26 September 2025 ================= It has been some time since the last entry... Well, to be honest: Nothing remarkable happened, life did just go on and i thought it would be somewhat boring to report about the daily stuff. Well, summer is gone now and we entered fall, surprisingly this year the first firing up of the oven went without turning the whole house into a smoker - i guess this is a good sign. My dad - who is now living in a retiring home - is making unexpected progress again. We thought from time to time that he would be not able to walk again, but recently he is getting better, much better indeed. It is somewhat weird seeing someone in his mid-80s getting stronger again after a bad streak of luck. At the moment we are really contemplating if he gets well enough to come back home. Honestly: The thought fills me with joy. Junior is growing and developing at an breakneck speed: He is now about 2 1/2 years old and he is awesome - trying to argue in his child logic, trying to outsmart the adults and often he is successfull in it. "Cat never brush teeth... cat bites strong!" - Well, hard to argue with that... Regarding the state of the world... well, the assassination of that Charlie Kirk guy who i never heard about before got me an impression of many people that i could have lived without. While, as i said, i never heard about him before (i am german... and we have our own set of problems), the reaction of many netizens was simply disgusting. I cannot understand it: You may hate someone, but god damn, dancing an cheering while his body has not even cooled of and his wife and kids witnessed the act is just, well, disgusting. Regarding our local media i can only say: Can you at least have him buried before condemming again his world views? May be he was a bad person, maybe not. I don't care. But who has declared that at least some form of normal decency is now off the table? On other news: Yes, i get it - we are heading towards a military confrontation with russia. I hate the thought of another big war in europe within a century, but alas, it seems that this is the way we are heading towards. What i do not get is how eager my coworkers and peers are seemingly to "kill the russ". Dammit... i think somewhat like that must the feeling have been before the "Great War". I cannot fathom that i now hear coworkers and even goddamn friends calling for shooting down the "Fucking Russkies trying to fuck with us" (Paraphrased), regarding the current events with russian airplanes intercepted by european fighter jets. Has everyone gone mad?!? Well, it is late now, i begin to feel the sherry i drank while writing this... i think it is time for me to hit the sheets.