From the monthly archives:

July 2007

24 Hr Live Bait

30 July 2007

In Minnesota you can get the necessities of life 24 hours a day.

We’re serious.

Dead serious.

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Letter Home

29 July 2007

Greetings from Lake Minnewaska! Whoever has the WiFi still has it turned on, so I have Internet as long as I sit outside.

The weather is pretty much perfect…. 85° and clear. Christopher gets a whole hide-a-bed to himself, so he likes that. It’s Waterama weekend, so Glenwood is full. We found a swim mask and [...]

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Minnesota Buzz

27 July 2007

The first thing we did when we arrived was to give Christopher a proper Minnesota haircut.

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The Things I Do For My Son

24 July 2007

Spending 3 hours shoving CDs into my MacBook so he can listen to Harry Potter on the plane tomorrow… on my iPod, no less.

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And After

19 July 2007

Before she drove an Audi. As of yesterday she drives a VW Cross Touran. It’s more practical and, now that we have to pay for it ourselves, less of a drain on the pocketbook.

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Tostedt HRB 200842

18 July 2007

It took over 8 weeks, but as of yesterday Frauke’s GmbH is finally registered with the local court in Tostedt. (GmbH is short for Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung, literally “company with limited liability”, a form of incorporation common in Germany.)

Theoretically the formation of a GmbH takes only a week, but the papers returned twice (or [...]

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Minus Five

15 July 2007

After two weeks getting reacquainted with restaurant work, on Friday afternoon I had my first long shift alone, the mid-shift from 1 to 9 pm. Fridays are extra challenging since the dinner hours are (along with Sunday evenings) the busiest hours of the week, and the closing shift doesn’t come in until 8:30 pm because [...]

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Google Saved Our Morning Coffee

14 July 2007

Now more than ever, our morning coffee is a vital necessity in order to start the day. So it was with no small amount of horror that we discovered yesterday that our Jura coffee machine would no longer produce coffee. The beans would grind, the water would pump, but only a few drops of hot [...]

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Ten Days In

11 July 2007

Sorry for the relative silence here. Sixty-hour work weeks (40+ in the store plus office work at home) put a real crimp in your blogging. I can’t really complain to my boss, though, she’s working even more.

We’re very happy with the first 10 days. We took over a wonderful crew and management team that is [...]

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Here is Your Receipt

9 July 2007

Thank you, and stop by again!

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links for 2007-07-07

7 July 2007

Who is Hosting This? (tags: hosting tools search webdev)

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links for 2007-07-06

6 July 2007

NY Sun: McDonald’s Takes Paris Another article on McDonald’s in Europe (tags: mcd mccafé mcdonalds)

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Coming Soon

4 July 2007

We’re still way too busy to catch our breaths, but I thought I’d show the “directional” sign we’ve commissioned. You’ll see this when you drive into Buchholz on the Lüneburger Strasse, from Jesteburg. Since the McCafé won’t be ready for a few months, we’ll paste a “Coming in December” sticker over the McCafé logo. Hopefully [...]

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links for 2007-07-02

2 July 2007

McDonald’s makeover in Europe increases sales | Reuters Overview of McDonald’s McCafé and new design strategy in Europe. (tags: mcd mccafé reimaging)

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First Day of “Work”

1 July 2007

Even though we got home at 3:30 this morning, Christopher insisted on going to the restaurant at 9:00 am for his first day of “work”. We were actually already awake, I guess we can catch up on sleep later.

Christopher actually kept himself busy for nearly 3 hours. My CF card ate the rest of the [...]

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Our Name On The Door

1 July 2007

As of 2:15 this morning.

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