Error 328

Life.sys error. Please, restart the universe.

I saw this on a t-shirt at the Christams market last weekend in Berlin. General lack of light makes me feel exactly in this way though in reality I should not have too much to worry. We went to see new Woody Allen's movie while in Berlin - Everything works - Rita concluded that I have a very similiar attitude to life as the main character (though I never claimed to be a genious). Perhaps this is why I felt that the error 328 quite well captures the state of reality.

Since April we have not had proper holidays and both of us are really looking forward to Christmas. We might then recharge to erase the error. We will start the process of recharging already next weekend as we plan to go on a glaciar to snowboard...well Rita and Leon will chill and breath fresh air while I will do some downhill activities. A bit unfair - but still should be a good deal for both of us.

We have now 3 weeks left to make new years resolutions - It is difficult to say what thay should be since we have managed to change almost everything in our lifes during the last 12 months - changing more could be an overkill :)

There are some new photos on flickr from a hen party Rita organized at our residence near Warsaw for her cousin...since our camera is working again we will soon start posting pictures again...

my first carved pumpkin

If you drive to our house from Warsaw you will most likely pass through a small town where most of the Warsaw expat community lives...No wonder that right next to the road we encountered a store selling seriously overpriced pumpkins. I would have never bought a pumpkin for carving but we had two American experts in the car with us so we ended up with a pumpkin. One way or the other - the little monster ended up looking great. He  should have been awarded the pumpkin of the village award. All those traditions related to death are quite perplexing. Halloween a day before Saints day and then to top it all we went to see The Tibetan Book of the Dead. One thing is sure - until now for billions of years nobody has ever managed to escape the cycle of being born and dying. At least in that sense we are all very equal. Including the poor pumpkin (more pix in our flickr gallery).

Still alive and kicking in Szczecin

It almost feels like our life stopped - at least from the posting point of view. It took me over two months to get my act together and post. I guess our new or actually old lifestyle kicked in. The corporate job deprives you of everything except some money.

Last year I read at least 20 books. Nowadays I cannot concentrate enough to be able to finish the second book. Last year we used to go out - nowadays we come back home and think only about going back to sleep to recover energy for yet another day. Last year we were faced with amazing landscapes and sights every day. Nowadays I see the same things on Discovery Channel TV from time to time...In other words I get all those things in a transformed easy to digest McDonald's sort of way, through some media instead of living them.

All this just makes me think that our decision to travel last year was probably the best decision we have ever made in our lives!!! Check it out - travel around the world for a year and then turn on Discovery. See how it feels :)

I must say that the fact that one needs to work at least eight hours per day is kind of totally out of balance in comparison to what one gets out of it. I think that working five hours per day would suit me perfectly. I would feel that I have a life. It is amazing that the whole world is fine with giving up their almost entire life to work. Especially that we probably live only ones. I hope that the next step in development of socities will be to give people more free time to enjoy themselves...

I guess that even our camera got upset with the fact that we do not use it and broke...

Anyway it ain't that bad - we still travel every other week somewhere or we get visitors to Szczecin - Berlin is amazing for the weekend and London anytime. Rita's cousing gave us a great excuse to go there. As hoped our kid will have a playmate :)