"I've never seen you so excited about a piece of goverment mail before." Surprisingly enough, I really was quite excited when my absentee ballot arrived yesterday in the mail. For one, this is the first time in the 7 years that we've lived in Germany that I actually...
Why would they do that to these people?
We used to pay for satellite TV. And then we realized it really sucked. For about a year we actually had no TV at all...and it was fantastic. Of course for something like the Olympics we'd still consider hooking up the TV but the daily stuff is just bad. There are a...
What’s wrong with using real words?
I find myself reading tons of emails and messages every day because, well, I'm a geek and I work on the Internet and my PC all day. People ask if I get sick of being alone most of the day, but most days I'm actually kinda thankful to not have to interact with anyone....
The Soundtrack of My Life
I have come to believe that I function infinitely better when I have music playing, regardless of what I'm doing. Sometimes I will just turn on the radio and listen to whatever comes on...but since the radio stations here are increasingly lame and geared only towards...
A rant about customs offices
I realized that there is a risk of the customs agency here in Germany finding out who I am after I write this...and then I will never be able to pick up another package at customs without having to jump through many more hoops than usual - but those people just make...
What is wrong with kids these days??
Here in Germany there is an increasing awareness of a problem among the youth of this country. In general, I guess this would include "kids" from 12-19, but the problem certainly begins at home. You may have heard about it in the news: here in Germany there are a...
Our lantern festival – Sunday night
Because of our housewarming party, we didn't get to attend the festival on Saturday night. Some of our guests did go down to see the parade pass through though, which actually lasted about 2 hours and featured 25 organizations and 7 marching bands. The all came back...
That’s a lot of chili
With just over a week to go to our housewarming party, I am now in full speed ahead mode to get things accomplished around here. This morning I replanted our fig tree so that it has some space to grow finally and will retain a bit of water. I've moved it into the...
Dealing with this hot weather
The past few days have been scorchers. It's been well above 90 degrees and that's not really normal for Germany...but thinking about the last few years and what the weather has been like, it's hard to define "normal weather" anymore. The first few weeks of July we had...
It’s a good thing we have a big place
We are starting to plan the first somewhat major party to be held at our home in the next year or so. We had Stefan's 10 year high school class reunion here - but that turned out to be about 10 people including us. That party did require a little bit of planning but...
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