Mc Donald's to the rescue

In a 15 mile square radius around my house in Germany, the only place for me to go online is a McDonald's in Bad Saulgau. This is the town where I went to highschool, and now I am hanging out before midnight with highschool kids in a Micky D so I can check my emails and post one out.

Nice.

Germany, here I am

I have arrived in Germany this weekend for a tradeshow, but I also get to see family and friends. Can't complain about that for sure.
But then again, now I miss someone back in the USA very much.

Seeing things in a positive way :-)

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Images from where I grew up

The Lake of Constanze




The region nearby is quite hilly




There are also a few nice castles




Plus very beautiful baroque churches




And not to forget, great bike paths

A new smile on my face

People have noticed that I have been extremely happy the last week. Not that I am usually grumpy, but more so that I seem especially happy. :-)
Well, all I will say, sometimes you stumble indeed on happyness.

A feast for the eyes

The Grand Place in downtown Brussels is one of the world's most beautiful squares on any given day, but every two years it gets even more amazingly beautiful when the city covers it with a magnificent carpet of flowers.
This takes place in mid August for 4 days where you can see 300 square metres covered with 800,000 fresh begonias. It is currently happening and will happen again in 2008.

I love Orange Juice

I like Orange Juice very much and I drink lots of it, but with all the OJ consumption maybe I should be afraid that I'll turn orange one day. :-)

Those damn high plains drifters

Would it be so hard for people to use their turn signals when they switch lanes instead of just going across all lanes like a high plains drifter? There is actually a very wise saying: " If you can't operate the turn signal what makes you think you can operate the rest of the vehicle?"

To me though it is plain and simple a very inconsiderate act and I am all for people getting tickets if they don't use their turn signals.

Nice cartoon

Stumbling on happiness

I am currently reading Stumbling on Happyness by Daniel Gilbert and I do like it indeed. So when are you going to stumble on happyness?

Watch out

Die Polizei geht um. :-)

Nice sticker

Why can't we all not just get along?

The current situation in the Middle East is quite scary and really might flame up that whole region. Israel is really stepping on some dangerous terrain and that invasion of Lebanon might really agitate the complete muslim world. I am certainly not thinking that they are acting unprovoked, but once a big fight is going on it really doesn't matter any more who actually started it.
War is just ugly and it puzzles me who many wars are fought over religion. Why can't we all just get along?

Sudoku

Oh no I am an addict now. Please help.

My airport pet peeve

It drives me crazy when I am in the baggage claim area and everyone has to stand right next to the conveyer belt. This pretty much allows no one else to step up and grab their bag.
Why can't people just stand a few feet away and let those folks whose bags are actually on the belt step up to grab their bags?
But I guess that would really require consideration.

True religion?

True Religion jeans, I would not call myself a fan of them, but I like these. :-)

The bomber still rules

Gerd Mueller's record of 14 goals in FIFA World Cup play was eclipsed today by Brasil's Ronaldo in their 3-0 victory over Ghana. Nonetheless, Gerd "the bomber" Mueller was amazing as a soccer player, especially in that pic where he shot the winning goal in the 1974 FIFA World Cup final against Holland.

My not so secret love

I am glad that I work out so much, otherwise my love for chocolate would really show quite quickly. I have loved chocolate for a long time now, but I am a bit of a chocolate snob. I don't like Hershey's, but I do like Milka, Riiter Sport, Lindt and Frigor and several other European chocolates.
I am lucky enough though that family and friends send me little care packages from Europe here and there, and also that certain stores here actually carry some of them.
My 4 favorite ones are Milka Noisette, Ritter Sport Nougat, Ferrero Yogurette and Ferrero Kinder Schokolade.
Go try them. :-)

Junior Brown is awesome

I don't like country music, but I really do like Junior Brown. His style of music is quite unique especially because of his "guit-steel" guitar wizardy. The guit-steel is Junior's own invention and features both guitar and steel guitar necks on one instrument. Brown is a multi-Grammy nominee who tours in large venues and small venues alike, and tonight he played once again in Chattanooga at the Nightfall concert series. If you have a chance go check him out.

What is old?

Twice today I refered to a couple people as "older woman" and "older man" and they are actually younger than me. So how old does that make me?