Martin Gumucio

I just finished this delicious read that I got as a present last Christmas. I heartily recommend it to anyone that likes silly things. And taking a full year to complete this makes perfect sense thank you.

We had a pretty nice weekend considering everything, L is still sick with the cold from hell, three weeks going.. but anyway. Yesterday a valiant effort was made to make us and the kids get some quality outdoors time, we took the “bobs” and went to the local ski-slope. But the cold eventually got the better of us and the kids despite enjoying the concept also agreed that it was time to give the outdoorsy activities a rest.

Saturday evening meant a trip to the studio, I’m working on a remix that I want to sound really raw and analogue, and I’m fighting against the maddening quirks of the Doepfer Schaltwerk.. man.. sometimes it’s a piece of heaven that machine and sometimes you just need to turn it off for a while and do something else.. pretty telling that the first page in it’s manual discusses burning your own eprom ..

Anyway the weekend ended in style with some prominent guests at our table for the Sunday afternoon tea. Can you believe I just today handed over the last christmas present? Many many thanks to E for the help with the new kitchen fan, our old one broke and guess what the most economical solution was? Buy an identical one..

Three months without updates, well well.. Here comes a quick recap what has been going on since last time. At my last post you found me visiting friends in Germany the day after we spent some days in the northern parts of Sweden for the annual work conference. Since then it is fair to say that my work-life has been brutal. We had some problems at work that meant a lot of long hours meaning very little interesting stuff to blog about.

One noteworthy thing is that I have been polishing my powershell skills, using them for a kind of test-driven approach to project management. We have several changeprojects involving changes to the ad and to the clients themselves, so I have been writing up some powershell scripts to collect metrics from those sources and so getting a separate source of progress report than from the project themselves.

Testing for project management anyone?

We had an intense weekend in München, visiting Dante and Magda. A weekend is in truth a bit short to be touristing such a great city, but date was not picked by us, but by Kraftwerk.

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Our favourite germans had a new 3d show and video expo, the concert was very exclusive, two dates only and we managed to get tickets. But with my rotten luck our company yearly conference managed to get placed the SAME day, in the northern parts of Sweden, so I missed the concert, but to compensate for my loss a friend toook my ticket and Dante went to see them both dates they performed. I did get down to München in time to see the expo however, so I still got a fantastic weekend out of it.

In fact this visit marks an anniversary of a sort, in late 1991 we all went to see Kraftwerk play live at Solnahallen in Stockholm. The day after that our own band had its first gig.