Come here and enjoy the Valkyries until Ragnarök calls!
It seems as if these days are really eventful. Today I received the official confirmation of my rising in the Swiss “hierarchy of foreigners”. Effective today, I am a “settled foreign national” (or in official language Amtsdeutsch: Inhaber der Niederlassungsbewilligung C). This means that e.g. I will no longer be taxed according to the […]
Besides the professional development, there’s more, even bigger things going on as well: As of 11:45h am today, I am the proud uncle of Merle Schulte. Mother and child are all well and the rest of the family is happy about and proud of the new family member.
In case you wonder what these acronyms mean:
Global Information Assurance Certification - GIAC Certified Intrusion Analyst
If you’re interested, find out more here and here. And what is this all about? I’ve just passed the certification exams and so from now on (for the next four years at least), I may call myself a GCIA. I’ve […]
Mal wieder ein Beitrag auf Deutsch, denn wer kein Deutsch versteht, der ist ohnehin nicht betroffen.
Letzte Woche kam eine Reportage über Deutsche in der Schweiz auf SF 1 dem ersten Kanal des Schweizer Fernsehens. Als die Ankündigung im Fernsehen kam, wollte ich’s mir eigentlich gern ansehen, aber hatte dann doch etwas Anderes vor. Vorgestern hat […]
There’s a new toy in RaSchi’s home :-). Back then, while in college in Paderborn, we played foosball quite a lot. Later on, I kind of lost track of it, just until recently when I saw a special offer at ALDI Sü. As usual, there were only very few items in store and I didn’t […]
Heimdall, my wireless router is reborn in the new appartment. And miraculously he changed shape (hey, he’s a god, why wonder…) On Wednesday the postman rang the door bell and delivered my Fritz!Box Fon WLAN 7170. I was waiting for it since early December. To be fair, I must say that it was announced to […]
I know, I know… it’s been quiet in Valhalla recently. I’ve been fairly busy with getting accustomed at the new job and with setting up the new apartment in Basel. Actually, both isn’t complete, as you probably might have guessed. For the next six months I’ll be working on a new project at work, so […]
I really LOVE this song! Makes me feel good at just about any time I hear it!
So, the new job in Baden is coming up. Since it’s a non-commutable distance from St. Gallen (where I live now) to Baden and even more, since it’s a fairly commutable distance from Basel (where my girlfriend lives now) to Baden, I’ll be moving soon. And since with the move, of course, all communications infrastructure […]
The end is getting near. If you’re an attentive reader, you know that there’s a new career step ahead for me.
Of course, it’s a fairly good idea not to have two full-time jobs at the same, such as writing a PhD thesis and a regular full-paid, full-time job. Hence, I decided to actually wrap up […]