Progress, definitely progress

On Monday evening, we went to listen to Irish folk music. Our friend, Michael, plays the other guitar and also the flute in this two-man band. The music they played was very nice and they played very well.
The place they were playing in is called Haus Spitz and it's actually not that far away from Witten. So we thought. We ordered a taxi and started on our way home. We were making good progress (the taxi drivers of Bochum normally have no idea about the streets of Witten) until one road work. There was no way but to turn right up a hill and we ended up in a tightly built suburb with a lot of one-way streets and blind alleys. Luckily, I had a map and the taxi driver started studying it with increasing intensity. Once we saw a Y-crossing with "Umleitung" (detour) arrows both left and right, something that the taxi driver (and us) had never seen. Fifteen minutes later we were still on this hillside, trying to navigate the blind alleys and one-way streets going the wrong direction. The driver finally stopped the meter, and said that now we are going to take it easy. He checked the map and said "Aha, now I've got it. I just have to turn right here." So we turned the corner, arrived at a Y-crossing - with two "detour" signs pointing left and right. We started feeling like Alice in Wonderland.

Tuesday was a bank holiday, so we made it a movie day. We didn't go to see the new "Doom" movie, though. Instead we stayed home, watched a Finnish movie called "Producing Adults" and then we saw Stanley Kubrick's last movie, "Eyes Wide Shut".

Today, I've been catching up on e-mail and tomorrow we'll sign our lease of the new apartment. We also made clear progress in setting up the company. We have the cost structure down and we can decide on pricing soon. First stabs at marketing strategy have been taken. Next step, the business plan.

Now, I'm off to see a French movie with a few French friends and if I'd need to guess, I'd say there'll be one Spaniard there, too ;-) Bochum is an international place.