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I had no idea: Pink is way cool! Not only cool, damn, she's sexy, bold, talented, beautiful, full of energy and apparently has a great heart! Wow! I so enjoyed watching this hell of a concert on the tube! You'll find a number of clips of that awesome show by entering this search string: on Youtube . Music rocks!

I got a new one . Check it out. Oh - and here's the trailer .

Recap of a TV documentary on a scientific approach to measuring individual or collective happiness.

I would like to express my thanks for all of you supporting my idea of collecting supportive voices on behalf of Jens Soering. I have had a lengthy phone call with one of his European-based supporters and she forwarded an email by his immediate US-supporters. Apparently, my initiative wasn't well received, neither by Jens' direct supporters nor his opponents. Consider this initiative discontinued. I find it an extremely bitter pill to swallow that carefully honoring other people's views and o…

Yay! It's official: Got selected! ;-)

I can't think right now from sheer shock, so I will just give you the facts: Today, I have a message (in German) in my inbox from a person, who claims to coordinate translations from English to German on Jens Soering's website. In that message, she asks me to remove the link to the petition form at VA-Governor Kaine's website, as Jens' lawyers, her and other close friends of Jens' find it detrimental to his cause that opponing views have been expressed here and over there . The last thing…

I was basically like "*grunt* ugh, can we get this over with now, so I can go back to being miserable, please...?", when coming online shortly after midnight tonight. In my defense, I must say that I'm battling a little cold, not to mention other, more profound battles with the tax bureau and my usual extended blurb of issues ;-) But Sherry was so sweet and excited for me when opening the prezzies she had sent before Christmas that I simply couldn't manage to hold on to my gloominess and bad m…

Today was an exceptionally bright and clear day with sunny skies and the so-called Foehn wind wheather phenomenon, which made for temperatures around 7° Celsius (44F). As announced in my previous post , I went back to Woerthsee to go skating some more. Of course, I was going to be careful and stayed clear of the area, where I had dipped my toe the day before. As a result of the Foehn condition, there were high winds across the lake, so some skate-sailers had come out and enjoyed sunny skies…

I must have been skating some thirty years now, not every winter, but in total. I have never been careless or unattentive. I wouldn't skate when nobody else did. In short: I wouldn't test my luck. Neither have I today. Since the ice of our little lake here in Wessling got messed up with warm weather yesterday, I checked the webcam for people skating on Woerthsee - and to my greatest joy they did! Plus, the surface looked really even and great. And in addition: It was a misty-foggy day today, per…

Last steps and status on my little initiative on behalf of Jens Soering.

On August 25 this year, I watched a TV documentary on a fate so grim, it makes my own struggles appear as insignificant as a broken shoestring: The conviction of Jens Soering to a double life sentence for murder in the first degree - a crime, he never committed. From reading into the facts all day long today, facts on this incomprehensibly cruel account of events and their ungraspable outcome - and I'm not talking about the crime scene, which can only be described as a slaying spree -, the a…

So I did the much dreaded upgrade from Tiger to Leopard. Much dreaded, because a system upgrade always comes at the expense of numerous backups and a general "spring cleaning" type of perusing data and throwing out the cobwebbs and other stuff that's beyond their expiration date. The overall amount of time for such activities is usually no less than an entire day, given that I tend to make a mirror image of my entire hard drive before going about the maintenance and cleaning process. All of t…

I'm borrowing a term my landlord at the Bed & Breakfast in Vancouver once used when referring to one of her appartments . I find it appropriate in this situation: We've had precursors of snowfall over the past few weeks and days. Especially yesterday, I could smell the scent of snow in the brisk air coming down from the mountains. I could even see snowcovered mountain peaks through my tele lens. Snowfall started last night, and continued this morning until now at temperatures around 0 Celsiu…

I'm off to the IQ test in about 30 minutes as announced here . Why does this mean something to me? Well, first, I have a feeling it could explain a lot of struggling (but not all of it), and second, if I really score higher than 130, it should have a pragmatic quality in terms of better qualifying for student grants, scholarships etc. I think, I'm beginning to have a new idea as to how I can make more of my (professional) life... Anyways, off for the day or so. See you later.

It's really amazing, amusing, a tad scary and wondrous - all at the same time: Here I am, facing one of the darkest times of my life ever. Literally everything I have been working towards over my past 15-20 years in terms of a professional life is gradually, but rapidly falling apart. My tax declaration for 2006 almost has me go bankrupt and there will be just a tiny, tiny portion of money left to avoid getting evicted from my home. The new contacts I have been working on, seem to function, but…

Wow! I just noticed that ipernity introduced a new feature: Different views of your homepage for different audiences, e.g. visitors (public), friends, family & friends and family. I haven't played around with this yet, but I guess the idea is - besides presenting your content in individual styles per audience - to have different default security levels for your content. This is interesting. In any case: Team ipernity don't rest in giving  us more and more features. In addition to refraining f…

I was just about to write an entry entitled "Root canal without anesthesia" - because life has been feeling that way over the past two weeks - when someone "buzzed" me on the chat and shared this: Now I'm all giggling and chuckling - and thinking: Someone's really got a lot of spare time on their hands... ;-) P.S.: I just realized, not everyone might understand the implied joke and fun in this, because it's the author's - very artistic and creative imho - reference to the A…

We've had the clock change from daylight savings time last night, which means the sun will set at five in the afternoon. After my previous post I don't think anyone needs explained what effect that has on me... let's just say: Not good! But - someone called me a fighter recently and that's what I am. So I dragged my sorry ass out as the clouds would occasionally part and let some rays of sun through. And I went on one of my frequent, compact bike trips this afternoon (about 25 km today). On…