December 2004

taz: Tötet jede Geschmacksknospe! “Norweger in aller Welt essen zu Weihnachten Lutefisk – einen grauenhaften Stinkfisch” (Kills every taste bud! Norwegians in the entire world at Christmas eat lutefisk – a horrible stinkfish) Smells like home to me… The article also cites the Clay Shirky taste test: “If you can taste the difference between caviar [...]

It’s now as good as official. With the new year I will be working as sys admin for New Media Management, part of the Ströer Gruppe and parent company of blogg.de, working for and with Nico Lumma. So it turns out that I am smart enough after all to get a job because of my [...]

My parents arrived safely on Friday, the oxygen concentrator for my father is up and running, Mama and I are both off work, Christopher has his grandparents wrapped around his little finger, we’re getting the Christmas tree today, the Christmas baking and cooking are planned for this week, and of course the big birthday on [...]

December seems like a drag stip that ends in a brick wall, and we’re speeding along in a hot rod without any brakes. For Christopher, there is the anticipation of the double super-duper holiday of Christmas and birthday, and of course he is strung as high as a kite. Perspective parents should think of this, [...]

Ever since we first met, we have been very successful making sudden, impulsive decisions and letting fate take us where it may. Pledging to marry while on separate continents, dropping out of grad school, leaving Minneapolis without the promise of a job in Phoenix, leaving everything we owned to move to Germany, jumping head first [...]