Surfin’ USA

Settling in

So slowly I’m making myself at home over here: Since this past week I finally have a phone set up, landline as well as a mobile one. I’ve also bought a nice little adapter box which enables me to use my German VoIP number independent of my computer. So you can now call a german landline number and the phone here in my room rings — and best of all, you just pay the normal German phone rates. If you want to know the number(s), just contact me.

Moreover I’ve finally been able to get a proper bed, after sleeping on an air mattress for the last couple of weeks. I bought it at IKEA (yes, it’s a small world ) and spent all afternoon yesterday assembling it. As I’ll probably use it for some years I went something decent and chose queen size, so the thing is rather huge (150×205 cm) — no matter which way you roll or stretch, there’s always more bed there. To give you an idea of the vast space available, check the following (click for bigger version):

As you can imagine, my first night in it was quite nice and pleasant. Together with a small bookshelf and my desk, I now consider my room more or less furnished. The next item on my agenda will probably be to acquire a used car somewhere, preferably decent but still inexpensive.

Apart from all that the quarter has already begun here at the university and at least in the beginning I still have to take some courses. Therefore I’m already busy with homework and projects for my two courses “Introduction to Artificial Intelligence” and “Machine Learning”, which is also what I should probably get back to now…