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• bought a "new" (i.e. a used but it's new for me) bike; the old one's back tyre looked like 88 or something, & several other parts were b0rked too.
• cleaned my CPU fan again; & oops — the CPU temperature went down!

sitting in cafés, drinking coffee, reading books, & smoking cigarettes - that's recovery ...

richie havens wins against the crowded airplane cabin. until the battery is empty. good to have spares ...

today I diminished the amount of

• surplus dust in my rooms
• surplus scalp & facial hair on my head

this afternoon I cleaned:

• my CPU fan [0][1]
• my (original IBM PS/2) keyboard
• my gpg keyring
• my host body

appropriate condition of outside world: rainy.

[0] & I added the CPU temperature to my ion3 statusbar.
[1] after cleaning the temperature was some 20° lower than before ...

behind the blinds:

• snow is falling
• birds are screaming
• 0°C

sunday morning in the alps

first week of work after two weeks of holidays. difficult change for my "bio rhythm" — or whatever that stuff with sleeping & staying awake & average central european working hours might be called.

calvin explains the problem much better:

a short look back on news in the year 2005 in 14 images.

I patched igal a bit ...
update: az has adjusted/applied the patch & closed the bug.

holidays (i.e. reducing overtime hours).
two weeks.
finally.

sleeping.
playing guitar.
reading (newsgroups, feeds, newspapers, ...).
some coding & some bugreports.

outside temperature: -14°C.

lying in the bath tub for over two hours is healthy. what I did:

• I read "der knochenmann" by wolf haas. my first novel by this author. summary: now I know him, using more verbs would definitely help his language, and: appropriate reading for bath tubs & holidays.
• I tore the splinter out of my foot after the latter was macerated enough from soaking ...