Heipei

So, re­placed the Strauss Great­est Waltzes and Polkas with some­thing more “ad­e­quate”, i.e. the Hack­ers OST ;). I told my­self that i have to get into the con­gress fever tonight, since the last few days have been quite re­laxed and very christ­mas-y. I think some of that stuffed turkey is still spin­ning in my tummy. So here we go…

I just noted all the stuff to-bring in an in­ter­nal wiki for fw and me, and yes, nerds do have to re­mind them­selves to bring stuff like a tooth­brush and fresh clothes for _every_ day. To­mor­row im gonna do an­other thor­ough check of my car, a Ford Galaxy which has served me well for the last con­gress, but has been parked for al­most 8 weeks now since im in Aachen most of the time. Ad­di­tion­ally, it was buried under aprox. 50cm of snow for a week and yes­ter­day when i popped the hood i no­ticed that my all-time-fa­vorite marten (zu Deutsch: Marder) re­ally en­joyed the last cou­ple of weeks… Well, nev­er­mind that. I even got my win­ter-tires mounted the day be­fore yes­ter­day. Look­ing at the image made me not re­gret it.

Right now we are think­ing about when to take of from Moers, read­ing last years “blog” was re­ally help­ful. I think we gonna do it like last year, ex­cept one day later this time. You might ask your­self why one would start dri­ving at 8 pm and thus ar­rive at about 2pm (com­fort­able trav­el­ing speed of 130kmh, gas is ex­pen­sive). Well, if you have ever dri­ven to the A2 after mid­night, and also dur­ing hol­i­day sea­son, you know that you have all the 3 lanes just for your­self, 6 if you count the op­po­site di­rec­tion. And in Berlin you dont get stressed by a lot of traf­fic while find­ing your way to the Alex, since the streets are rel­a­tively empty. Same at the counter in the BCC. No check-in has­sle what­so­ever.

Other than that, hmm, whats more to say. Im re­ally look­ing for­ward to the con­gress, spend­ing a lit­tle time with fw again and all the fel­low nerds that will show up.