Time is flying

Another months since my last entry here. Most of you may have received my invitation card for the wedding ceremony in Alaska. I am very excited about it, well, and I think I should be. It is not very easy organizing these things from a different continent, but on the other hand it will be just a small and kind of informal ceremony followed by a nice dinner with our friends. Last weekend we emailed our menu choice to the Motherlode Lodge, but didn't hear back from them until now. We also had to decide on other things like: do we want a ceremony set-up with a floral arch or not, do we want white table cloths, an extra cake table....well, honestly, all I want is a good time ;o)

We also talked to Jane in Anchorage and she promised to organize a cake for us. Not a 500$ special super fancy wedding cake, but.... a cake for dessert would be nice.

It is also one month since Nokia announces plans to close the production and R&D site in Bochum. Especially with the excellent business results achieved during the last year this is not really understandable, but anyhow they stick to their plans to move the production facility to Romania. But it looks very good for most engineers. More than one company approached us and announced interest in starting a R&D site in Bochum or at least want to hire many of my engineers. It looks like everybody who wants it can have a new job within the next months. It is not much work left for us here so I finally found the time to keep you up to date with this blog. By the way, do you want to see me (and our center management team) in business suits/dress: Here comes a very rare pictures:

The next weekend is about to come. The weather here in Europe, especially Germany and England, was perfect the last week. Blue sky, sunshine and nice temperatures. Last weekend we drove to the coast again, spent the day at the beach and had a picnic in the dunes. The temperatures were in the 50s. Spring is coming. Well, the forecast for this weekend is nice, too, but with temperatures more around 40F. Dave will be on call so we can't go too far, but I hope for some time outside. In addition to that I need to work on my English resume or CV. I will have Monday off which means a long weekend for me. Yeah.