Munich, Germany

The alarm clock didn’t work. I woke up at 8 and found I’d overslept by an hour I was supposed to meet Gordon in the breakfast room at 7:30. I dressed quickly, went down, and ate a quick breakfast. We were into the plant about 9:15.

We talked briefly with Bill Hoerner and cleared up some misconceptions about setup time. It should be in the overhead rate for the department and not in direct labor. All setup is charged through overhead cost distribution directly into the setup sub-account and relieved by a factor times direct labor earned hours. The difference is variance.

I worked with Hr. Busch through 2:30 and went to lunch in the Executive dining Room. I’d caused Busch to miss his lunch, but he wasn’t allowed to sit with the “executives” to eat. I sure don’t like such practices where some are more equal than others.

I worked with Busch through to 5 p.m. and finished going over all the instructions and started on the assembler directives. Tomorrow we’ll talk about conditional assembly and system subrotines. He can then write an easy program.

I bought Nina a thing for her shadow box — a set of scales and weights for 15 marks. We had dinner at Pfschor’s … lamb cutlet. It was very good. I was back to the hotel and in bed about midnight.

I couldn’t sleep. Got up at 1:30 and took a bath and brought the journal up to date. My stomach was also upset, perhaps from the aspirin I took at 1:00 a.m. Went back to bed at 2:30 for another try.

Transcribed from my journal.