Just like everyone else in this part of the world, I wanted to see the eclipse last Wednesday. Given that my living room windows face directly toward the sun around the time of the eclipse, I decided to just do that from home. Alas there is a tree in the way and all I saw was a sunset.
Turns out it was still a good decision: the big viewing point was overrun with people and when everybody wanted to leave, a pensioner (allegedly) mixed up the pedals in his car and ploughed right into a group of pedestrians. I could see the emergency services work late into the night.

For some reason I decided to bring a cake, so this morning I did a bit of baking. I haven’t done this in a long time and I clearly did not prepare well – I forgot that my mixer is broken and I didn’t buy milk. So I had to go on a little mission to find milk (which is harder than it sounds unless you’ve been to “stores are closed on Sunday” countries) and then did all the mixing by hand with a whisk. Oh boy. But now the cake is in the oven and it already smells quite nice. (But Dominik, isn’t milk a staple that you always have at home? No. No, it isn’t. I hardly ever have milk at home these days.)

I started something on an impulse. I realised after a while that while it might be a great idea, it would be an even better idea as part of something already existing. Now I’m ignoring it altogether and for some reason started Captain of Industry again, which is really, really bad. It’s crack. I should delete it and sell my gaming PC.

Today I went up a (small) mountain and that was a very sweaty endeavour. And that was the week.

Another rather calm and warm week.
Workwise I’m currently working on a big task with a technology I haven’t used before, so this takes up a lot of my mental energy and struggling with all the weird little mistakes one does when not fully knowing something is surprisingly draining. I’m learning a lot, though, which is fun.

It was the best of times, it was the wurst of times. The first two days of the week were being spend in Munich, a friend of mine had a stopover there and we planned to have dinner for a few months already. The time I wasn’t eating wurst with her, her friend and her brother, I spent at the amazing Deutsches Museum, marveling at all the old planes, trains and automobiles.
After a short work week, there was more wurst last night – my uncle invited friends and family to his hut in the middle of the forest for a little summer party and what a jolly time we had, as my slight headache this morning can attest.

A birthday, a funeral and a train journey that actually went just fine filled the week that was over faster than I could look around. Just like I mentioned last week, the current weather has a bigger effect on me than the one during the heat wave so everything has been a bit of a blur. I did do some touristy things on Sunday, which was nice, walked around, had a beer, as one does and that was that.