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One Night in Regensburg, Three Nights in Bonn

November 23, 2006

I think I don’t like traveling anymore. It’s yet another sign that I am aging faster mentally than I am chronologically. This last weekend I spent in Bonn, then we zipped down for a quick visit to Regensburg, then Tuesday night we returned to Potsdam. And I am just now recovered, well, almost. So my [...]

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Charlie G. is in the house

October 26, 2006

On Tuesday, Charlie got neutered. This is actually not that common a procedure in Germany, where they prefer to leave animals “au naturel” (and the Vet tells me that it’s actually illegal in Sweden… and yet, strangely enough, 4 out of 5 of the male dogs in Charlie’s pack are neutered). Charlie, although not at [...]

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What’s new?

October 18, 2006

My new computer arrived today, a full six days before scheduled arrival. Yay! Now I just need to set the durned thing up and transfer all my data. Hopefully this does not cause any headaches. I have also been having incredible foot pain when I walk and was diagnosed yesterday with “acuter Lumbago mit Fersensporn” [...]

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Just another day

September 29, 2006

Today, I got to know my dog walkin’ buddies better. There’s Joerg (the doctor-aura guy), who is actually an SAP expert. They apparently don’t make as much in Germany as in the US, I dated a guy in Richmond who was an SAP consultant and he had money coming out the wazoo. Anyways, Joerg is [...]

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Just when I was about to give up on Germany…

September 16, 2006

Okay, I was never really close to “giving up” on Germany, but I was depressed. Then today I took Charlie for a walk and left my middle to upper middle class neighborhood and entered the nearby Plattenbau area. Rainer tells me this area is government housing for the unemployed and there are a lot of [...]

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Encounters with Neighbors

September 14, 2006

Tonight on my walk with Charlie, I ran into two neighbors who were loitering or something along one of the paths to the woods. It was a middle aged couple with a little Scottie dog. Charlie was on leash, but the woman felt compelled to grab her dog and run behind a large pile of [...]

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Weekend Update

August 27, 2006

This has been a fairly enjoyable weekend, despite the mostly gray, rainy weather. The one annoying thing that happened was that the memory upgrade I ordered for my computer arrived Saturday per Nachnahme (COD), when I thought it was coming per Rechnung, and I didn’t have the cash to pay, so I need to go [...]

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