gregoa's blog

I will be in brussels from 2009-02-06 until 2009-02-11, and I'm going there for the following three reasons:

• to attend FOSDEM
• to discover a new city
• to get some additional entries for my <shameless plug>new project SmokeOrNot</> :)

finally, after waiting for some years, we now get the profil delivered directly to our doorstep on sunday mornings too, instead of stuffed into the mailbox on monday by the regular postal service. it started two or three weeks ago, but today was the first sunday where I actually managed to take my time to read it on the first possible day.

spending two hours in the bathtub with a news magazine that is officially released only tomorrow is a good break between Java packages before & Perl packages afterwards.

no, I'm not 25 years old (actually, by coincidence, I'm 0x25 years :)), but these days it's 25 years that I (was) moved from Upper Austria to the Tyrol.

my summary of 25 years of development aid? well, I guess I got used to this country; although I still dislike those walls-with-names that are put here between the traces of civilization & the horizon ...

other calculation: I've spent more or less exactly two thirds of my life so far here.

after one year of living here, caro moved to her new flat this weekend; today she came to say goodbye & give us the flat key.

david & me have decided not to look for a new flatmate; david will take the room as his bedroom, & this flat will become a "two-old-men-with-beards-&-glasses-shared-apartment".

no, it's not me who is moving but my mother.

she got the keys for her new apartment in innsbruck exactly 4 weeks ago. today (finally!) she received the notice from the local court that the property transfer of her house in telfs to the new owner has been finished, & simultaneously his money arrived on her bank account.

so I drove her & her last few belongings to innsbruck in the afternoon, & the chapter "telfs" is (almost, some bureaucracy is still missing) over.

the floors in my rooms look like I have (a girl friend with) long blond hair. — in fact the phenomenon is probably a side effect of flat sharing & wearing felt slippers :-)

I went to the cinema in innsbruck (again); at least I tried to — the movie was sold out (again).

maybe I should think about booking a ticket in advance.

• I went to the cinema in innsbruck for the first time in approximately 3 months; at least I tried to — the movie was sold out.
• my new passport — with the annoying & superfluous RFID tag — has arrived; so I can play my minor role in the world wide security theatre ... BTW: "Warning: Do not put your passport in your trouser pocket." *sigh*

took a bath, had a glass of laphroaig, spent some hours with nerys (my new shiny laptop).

felt ill. went to bed at 10:30 p.m. left the bed at 10:30 a.m. felt better.