From the monthly archives:

October 2007

Halloween in Lüllau

31 October 2007

I’m not sure which was more scary… the pumpkin (Christopher’s own design… the features are deliberately out of kilter),

or the costume.

Our big pumpkin turned out to be a huge gourd, nearly solid inside. It was difficult to carve.

We also had a craft corner for Halloween at the restaurant, where kids could create their own lantern [...]

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Halloween Carving Kit

30 October 2007

With the proper tools, we’ll have these pumpkins ground to a pulp in no time.

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links for 2007-10-29

29 October 2007

How to scratchbuild a Boba Fett costume- using cardboard! (tags: starwars bobafett costume)

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To prepare for our McCafé opening the first week of December, we placed an ad in the Nordheide Wochenblatt, our local weekly paper. We’re looking for help for both the McCafé and the restaurant, so the ad is not specific for either. In the first 24 hours we’ve already gotten a number of online applications. [...]

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Street Soccer Heroes

26 October 2007

The McDonald’s & DFB Street Soccer event in Dibberson was a couple of weeks ago, and we all put our soccer skills to the test. I had the highest point score in the family, by the way, because I was able to master the short pass rebound wall. Here’s a link to the set if [...]

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Long-Term Debt

26 October 2007

WHen Mama and Christopher came home from Legoland last night, his first words to me were “Papa, you’re gong to be upset with me!” I knew he’d be coming in with an oversized and overpriced Lego toy…

Sure enough, he had an Imperial Star Destroyer from the Star Wars collection (Nico, that’s item number 6211 if [...]

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Define Crisis

25 October 2007

Which of the following explanations would you choose to define the term “milk crisis”?

There’s not a single drop of milk in the house… the baby’s going to starve is we don’t… buy… milk.. RIGHT… NOW!!! There are actually 3 liters of milk in the fridge, but since the shops are closed tomorrow, we might run out [...]

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Married Or Not, Here We Come…

23 October 2007

Sometimes getting married in Vegas isn’t all it’s advertised to be, according to Hal, our correspondent in Vegas:

Were they really married? Couples have cause to doubt [LV Sun] As far as Kimberly Shirak of Ypsilanti, Mich., is concerned, she and her husband of six months are married – really, truly, [...]

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Seventeen and Pregnant

16 October 2007

This week we’re taking a break from our usual routine for me to attend (along with our trainee) the McDonald’s “Shift Management Course” in Hamburg. For one thing I get to relive the rush-hour commute (with a possible rail strike on Thursday, yippee!), while Frauke gets to work a week of night shifts so she [...]

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Improved Visibility

14 October 2007

Thanks to Robert, our amazing technical service person, the frame is now higher and we have improved visibility for our banners. Having the sun shine helps as well.

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Fake IDs

14 October 2007

The current political headline topic, whether the government should hire juveniles to test whether shops sell alcohol and cigarettes to minors, seems pretty dumb to me. Why don’t they just hire adults that look young and give them fake IDs?

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20 Cents Per Roll

12 October 2007

Here’s a problem you won’t see at Web 2.0 startups. Our bank charges us for buying coins. The price is 20 cents per roll, regardless of denomination. A roll of 25 2-Euro coins costs the same as a roll of 50 1-cent coins. We don’t get credit for rolls of coin we bring in. Of [...]

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Help Wanted

12 October 2007

If you’d like to work in our McCafé, you can now view a job description and apply online.

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Broken Window

5 October 2007

The October 3rd holiday was good for the restaurant (it was like an extra weekend in the middle of the week), but it wasn’t so good for our indoor playland. A child kicked out one of the clear plastic panels, and we had to close it down for the rest of the day.

We will be [...]

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Banner Ad

4 October 2007

The building permit will be here any day now, but we’ve started advertising the upcoming McCafé anyway. You can see our banner from both the street and from the McDrive (that’s German for “Drive Thru” ).

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