Astronomy and Coffee

Some science was done, also :-)

Finished reading and correcting Lucas Schubert's (Computer Science Uni-Goettingen) thesis.

Now on reading and putting my part on our UCDs paper.

Basically that.

Hint complementing health insurance from my previous post. If you're coming to Germany, or changing insurances, RUN, RUN FOREST, from MONDIAL ASSISTANCE. They are definitely not a serious company. After all they did on the case of Fernanda's surgery, now they sent back the medical bills from Matheus, claiming pre-existence of his skin infection ... they just forgot to check that we had insurance by Mawista-Science, back on the beginning of the problem, so ... no pre-existence.

The summary is the ALWAYS look for a way not to pay your bills. I have private insurances before, their job is try not to pay if they don't have to, but MONDIAL does it on a CRIMINAL way.

Monday I'll talk to them and eventually with a lawyer, because I'm fed up with their crap! I'm fed up of having to call them for them to do their work.

Also complaining officially to Mawista about their bad choice and "incomplete" information on the web page.

Still on the cranky mood ... in latin languages we have two different "to be"'s, from latin "essere" and "stare". The first is an intrinsic state, it can't be changed, "you're tall" "you're a man" and so on. The second is a not permanent state, "you're alive", "you're tired".

Well, I'm cranky in both senses :-))

Snow is back in the city. You hear the people here talking about snow, on summer, and you have the impression they live in Finland! Well, it's not that much snow, but it's annoying since the city services don't do anything about it. My street still have a lot of snow, even though there has been any new snow for already 2 days. I won't mention the sidewalks and the fact that you're not able to cross, since all the snow moved goes to the side and makes a wall between the sidewalk and the street.

Another discovery of the week. Buses run under Murphyan mechanics here :-) Back home they don't have a time table, they leave the start point in a certain time and arrive when factors like traffic allow them to. Here they have a schedule in each stop, but in Munich it's useless.

If you're soon on the bus stop, it will come very late. If you're on time, either it comes late, or too soon, so that you seen the bus passing while you walk to the bus stop. If you're late and hope the bus will also be late as usual, it comes right on time ... :-)) Murphy is unbeatable!!