it’s Thursday and I almost finishing my tasks from Monday. The time where I have nothing to do is really rare so it’s okay for me to do nothing. Sometimes it is hard because I did not sleep that good and want to sleep for a few hours but that’s normal. It’s a little bit frustrating that I can’t do any task by myself. I am not allowed to work some jobs from the ticket system, I have not a single password for VM’s or normal PC’s and that sucks as hell. I need to ask every time if I want to do anything normal. Even if I get a simple task I need to ask again and again because I have no passwords or something like that and all the people I could ask are very busy. That’s really strange because especially in my last project I’ve done a lot of work by my self. Right now I save some mail profiles and setting up some computers (passwords required).
The first thing I will do when I am back in Germany is turning on my PC, starting a Video (without stopping every 5 seconds in 124p quality) and take a long sleep. Yes, you are getting very gratefull…
That’s it for today… I need 19 posts at the end of the week so we will read tomorrow.
Everything is fine here in Dublin. The weather is not like a typical May in Germany, but it’s ok.
Monday was a normal work day. I fixed some program issues in my web API and I showed Richard my progress.
He and I were happy that the web API is running. After some emails he gave me a new task. I should change the UTC time, which was set as a Unix timestamp, into the regular time.
At home I didn’t do much. I was shopping at Lidl and cooked. Also I cleaned the bathroom.
Yesterday I changed the timestamp and showed Richard the result. Also we talked about the next step. I thought that I can now save the data into the database, but he would like me to do other things. So I now have a new task. I should put things into order and so on. I can say, that I programmed here in Dublin the whole time.
As you already may know I have been to the famous cliffs of Moher on Saturday. The trip there was quite exhausting as we all had way too less sleep and I was also not able to sleep to well in the bus. Our tour guide was talking a bit strangely as he repeated himself over and over again when he spoke about a certain topic.
Other than that the company that offered the tour was well prepared and had a decent amount of stops on our way to the cliffs and home.
The Cliffs themselves were very impressive and beautiful. We had a hell of a strong wind there. At one point I had to hold onto a fence to make sure I would not be blown away.
We stopped at a pub for lunch which was quite expensive. They are utmost reliant on the tourist tours as they won’t have any other customers whatsoever, which is a strange concept from my point of view.
On our way home we stopped at quite beautiful landscapes (a lot of bright grey rocks just scattered in the fields) just at the cliffs.
I will not provide any pictures here as Erik did that already and it would be a waste of disk space to add them again. He picked the ones I would have picked.
That’s it already from me for now, next blog will cover for the Celtic tour we did on Sunday. Until then!
it’s the start into the sixth week and only two and a half weeks are left, to be honest I’m looking forward to be back in Germany especially to sleep alone in my own room and in my own bed.
Well on Monday I started testing Hardware that was lying around the office with the new benchtable and as it turned out most of the hardware was broken.
On Tuesday I started working on the new thin clients we got for testing purposes and I had to install the newest firmware which was a pain in the ass, because it is not possible to install the newest firmware over USB. No that would have too easy you have to do it over a special Webshare or FTP. After trying it over a web share we set up a makeshift FPT server and hey that worked, but you couldn’t just install the newest firmware, no you had to install the firmware in the order it was released, e.g. if the newest firmware is 1.3.3 and the installed firmware is 1.1.4 you have install all version between these two in the order they where released before installing the newest.
But as it was Tuesday, which meant it was crazy Tuesday at the cinemas, I went to watch the new Star Trek movie together with Robert. And the movie was good and I can say with confidence that if J.J Abrahams does as well with Star Wars as he does with Star Trek there will be awesome movies ahead 😀
It’s been awhile since my last post but again there is nothing really new to tell.
During the weekend I was a little bit ill so I wasn’t going out or doing some sightseeing.
At work we are trying to finish our code and create the documentary for it and create some flow charts for the further testing which will start during this week (at least I hope so).
As Alex mentioned, the beds are killing us.
Even after my massage I am already feeling some tensions in my back and neck again.
But we are almost finished here and I look forward to see my own bed in Germany.
on Friday we have the possibility to meet our teacher Mr. Doebler from the OSZ. Nobody really knows him or had some hours with him except for 2 short lessons in 2011. That makes no sense in my opinion but we will try to talk with him.
I am not really sure if I get some free time for this from my boss Tom. And I’m not even sure if I want free time for the opportunity to meet a teacher… 😀 Slowly I have some effects from my bed. I have massive headaches on the „morning“ and my back hurts as well and that’s what I said at the beginning. Maybe the apartment is „good“ enough for one week but in my case I have massive problems after some more weeks and that’s not even funny. Hopefully it’s getting better when I am back at home.
this weekend was very amazing. We had do two tours. On Saturday we visited the Cliff of Moher and on Sunday we did the Celtic Tour.
On Saturday the night was very short. At 5 a.m. we woke up and went to the meeting point, where the tour started. The weather wasn’t good at the beginning, because it was rainy. Our first stop was a very little castle. It was nice. After 3 hours and many stops we arrived at the cliffs.
Stefan and I explored the left side of the cliffs first. So we lost the other guys :D. The view was very stunning. I would want to jump into the water to surf.
When we were at the cliffs the weather was very nice. It was sunny and windy. After a short walk, we searched for the other guys at the right side of the cliffs. On the way to them, Stefan and I did an involuntarily stop, because the wind was so strong that Stefan had to hold on a fence and I perched on a stair. So luckily we were not blown away, or down the cliffs.
very windy
After the cliffs we had lunch in a very little restaurant. The prices were high and the portion of food was very small. After we finished lunch went home, with a few stops at the coast. I like the coast and so I made many photos.
At home we relaxed and went to bed earlier as usual.
At Sunday the weather was very bad, because it rained a lot. We visited many typical Irish and Celtic places. At first we visited the Hill of Tara. Although it rained a lot for the most time, we stayed quite long.
Our tour guide was quite impressed. His name was Mark and he was very funny. I understood him very well, because he spoke slow and in a well English.
At the tour we got a lot of information about the Irish and Celtic history and the Irish culture. It was really a beautiful and nice day.
At home I eat a pizza and went to bed early, because I was very exhausted.
You see it was a stuffed but very nice weekend. Also see you later guys
well the weekend is over and it’s time to write about it, if you read it or not is entirely up to you.
As I wrote in my previous entry I went on a bus tour to the Giant’s Causeway with the guys from apartment nbr. 2. We met at 8:45 outside of our apartments and headed to the office of Allen’s Tours where our bus was supposed to leave at 9:30. We where advised to arrive 20 min. prior to the time of departure and we did but as it turned out we could have easily turned up at 9:45 as bus left at 10 because we had to wait for stragglers.
After we picked up a few other passengers at their hotels our driver introduced himself as Ian and told us he will be talking most of time while we are our way to the destination.
I was thinking „Yeah you will probably just point out points of interest along the way“ but I was wrong, he literally talked the whole time, told us about the history of the towns and places we passed and gave anecdotes to noteworthy sites, like the haunted hotel or the dead mans hole. The craziest thing was that it never got boring he did it in way that kept it interesting the whole time. I was surprised to hear how many Germans where involved in the history of Northern Ireland with building a castle here and a village there.
Only on the way back from Giant’s Causeway Ian kept quiet because we took the motorway back to Belfast, not the coastal road we took before, and there wasn’t much to tell but still he was a great tour guide and I think everyone on the bus agreed with me.
OK enough of our bus driver and more about the tour itself!
As I already mentioned the tour took the scenic coastal road to Giant’s Causeway with a few stops in between and a visit to the Bushmills distillery on the way back.
The first stop was shortly after leaving Belfast we stopped at Carrickfergus Castle, which was build by a German-ish guy in twelfth century. After 20 minutes of looking around and taking photos we journeyed on.
Carrickfergus Castle
After an hour we stopped at Carnlough harbor for a quick breather.
Carnlough harbor
Another hour later we arrived at Carrick-a-Rede and its famous rope bridge that I, obviously, crossed but I admit was a little frightened because we had very strong wind, something around 40 miles per hour,but still it’s a beautiful area and truly worth seeing, especially with good weather.
a view at the coast at Carrick-a-Rede with Rathlin Island in the backgroundthe famous rope bridge
While we are at the topic, our weather this day was kinda mixed, on one hand we had sunshine and , kinda, blue skies on the other hand it rained alot. We were lucky in the beginning as it only started raining when we boarded the bus again but once we arrived at the Giant’s Causeway the weather took a turn for the worse and it got much better shortly after we left Bushmills for Belfast.
A mere 15 minutes after we left Carrick-a-Rede we arrived at the Giant’s Causeway, we had to walk a little because we didn’t pay the „entrance fee“ (it was optional) and weren’t allowed to take the bus but it’s only a short walk, like 15 minutes or something.
the even more famous Giant's Causeway
I confess I was a little disappointed by the Giant’s Causeway, but this could be because the weather wasn’t exactly the best or the fact that the place was swarming with so many tourist that you had to look out where you put your feet. Don’t get me wrong it’s a beautiful place and worth seeing but I think it’s a bit oversold.
Oh and shortly after we left the Causeway my camera battery died and me, being stupid, forgot to pack my spare battery, so I wasn’t able to take pictures of out last stop at the Bushmills distillery. At the distillery we had the opportunity to take a look around at the visitors premises but couldn’t take a tour through the distillery. I bought myself a good whiskey which I will bring home as little souvenir for myself 😀
We arrived in Belfast at around 7:00 pm and after we said our goodbyes and thanks to Ian we went for something to eat and back to the apartment.
On Sunday I basically didn’t do anything except for relax, going through the photos I took on the tour and watch anime on my laptop 😀
I hope all of you enjoyed your weekend as much as I did.
the weekend was really short again. Too short. The days are just become blurred on the weekend if you go to bed at 6 a.m. and stand up around 6 p.m.. And on Monday I am so tired that I only work from this position:
Chin --> Table (+ coke)
On Saturday and Sunday morning, Stefan try to wake me up at 6 a.m. but I was still awake so he can suck my… ear 🙂 To be honest I don’t want to do anything at the moment. I know Dublin and I know the cliffs and that’s it… that’s Ireland. Okay maybe you can visit some castles and see some more sheep’s but in general Ireland have not much to see. Maybe two of my apartment members and me, do the viking splash tour on one of the last 2 weekends and that’s it for me.
On my working place I still need to back up some old mail-profiles. But Hugo returns today and hopefully he have some tasks for me again.
today I went to the Cliffs of Moher. My plan was, to make a lot of photos, enjoy the day and go home with the good feeling, that I participated on one more tour.
Yeah… I don´t want to tell you that much about today. I think, one picture shows more than I could tell you.
A little bit fog...
So… I think, I show you the picture from a colleague, which was there one day before. 🙂
