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I am amazed how many men abuse the urinal to deposit their used chewing gum! And that happens not only in public toilets. You can find this also at Universities and most workplaces. I find this surprising because most often there is a trash can within a few steps. Besides, if they wash their hands they and use paper towels, to dry the hands, which end up in a bin as well. So it is not a big effort to throw the gum into a bin.

I wonder if it is only me or do other people think that this behavior is inappropriate and maybe even disgusting?

I’m awake again… We just had a fire alarm in our building.
Luckily, I was still awake and not in bed yet. But still, it took me a moment to realize that it is an actual alarm and not a drill.
The first time since I’m here that I actually used the stairs to leave the building

The fire fighters arrived just a few seconds after I left the building. So that was pretty comforting to know that they are ready if something happens.
I look up on the building, but could not find any smoke or see anything, so I guessed that there was nothing big happening. After about 15min we were allowed to go back into the building. The interesting part about the whole alarm was that the fire fighter I asked didn’t know why the alarm went off…

Finally, I screwed in the last screw and hammer the last nail of my IKEA furniture.

Thanks to the MSE program, I am inclined to keep track of various data in my life. Therefore, I know exactly how much time I spent on each piece of furniture… Just in case I will have to buy new furniture
I guess all in all the 13 hours 27 min is not too bad for all the things I accomplished. I could even go further and analyze on what time of the day I did the most work, and at what time I was most productive… but that won’t be worth the effort

Special thanks goes to my girlfriend which helped me to choose, find (in the store), transport and haul all the furniture to my apartment!
Unfortunately, she couldn’t stay long enough to also support me during the assembling

Ps: List of all the items assembled…
1 bed, 2 dressers, 1 small dresser, 2 Book shells, 1 Bookcase, 1 office Chair, 2 small tables, 3 chars, 1 kitchen Table

As many might know, I am working in the biggest trading floor of the world. But what most people won’t know is that UBS has an interesting tradition on St. Patrick’s day. This afternoon around 4 o’clock a group of bagpipe players walked onto the balcony of the trading floor and played some music for the 1400 people

I guess everybody has its own story how or why he got started with FarmVille. I still claim that I didn’t do it out of free will, but that is another story. Today, I like to write about the ending of this story…

After investing (aka wasting?) an awful amount of time in this game. I realized that it is not worth it. Especially, since I don’t perceive playing it as fun, but still I was coming back again and again…

So why did I come back? I always had goals, like getting all the ribbons, catching up with the level of a friend and so on. But still doing so is quite painful and it needs a lot of clicking to achieve anything on FarmVille. Amy once made an observation: “You look bored when you play FarmVille”. The thing which surprises me about this game is that it is an online game but is missing several social aspects which could make it much more fun.

Admittedly, I didn’t work in the last couple of weeks and had therefore some slack time. But in the future I want to spend this time doing something else…

Amy and I decided that this Sunday is going to be our last FarmVille day!
Someone else who wants to commit to that?

In the last couple of days I was assembling the furniture which I got from IKEA. I like to share the experience of one particular day which was interesting.

In the morning my bed was delivered which I assembled right away and after that I went for a run. In the afternoon I had to realize that I was tired and not in the mood to assemble more furniture. But I also knew that with this attitude I would never get it done. So I decided to try another energy shot: “Redline Power Rush, 7 hour energy boost”. According to EdJunky it is one of the most potent energy shots. I had this shot lying around for several months by now and never found the right situation to use it. So I drunk the whole bottle and started working. After only a few minutes I started to feel the effects. Unbelievable how this stuff works! While physically still a little tired I was completely awake and I also had to urge to get things done! So I took on two MALM drawers from IKEA:

Screwing these two drawers together took me 4 hours without any breaks. (Except taking pictures).
After that I still felt restless and cleaned the apartment and assembled other things.

So if someone is tired and still needs to get a lot of physical work done. That is the way to go
But be aware, that the thinking process is not as clear anymore so it is definitely nothing for mind work. Besides one of the after effects for me is that I was only able to sleep 10 hours after I took the energy shot. I’m sure drinking such energy shots, while legal in the USA, are not too healthy. But it was worth the experience.