This is the Way

Friday evening I experienced a tornado up close in Wunsiedel. And this one passed my house by a hair’s breadth. I saw for about 1-2 minutes nothing at all. Only wind, rain, leaves, dirt. I had never experienced anything like that before. My house is still standing, the grill has fallen over and dented and a few other things outside were broken. A house a few meters away has lost several roof tiles. A tree about 20 meters away broke off. A big, strong tree. I think we were pretty lucky.

It’s a mystery to me that something like that even happened in our area. But it speaks for the fact that the climate change is more blatant than I first thought.

The initial loading of Evernote takes so long that you can completely read through about 10 of the rotating tips on how to best use the program. Fortunately, I don’t use the tool anymore.

Does anyone know the brand Seaking? Is it any good? The Wörthersee Falco bracelet is really beautiful. 😍

I never post photos of my children. At least never where you could recognise them immediately. But my youngest makes it easy for me. I don’t have to hide anything. I just have to be slow with the shutter.

Sometimes at night when I play video games, at some point when I open my eyes again, the person just runs into a wall. That’s the time for me to go to bed. 🎮

Good night.

I watched The Ice Road with Liam Neeson last night. 🍿

That’s the real shit. What a dumb movie!!! Soooooo bad, it really hurt. Everywhere. What a waste of time. Buuuuuuuullllllshhhhiiiiittttttt!!!!

Best review ever.

I just wanted to say that I really like this excavator. Why? I do not know. 📷

I smoked a cigarette yesterday. I had quit in 2007. I am not proud of it, feel guilty and bad. But it was a nice evening with good colleagues 1 or 2 beers and then that… 🙁

Sharing a 1am shot with you. 💜
Sleep well my friends!

Finally on a business trip again. After being locked up while Corona for over 2 years.

What a beautiful old inn.

So dear ones, made an appointment today that can change my whole life. Let’s see where this leads.
Too cryptic? Yes, it should be current.

I need to work on my time management extremely urgently. Today I’m almost non-stop with meetings. This is not working.

Yesterday already we went to the hospital. My little one has a fever and complains of earache. So we went to the emergency service. Yes, a pending middle ear infection, but it is not yet so far. However, that didn’t stop my little one from keeping us almost completely awake during the night.

Today she’s going to the doctor again with my wife, while I’m trying to take care of the whole day, sometimes extremely important, appointments and a job interview. No idea how that is supposed to work. I feel like a folding chair in semi-retirement. Shortly before folding.

Okay, off to the first meeting.

… there was a lot going on in the beginning of the chat. Then:

Apple Support:

Please let me know if you have any additional questions for me today?

Me:

I don’t know. What could I ask you? How is the weather wherever you are?

Apple Support:

Haha very very hot! I hope you are doing awesome all the way in beautiful Germany Dominik!

If you need me I am only a chat away. For now please do me a favor to stay happy and positive whatever this life would bring! I wish you the best! Keep rocking as how you have been today! It has been a pleasure assisting such a sweet customer like you. Thank you for being part of Apple Family! No goodbyes, just see you around. Cheering up for you!

I watched most of this nonsense. I fell asleep at some point, I admit.

I got on at Spain. There were a few beautiful women dancing in beautiful little clothes. The song was more like… meh.

Then came the Ukraine at some point. The song was also kind of… meh. But they were considered favorites and basically they could have sung and done whatever they wanted. It was clear to me in advance that it would be a pure sympathy vote this time.

Germany was bad and deserved to be on the last place. Unfortunately.

My favorite was Azerbaijan, no idea where they ended up.

The next morning I saw a breaking news on my mobile: Ukraine has won the Eurovision Song Contest 2022.

I clicked the message away, shook my head, and went on with my life.

I just tried to paint a face. I started with the eyes. Then I realized, that there isn’t enough space left for the rest… 🤔

May Photoblogging Challenge 15: Clouds 📷

I’m sitting at the Greek restaurant waiting for my food.

Don’t tell anybody else, but Forca Horizon 4 is as good as Forza Horizon 5!!!! 🫢 🎮

Oh, hello!

We now have wild bees and the first one has already hatched and is on its way.

By the way, I’ve just been struggling through a moderate to severe depressive episode.

Look, that’s how honest I am on the internet, where everyone can read along.

Have a nice weekend, everyone.

I cancelled the Xbox Game Pass and just bought the 2 games that I mainly but far too rarely played. I almost never use the Game Pass. For me, it was nice to try out some games, but somehow still unnecessary. 🎮

Nice, very nice, what my new boss has put in my head. Just do it! Ingenious, actually. In every respect.

For example, looking for a note taking tool that I really like. I already found it and it costs $15 a month. That’s really hefty. But it’s the tool that resonates with me.

I’ve invested a few hours to find a good cheap or free alternative, but none of them match what I have in mind, even if they are close.

So, let’s get back to the saying. Just do it! I’ll stick with reflect.app for now. I’ll pay the money. We’ll see after a year if it was really good or stupid. But spending even more time on researching other tools seems even more stupid to me than paying 15 dollars and being happy for now.

Just do it!

Yes, I am! You’re right. I’m going to do some other stuff just like that! I think this change to my new position has somehow changed something in me. Or maybe I made the change because something had already changed before. Either way - great going. So keep up the good work.

Just do it. I will learn from mistakes. And who knows, maybe nothing will be a mistake?

So, congratulations to me and everyone else. This post is an unfortunate mix of tech and life wisdom.

But while we’re at it.

Life is change.

Again, that’s what a very wise person told me recently. And so far, many changes in my life have been good.

Get out of your comfort zone and just do it.

Just do it!