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Lightning Rambling

The effects kicked in yesterday around 19:00, which has the result of me being pretty confused. Please bear with me.

I forgot my laptop power cable and my battery is broken, so this is the only photo I have for now. No-one was injured, although me and Andreas have a slight whiplash. So, what happend? A Chinese guy who lives in Switzerland, who had his 23rd birthday that day, didn't know how to handle cruise control, but kicked it in at 180km/h, and couldn't turn it off. Crashed into us, about here where there's grass and a field on the western side of the A9. I didn't even see him as I just wanted to change to the righter track. We were pushed away a few hundet meters, spinned once or twice after I had to steer a little to the right after the quite new Audi A6 was slowly getting ahead of us. I didn't want to crash into it when it came to halt.

I think I should say thank you to my father, who's the reason why I was always surrounded by the road saftey topic, due to my fathers job.

We got another car, and arrived in Vienna at around 2:30 am, a little late but, I can't tell you how glad I am to be home. Listening to Maximilian's Tuvalu Radio stuff (I really hope, and not only because of egoistic reasons, that those recordings get released some day. Maybe they should contact Morr) as well as Kepler, as I do often when something incredibly odd and confusing happens. So I'll get a little rest now. Next update on Sunday, when I'll definitely have returned permanently. *blink*

In Which Our Hero Was Struck By a Lightning

Seriously.

Had a car accident - not my fault, guy hit us with 160-180 km/h when we were going at 80 due to a building site. Us and my stuff ok, car wrecked, will arrive at least 4 hours late. Lots of photos later.

Yay for phone posting!

Revealing Less

Remember: learn before you volunteer for something you don't know yet.

Repeat after me: summarising 3 different and unsynced camera perspectives while retaining one layer of sound (or at least, have it properly cut) with linear video editing software equals lots and lots of pain.

But I think the result is better than pain. Here we go …

Hiatus (Not)

I temporarily left this blog to pursue the depth of life outside of silicon chips. (Not really, just been lazy.) After reflection, the result is: plans = catfood.

Most people know by now, I'm moving back to Vienna. There's a myriad of reasons (surprising!), all in all boils down to one simple line: I have not found anything that is important enough to me to keep sticking around.

When I first came here, Tina told me that Berlin is able to do both, lift you up to new heights and crash you into new lows. Neither has happened to me, but my experience tends towards, as you've guessed, the latter.

Even though I'm not carrying out my catfood as intended, I do not consider my actions to be a failure - they were of great importance and helped me learn. Some may take the following points for granted, but for someone grown up in Vienna, they're not:

• Use language encouragingly – enthusiasm wins
• Find a balance between thinking and doing – great catfood is still just catfood
• Catch peoples sight and smile – it's rewarding for both sides
• Experiment more with your environment - not only because it rhymes
• Spend more time outside – your mood will thank you
• Instinct > intellect – my guts proved more reliable, what about yours?

So it's all good.

Why catfood? It's not the most important thing, but you shouldn't forget about it.