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I'm so stupid.

wolflady26 had invited me to her place for the weekend, and we had arranged everything, but then silly me noticed it's the book fair in Leipzig that weekend, where I really should be.

So I had to overthrow everybody's schedule.
I hate that.
I have like 3 calendars, I should probably start using them. :-(

In other news - the ride down here was a bit tricky because of road conditions being simply horrible in Thuringia (I passed three accidents, Tobias later told me he had counted 16 on maybe 100 kilometres - lucky me for leaving early...), but the new car is terrific.
And it looks cool, too, despite being red.

I think I'll call it Gan, short for Ganymede. A car is always male for me. And yes, I know it's weird to name a car.

Workwise, the layout woman is driving me crazy. She's behind schedule and tells me there's no way she'll finish by the end of March, but that doesn't keep her from going on vacation for a week.
Also, they will be without computers for a week in April, and she complained about that saying it should have been done in August, when it's quiet. But she takes another vacation in May, when it's nowhere near quiet.

The captain was not happy about the vacation thing. I hope he stops it, but then she'll probably sulk and not do a thing anyway.

Anyway, it looks like I might finish my main part this week. Phew. We just calculated I've been working on this pretty much since last February or March, so I haven't been doing my real work much for over a year. Crazy.

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I have a picture of Snape on my desktop at work, a portrait made by the wonderful ledivinemarquis.
That makes me extremely happy.
As I had chosen a Bowie picture before that, that one still appears when I start up and shut down the computer. So each day, I have the Thin White Duke and Snape. What more could you want.

Also, reading history books is interesting.
I always found Salazar Slytherin's name really fitting, but now I've read a bit about António de Oliveira Salazar, and that makes it even more interesting.
Take that picture from wikipedia, add a long beard and suitable clothing, and I think you'd have a good Salazar Slytherin.

And then there are things like the Laotian Rock Rat, which is simply a pretty funny name.