Walking through CERN these days is extremely weired … there is hardly anyone left!
The LHC being on hold and now even the detectors being switched off more or less completely there is not much to do for many of us … even though I really can use some quiet-time to fetch up with things and to prepare my departure *sadness and happyness though*.
On Friday 5:30 pm CERN will be closed for holidays and the heating as well as a large fraction of the computers and hardware will be shut down until beginning of January …
Finally some skiing
Yesterday, I finally managed to go skiing (or better snowboarding) for once this year (and unfortunately maybe also for this season).
I went to Les Diablerets with some friends (greetz) and spent a whole day in the boots … ;)
Great fun even though we left Geneva at about 6:30 am!
We rounded off the day with a nice dinner (actually I had another one with my roomies afterwards … also very nice).
Double Fondue and the Escalade
This weekend was kind of exhausting … it started with cheese fondue at Regina’s on Friday (and cheese fondue is no fun … it tough work), continued with turkey-shopping for Wednesday’s Christmas Party and watching some friends running on the Escalade in Geneva and another cheese fondue at Daniel’s (the was a little lack of coordination … apparently) and ws rounded of with my shift this morning (7h-15h) and some korean food (which I am going to get in about two hours) …
all really nice, but usually just too much … puh …
LHC Status
After all the silence about the current status of the LHC, finally the management itself made some pictures of the incident public (even though it seem to have been by accident and has now been protected).
In a talk by the Director General himself [link] (now protected) some pictures indicate the damage caused by the incident on September 19th.
Julefrokost and Heike in town
Another year … another Julefrokost (or Christmas Lunch, if you prefer).
This time the first one (at least for me) outside of Copenhagen, but since most of the young guys, from my time at NBI, are at CERN these days not much of a change …
the menue was (too) great and big as usual … fish, fish, fish and pork, pork, pork … and of course a lot of alcohol … after all its a Danish Christmas party ;)
A lot of fun that was even increased by the fact that Heike was around for the weekend (unfortunately only for the weekend :( )