December 2007

Achieving z

31 December 2007

One month after our re-opening we’re very happy with the new look and the McCafé. Our customers seem to be happy with it as well. I can’t talk about numbers here, so I’ll use letters instead. Our monthly sales started at a level of x, and in our business plan we estimated that after the [...]

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Filmmaker Christopher

30 December 2007

Christopher’s trying his hand at stop-motion Playmobil animation. It would be cool except he’s hogging my MacBook!

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christopher is 8

27 December 2007

Christopher is 8, and the day begins with Pancake Cake á la Findus.

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8!

26 December 2007

We’ll see tomorrow how long it takes Christopher to notice the mirror.

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Mary and Joseph

23 December 2007

This is Mary and Joseph, along with an unidentified donkey. They’ve had a long hard journey from Nazareth to Bethlehem, but now they are just centimeters away from their goal. Christopher placed them on the kitchen table two weeks ago, and every day has moved them closer to the nativity scene near the back door. [...]

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Christopher Teaches Chess

22 December 2007

Christopher is teaching Mama to play chess this morning.

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POTS VPN

17 December 2007

Now that we finally got DSL back after 10 days down, it turns out the T-VPN we are joining is a voice-service VPN, not a data VPN. I guess the Deutsche Telekom uses the term VPN differently than the rest of the world, which was confusing me (not to mention the fact that the whole [...]

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December Surprise

17 December 2007

We’re absolutely unprepared for Christmas this year (it always comes so unexpectedly every December). At work we’ve set the Christmas party for the end of January and are calling it a “End of Year” party. People seem to have more time in for Christmas parties in January anyway. At least I got our photo cards [...]

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Monomedia

16 December 2007

While we’re waiting for a DSL line to attach to our multimedia system, we’ve been showing a fireplace DVD on the flat screen. Sure we have to chop a lot of wood to keep it going, but it fits in well with the Advent season. By the way, if you’re lucky, in our McCafé you’ll [...]

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Go Team

15 December 2007

For our new McCafé we’ve found the the perfect promotion team, 16 dynamic, active and athletic women. We now the uniform sponsors for the 1st women’s handball team of TSV Buchholz 08, who play in the 3rd Hamburg Handball League. Last weekend we officially presented the uniforms in our Gym and Fun. It would have [...]

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Flying Saucer

14 December 2007

We were offline a few days as our DSL line was transferred to, er, the largest telecommunications provider in Germany. But now we’re back, and we can present our flying coffee bean, or as Frauke calls it, the McKAfé Ford KA. Now appearing daily at busy parking lots and autobahn exits.

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Still Cut Off

7 December 2007

We finally got a confirmation from T-Systems… our DSL at home will be back up next Monday. I have no idea why a change of DSL provider requires a 6 day downtime. I also have no idea why when I try to call the Telekom business customer service hotline, I always end up talking to [...]

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No DSL

6 December 2007

The PapaScott household is currently without DSL. We have to switch our line from 1&1 to T-Com to connect to our business VPN. The switch was scheduled for the 8th, but the Telekom decided to cut off our access on the 3rd. So the internet will have to get along without us for a few [...]

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Open Glühwein Club

3 December 2007

Nico is hosting a Glühwein get-together at the Rathausmarkt in Hamburg tomorrow evening (Tuesday, 4 Dec) at 6:30 pm. By hosting I mean Nico has set the time and place, not that he’s buying the first round. But I could be wrong. I’ll try to be there at least for the beginning. How long I [...]

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Second Day with McCafé

2 December 2007

We were so busy yesterday that we forgot to take pictures, but here’s a set at Flickr with some outdoor and indoor views of our new look: Second Day with McCafé.

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We’re the Kids in US-America (oh-oh)

1 December 2007

For those with an fetish for whipping an expired stallion, Scot W. Stevenson (of USA Erklärt) has posted an updated text (in German, outside of his blog) against the term “US-amerikanisch”. I don’t have much to add, except that maybe that the Spanish and Portuguese residents of the Americas also do not refer to themselves [...]

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