Am I getting nervous?

Every evening when I come home from work, I prepare myself some food and switch on my laptop to check my e-mails. This evening I intended to do exactly the same, but things did not do as they did the days before:

When pushing the “on” button on the laptop, nothing happened…

I thought, well, maybe I did not hit the right button, because it was rather gloomy in the living room. I pushed the right button then, and, again, nothing happened…

Horror scenes came up right before my eye, with me having to go to WordCamp without my laptop, pictures of me in a computer shop having to surrender to a hard drive crash that may have happened when I was at work, or even a blown fuse that destroyed the power supply and killed the laptop within seconds…

Well, then I decided to switch on the power first and then push the button again. Guess what? It WORKED :-p

I suppose I am getting nervous because this weekend will be WordCamp, and I still need to get all things on my list done? Nooo, I am not nervous, only excited

I feel autumn

Every year, again, I have that peculiar feeling when summer ends and autumn is showing its first signs. There are no leaves falling yet, still the sun is shining, but something changed. That something is hard to determine.

It can be compared with the feeling you have after having seen a film in cinema and leaving the dark room walking outside. It is the feeling that something is about to change. The air gets a different scent. Suddenly you feel it got colder. Not very much colder. But sufficient to not let you permit walking around in a T-shirt anymore. This is a time when I tend to get somewhat thoughtful about what I already accomplished so far this year, and what I did not achieve yet.

This time also brings new ideas and inspiration, and changes of habits. Dreaming of the sound of feet walking around in golden leaves that have fallen to the ground. Having cosy afternoons inside, drinking hot chocolate…

How do you feel about autumn?