Since I have started my ternure as a Higgs co-convener of the Higgs group at CMS I have been travelling at an insane rate across the Atlantic Ocean. Staying connceted to the family is of course very important and we have been using skype with lots of success. The video is sometimes inspiring as it was last night when Ana was sitting in a mostly dark room together with Blake and some light from the front…. The impressions on my screen were almost artistic.
🙂
Bambi in a skype call…. In a dark room with just
some light from the front. Cool!
Es muss Weihnachten 2007 oder 2008 gewesen sein als wir uns in Deutschland die Feier in der grossen Familie gefallen liessen. Bei diesem Anlass klagte Alex zum wiederholten Male ueber die Qualitaet des Kaffee’s aus ihrem wunderbaren Vollautomat, der dunkelroten “Vienna Millenium” von Saeco. Da unsere Machine am CERN kurz vorher ihren Geist aufgegeben hatte nach ungefaehr 1.5 Jahren (eigentlich viel zu frueh und durch einen unbedarften Versuch die Machine wieder in Gang zu bringen) kam mir die Idee Alex von dieser Machine zu befreien. Alex hat uns dann tatsaechlich die Machine ueberlassen und seitdem hat sie bis Mai 2012 hervorragende Dienst geleistet, ich wuerde schaetzen ueber 10 Kaffees im Durchschnitt pro Tag. Das waeren also (bin mir fast sicher wir haben im Januar 2008 gestartet) 4.25 * 365 * 10 = 15512.5 Kaffees insgesamt.
Leider hat mein treuer Wegbegleiter durch so viele lange Naechte schliesslich in der letzten Woche seinen Geist aufgegeben. Das Mahlwerk will die Bohnen einfach nicht mehr zerkleinern und in den Schlund der Presse schieben…. Ruhe in Frieden mein alter Freund!
Just a quick entry for my son Markus whom i had to think of when I found a visitor in my office. I had worked a long night, a beautiful lush one, leaving the window open. I had not payed much attention to what was going on in the office apart from the tea machine and the computer, so I did not realize that the light attracted a number of visitors. Only the morning afterwards I noted my visitor a beautiful large moth. Markus likes insects since I can remember, so here a photo for Marki.
Today is mother’s day…. and I have not spoken to my mum in a l long time. She had hip replacement surgery and is in a rehabilitation center and we only speak through my father. She is doing fine I hear: “Go, mum!!”. Sometimes she reads the news from the PausHaus, so here are some hearty greetings and a big thank you to my mum for being my mum. I attach some nice photos from Ivan’s first communion because I know she likes them.
Ivan getting ready to enter in the church for the celebration of his first communion. The celebration of his first communion is over now. Everybody looks pretty happy. (Note to myself: tell the program to rotate that picture....)
… and as I am again at CERN and cannot congratulate my wife for being a terrific mother to our children, here a big thank you and a kiss. I will call later.
