Wow, finally I take the time I believe to have and update my blog. In fact, this is also my preferred way of communication, since my throat feels really bad, resulting in cough and a voice that should not even be called that. — Tom is out and Nina is in. -This is so to say the short summary of last weekend. I have implemented a decent network in the house by now, based on a fantastic router from SMC (thanks to Clemens for the tip). Our ISP also seems having been busy at our connection problem, since I can download again for all the donkey is worth ;). — Regarding the week before I will take this opportunity to thank everybody for his/her condolences. Besides, I will drop a comment on funerals. This has been my first funeral for a close family member ever, and my 4th in total. It might be wrong to judge from such a small sample, but I definately hate funerals. That’s logical, you might say, but I mean the ceremony itself. Someone totally unaware and unknown to the person at stake holds a lecture on the life of the dead, trying to bring dignity into this cold (yes, cold in any sense) cemetary chapel. The emphasis, however, is on ‘trying’. A few songs, some handshakes with condolences, some tears, some flowers, some hollow thoughts to unexplained forces of the universe. Right after, morticians are to pick up the coffin, they do not even wear black, not to talk about a tie, just sweater and jeans. Horrible scenario. Must be that your attitude changes when you “work” with the dead. As the cemetary gardener put it in the mortuary: “I have had 4 of them already this week.” Nice, thanks for this information. This is all so sick! And yes, right, I did not speak the Our Father and sang none of these horrible funeral songs for I simply do not believe. At least not in this false institution called church. It’s as simple as that. — Elections in Germany: Well, my dearest wish came true, namely not to have Ede Stoiber as chancellor. The outcome is an old hat by now, so I will not elaborate on that. But it is incredibly interesting to visit the websites of the parties now after the elections. Especially Stoiber took his foot off the throttle - it’s even getting quiet around him. Maybe he is ashamed of leaning himself so far out of the window and not making it in the end. Poor Eddie, I will feel pity for you if I have time. — I just came back from the Applepark Hotel where MB Customer Promotions had organized a “teambuilding” evening with everything you can imagine: Silly games to earn your part of the (very nice and delicious) buffett, music and embarrasments on the dancefloor ;) But it was a cool evening though. Downloading the pictures I noticed that I am shortly about to take my 3000th picture with my S30. And that reminds me that I still owe you a picture-section… Damn. — On monday we have our final presentation for our strategy-course about low-cost airlines. Interesting to dig into these companies which are able to provide customers like poor students with incredible cheap flights. Yeah right, I just booked my flight to Dublin with Ryanair. Now that I have investigated this industry, I should have no doubts about these special kind of airlines. I am really looking forward to my trip, and so is Alice, who by the way would be happy to welcome you on her homepage frequently. Ireland seems to be a country being rather different from ours, so I am eager to broaden my horizon! — That’s it for today, over and out.