With the situation becoming slightly better again and the weather being nice I was able to meet with lots more friends again
and enjoy Berlin in the spring once more.
Still I didn't really leave Berlin that much.
My sister came to visit me with her family again during the summer.
We took several bike trips out of the city and also got to visit the Reichstag building (which I haven't done since school)
and of course enjoy the view from its roof (which I've done last shortly after I moved to Berlin).
By the end of August I hopped into a car and drove 1500 km from Berlin to Brittany in France
to spend some time in a beach house with friends.
I was lucky to wake up to THAT ⬇️ kind of view every morning for two weeks.
With the beach right in front we got some really nice sunsets to watch.
And sometimes the "beach" was just gone:
The time after flew by, with my family visiting me in September,
meeting up with friends (mostly for some really good food),
and me then visiting my family again sometime in September.
Of course I also made my own food, such as delicious homemade tortelloni (one more thing I will need to make more in 2022).
For Christmas I went home again, spending some calm days with my family and just before New Years rolled around helping with the renovation of my sister's new house.
It has a fireplace!
For New Year's Eve I had to adjust my plans last minute because of Corona of course.
Nonetheless 2022 rolled around.
And now I'm sitting here, eating some left over Ginger Cookies and finishing this blog post.
### The Future
I'm ready for the pandemic to be over.
2021 was a tough year and by the end of it I was simply exhausted.
I will need to make some changes to avoid that in 2022.
Taking more regular breaks from work.
Actually properly spending that time off doing something more relaxing, even if traveling is still not a good option.
Spending some time improving other non-tech skills (hey, I like cooking! I just need to do it more often and for others!)
I won't make more promises publicly, but I do have some things set for myself to achieve already.
We have 2 more RustFest Global editions coming up ([LATAM & EMEA](https://rustfest.world/news/twirf-rust-in-arts-and-future-editions)),
for which we still need to do some work.
But I'm confident that we now have a team to get this done properly.
We'll see where this takes us afterwards.
I'm also still part of the Rust project, as a Core team and Community Team member.
One thing is clear: the project needs some work.
And right now I still want to be part of that.
At work the Glean SDK is now used in a wide variety of products across Mozilla.
The SDK itself seems in a state where it is mostly feature-complete.
There will be more supported data types, but none should change the project itself significantly.
At the same time our ingestion pipeline and tooling needs some serious work.
My plan is to be involved in that part more.
We also still need to push for more Glean adoption in the Firefox desktop code base. Let's see how that goes.
And if all goes _really_ well this year, then maybe, just maybe, my last-year hope becomes true this year instead:
Maybe I will be able to meet my remote colleagues in person again.
Thanks to everyone who I met, talked to, worked with, traveled with, who had lunch, dinner or coffee with me or who I cooked or baked for.
