Sometimes perfection has to take a holiday

Oh so many wonderful things are happening here. Unfortunately, one of these things is called “f***ing lots of work”, so just a short overview (which probably will be longer than anything I’d write if I tried to write a long post):

• I had a birthday picknick. It was rather successful and yummy, there were no accidents and during the preparation I screamed only at a very few (handpicked) people. Some pictures you can see here.
• I got one thing for my birthday which I always wanted and never dared buy (it being so beautiful and so expensive) – a cubistic sugar box, designed by Pavel Janák.
• I spent the aftermath of my birthday with reading one the book sets I got (I won’t say which, because even I have to admit that it is really big – but very entertaining and relaxing – crap). But still, nine books in one week is not too bad.
• I spent another few days with my favorite co-workers at my favorite software testing site.
• I – acutally quite involuntarily – installed Windows 7 yesterday (you click the wrong button once, and there you go…)
• I bought some nice flowers for the balcony, and got some nice flowers for free for the windows facing West in our flat from the Prague City Council (some program to make Prague more beautiful, I suppose, but why only the windows facing the street, not the ones facing the rail tracks, I have no idea).
• Currently, I’m translating a very interesting project – subtitles for a movie. The interesting part of this is the fact that the movie is Russian, the “original subtitles” (that I’m translating into German) are Czech, and there is a rumor that they have been translated from the English subtitles for the movie. Unfortunately, those English subtitles have gone missing, so I am watching the movie in Russian, with the Czech subtitles (that are not timed and therefore cannot be used in the player) in a Word document, and guessing what belongs where. Not to mention that the movie is awfully depressing (I wonder if there are Russian comedies?), as is the weather here.
• My knee (I don’t know if I mentioned this here, but I had a little skiing accident back in March) is getting better, but it’s still not 100% fit :(
• I found a very useful little program/website which makes installing new systems so much easier (with the downloading issues I’m trying to fix, I wouldn’t call it faster, but you don’t have to sit in front of your computer for the installation, which is a good thing): www.ninite.com