It's summer, and I will be taking a break from work, starting the end of this week. This is really nice, and I am very much looking forward to it - although there is a stack of stuff left to do before I can go with a good conscience, so the next few days will be devoted to that.

And then... time off! Relaxation, hanging out with friends, and going for a swim whenever I feel like it. Hooray!

Today's work day will be a tad shorter than usual, since I have to go to the doctor's to refresh vaccinations - TBE (FSME, for the German readers) and tetanus are more than due, though thankfully not that overdue that I would need a new basis vaccination.

We're living in an area with infection risk for TBE, which is basically all of Southern Germany, and I like being outside, so that as well as tetanus is a smart thing to have. Both are infections that are not easy to treat once you have them, but with a very good protection by the vaccination... so off I will go to get myself protected.

And tomorrow... I will tell you about the outcome of my spinning tests, which are now more or less finished!

We have full-on summer here now, ripe strawberries, lots of sunshine, dry weather (the lawn has become Extra Crispy Summer Edition again) and heat, heat, heat. The season for iced coffee and icecream and hanging out in the garden in the evening and enjoying the sun.

Unloading the car yesterday was a quite, quite hot affair, so I am happy that I did not have to do the presentations in heat like that, but in a rainy night instead. And today's agenda mostly lets me stay in the comparatively cool indoors, where I shall endeavour to catch up with all the paperwork that has accumulated again... boring to do, but a good excuse to stay in the cool.

It's a long weekend - and I will enjoy it with friends, doing fun stuff.

I hope you have a nice weekend, too - regular blogging resumes on Monday!

Happy Easter everybody!

Proper blogging will resume after the Easter Holidays. I hope you will all have a good time!

I'm back from spending time with family and friends - and now I will be dropping right into the task of catching up with all the mails I received and the usual beginning-of-a-new-quarter stuff.

I hope that your festive season was as wonderful as mine was, and that you are energetic and well starting into this new year - which will surely bring interesting things. And, of course, mistakes. (Nobody does the New Year Wish like Neil Gaiman.)

And I will be delighted to share the happenings of 2012 with you, over this blog!

I'm still waiting for the invention of an automatic paperwork handling machine. Or something like that.

Like... an instant secretary, maybe? I'd really like an instant secretary. That would come in so, so handy. It would mean I had someone to do that heap of typing that is waiting for me and the hundred and fifty small and more or less annoying other tasks that are not yet done.

Oh well. If anyone knows where to get an instant secretary... please tell me.