blog.zgraggen.name  All-day insanity or I have a blog too!

I like Pittsburgh and I feel secure in my area. However, tonight when I walked home from the cave (my study/work area) a police car drove past with red/blue lights on. Not unusual, but then I saw the next intersection with many red and blue lights. Finally, when I walked past this intersection I saw 7 police cars all with running light and no accident on the intersection. This made me feel slightly insecure. Fortunately, the police and all the other people where on the other side of the road… Good night!

This is my oldest relict… I started this post about 8 months ago and I am convinced that it is worth mentioning.

After reading the post from Mirko I thought why not read something different from time to time.
Besides some students at the CMU recommended this book on the Google Group for new entering students
Even though I did not completely finish the book, I would recommend the book to anyone who wants to improve his time management. I did not apply all the things the book mentions but I definitely could improve some work habits, which saved a lot of time.

Thanks to Mirko for lending me the book! Meanwhile I posses my own copy of this book

Initially, I wanted to publish the first relict post, but I have news which are more important!

America is often called the land with unrestricted possibilities. Sometimes, I have the opinion a better name would be the land with an unrestricted amount of ridiculous rules.

Today, I went to the swimming pool at the University Center. After the training, I went to the diving board to have some fun. After a few jumps from the 1m board, I decided to climb the 3m board. I was surprised when the pool attendant was whistling against me. After CLIMBIMG DOWN from the 3m tower, she explained that only the diving team is allowed to jump from the 3m tower. When I asked why, she told me for security reasons… The sad thing about that is that I had to find out that even CMU has ridiculous rules!

Maybe, I should start gathering all the ridiculous rules, which prevent me from having fun!

This is a new record on this blog. Obviously, this is not the kind of record you want to break!

Towards the end of the fall semesters in 2008, I was busy and was not motivated to write any posts. After that during the winter break, I was too lazy to write anything. (It is not holiday if you have to work…) Besides, I had better things to do than sitting in front of the computer like skiing and snowboarding in the Swiss Mountains

I started many posts but published none of them. I finally decided to do the write up and publish all of them. I will mark them as relict.