This is the Way

People I never heard of ask me to add them as a contact on LinkedIn.

Why?! 🧐

Did I tell you that the first day we had our caravan (last Sunday) I immediately broke the table that you can convert to a bed? Hi, it’s me, Tim Taylor.

Last night my wife said to me that my hair is turning extremely grey. 👨‍🦳

Category: Sentences you don’t want to hear. 😢

I have just made some wonderfully fragrant coffee. I grabbed a cup and went up to my office. Then I checked my e-mails for a moment and wanted to have a sip. And lo and behold, the cup was empty. I hadn’t filled it. Good morning. ☕

I just want to play.

Last night at 11 p.m. I sat down at my Xbox to play a little again. I think I was asleep on the couch about 4 minutes later. I woke up at 2:30 and went to bed.

Too bad somehow. I would really love to play. It’s a balance for me that I need, but I can’t take it because I’m basically too tired in the evening.

Too much?!

It could be because I have a new job that demands everything of me, while the small children and various open issues around the house are also eating away at me. Everyone gets a little bit of energy and then in the evening there’s nothing left. But then there was also no just-me time, which I would like to get with gaming. Then it’s always just: well, maybe tomorrow.

Everything new.

The new job brings new tasks, new responsibilities. But I also really enjoy it. It’s just a pity that at the moment my head is always spinning and I hardly have time to reconcile everything I experience during the day. It’s simply information overload without structure.

And while we’re on the subject of new: The caravan is now in front of our house - a holiday with it will be planned soon, but probably not before Whitsun. And an iPhone 12 is also new on my table, and I’ll probably need a new car soon, because my Polo is having problems again.

Phew. Quite a lot, isn’t it? And it’s not as if there aren’t other things that could weigh you down apart from that. 🤯

At least I’m not dying of boredom.

Fascinating. 🤨

Grey. Snow. Brrrrrr. 🥶

I went to the supermarket today without a mask. It was as unusual as it was cool.

My new job is quite exhausting. A lot of new things to learn. My head just exploded yesterday. 🤯 I was on site and fattened up with information. I got home in the evening, just after 7pm. Then I finally put the children down and fell asleep myself. Actually, I had planned to spend a nice evening with my wife, but…

At the moment, I’m fluctuating between extreme euphoria and fear that I won’t be able to cope with all the tasks. But I’m doing my best, as always. And I don’t think I would have got the job otherwise.

Today I ate a very tasty medium rump steak 🥩 and have had extreme stomach pains ever since.

Eaten steak the last 20-30 times - extreme stomach pain.

Slowly but surely I think there is a connection. 🤔

Snow. Again.

Today I officially started in my new position as manager. Feels right and good. 🌞

By the way, we bought a caravan so that we could take the children to any campsite. Crazy, isn’t it? 🏕️

Home Office Blues.

Motto of the day:

I had few expectations and they were shattered.

🙄

Ich war heute früh extrem sprachlos. 😶 Und das bei einem Termin, bei dem man normalerweise sehr viel reden sollte. Damit war der Termin irgendwie sinnlos. Und danach war ich den Tränen nahe. 😭 So. Und bei euch so?

It could be that we will have Covid 🦠 again soon. 😱 My wife got a fever yesterday. My Covid illness was just 4 weeks ago. Hopefully she doesn’t have it. Fingers crossed! 🤞

Today I went to the office and it started with a very good colleague going on maternity leave. She had baked a cake and many came. We spread the whole thing over several hours so that there weren’t too many at once. And it was really nice. It was nice to see people in person again and the time with her was great.

Afterwards I talked to my other team members. Still, because I’m moving to a new team from 1 April. That was also really nice, because I have taken many of them to my heart and will miss them.

And also very nice: A very good colleague and friend happened to be there today, and I had a coffee with him later.

You might think I did nothing but talk, eat and drink coffee, but that’s wrong. In fact, I have already dedicated myself to my new future task. I took over a team meeting from my predecessor and felt very comfortable.

And later I was allowed to have an interview with a candidate who applied for a job in my future team.

It was all really good today and everything felt right. Some concerns about the future position have faded away. A lot of things went easily after just being me. At least for the most part.

Oh yes, I was also invited to a barbecue later on.

Today, I can really say: Things are going well for me.

And that has been rather rare lately. So let me just share a good day with you. I do something like that far too rarely.

I took a photo 📷 of my grey hair 👨‍🦳 this morning. I think I’ve passed the 50% mark, meaning more grey now than brown. Damn. 😢

I’m starting a blog soon: Movies and series I fell asleep watching. It’s going to be a blast. New content every day!

I have started writing a diary 📔 again. This is an on/off love affair for me. Sometimes I write almost daily, other times I don’t write for weeks. But so much is happening around me at the moment that if I don’t write it down, it eats me up. And no matter how you get rid of words, getting rid of them helps. Thank you diary, that you exist. I will never neglect you again! (At least not for the next few days.)

1 or 2 metres from my home office window. 😱

I deleted all posts at Micro.blog last night in a fit of madness. 🤪 I changed my username from ohBananaJoe to Mandalorian and here we are.

Don’t rush into anything when you’re in a bad mood.

Last night I rushed to do something that maybe I shouldn’t have. On the other hand, I had long wanted to start a tidying-up campaign. And what’s cleaner than burning everything down? 🔥

Right now I have absolutely no, zero , no idea what to blog about. 🤷‍♂️ And I don’t really like it either. I’m somehow missing a path, a very concrete goal. Maybe I don’t really need that here. But maybe that’s why I looked for the Mandalorian with his motto:

This is the way.

Is the way the goal? Not at the moment. Not for me.

Interruption

Yes, this is my current collection.

And now? I am here. And I think I’d better read what you’re up to. I like to do that. 💜 And maybe one day I’ll find a meaningful way for me to blog again.

May the force of writing be with you. 🖋️

PS: I have updated my about information.

PPS: I have also sorted out ohBananaJoe almost everywhere else. I still like bananas and also Banana Joe, but I don’t like to be called that anymore.

PPPS: Do PPPS exist?