’re wrong. Theres something, I have to tell you about, and please read carefully, cause I am doing it a bit different from how I would do it normally.

Imagine, you are sitting on your balcony with your friends, its a nice summer evening and drinking your beer as usual… beneath your balcony, there is a small street, leading to the city and beside your house, there is a small ground (obviously lower than the street), where all types of plants are growing. 3 People are coming down the street, talking and loughing.
Suddenly, one of the person, starts running towards a bush that stands beside the free ground, stumbles right into that bush, screams “Huiii” and then falls into the pit full of thorny plants and stinging-nettles. He then shouts out to the other 2 People “Shit.. obviously deeper than I thought!” and stands up from his planty “bed”.

10 minutes later, another person from another balcony. You can see 3 people, stumbling through a pit full of stingy plants, one of them with a bright orange jacket labeled “Rettungsdienst” or in english “rescue service”. A small car is standing at the border of the pit and the 3 guys are fighting the plants with hedge shears, a small hatchet and a flashlight. They are wearing rubbergloves and seem to be in a rage against the plants, throwing them around, cursing out loud.

Thats how it might have looked, what happened to us today ;)

What really happened: 2 friends of mine and me were walking through the city, coming along that pit full of plants with a small bush in front of it. That one friend said something like “Hey… who wants to jump into that bush?” and the other friend did. Perhaps he didn’t know that that “Field full of little flowers” (thats how it looked from the street) behind the bush was actually a 1.2m deep pit full of stingy plants. Guess what? Right… he fell right into it… but apart from a few smaller injuries he’s all right, so don’t worry.
Because he lost his glasses while doing that, we searched for those a long time. The other friend went to my place to get his car, I got some gardening equiptment and we started looking for the glasses (but without success). Thats partly funny, partly very sad, because the glasses are still gone.

Now have a good night.

The Starseeker

Like murphy…

Thursday, July 14th, 2005

While today, everything at work went well, the customer, who’s PC I had to build (the missing part, you might remember?!) didn’t show up at last and there were about 5 customers, so everything was really quiet.

But i want to tell you a story, that happened yesterday in the shop and made me really mad. A guy recently bought an old PIII700 that we still had rotting around for about 30 Euros or something like that. He didn’t have any monitor for that, so he asked us to get a used old one. So, a few days ago, we dissolved one Workplace and turned it into a packaging area, so that fully intact 17″CRT, which was standing there since middle 2004 was free. We made him come across to pick it up for another 20 Euro, that he paid. He’d just left the shop when we heard a terrible *WHAM* from outside the front window… and as we looked, that guy was standing in front of his new (now broken) monitor which fell off his bike. Perhaps I have to tell you, that he is really poor and was happy to be able to bring up the money for that used monitor. I hate it when these people are chased by bad luck. But me and my chef Marc decided to get him an new one for free and take back the broken one.

Thats all for now… see you then
your Starseeker

Working hard

Thursday, July 14th, 2005

Hi again…

since its a busy day, I have many thinks to talk about, even if time is rare. I’m currently waiting for a delivery from our distributor (while reading stephs blog), that should send us a Mainboard and a CPU for a system we have to build. I built the system to the point where i need the missing parts, so i have a little time now. My notebook tunes in the Secret Sound Service, a perfect webradio for moments I have to concentrate or even if i want to relax. Its electronic ambient/Lounge music and, looking to the systems quality, cabeling etc, it also seems to enhace my productivity :) . Now there is only the Trans-o-Flex guy missing. Where the hell might he got stuck?!

What I forgot to talk about was my room… lately I’ve been embarressed about how it looked when I got visitors. It was a whole bunch of stuff, scattered all over the place with absolutely NO system. So I decided about 3 Weeks ago, to clean up. After another week, cleaning was all finished and now I am living in a more tidy place. The result was: Over 100kg of defective electronic parts, 120kg of paper, 80kg plastic trash and about 80m unneded cables where discarded. I cleaned EVERYTHING and am now happy with the results :) . I even fixed my VERY broken wardrobe and placed a plant on it. You might have noticed her in my blog already, since she is writing here, too in moments, when i don’t look after my PC (i might think over changing my passwords). I named her Hyatt and she is “made” out of 10 bamboo sticks. Please be nice to her.

So… I’ll now wait on for the Trans-o-Flex guy and the friend, who wanted to visit me.

Have a nive day… have a nice star.