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Today we met some guy at work. He was trying to sell ad space in the yellow pages, but Steffi made quite clear that she didn't intend to buy any at the moment. He invited us to dinner anyway. At first we thought he was going to try to persuade Steffi to get some ad space after all, but he didn't. We were a little confused at that and didn't know whether he was just bored or lonely, or something. Now the weird thing is, we're pretty sure he's introduced himself when he first entered the office, but none of us was paying attention, so we didn't actually know his name. And as regular xkcd readers will know, at some point it gets awkward asking for names, so you just don't. In the end we referred to him as Hans, in reference to Dominique, a friend of ours (don't ask). So, somewhat weird, but fun day. And free food! Tags: people, work
Current Location: Husum, Germany
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I'm back online after a relocation related internet absence. Disconnected and packed the computer on Saturday, went to work, then bed, then got up and rented a truck, had a few people helping me load the truck, drove to Husum, unpacked. Still busy tidying up, and setting up furniture and things. Labelling all boxes with "stuff" is a bad idea btw. Internet seems to be working nicely. uTorrent is currently doing 1MB/s down and 151kB/s up, which is a whole lot more speed than I used to have in Lübeck. I'm using Kabel Deutschland as a provider, and the internet connection appears to be through a cable modem, instead of DSL via phone line. I've also set up the DVB-T antenna, but reception is less than acceptable. It seems that the area I moved to is not entirely covered - I'm getting a few TV stations, but not those I'm actually interested in. I guess I'll have to grab a cable off the shop tomorrow and hook the TV card up to the same outlet I'm getting the internet from. I've got the week off btw, so I can take things easy and get to know my new neighbourhood etc. Btw, if you enter Husum into Google Maps, the marker is I guess 300m off from my new domicile. Tags: me, move, my place
Current Location: Husum, Germany
Current Music: none - stereo not hooked up yet
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Concerts: Words cannot describe how awesome Porcupine Tree are live. I've been to four of their concerts ( Hannover, Bremen, Hamburg, and Berlin) in the past few weeks. Just amazing. I've been bugging the merchandise guy for a Hoodie at the venues. Unfortunately he was out of XXL ones when I first asked in Hannover. So I returned to him in Bremen, still no XXL Hoodie. Then at the Hamburg gig he asked me whether I was going to attend any other shows. I told him that I'd be at the Berlin show too, so he promised to check the back of his truck and reserve one for me if he found one. So when I visited him again at the Berlin venue, he spotted me, pointed at me and grabbed a Hoodie for me. (: Yay! I paid for the Hoodie, then gave him an extra 5€ for his trouble. And as a thank you gift I got a drum stick Gavin had used the during the Hamburg show the previous day. (: ( Picture of concert stuff) The journey to Berlin was pretty annoying though. Lots of rain, you could hardly see anything in front of you. And on my way back, the drive-up to the autobahn was closed and my satellite navigation refused to lead me any other way, so I kinda got lost there. I finally managed to get back home around 4am, and was in bed at 5am. I also saw Sylvan who were pretty good as well. I really like the Ballroom as a venue too, it's quite small and intimate, and pretty good sound. Oh, and totally hot bartendress! Windows 7: Windows 7 was quick to arrive in my mailbox, even though I'd ordered from the UK. Installed it on the SSD, it's quick and shiny, I mostly like it so far. Only serious issue I noticed so far is that stuff doesn't run as fluently on the secondary monitor as they do on the primary one. It looks like the refresh rate is off, but it's set correctly, so I really don't know what's going on. Videos don't show properly, and Aero-related windows animations are all jittery too. The weirdest thing though, when there's a video being shown on the secondary screen, windows are jittery on the primary too, so basically things are displayed properly only when nothing but the desktop is shown on the secondary screen. Other than that I'm quite happy with it though. Oh, and I've got a spare one. Windows 7 Home Premium 32bit/64bit full UK version, new, unopened. I'm hoping to sell it for around 100€, let me know if you're interested! My Apartment: I'm actually moving out the day after tomorrow, so there's plenty of boxes currently in my apartment. I've been packing for the past few days, but I'm not quite done yet. I'll get to that in a minute. It's surprising how much junk has piled up in the 9 years I've lived here. I've got quite a few plastic bags full of stuff that I intend to just throw out and get rid of. Should've done that ages ago. But at least there's a lot less stuff to actually move to Husum than I first thought. Still need to pack my clothes. And the computer and stereo. Those will be the last things to be unplugged and packed of course d; Dentist: I've had a dentist appointment about two weeks ago to have my teeth checked. Doctor found one instance of caries and recommended I don't wait too long to have it removed and fixed. So I got another appointment today to get that done. The Doctor let me choose whether to have anaesthetics, so I thought since he's leaving it up to me it can't be too bad. So I went without it, and as it turns out, that was a good choice. The doctor was done after about ten minutes, and I had breakfast right afterwards. In fact, the first appointment two weeks ago was more painful than today because they removed dental calculus back then, which is quite irritating to the gums. Tags: concerts, me, music, my place
Current Location: Lübeck, Germany
Current Music: Porcupine Tree - Halo (Live) | Powered by Last.fm
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... But what am I supposed to write anyway? I'm sure you can all live without daily posts of mine stating Got up, ate, went to work, went to bed The past few days have been a little different though. The SSD I ordered was quick to arrive in my mailbox, and I was surprised to see its size. I also ran into a bit of a problem. SSDs aren't available in 3.5" size it seems, so I bought a 2.5" one. I don't actually have a drive bay for that size in my computer case though. So I had to look for alternatives. In the end I bought a drive bay "converter" thing which does the trick. As it turned out, I also had trouble hooking it up to a SATA port. Even though my PC has 7 of those, 3 are in use (2x HDD, 1x DVD), and 4 are unusable, which left me with exactly 0 ports to connect the drive to. I couldn't even use an angled SATA cable to use the port under the graphics card, because it doesn't fit there with the port next to it in use. I also have been unable to find any cables angled differently. In the end I bought a PCI SATA controller. It's only a SATA-150 one, but I've hooked up the DVD drive to it, I don't think it can do more than 150Mbits anyway. Of course, after booting up the PC the sound didn't work anymore. Just splendid. Re-Installing audio drivers and DirectX helped with that though. And that's the story of how I installed an SSD to my computer. I haven't actually used it so far. I'm waiting for Win7 to be released. This past Saturday Alexandra celebrated her 30th birthday, so Chrischi and me were there celebrating along with her. Had the chance to catch up with both her and Christian, also chatted to various friends and relatives. Chrischi and my have been to 2 concerts last week too. We saw Porcupine Tree in Hannover, and in Bremen. What can I say about those concerts? Well, they were absolutely stunning. I won't bother even trying to put in words how awesome Porcupine Tree are live. They played their current album, followed by a sort of best of. The album works really well live, especially since they've got that big screen in the back showing films that go together with the music. After a ten minute break, PT came back on stage and performed quite a few of my favourite tracks. The actual setlists differed for both shows, so we got to hear different songs. Complete setlists for Hannover and Bremen btw. I still haven't packed or prepared anything for my move, which is coming up in a few weeks' time. Oh well, still plenty of time, and I don't think I actually own all that much stuff anyway. Just need to throw out plenty. Next weekend I'll be at my parents'. My mother has invited all family for a get-together. There's also another two concerts, Sylvan on Saturday and Porcupine Tree on Sunday. If I do get the day off Monday, I might even go to Berlin for my fourth PorcTree concert. We'll see. Tags: me, music, people
Current Location: Lübeck, Germany
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Gestern hatte ich mal wieder einen 15-Stunden-Tag. 9:00 Laden auf, kurz nach Mitternacht Laden zu. Kurz vor Mitternacht rief noch eine ältere Dame an und erkundigte sich nach Preisen, was den Feierabend dann sogar noch verzögerte. Anschließend schnell nach Hause und ins Bett, und nach 3 Stunden wieder aufstehen weil ein Kunde sein Auto unbedingt um 05:00 morgens haben wollte. Also wieder zum Laden, aufgemacht, gewartet, und ... richtig. Um 06:00 unverrichteter Dinge wieder zugemacht. So 'n Mist, dabei hatte ich am Vorabend noch extra mit dem Kunden telefoniert. Wieso kommt der dann nicht?? Na ja, jedenfalls, wieder ins Bett, weitere 4 Stunden geschlafen, und wieder hoch: Zahnarzttermin. War nicht allzu spannend, meine Sorge dass meine Weißheitzähne die anderen verschieben würden war unbegründet - meine Zähne stehen nicht dichter zusammen als sonst auch, der Zahnstein hatte verhindert daß ich vernünftig mit Zahnseide in die Zwischenräume kam. Jetzt ist das wieder in Ordnung. Ein Backenzahn hat Karies, aber bisher nur überflächlich. Der Arzt empfahl mir, das demnächst in Angriff zu nehmen, ist aber nichts was jetzt unbedingt in den nächsten 1-2 Tagen gemacht werden muß. Ich könnte mir dann aussuchen ob ich nur die Standard-Füllung haben will oder extra bezahle für eine, die man dann später nicht sieht. Mal sehen. Auch überläßt er mir die Entscheidung, ob ich's mit oder ohne Betäubung gemacht haben will. Wenn er mir schon die Wahl läßt, dann kann's ja gar nicht so schlimm sein, also werde ich die Betäubung wohl weglassen. Hat die Vorteile, daß ich dann das (zugegebenermaßen geringe) Risiko von Folgeschäden durch die Betäubung nicht habe, außerdem kann ich dann problemlos abends wieder arbeiten und sabbere nicht das Telefon voll. Nach dem Termin hab ich mich dann noch für 2 Stunden auf's Ohr gehauen, und jetzt bin ich wieder auf. Ganz fit fühl' ich mich noch nicht, aber morgen kann ich ja wieder vernünftig ausschlafen! Ich hab' mich die letzten Tage mit SSDs befaßt. Ich hatte schon eine bestellt, diese dann aber wieder storniert, und auf ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) tma's Raten habe ich jetzt eine Intel Postville SSD geordert. Erstaunlicherweise habe ich heute bereits die Versandbestätigung bekommen, geht also ziemlich schnell. Schade nur daß das Kabel, das ich dazu brauche, erst in ca. einer Woche ankommen soll, aber egal. Auf die SSD will ich eh Windows 7 installieren, also werd' ich die vorher wohl nicht benutzen. Freu' mich aber schon drauf. In ein paar Tagen habe ich auch endlich mal wieder "frei". Der letzte Tag, an dem ich nicht arbeiten war, war irgendwann im August. Jedenfalls kommen jetzt die ganzen Konzert-Termine: 3 Mal Porcupine Tree (Hannover, Bremen, Hamburg) und ein Mal Sylvan (Hamburg). Das wird zwar teuer, aber man gönnt sich ja sonst nichts d; Außerdem feiert Alexandra kommendes Wochenende Geburtstag (sie hat heute, ich muß ihr noch eine e-Mail schreiben), und die Woche drauf ist Familienfest bei MaPa. Und die Woche da drauf ziehe ich dann schon um o: Viel los jedenfalls in den nächsten Tagen. Aber nicht mehr heute. Gleich werd' ich noch einkaufen (hoffentlich hat der Rewe endlich wieder mein Shampoo), und dann - richtig, arbeiten. Yay. Tags: computers, german, internet, work
Current Location: Lübeck, Germany
Current Music: Riverside - Rapid Eye Movement | Powered by Last.fm
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Just got home from work. Right after work, I didn't head straight home, instead I biked in pretty much the opposite direction, intending to grab something to eat off Subway. I didn't get a sub though. When I arrived, I was informed that due to inept coworkers, the guy working the drive through didn't have *any* bread available. He'd just put some in the oven, ready in about 45 minutes, and would I like a salad instead ... Yeah right. I'm hungry dammit, what am I supposed to do with a salad? Catch a rabbit?! Anyway, left, biked to a petrol station and bought a few croissants. I guess I'll have Nutella Subs then ... In other news, I just got e-Mail from friendface facebook, someone added me as a friend. Which is interesting because I don't even remember signing up to facebook, but as it turns out, I do have a profile there. *shurgs* Yesterday I watched the first episode of Burn Notice. In german. Vox started showing it a few days ago. So far, so good. I like the original better of course, but the dubbing is okay I guess. Tags: food, tv
Current Location: Lübeck, Germany
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Heute waren die Fenster-Leute da. Gestern hatte ich dort angerufen und nach einem Termin gefragt, weil die sich noch nicht gemeldet hatten. Also haben wir heute 07:30 vereinbart, damit das endlich über die Bühne gehen kann. Ich hatte gestern bereits den Schreibtisch so weit verschoben dass man vernünftig an die Fenster rankommt, und die Fenster geputzt hatte ich auch (schon das zweite Mal in den knapp 10 Jahren, die ich hier wohne!). Also, den Wecker auf 07:00 gestellt, und pünktlich 5 Minuten vor dem Wecker aufgewacht. Wie immer wenn ich mir den Wecker stelle. Keine Ahnung wie meine innere Uhr das macht ... o_O Die Handwerker waren dann auch pünklich hier und haben angefangen die alte Versiegelung rauszukratzen. Ziemliche Scheiss-Arbeit sowas. Danach haben die beiden sich dann die Silikon-Spritze geschnappt und von innen und außen neu versiegelt. Nach einer Stunde war's dann auch schon erledigt, und einer der beiden meinte dann noch grinsend, dass ich jetzt einen Tag lang die Fenster nicht putzen dürfte (das war derselbe, der sich letzte Woche bereits ein Bild von der Lage gemacht und da auch meine ungewaschenen Fenster gesehen hatte). Meinen Schreibtisch habe ich allerdings noch nicht zurückgerückt, der steht immernoch mitten im Raum. Hab dahinter ordentlich gesaugt, und morgen werde ich tatsächlich die Fenster nochmal mit Glasreiniger bearbeiten, weil die beiden doch einiges an Schlieren und Fingerabdrücken hinterlassen haben. Das Blöde an "sauberen" Fenstern ist natürlich, man sieht sofort die Kleinigkeiten. Zum Beispiel Fingerabdrücke, die wohl noch vom Hausbau herrühren. Keine Chance die wegzubekommen, da sie *innen* auf der Außenscheibe sind. Überhaupt sind Verunreinigungen zwischen den Scheiben zu erkennen, die bekommt man natürlich nie mehr da raus. Auch ist mir gestern aufgefallen, dass die bei der Balkonsanierung wohl auch etwas rumgesaut haben - auf der Scheibe sind kleine Farb-Sprenkler, die gehen natürlich auch nicht mehr weg ... Tags: german, my place
Current Location: Lübeck, Germany
Current Music: Porcupine Tree - Heartattack in a Layby (live) | Powered by Last.fm
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... oder eben auch nicht. Erhofft hatte ich mir Post aus England. The Incident ist inzwischen seit fast einer Woche in den Läden. Ich hab' vor einigen Monaten die Limited Edition vorbestellt, und die ist natürlich noch nicht angekommen. Hrmpf. Stattdessen hab ich Post vom Wolfgang bekommen. Wieder mal typisch. Jahrelang läßt der nichts von sich hören, kein Hallo, wie gehts. Und jetzt, wo er was will, schreibt er mir plötzlich. Toll. Kann er voll vergessen, ich werd nächste Woche trotzdem nicht FDP wählen! Tags: german, mail, music, politics
Current Location: Lübeck, Germany
Current Music: Porcupine Tree - Halo (Live) | Powered by Last.fm
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