Sunday, July 23, 2006

Feeling alone again...

On Tuesday, my whole family will leave to a seven week vacation to Argentina. Well... not my whole family, to be precise, because my dad will stay 'til the 11th of August, and then, he will be gone, as well.

The thing is, I would love to join them on this vacation. Argentina is a beautiful country, and the people are really a lot more friendly than the people over here in Germany. But... I don't have the money to go at this particular moment.

That sucks. What doesn't suck at all is the fact that I will be able to spend some time alone with my dad for the next couple of weeks... since my stepmom and the kids will be gone, we'll have time to talk about things that we can't talk about when they are around.

Don't get me wrong, I totally love my half brothers, and I get along with my stepmom really well... but my dad is my dad, and since my mom died in 1997, he is the only one of my parents who is still around.

What's really going to be hard is that when he leaves in August, I'm gonna be alone for four weeks, until they all come back again.

I really love my family, and I already miss them now, even though they haven't even left yet.

Thursday, July 13, 2006

A perfect barbecue

What do you need for a perfect barbecue? Usually, a couple of steaks,
some beer, and a handful of very good friends will do.

Now, if I would ask our German chancellor, the answer would be slightly
different: For a perfect barbecue, you need a wild boar, 30 secret
service agents, 15.000 German policemen, some battleships, a few
helicopters, 5 welders (to seal the manhole covers in the area), 20 well
trained dogs (looking for bombs), 1.000 carefully chosen German citizens
who applaud for Bush when he appears, and countless roadblocks to hold
back the more than 5000 Germans who want to protest against Bush and his
politics.

How much money do you have to spend on a perfect barbecue? Usually, $100
will be more than enough.

Our chancellor just spent 30.000.000 Euros today. That's $38.220.300.

If that isn't a great way to waste our taxes, I don't know what is....

On Sunday, before going to my dad's place for the weekly barbecue, I'm
gonna call my dad and ask him to seal the manhole cover right in front
of his house... I want to know how it feels to be President of the
United States of America at least once.

Sunday, July 09, 2006

It's only soccer...

Oh well... every good thing must come to an end sooner or later... and one of the best things this year has come to an end today: The FIFA World Cup is over.

Before I continue: CONGRATULATIONS, ITALY !!! And Zizou, you're still one of the greatest soccer players of all times, no matter what happened today!

It was an outstanding tournament, and I don't think I ever have experienced more passion, joy, excitement and happiness here in Germany than during these past 4 weeks.

It truly was amazing... and now that it's over, I feel a certain kind of emptiness. What will I do tomorrow, when there won't be any more matches to watch with my friends or family? What will the Germans do now, with the biggest party ever being over? Will they continue to live as happy as they did during the world cup, or will they be all depressed and reserved again?

I don't know... after all, it was only soccer... but in a way, it was so much more, especially for my country and the people living here.

Into the great white open...

Blogs are cool. Every geek has one. And when I started this blog here, I was totally happy that I, too, was part of that big online family of bloggers.

Well, to tell you the truth, this enthusiasm has vanished to a certain degree... it's like with everything you do: When you don't get any feedback, it doesn't make sense.

Unfortunately, blogger.com doesn't seem to give you the chance to see the traffic on your blog, or to find out how many people have come to your blog. If blogger.com does offer such a feature, I haven't found it yet.

Ok, the fact that I haven't received any comments on my posts yet doesn't necessarily mean they haven't been read.... but not to know whether or not other people read what I'm writing here, makes me feel kind of sad.

It might be a phase, I don't know... but at this particular moment, I'm not feeling like posting here. I mean, what's the point of writing stuff without anybody reading it?

Well, this blog is still pretty new, and it might take a while for people to find out about it, since there are so many blogs out there... I guess I'll just wait a few more weeks before deciding whether to stop my blogging experiment or not.

Tuesday, July 04, 2006

Ouch...

First, Germany loses against Italy in the World Cup, and then, the beloved weekly WWdN tourney on PokerStars gets cancelled.

One without the other would have been fine... but both things together are just a little too much for me today......

The only thing that can save me now is a bottle of excellent wine.

A BIG bottle...

Cheers!

Sunday, July 02, 2006

A Hundred Highways

This one goes out to all the Johnny Cash fans out there: You absolutely have to check out the new album American V: A Hundred Highways !

It contains the final recordings of Johnny with Rick Rubin... completed shortly before Cash's death.

An amazing piece of music... probably the most intense of all the American sessions.

Here's what you gotta do: Buy album, insert cd in your cd player, push play, sit back, shut the f*ck up, and enjoy!