From the monthly archives:

February 2008

Laryngitis

25 February 2008

Sorry I’ve so quiet here lately, it seems I’ve lost my voice. We’ve both been on the floor running shifts at work (one shift leader sick, another on holiday) and we’ve been doing what McDonald’s insiders affectionately refer to as “running labor”, i.e. running slightly understaffed to make up for previous shifts that were overstaffed [...]

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Pinko Commies

17 February 2008

Card-carrying Communists infiltrating the inner circle of government… sounds like an accusation of the McCarthy era. But the headline comes from 2008 Germany, and the Communist in question resides in our neighbor community of Buchholz.

The Left Party was able to enter the state parliament in Niedersachsen election last month with 7% of the vote. Among [...]

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Indy Dance

17 February 2008

We’re trying out a webcam capture program. Christopher just happened to be playing Indiana Jones…

Link: sevenload.com

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Valentine’s Day

14 February 2008

The rest of the world may be celebrating Valentine’s Day today, but we’re so busy with the business (German joke: “Selbstständig bedeutet immer selbst und ständig”) we don’t really have time. But considering that we’ve been together since sometime around Valentine’s Day in 1980 (that’s so long ago, that Jimmy Carter was President and Helmut [...]

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Forty-Six, and One

9 February 2008

Happy Birthday to Me! I turn forty-six today, and I started the day by working the closing shift in the restaurant last night, getting home at 5:30. It was a good shift despite being one closer short.

It was also one year ago today that Frauke returned from one of her many business trips to Munich [...]

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At Least They Have Snakes

8 February 2008

Boing Boing Gadgets mentions the upcoming LEGO Indiana Jones video game and how (like the toys) it will not display Nazi symbols. Good thing! As I mention in a comment, we already had to have a talk with Christopher about the Nazi symbols in the films. He’s going have to deal with German history [...]

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Pardon My Silence

8 February 2008

Forgive me for not posting an update on my brother here… I mentioned his status on Twitter, but most poeple would have missed that, I guess.

He was released from the hospital last Tuesday, 29 January, a week after being admitted. With two stents freeing the arteries that caused the arrest, his heart should now be [...]

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