Snapshots of our flat

Here are some photos of our flat. Not much, but I think it's a really nice place.

That shot is taken from the couch - in front of the telly - towards the remaining part of the living room. Usually I'm a big fan of strictly white walls, but I immediately liked that orange coloured wall that the people that lived before us here left.

The roundish wall to the right is the outer border of the stairway that leads up. One can pass through the niche into the eating room.

The next three shots all show my room. Now aint I a slob? I call it well orgenized chaos, but other people give it different names.

I always find it funny when I think about all the stuff I have flying around there. Where did I get it? Why don't other people accumulate such masses? I mean, our flat is pretty big, but As I see it, it's mostly full. :-)

This shot was taken when I set up my dialin box (the open box on the table to the left. It's a old 486/66 with 20M RAM and 1 double height 1G SCSI disk that was a giveaway at work.

That's why I love linux so much. Such an old box can still properly function as a DSL-dialin box, web-proxy, mail relay, imap server and printserver. It's up 24/7 since the day I put it to its final place. By now, the box is put below the shelves behind the paper bin. The VT320 that you can see to the right plays console for it and is now neatly stuffed into the shelf where I assembled the dialup box.

In that shelf also sits a nice little 8-Port 100Mbit switch with connections over to my bed (in the back and to the left of the camera) where I sit nights with my notebook on my lap, and over to Kerstin's room where she has her Machine. What I'm still missing is wireless LAN down into the living room, but I guess that has to wait until we have our own house...

Finally here are two shots from the balcony. In the previous pictures of my room you had that big orange curtain closed. That one blocked the 3 meters wide window and balcony door that features this nice view.

The sunsets on that balcony are spectacular (but sadly hard to photograph). The view is mostly unblocked and one can see easily up to the Bayer sign in the neighbour town Leverkusen.

Another cool thing is that we sit in an approaching queue for the airport, so nights we have planes flying straight from the horizon over our house. It's a great sight and they're still so high that you don't hear them!

So much for the impressions of where we live...