December 2008 Archives

I guess I am what you would call fashionably late this year, but I still want to wish all of you a very merry Christmas and joyful holidays together with your loved ones.

2008 has been an extremely challenging year for me as many of you know, but I did achieve most of the goals set and am happy to start into a new year freed from some of the burdens of the past years.

Below is a small selection of pictures showing what has been going on this year starting with snowboarding in France, followed by the many weddings I attended this year and closing off with pictures from the trips to New York City and Tehran at the end of this year.

All the best to you and your families, a happy and successful new year and I hope to see all of you soon again.

Tonight I will embark on a journey to Tehrān, Iran to join the wedding ceremony of Weindy and Asefe the following night.

I'm really excited not only to see a new country but also for having the opportunity of getting immersed in a whole different culture.

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The flight schedule is a bit of drag, leaving Munich in the evening and arriving in Iran at 04:30 am local time but going through Istanbul was the best travel option available for those dates. Munich is currently covered in a thick blanket of fog, so we'll see how the flight schedule works out tonight. I am following the principle of traveling light, going with only one piece of carry on luggage, to avoid any hassles about lost luggage, even though it was quite a challenge to cram my camera gear plus clothes in such little room.

I will try and post an update or two on this blog while in Iran, and also upload some snapshots to my flickr depending on the quality of the internet connection in the hotel room.

Free at Last

Thank you all for your patience over the last few months. I know, I haven't been very approachable or much of an enrichment to conversations lately. Totally immersed in working on my thesis topic plus doing all the additional job related tasks just didn't leave much room for a social life. But today I'm very pleased to announce that
my thesis work is finally completed. This weekend I will try to catch up on some of the lost sleep from the past couple of months and then reboot in life mode again!

After having worked on the final draft on Thursday until 4am I headed on over to printy, which did a great job on printing and binding my thesis and I was able to turn it in before lunch. I know to some of you it might come as a disappointment that I actually turned the thesis in 3 days before the final deadline, but what can I say: Maybe I'm getting old, too ;)

Should you be interested in any of the results of my thesis, please check back on my professional blog in the coming weeks. Even though I wont be able to post the complete work due to restrictions from the companies involved in it, I will share some of the results.

So long, and hope to see all of you soon again, so I can make up for all the social downtime lately.

Since the update frequency of my personal blog has suffered a bit lately from the enormous stress level this year, and a lot of things on my website have been getting old, including the design, I decided to relaunch this site, with a fresh design and a new platform basis, movable type 4.

This blog will continue to cover all things personal regarding my life around the web. For anything related to my career and topics directly related to IT and software development, please refer to my professional blog on thomasjaehnel.com.

This blog will be kept mostly in English except for some rare occasions where it doen't make sense to post in English.