Hugo's Blog

According to feedburner, this blog has over a dozen subscribers. I feel honoured, and would love to keep you on board. I could point this feedburner feed to one of my new blogs, or some aggregation of my new blogs, but I'm not sure what would be appropriate.

You read that right, it's plural. I've now got something like half a dozen other blogs, intentionally fragmented. For example I have a blog whose purpose it is to serve as a place where I can write German (eventually), or about German, and not everyone wants to be spammed by that. (It's not very active yet.) Blabbing about sport and my attempts at making the most of my stay in Switzerland goes on Exploiting Switzerland, whereas if I ever feel like writing about something related to tech, I'll do so on my tech blog (which still needs a unique header image, that's still the default cutline banner).

I would like to keep y'all on-board, so get in touch, let me know what you're interested in, and I'll point you at the right location or feed. Thanks for subscribing thus far and putting up with my rambling, much appreciated!

I'm no longer on-call every third week. Yay! (Merged rotations.) That means more weekends that I can make better use of.

I never did visit the gym when I last mentioned it. Today I did though, this is another on-call week. I can no longer afford to let some weeks go by without exercise, due firstly to the triathlon I signed up for, secondly the XTerra off-road triathlon I want to sign up for in September, and thirdly the trail run I'm considering in South Africa on the third weekend of October. Yup, I'm visiting again then, for about two weeks.

So yes, I'm now officially old, since I always said "naah, old people go to the gym, those people with jobs that ensure they don't have time to get some real exercise!" ;)

Lastly on another note, I want to start a "German" blog. Well, a blog in which I grapple with my lack of knowledge of German anyway, it will contain English and Afrikaans as well. Pretty much exhibitionism with my notes as I try to learn the language. The existence of the blog is supposed to help motivate me to write some notes and solidify my understanding. It will likely just get occasional posts, nothing too regular. (Surprise!) And of all the hurdles I could come up with: I'm sticking to the exact same blog theme, but with a different header image — problem is I can't decide what. I'd prefer to use some photo I took myself. What kind of thing would fit well with a "German" theme? Ponder...

Interesting to note how important the sun is in regulating our daily cycles. As winter gradually gives way to spring, we're finding ourselves slow to go to dinner: it's still so bright outside, we think "can't be dinner time yet!" And then, this weekend, the sun stood still for an hour. Dinner time came today, while the sun was a full hour slow in setting.

Well, it's now officially summer time. As in, we're operating on Central European Summer Time, or CEST. That means we're now also back in sync with SAST, South African Standard Time. Just so you know.