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went to bed at 03:07. woke up at 09:38. went to the toilet. went to bed again. woke up at 14:44 again.

at 3:13 a.m. the door bell rings. once. twice. I get curious & open the door. - the young woman in front of the door shudders horrified & mutters "sorry". - wtf?

november was a busy month for me. "travelled" (i.e. attended seminars & conferences) several times, tried to cope with a whole lot of work at the office, & accumulated approximately 40 hours of overtime all together.

now I'm looking forward to 4 days off (december 8-11) ...

some current annoyances:

1. snow: yesterday snow was falling when I went to a bar by bike. *sigh*
2. bike: some idiot smashed my bike against the wall in front of the bar; now the front light is not working any more (I had my bike's lights repaired just the day before yesterday). *sigh*
3. foot: the splinter in my foot (cf. this blog entry) starts hurting again. *sigh*
4. /tmp: cron can't write to /tmp any more on one of my machines. hu? *sigh*
5. windows: a friend has problems with his windows machine - the machine/mouse/network/whatever is terribly slow. a virus? - I guess I'll have to go there and take a look. despite one of my favourite t-shirts. *sigh*
6. postgresql: why is there no DROP SOMETHING IF EXISTS foo? - if I use DROP statements I get errors about non-existing stuff, if I leave out the DROP lines I get errors on CREATEs because stuff already exists. - no problem for manual interventions, but dbconfig-common breaks. deadlock? *sigh*

*sigh*

update 1: fixed items #2, #4, #5. working on #6.
update 2: fixed item #3.

today was the first morning with frost.

snowfall is pending, forecastfox announces it for the night from wed to thu.

I need to get my gloves, winter shoes and the thick pullover out of the locker.

oh, well ...

munich east station. where is my train? confused. solution: DST ended today, I'm here 1 hour too early.

MUC: forgot my bag in the s-bahn. ran back at my fullest speed - train&bag were still there. bought a snack.

I really like the smell of hot olive oil before I put the onions into the pan.

what I bought today:

• blue jeans (in fact: black ~); wrangler
• switch (the old hub was annoying); dlink
• mp3-player (a usb mass storage device); trekstor
• rechargeable batteries & a charger; varta
• enough food for the weekend ;-)

update 1: everything works up to now but I discovered that one of my machines has only a 10MBit NIC inside. grmpf.
update 2: replaced the NIC with a 100MBit 3com 3c905c (2006-01-28).

it's still f*cking cold. outside 12°C, and the flat doesn't get warm any more (temperature constantly below 20°C). why don't they turn on the heating? hot baths are nice but no solution for long days at home ...