From the monthly archives:

January 2008

Road Home

27 January 2008

My brother is fully awake now and has been moved to the telemetry ward and is no longer in intensive care. Telemetry means in this case he’s attached to the monitors via WLAN instead of being hard-wired, or something like that. He’ll have a second stent put in on Monday and is scheduled to be [...]

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Sheriff Christopher

26 January 2008

Nice to see Christopher is keeping busy while I’m away.

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Out of the Woods

25 January 2008

The good news is that my brother Steve, 4 years younger than I, is now awake and is stable after suffering a cardiac arrest on Tuesday. His condition is complicated by the fact that he had just started chemotherapy for the 2nd recurrence of cancer and had just recovered from a broken ankle which had [...]

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Unplanned Trip

23 January 2008

I got the news this morning that my brother is sick, sick enough that I’ve dropped everything to fly to Minnesota right away to be with him and my family for a few days. This time of year it’s easy to find seats (high temp in MSP today: -16°C). Got to find lots of long [...]

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Too Hot

22 January 2008

Good thing I ordered my WordCamp08 goods last week because now it is too late!

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Business Cards

21 January 2008

I finally got around to ordering business cards.

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Wulff Again

19 January 2008

There are three regional election campaigns going on in Germany, with three CDU state presidents up for re-election: Roland Koch in Hesse, Ole von Beust in Hamburg, and Christian Wulff in our own Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony).

We in Niedersachsen are blessed with the most boring of the three campaigns. The polls are showing a slight decline [...]

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Proud of the Working Poor

17 January 2008

As German Joys states, the following quote from Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) wouldn’t fit anywhere in German politics:

I am so proud to be from the state of Minnesota. We’re the workingest state in the country, and the reason why we are, we have more people that are working longer hours, we have people [...]

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Democrats Abroad Global Presidential Primary

14 January 2008

This is a public service announcement for expats of the Democratic persuasion.

This year for the first time, Democrats Abroad, the overseas branch of the US Democratic Party, is offering the opportunity for expats to vote in a Global Presidential Primary from February 5 to 12 to elect 22 delegates to the Democratic National Convention. You [...]

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Electoral Compass

13 January 2008

At Electoral Compass USA you can take a survey and compare yourself to the major US presidential candidates. But I already knew I liked Obama, so I didn’t learn anything new. (via Davos Newbies)

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Coupons Coupons Coupons

8 January 2008

We didn’t to be bored after our busy month in December, so we’re running a coupon promotion for the next 3 weeks. These coupons are officially only valid for our restaurant, but many McDonald’s in Germany are running similar promotions so you might be able to use them elsewhere.

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McDonald’s Takes On Starbucks

7 January 2008

Today’s Wall Street Journal reports on McDonald’s plans to add coffee bars to its 14,000 US restaurants by the end of this year (WSJ is not yet free, but the link should work for a few days). They will be similar but not quite the same as the McCafés in several hundred German McDonald’s, including [...]

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