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Being sent on a bit of a spy mission by one of my best customers to check something out that did not appear quite kosher, if you will. I was nervous about this assignment to start with, but it went from bad to worse quite quickly.
It would not have been quite soooo bad if on [...]

First of all, I am hardly ever mean-tati to anyone. That search landed in the wrong place. And, while I admit that I recently wrote about Bunte Teller, I am hardly an expert on them.
Yes, I did a post this past summer about a dead Ringelnatter which I found while riding the Kiwi through the [...]

As today is the first Advent, the local radio station has already played two Christmas songs and I’ve only been up for three quarters of an hour. But, hey, that’s ok.
Part of my ambivalence regarding Christmas is the massive consumption practiced. When asked, I will usually tell you that I abhor Christmas; usually somewhere in [...]

My feet hurt. I had my first attack of “must bake Christmas cookies” today and spent all day in the kitchen.
Here some examples. I forgot to fotograph the other two kind I made, Kokosmakronen and Mandelmakronen, before I put them away in a tin and am now too lazy to get up and fotograph them. [...]

My things to wish for have changed a lot in the past 8 months since I have become a passionate biker.
Oil seals or stuff like that can make my heart beat faster. Lol. It’s true, it really is.
So when my mother called me some time ago asking me what I’d like for Christmas I knew [...]

A post on Seitherin’s Blog about the 12 days of Christmas reminded me of our Rauhnächte and I wondered if there was a correlation. Every two years or so, I ask my stepmom about them (because somehow that info just refuses to stay in my head). Thus, I decided to research the issue and here [...]

about the first winter landscape of the season. The trees, some of which still have orange colored, wilted leaves, covered in snow against the backdrop of a mouse grey sky, the very silence of the snow falling – it always takes me back to the winters of my childhood at my grandmother’s house.
I guess the [...]

This was the view out of my kitchen window early this morning:

Meaning that the roads have been salted and thus, the Kiwi must stay in the garage.
And that I must soon dust off my cross-country skis.
Sigh.

1) That Win Media Player is a completely useless piece of sh.. when it comes to buying music online and wanting to transfer that music to your mobile phone which contains a built-in MP3 player which WMP refuses to recognise as a device needing synchronisation.
2) That I am completely stubborn when setting something in my [...]

is due to make an appearance tomorrow. I don’t think it will stick, though. Then again, who knows.
On Saturday, our weather was again quite nice, allowing us to take the bikes out in the afternoon where we drove to Lechbruck (about 50 km from here) for coffee and cake. There is a nice restaurant with [...]