Tag: Personal

Saturday was beautiful! I’ll post pics in awhile. It was a bright, sunny day and I got out for an hour walk through the neighborhood to take pictures. Around 4:30, Martin and I headed over to Petra’s for dinner. We walked to the tram and Martin rode his bike down to Hauptbahnhof, the train station.… Continue reading Steve in Germany – Day 13

Friday! I’m settling in as I almost left my laptop at home. I headed in to work and spent the day updating records in our database. By the end of the day the folks at Impara had worked on the server so it is much faster now. I headed home and Martin and I had… Continue reading Steve in Germany – Day 12

The last two days have been pretty slow. Mainly work, and work at night 🙂 I did take the wrong #5 tram home tonight. Not sure why they have two #5 trams, but they do. So I got let off at the train station where it all began. Two minutes later a #3 came by,… Continue reading Steve in Germany – Days 10 & 11

Day 9 started off with just 4 hours sleep. Is weird having your body clock all messed up. I bussed in to work and had pork steak for lunch, with broccoli and cucumber salad for lunch. Work was good, we sent off the white paper and I started the work to model my timelines after… Continue reading Steve in Germany – Day 9

Monday was German Reunification day, so it was a holiday here. We had a deadline (today) so Michael and I had planned to work in the afternoon. I was up early, around 4am for some reason. I fell asleep at 9 the night before and my body is still confused obviously. Around 10:30 I headed… Continue reading Steve in Germany – Day 8

Upon telling Martin that I had lost a sock and thought that the sock monster had gotten it, Martin replied, “I will try to catch this monster… And then I will torture it until it admits its crime…”

I’m really pooped, but the new photos start here 🙂

I spent Sunday with Martin’s friends, then I lounged around a bit, played some Professor Fizzwiggle, chatted, worked on my code some. Michael came and picked me up for dinner, had a nice lamb dish. I ended up crashing around 9 and woke up at 4am. ugh heh. Today we plan to work some in… Continue reading Steve in Germany – Day 7

hehe I’ve posted pics of my niece playing with something I sent her – New pics start here. She is sooooooo adorable!!

I’ve posted some pictures from breakfast this morning. It was much fun, with some english, some german, and a lot of talk about politics in the US, which is very good. Henning and Petra are headed to Cape Town, South Africa in a Land Rover. The trip will take 10 months and they have been… Continue reading Steve in Germany – Day 7 photos

Rain, rain rain. Martin and I had another 3 hour breakfast which was quite nice. I spent the day working and chatting with friends, watching it rain. It was pretty cold but bearable 🙂 Saturday evening, Martin and Jeannette went to the cinemas. When they returned, we went to their favorite pub, Kuca, and met… Continue reading Steve in Germany Day 6

It is raining fairly hard here – Hey I left Portland, didn’t I??? Can’t really go out shooting pictures in this.

Today was a fun day! I headed into the office around 9 and got to work. Got my timelines working in a window and made some movies showing them working for the boss. Lunch was fish fillet with peas and then was more work, printing out bus schedules and the like. Michael dropped me off… Continue reading Steve in Germany – Day 5

Well it is actually the start of Day 5, but I worked late last night so I didn’t get around to blogging. I’ve decided the bus is perfect fine for getting to work. I found the ATM Martin pointed me to and after checking out the hours, I decided to get cash now. They have… Continue reading Steve in Germany – Day 4

Day 3 was much much better. Martin came up and asked if I’d like breakfast, which of course I said YES! So he went to the store while I showered (see the pics) and we had a nice meal of oj, bread and lots of different spreads, some dark sugar spread and oh yeah a… Continue reading Steve in Germany – Day 3

A few photos of where I am staying!

Slept pretty well, didn’t wake up until 10am or so. The sit down shower was quite interesting, and slow to be sure. No curtain, and wood over my head, had to make sure I didn’t splash anything. Michael picked me up and I spent the next 90 mins working on getting my code up to… Continue reading Steve in Germany – Day 2

Well it is actually day 2. I left Portland at 8:30am to Seattle. Had a 4 hour layover there. Left Seattle at 1:30, arrived in Amsterdam around 8:00 in the morning. Got through customs and the security check in about 35 mins, then boarded and left AMS around 9:30am Monday. Arrived in Berlin around 10:50am.… Continue reading Steve in Germany – Day 1

Alright so we have some Christians (labeled as anti-abortionists) saying God inflicted Katrina on the south for their abortion like ways and the storm path even looked like an embryo. Now I hear some Christian extremists say Katrina battered Nawlins for their sexually deviant and drinking ways. I guess Mississippi got it for the gambling.… Continue reading Christians, the Bible and Katrina

I had a dream that I was in Paris and my tibook was on a tote cart and the line broke and the tote cart fell into the Seine river but I thought no problem, I’ll buy one of the new PowerBooks. Then they didn’t announce anything and I was freaking out. The water was… Continue reading Why I should not stay up late to see if Apple announces hardware in Paris