Just Married!
Verliebt, verlobt, verheiratet.
Das Ganze geschah am 20.09.2014.
Alle Fotos von Fotokunst Freitag.
I’m still at the hospital until the beginning of next week. But the surgery was successful without any complications and the doctors said the arm will be fully functional again in about two months. That’s good news for me.
I broke my arm last Sunday afternoon. It was a – I believe – pretty unspectacular bike accident. But I fell really unfortunate and now I have a semi-complicated fracture right above the elbow joint.
I’m going to have surgery tomorrow (Wednesday) and will be in the hospital for a few more days. Then weeks of rehabilitation. Sucks a little :-(.
10 years with a Mac
As the Mac turns 30, I realised that I’ve been using Macs for 10 years myself now.
“The Switch” started in 2003 — during the end of my apprenticeship — when a colleague regularly brought his personal 12-inch PowerBook G4 to the office. It caught my attention, and I spend quite a bit of time learning about his computer. He was happy to tell me all about it — and Apple in general, too.
I ended up buying this very PowerBook from him at the beginning of 2004. I’ve been using Macs ever since, and I haven’t looked back.
The Mac and Mac OS X felt like the sweet spot to me. It seemed to be like a merger of the good bits of Windows and Linux with an extra dose of taste, logic and fun on top. Over the years, I’ve owned 3 Macs:
- A 12-inch PowerBook G4. Bought used at the beginning of 2004 — sold again September 2004, to buy
- a 15-inch PowerBook G4. This one was retired in May 2012. Later that year, I gave it to a colleague for free.
- For my 30th birthday, my family gave me a 15-inch MacBook Pro, which was very generous. It arrived in May 2011, and I’m using it right now.
I’ve used three more Macs given to me at my workplace: a 2009 21.5-inch iMac, a 2009 (or 2010) MacBook Pro 15-inch, and a 2011 MacBook Air 13-inch.
All the Macs I’ve used have been fantastic machines. And they just keep getting better with every generation.
So, happy birthday, Mac!
If you hadn’t been created, I’d be using a different computer and I wouldn’t even miss you.
Leaving New Zealand
Nicole and I are going to leave New Zealand on October 23rd. We’ve been travelling and living in NZ for four years and we feel like having a change and see family and old friends again.
We will be travelling through South-East Asia for a couple of months before returning to Düsseldorf, Germany some time early next year.
We have had the most amazing four years here and we are definitely going to miss New Zealand.