My colleagues have been pretty busy in my absence, when I was gone on parental leave. This morning, I introduced our daughter Lara to the group of colleagues at TUM, and brought something sweet to celebrate during the coffee break. My colleagues brought their latest creative outburst – a diaper cake. Not really a cake,Continue reading “It didn’t taste like cake…”
Monthly Archives: October 2021
That escalated (not so) quickly…
I hate weddings. Or well, I mostly hate wearing a suit. Weddings in the sense that two people declare their love for each other, I find alright. I’m a married man myself. Obviously, I didn’t wear a suit that day. For the most part of my life I have lived suitless, and I liked itContinue reading “That escalated (not so) quickly…”
Oh, the joy!
Four days! Four days is the incubation time of the average kindergarten virus. You’re safe for four days, when you bring your child to one of these. After that, you’re fucked. For us that was yesterday… Yesterday morning, our boy had a running nose. Generally nothing to worry about in a two year-old. I cleanedContinue reading “Oh, the joy!”
Well-deserved weekend
Today’s one of those days where it is past 11pm, and I really have to drag myself to my laptop, in order to write another post. I should’ve written one in the morning, so Friday evening truly would’ve felt like weekend. It’s been a long, long first week back at work after my parental leave.Continue reading “Well-deserved weekend”
A recipe that works
I have heard so many times that people use particular excuses for why they don’t write, or struggle at writing. “I cannot write”, or “I suck at writing”. Or the best one, “yeah, I suffer from writer’s block”. Hell no! No you don’t. You can write, and the only reason you suck at writing isContinue reading “A recipe that works”
Some of the worst…
I was just browsing through Twitter this evening. What else to do on a night when the entire family decides to fall asleep. It didn’t take long before I stumbled on this fantastic tweet: The tweet just made me laugh out loud. What. Wait. How? For those of you not familiar with Stephen Heard, he’sContinue reading “Some of the worst…”
One is already horrible, but two is really too much
Life as a parent is pretty rough. And since our family expansion, it has not become any easier. The toughest part for me is when kids are in pain or otherwise upset, and you really cannot do anything about it. Our son is generally a careful kid, doesn’t fall all too often, and he seemsContinue reading “One is already horrible, but two is really too much”
That wasn’t so bad, was it?
He thought he was pretty cool, that guy, Ctesibus, when he invented the alarm clock back in the day in ancient Greece. Google tells me he designed an elaborate system that dropped pebbles into some kind of gong. A waste of pebbles. Probably not the best for the sound quality of the gong, either. AnContinue reading “That wasn’t so bad, was it?”
A bit scared
In the past two months I spent the first part of my parental leave. In Germany, fathers get the luxury of two months of paid leave. After our daughter was born end of July, I took a luxurious one month of holiday (I barely touched my holidays in 2020 due to the pandemic, so IContinue reading “A bit scared”
Jackpot!
I figured it was autumn today. Time to clean up the garden some. I cleared some dead tomato plants, harvested some chilies, and emptied some of the pots with annual ornamentals. While doing so, I glanced over some of the perennial potted plants, thinking I should bring some inside to overwinter. I noticed that oneContinue reading “Jackpot!”
Robin Heinen 