excited

I love wearing my Apple Watch. Not only does it tell me that I apparently lost the ability to stay in Zone 2 while running, it also tracks everything else, lets me quickly set timers, pause my podcast without fishing my iPhone out of my pocket, and gives me glanceable information about my life.

Unfortunately, it looks like shit. That’s why I invested quite some money (€40) and bought this very pretty Casio watch. I love it! It’s shiny and has much more of a visual opinion than the Apple Watch, which has looked basically the same for the last decade.

I love that technology can still excite me. I haven’t been this hyped for an Apple product in years, but the iPhone Duo looks so good, and the interfaces feel so well thought out. October can’t come soon enough!

Remember how I bought a PlayStation 5 Pro at the end of March because I knew the memory-related price hikes were just around the corner, and because I also knew I’d end up buying one later this year anyway because there was no way I was going to miss GTA VI when it finally comes out?

I remember, and I couldn’t be happier with that decision. Have you seen the extended gameplay trailer? That is a video game I’ll actually be able to play in just a couple of months! It looks incredible. I genuinely can’t wait to get my hands on it.

Anna was sick that week, and I was so happy to find this stupid collector's plate to take over to her apartment after visiting the flea market with a couple of friends. She very much enjoyed receiving it. Then she looked up how much it was worth and discovered that some people were offering it on eBay for €250! I paid €6! Haggled down from €7. I know what I'm doing.

What a movie! What a soundtrack! What a story!

I of course knew what The Odyssey was about, but I’d never read it and had only absorbed the story through cultural osmosis. While watching, I couldn’t shake the feeling of how incredible it is that some human wrote this story a couple of THOUSAND years ago and we’re still out here telling the same tale, albeit in a medium nobody back then could ever have imagined.

Unbelievable!

One of my core beliefs is that life is better when you acknowledge and celebrate important things. That might be a small personal milestone or your city replacing one of the bridges that allows trains to pass through a very densely populated area. I love that Anna shares this belief with me.

Just look at how huge that bridge is! They moved it with the help of 1,080 wheels, veeeeeery slowly, for hours and hours, to its final resting place. What an amazing feat of engineering.

It took me a couple of tries, but I got there in the end. It might feel like a small thing to those of you in the upper echelons of society who’ve always had a printer, but for me it’s kind of a big deal. I can just click a couple of buttons and suddenly something new exists in the world? Amazing.

I ordered a printer! Exciting times over here!

It was such a lovely day. Everyone was there. So many friends came to Hamburg for the weekend, and we all had a wonderful time.

My reading can sometimes be a little too intense for Anna.

Days like this are the best.

This might be my absolute favorite comic from this year of daily comics so far.

Life is more rewarding when you’re invested in things.

London’s parks are on another level. Ted Lasso didn’t lie about Richmond’s beauty, and Anna surprised me with a Sofar Sounds concert in an old chapel.

We arrived in London, and I couldn’t have had a better initial impression. I loved it from the very first second.