these weeks have been packed with exciting stuff.
On the first weekend of August I visited Tine in London (she did an internship with WFW). It was awesome! We loaded the two days with all the sightseeing you can imagine, and then some - but all in a relaxed fashion, so it stayed fun. If I could convert them RAW pics on my work machine I would have uploaded them all ages ago… but there were some JPGs, so I can give you a short preview already…. ahhh, no. Uploader doesn’t work probably here. I’ll check that later in the hotel and update the post if possible.
On the work side of life, my project in Zurich is in its final week, and we close it with a big bang - a two day workshop with almost 100 people involved in Lucerne. We spent over a month in preparation, so I am really looking forward to it. With lots of fun comes a lot of work, too - so I’ll spend the Saturday on location to help finish up the documentation and will get back to Hamburg on Sunday, just in time to pack new clothes and get ready for the next week. What’s next? Well, nothing certain yet, but interesting projects on the horizon.
well, not really. Still, I am a little proud to say that yours truly and his suitcase can be found in the current edition of ZEIT Campus, on page 52 and 53. If you always wanted to find out what a consultant takes on a regular week - or if you just want to see me in a suit - this is your chance!
Apart from that, I am well under with work in the last weeks, and it seems to be getting more, not less. I am currently located in Zurich during the week, so if any one of you happens to be there or in the area, give me a shout!
I can’t stop being fascinated by this hero of Internet fame. After the initial “where the Hell is Matt?” dancing video, he made a second, and now – he is back!
This wakes all my urges to go out, see the world, and have fun. I know you’ll like it too.
I was lucky to get two days off last week, so I could join Tine and the Lawyer gang, who were on vacation in a lovely house on the danish cost for a week. And even if it was just two days, it sure felt like a long time - it was SO GOOD! We went to the beach, had BBQ, went Bowling, played games until late at night - even had fun like little children with balloons - and on the day when we returned, we found that huge trampoline-like thing which Mareike, Tine, Konz and Alex are enjoying in the picture.
You can find the whole set (including many more jumping happy people!) here on Flickr.
Now this is the real deal, I guess. So I took the travel arrangement I told you about at length… in Frankfurt I got a cute car, a Seat, which does sound like a tractor, but it goes quite well. It even has a little Aux-in plug for the iPod, definitely a plus. The hotel is bad. Not really bad, but I got something ten times better for almost the same money in Berlin. The bathroom is not really clean. The curtains are dirty. The floors are dirty. The WiFi does not work. Oh well, I was spoiled in Berlin. Next week: Different hotel.
Workshop with the customer was great fun. It was like in real life! Really, it felt very different from what I experienced with only internal staff. Different topics (obviously), different meeting behaviour. I could not add much value today, as I got to know the topic on the fly, but I learnt a lot. Tomorrow, I hope, I will get some work assigned - not knowing what I will spend my time with over the next month really makes me anxious. Until then, I try to figure out what to do with my free time - come on, it is not 8pm and my colleagues are already in the hotel. Well, they are still working there. And well, it is a great hotel…. you feel my envy? I’ll search for an Aldi now and get stocked on diet coke.
