Fire (pic by wikimedia commons, public domain)
Last night I noticed that the usual phat biannual cold has arrived, so I only had little sleep. As a consequence, I have been in the office a bit earlier today, which immediately led to the »The ones that come earlier are allowed to go a bit later« phenomenon :) .
I usually tend not to save myself in terms of not going to the office just due to a cold. You are just too proud to admit that you have been taken ill, and you don’t want to burden your colleagues with an extra portion of work, especially if it is release time. This regularly results in being ill for several weeks – that’s the price you pay for not taking a couple of days and curing yourself. On the other hand, it just doesn’t matter whether you are sitting in front of your computers at home or in the office. And the plain air on the way to and from the office is just healthy, isn’t it :) ?
Anyway, the summer is finally over. It’s about 10°C on my balcony at 11PM, while the forecast predicts 3-5°C during the night. Being sited on the upper rhine plain, Karlsruhe has a very friendly climate, at least compared to the rest of germany. We rarely see snow, and during the summer, it’s often damn humid.
I have fired up the heating, doing the yearly pressure check and refilling it with some water. The valves of the radiators usually hang a bit, so you need to play with some tools to make them do their job. Not a big deal, it only lasts a couple of minutes. All are up and running now, and I switched the heating off as I will go to bed real soon now™.
