16 April 2025
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Man, the current news cycle is making my brain hurt... every
other day you either hear about some astoundingly stupid
idea Trump comes up with, new ways of our politicians to
invade our privacy our the simple fact that the climate is
breaking down around us and simply nobody seems to care. At
least nobody that could drive CHANGES is caring. Yesterday
evening was one of those moments:

While with junior at my parents, the TV running in the
background i could follow the weather forecast: While the
weatherman told the audience that it is now FINALLY raining
after a much, much too long dry period the main host of the
show told the audience simply "Well... whatever, i was
really enjoying the warm weather and hope the rain won't
stay too long". I had to really constrain myself to refrain
from the urge of slamming my head into the next
wall.

A fatalistic part of myself thinks: Perhaps Trump DOES
something good in the long run... a collapse of the world
economy with massive downsizing in living standards may
indeed be good to slow down and - in the long term - stop
climate change. The giant amount of suffering this all
brings on the other hand...

Well, lets move toward more positive things. Its amazing to
watch how far junior has come in two years. He wants to find
out how things work and wants to do everything himself. And
we are letting him. At breakfast he is now (mostly) able to
prepare his bread for himself and he is extremely proud
about it. The times when he manages to put more marmelade on
the bread instead of the surrounding area are at least
increasing. Still, he doesn't want to sleep in his own
bed. We are not pressuring him, just trying every other
evening or so... if he doesn't want? Fine, some day it will
work.

He has now found a new love for everything that flies, be it
paper airplanes, birds or everything else. Perhaps, if his
interest keeps up there is a new modeler to step into his
fathers footsteps...

At work things are moving slow, last week we made a big
update on our ERP system and we now FINALLY have a decent
documentation for it. Now diving ever deeper into the
documentation i discover features we have not used or used
simply wrong now for years. Well, who would have guessed
that having a support contract for a software and not only
handing over a big pile of money for an update skipping
several major versions every X years would have its
benefits... I mean, i was telling this since i started
working here ~10 years ago, but who am i to know?