Me: Cool, it’s snowing! lets go outside! I need to take some pics.
Her: What??? You’re crazy!
Me: What? Why?
Her: It’s too cold!
Me: You’re German!
Her: Ya, I like the sun!
Me: If a wuss like me from California isn’t cold, then a proper German can’t be.
Her: You’re crazy! It’s too early…
Me: Please!
Her: Ach. Blödmann!
Me: Ok, cool. See you outside.
Her: Blödmann…
Tables are finally out at the cafe across the street and the trees are starting to bud, should be bright pink in another week or two.
Mr. Stork has been back for a couple weeks now. Spends his days eating frogs and working on his nest for when the wife arrives in a few weeks.
Time lapse of clouds over Zugspitze, Germany’s highest mountain.
This is my first attempt to embed video, so if you have any problems seeing it, please comment!
3 lanes:
Semi-trucks in outside lane = 50-60mph
Random cars in the outside and middle lanes = 70-100mph
Your car in the outside, middle and inside lanes = 90-110mph
Black Audi or BMW in the middle and inside lanes = 110-150mph
View out the window as of about five minutes ago:
Start of the day:
…That it is supposed to be spring!
View out the window this evening
I understand that the high interest rates you charge, compounded by the average American’s massive amount of personal debt means that you earn more money than I can imagine. Now I also understand that you like to spend this money chopping down lots of trees and printing with toxic inks to send me lots of letters in the mail so that I can make you more money. Now, I understand this is a two way street; you put a couple bucks in my wallet that I don’t really have and I’ll write you the deed to my soul. Good, cool, fine.
But, Please don’t tell me that I have been ‘pre-approved’ when I haven’t actually been ‘pre-approved.’ Back when I actually needed a credit card, I was never approved, despite the fact that you told me I was pre-approved. False advertising. Calling my lawyer right now. Hope he takes Visa.
Second, if you are trying to market your card as some sort of ‘travel’ card and give it some fancy name like ‘explorer,’ ‘world card,’ ‘travel plus,’ etc. Then I don’t want to see that stupid 3% tax, oops, I mean ‘foreign currency exchange fee’ when I read the fine print. Presumably a ‘travel’ card would be used for just that, travel. So why would I want to add an extra 3% tax after already paying the obscene taxes which often exist abroad. Maybe your just hoping that I don’t/can’t read…
So, quit chopping down trees and filling my mailbox with stuff that you wont actually give me!
…On soon to be imported German chocolate and assorted sweets. It’ll all be in my carry-on, so lets hope it doesn’t get eaten in my 20 hours of travel between Auerbach and Santa Barbara. I’ll have half a dozen Aldi pretzels fresh out of the oven to keep my stomach full, so it should all make it. No promises though.
Dollar has hit a new low against the Euro: $1.50 per Euro for the first time. I should have opened an account here last year, I would be several hundred dollars richer. German radio is saying that it’s a good time to take a trip to the US. So it goes…
Dollar/Euro over last 6 months:
Dollar/Euro over last year:
Spiegel front page this morning:
