Tag: 17. Mai 2013

Hello everyone,

it’s Friday evening and week #six is almost over and as I said before I’m looking forward to be back in Germany.

OK let me tell you about the last few days and I will start, as expected, with Wednesday. Well on Wednesday I took part in the NetRiders CCNA competition and as it turns out it was a typical Cisco Q&A session but still 18th place without any form preparation or motivkation is not that bad, I think but what do I care 😀  a competition doesn’t reflect what I’m capable. Furthermore I took care of user that called us with printer problems  and I was tasked with rebuilding a PC that is supposed to replace  the lecture PC in the training room, with rebuilding I mean to bring the software up to date and clean it.
On Thursday I had to prepare printers again seeing as they are currently replacing all printers older than 5 years I’m the poor lad tasked with setting up the new ones but work is work and it has to be done.
Today I help a user with installing the latest updates for Java on her Mac and creating a network share for one of her logging pcs. As it was Friday and the weather was really nice I left work a bit earlier and enjoyed the sunshine while sitting on a bench in Botanic Gardens.
And that’s pretty much it nothing much to report today 😀 I hope tell you something more interesting on Saturday.

Have a nice weekend!

Yous sincerely,

Tobias

Hey there,

On a short note I would like to tell you something about a certificate we might do. It is called ICCSC as the headline says, I’ll hide the full name somewhere in the text to force you to read it if you want to know. So as most of us already told you, no walker really cares about the traffic lights. We just pass the street when they are clear, some people who obviously graduated already just cross at any time. They seem to feel stronger than buses I guess. Additionally we sometimes have bus drivers who seem to have been playing too many racing games. There are bumps on our way to work and they just try to jump over them so we get shaken through quite well. The Taxis turn around on a full street whenever they see fit. When any driver approaches a red traffic light they just ignore holding lines. So the traffic is just a mess. And the shopping streets where, no cars are allowed, are a mess as well. Ireland City Center Survival Certificate. They are just overloaded with people any time of the day, while those people don’t seem to be able to walk in a straight line. This forces everyone to circle through the street somehow, what than again will make you take 3x the time you would actually need. They really have no idea how to make any room when its narrow and you try to pass them. When I would not ALWAYS turn my shoulder back I would ALWAYS run them over. Especially the old people are great at requiring more space then they can possibly need. I thought the Berlin people are bad about letting someone off a train or bus, but the Irish people just top this. They make no room AT ALL. And again it’s particularly the old ones being in the way. Still we manage to get to our destinations somehow and by now we manage to pass anyone swiftly.

Actually this is just some blabbering as there is not much to talk about beside work and nice quite evenings.

See ya!

 

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Dear reader,

it’s Friday again. On Monday I told my colleagues in the apartment, that the time isn’t running anymore. But now we have just two weeks left… what the…!? Yesterday we watched the „Euro League“ final in Irish TV but only the last 10-20 minutes. I can’t be precise about that fact because our TV is so old that it didn’t show the minutes in the upper left corner.

The next big final between Munich and Dortmund will be watched in a pub or something like that. But our TV is still bigger than the screen of the apartment from Erkan & Stefan. You can watch a film or something like that on a mobile phone and it’s still bigger than this TV screen 😀

Today is also the meeting with Magaret but I need to work so I unfortunately can’t join.

Cheers,
Alex