I guess that to those, who have read my earlier posting about me getting a bicycle and felt as curious about as me, I do now owe an update.

Perhaps I have to pity you! But the nice gadget is not just staying around in the basement. I used it quit a few times so far and have to say that I more and more appreciate using it.

Sure it has no engine and pushing it yourself still seems somehow odd to me, but slowly we both … the bike and me  … are growing together.

Not being really convinced about my own decision at first, I went for some good priced mid-range bike. Being aware that buying too cheap and quickly feeling happy anymore would spoil fun, I procrastinated buying all other equipment around. Therefore handicapped a bit, the first two or so rides getting familiar with the gear and not wearing appropriates clothes were mixed indeed. But not feeling bounced in general I quickly made effort getting the "rest" like the real biker dress, click pedals and shoes and drinking bottles and stuff also and since then things improved rapidly.

Especially about the click pedals I had very mixed feelings and hesitated mounting them. But being on my own on a sunday, I decided about yet or never and called myself a nerd not doing earlier…. Doesn’t I play with up to 20 or so different functions on the "real" bike while driving all the time?!  … and got on and well with them pretty quick.

Speaking about being on my own, I found out about I more prefer riding with my pushy alone as for it gives me the pleasure of being able to do it my way … not feeling forced to keep up with others.

My way?! Never being really very sportive myself I’m pretty happy about to do around 30km in about 1,5 hours or so right now. I’m aware this does not sound impressive, but perhaps you should try it yourself and you will find out about it requires being in motion constantly. As there are always some reasons slowing you down for a few seconds.

The actual magically border  seems to be around 50km for me … Not that I couldn’t do more, but that is the point when I do finally start to feel like a break and a specific part of me (my b..) does start to hurt!

But honestly, it does look like the bicycle and I have found together seriously. Being a very terrible individualist all my life, I never was able to cope and addict with clubs and for example regularly scheduled trainings ever wednesday.

And therefor I really do enjoy the flexibility the new toy is offering me for exercising purposes.

I do not try to hide that I mostly try to work together with other experts. Working with someone on a similar skill level has somewhat relieving. And finally when you have taken the first two or three challenges together, working with them often turns out into some pleasure.

All the info and little hints you need and require for a successful and winning work and result are there! Given instantly without the need to ask  and communication in general is reducing to a necessary minimum.

My personal indicator for reaching such a level is the moment when you start to carry on second more personal conversation besides. Over all stress work is coming with, the easy chatting besides helps to deal with stress and timelines … at least for me it does!

Now since a while the audience you met when overtaking new projects has changed dramatically. Folks you know from earlier and value for their thoughtful cooperation once, today are often lost within specialities or suffering like you under a big workload not being able to help anymore.

So there more and more a new generation is coming to act. New "green" folks and so called Application Owner mostly not having any background about the underlaying system and techniques and often only being trained within their application, it’s business requirement and the general dealing and working with it

As a result out of that I often get a requests in a way … Can you do that and that for me please? Best at night when I’m at home!

Grrrr … I really hate these mindless emails! What do they think? … Nothing I guess?!

But the more I hate that their emails mostly even miss all necessary details like server, account and login details and so on.
Or best! Sometimes and even better appear like a new written bible containing 20 or so forwarded email by people which does not really more have to say …. forcing to to read through all just to figure out about you still NEED to know.

Oh damned! Give my back my loved professionals I really enjoy working with please!

Human Interactions and especially those with people living remote are difficult for sure. It is not the first time I recognise, but it’s never a harm to internalize that again.

As it looks I have a talent in raising trouble. Sure it is no intention and very often it is my very wired sense of humor others don’t get, but from time to time I really have to tell myself to slow down and see things a bit more relaxed or … serious!

Perhaps matching to that I found some saying this morning:

"All problems of mankind have their reason in their missing ability to sit alone and still in a room"   Blaise Pascal

By god, this is worth to think about that!

This weekend while checking my emails I found some email conversation on a list … one, a real software bug buster had one of this "golden" issues (a million others don’t have) and a second one shouting for to see the source code (of a program which was given and not really written by the other one).

Getting the point far way quicker then them I started my reply whith the question "Are you both on drugs?!" …. Sure some joke on the edge. But could I have been really aware in the first one making it his pleasure to prototype and bug test a software and the other one is directly happy in helping out a complete team of developers to correct their issues and therefore asking for the most recent source code to rework it for them?

Yeah, I know … I’m doing it again! But honestly, without that bit of spicy conversation interaction does not make fun … at least not to me. But perhaps it’s better to do that with friends only in future.

I’ve never said or claimed for me, I’m easy …. when I left my room once ….

I had a big weekend socializing with friends which I enjoyed very much. Even the weather was a bit changing with a clouds and rain on saturday, sunday was fine and sunny and we use it to hike with our friends and their lovely puppy dog.

Carsten who has originally made me feeling interested in video cutting did tell me about a few new ideas he has and also showed me a few exceptional stuff he created while trying to get familiar with HDTV and producing in 16:9 format.

Since a few years he has found out about diving as of his interest. Last year as for his very first time, he recorded underwater and was happy to show me his final clip about some catch up he had with a bunch of dolphins at that time.

It is that relaxed talking about technique, spiced up with personal experiences and the one or other adventure, I really do enjoy and therefore talking with him and Martina always is a great pleasure for me.

Then yesterday we catched up with Frank and Ute early, going for some relaxed walk through the Palatinate Forest. Enjoying the sunny conditions we had a nice time being out in nature and as for Frank is some old classmate of me there is always something to exchange and talk about.

As for we both recently discovered about push bike riding we had a long and interesting chat about bike buys and equipment and commited to catch up again soon again going for some ride.

This morning my first way was going to the computer and checking it for a highly awaited feedback via email…..
Guess I wouldn’t have done in case it would have been for work issues though.

Curious as it is, I had left this stupid puter thingy just a few hours before, giving it anything else nut nice names.
Believe it or not, "Stupid Metal Nerd" was one of the more harmless terms I had used for it!

Knowing about me in such critical situations when I have to work highly concentrated for hours, I’m aware that things start to get some more personal touch for me. The system in front of you is no longer just a computer and at least I start to talk with it giving it all kind of bad or nice names depending on the situation I have to go through.

Ensuring you are not doing any mistake, by looking at things two or three times and being aware there is only one and just one chance to succeed, at least I need such a valve to get rid of the pressure.

Making it short now, it was again a critical database recovery I was sitting about. Getting the info about a damaged database right at the end of my working day yesterday, I worked more than double as much hours as usually. But at the end I could ring the customer and telling him about the database got fixed again.

Now finally coming back to that email I found this morning. It was some personal news I was keen to receive and world directly started to look better and more beautiful again after reading it. YEAH!! Thats Tops!