17 March 2025
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While the weather begins to warm up, i somehow have the 
feeling that everything around is getting colder. There are
calls to boycott products from the US emerging, our
government is negoating a big defense budget and the calls
for reintroducing the mandatory military service are 
getting louder. Local governments are calling for our
hospitals to be prepared for a war and coworkers are 
talking about getting back into the military reserve. The
thought of now not only having Russia out there as a 
potential threat, but also a former long term ally is 
something i would not have thought about a couple of years
ago... 

Well... i personally don't realy know how to approach this
new situation. Whilst i had to do my military service back
in the day shortly after 9/11 and stayed a while in the 
military after that i am not entirely sure if i would 
want to reinlist. I think my mind will have to simmer a bit
more time about this. Perhaps the situation in the world
calms down in the coming weeks and our current fears are
outing themselves as unfounded. Would be nice...

Alas, i recently started again to take now and then a look
back into reddit just to get a bit of a feeling what the
"normal people" on the net are thinking. Oh boy... i 
shouldn't have done that. Between the vile lunatics of 
r/conservative and the seemingly helpless opposition who
just wants for the situation to somehow go away it lets 
you behind with a feeling that everything is seemingly
going south. 


On the brighter side of things: Its astounding to see the
rapid development of junior. Whilst he started speaking the
first few words last year he now is able to communicate in
short 2 - 4 word sentences and is absolutely eager to help
us keeping the house together. I would never having
imagined a two year old helping his mom and dad keeping the
house clean and getting things done and really being a true
usefull help by doing this.

The only little problem we currently have is to get him 
accustomed to sleep in his own bed, as we have him sleeping
together with us in our bed since birth.