I have quite a bit to write to catch up on the Munich trip, but only have a short while right now before things get started. We've been work­ing a steady 14+ hours a day and the 8 days I've been here feels like a month! Last night we didn't get started test­ing until 8 and had frus­trat­ing prob­lems. Mark and I must have looked pretty worn down because we were for­bid­den to come in before 10:30 this morn­ing so we could get some time off and a full night's sleep. Hav­ing those extra 2 or 3 hours made a huge dif­fer­ence. I feel fully rested, refreshed, and alert this morn­ing, and I'm in a good mood. The prospect of work­ing till 11 tonight doesn't bother me much sim­ply because I finally have the energy to do it. Also my sinus infec­tion is gone so my head is clearer than it has been the whole trip.

Also I've been liv­ing an extremely healthy lifestyle. Early break­fast of some eggs, ham, fruit, and yogurt. The cafe­te­ria here serves excel­lent, very healthy meals for lunch. I've avoided get­ting any ice cream and junk snacks dur­ing the long days here. And din­ner every night is buy­ing a packet of sliced ham and yogurt at the Mini Markt at the train sta­tion. I eat din­ner, read for 10 min­utes and fall asleep, so there's no time to get hun­gry again and snack. I might have to adopt this late/light sup­per approach at home, because I have a ten­dency to eat din­ner after work and then get hun­gry again for another meal before I go to bed. This might be the solution.

Any­way I'm off this week­end but on call. I hope to God there's no big prob­lems because any­thing big enough to call me in on is seri­ous enough that I can't han­dle it with­out con­sult­ing the engi­neers back home, which would be dif­fi­cult at best. I'm think­ing that Fri­day or Sat­ur­day night I will buy 4 or5 ran­dom types of Ger­man beer and try them. Maybe Sat­ur­day will be a big wheat day…but then maybe not. I gotta decide if it's worth it. I feel that I should try some Bavar­ian food and drink while I'm here, but geez, it's a lot of pain and suf­fer­ing for that experience!