I blatantly stole this picture of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin from Snakeye (with his permission). I really like the effect of the sun behind the cross on top of the statue. We spent the day doing the ‘touristy’ thing, and I have to admit I even saw some stuff I hadn’t seen yet. The [...]

…and I think we’ve successfully punished the hell out of them. Two nights, 2 crates of beer and 6 Bottles of wine later plus a binge night at my buddie’s Fighter pilot bar and our livers are like little innocent puppies begging for some water on their hind legs. Our bet is officially cashed in…the first [...]

If you paid attention in my post about Jenice Gathing, I mentioned that I wrecked my car. This comes just two weeks after I caused €1000 worth of damage to a friends car after I almost tore off the front bumper backing out of my driveway in his BMW. Two crashes (plus a third [...]

I installed Windows Vista on my desktop after I got home a few months ago, and the computer ran fine for a couple of weeks. Then things started to go wierd. Right now, if I use the ‘quick shut down’ method, similar to a laptop hibernate mode, the computer won’t boot anymore. I have to [...]

Friday the 13th was not a good day. I totalled my car (detailed post to follow) and was pretty pissed off at having to deal with insurances, not getting any money back for my van that was only worth pennies etc… Luckily no one was hurt and I was simply annoyed about the administrtive hassle [...]

It’s still raining. Hard. We had 4 hours of sun yesterday when I tried to revive my now rusty charbroil grill from the states that I have yet to use. It took me a while to make the german gas bottle fit correctly to the grill, only to find that the pressure regulator put out [...]

The germans have something called “Siebenschläfer” (lit. Seven sleeper). It is an old wives tail that predicts that whatever the weather is on June 23 (the summer solstice) will stay that way for 7 weeks. Well it pissed it down on that day, and so far the prediction holds true. It can see how you [...]