Just the facts, ma’am
This blog was originally intended as a way to keep distant friends and family informed of the goings-on in my life, in acknowledgement of the fact that regular email updates were unlikely to happen. Since then, it has somewhat strayed from this intent, partly because I have simply written about anything and everything that came to mind, but mostly because I have simply not written.
In an attempt to remedy this situation, here is a list of things I have done recently:
- bought a folding bicycle and started riding to work
- started using the gym at work
- bought a guitar and taught myself 4 or 5 chords, and on a good day even to play different chords consecutively
- bought a cheap display-less GPS device, and started geotagging my photos
- upgraded the iPhone to firmware 2.0 and lost all my nice applications (but got different ones in return, so I’m not entirely unhappy)
- started swing dancing again
- travelled to Spain with S (Barcelona, Costa Brava)
- put flower and herb pots on the balcony, and almost killed (some of) them by going to Spain for a week
- put a barbecue on the balcony, and used it exactly once – it’s far too big for just one person
- read a book about the interesting and complicated relationship between the Swiss and the Germans (a psychoanalyst’s wet dream)
- started classes to learn Swiss German (against the advice of the aforementioned book)
- started (but not finished) filling out a Swiss tax declaration
- started (but not finished) filling out an Australian tax return.
