For Markus: A Visitor in my office

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.

My visitor: the moth

Mother’s Day

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.

Made my day

In tonights Squash match in Lausanne I won a 5 setter, after one match ball against me, and won for the team…. epic match.

This made my week, even as I am in Geneva for the CMS week.