Go Party

We were at Gummybear-land Saturday and got Halloween-sweets for Ingo´s colleagues.

(Well, these Ingo gave to me - still at the PC as I actually do not like sweets)

Why just for Ingo´s colleagues? I work from home. I would have to invite mine 😉🎃

 

Years ago Ingo bought sweets for kids.

One kid rang the bell, if I remember right, mama in tow.

One kid.

Halloween has not arrived in Braunschweig. 

Yet Ingo went for sweets for "in case".

 

For all of you who party: Have FUN!

We have a public holiday (all shops closed) and I had to take Friday off, too, as I am without project. 

Gah. Give a day away in this ugly weather. 

Cold, cloudy, rainy. "Yippee". 

 

Yippee for real:

I went to get a Döner and stopped on the way for this:

 

 

Rushed on when suddenly a voice to my right:

"Wonderful they are still in bloom, the roses, huh?" - a complete stranger, maybe a bit older than me - he made my day! He noticed I stopped to take a pic.

And hence he noticed them, too.
 

And:

 

"Everything used to be different: childhood experiences that no longer exist

Printed television guides

More and more people are choosing online versions of publications, newspapers and magazines. Weekly printed television schedules used to be an important way to know when a program would air. Today, all it takes is a quick Google search to find this information."

That or "on demand". My parents had those magazines. And we still have "normal TV".

Henry 🦁

 

("Oh, come on - I look like a very dangerous, real Lion!!! I could jump at you any sec!!")

Do cats really let that do to them  or is this photoshopped?

Good Morning

 This is Perth again.

 

 

This is for Tom´s Signs2 .

And...

 

"Everything used to be different: childhood experiences that no longer exist

 

Tamogotchi 

Today's children will never understand the agonizing pain when their Tamogotchi dies. The simple technology was highly sought after in the '90s, and while it's still around, the hype will never be as big as it is today."

I never had such a stupid thing, you?

Henry's 🦁 alter ego, the Black Swan 🐣:

 

T STands for HoT?

Hmmm... doesn´t this look yummy? And OUTSIDE, it was a warm October´s day!

With this I join Elizabeth´s T.

 

The journal:

 

 

Monday: Two loaded Zippos for me, activated 04:20 a.m. and  STILL both so HOT by 08 p.m. - thank you, Ingo, like summer!!!!

7:22 a.m., door bell. Heating-repair guys - yes plural, a "boy", too, a trainee, not the smartest. I heard "I tell you this the 20 000th time!!!" 

I wait what the receipt will say. I understand young peeps need to learn - but on my cost?

I gave them €10 as tip anyways. And the condo is warm again.

fK said she had ten bucks in her pocket for "those guys", also, but they were so dumb, she kept them. The money, not the guys 😉

She gave €5 for the street artists, though.

 

Tuesday: Two loaded Zippos for me, activated 04:20 a.m. (yes I can do copy & paste!) - thank you, Ingo, I hate the dark, cold half of the year.

fK called. Told me, she´ll become my second boss. I wanted to...all I came up with was ".... congratulations!" - 

"Glückwunsch is the German word, I mix languages up too if  long in them, said 'pardon' for a couple of days after coming back from France..."

We spoke German (but I was translating whilst talking).

How is it with you? Ingo often says, "say it in English then!"... some brains work in funny ways.

She told me not to worry. Job-wise. But I do...

Ingo came home with... another heater-Zippo. We have 5 now.

Feel cold? Visit us.

 

Wednesday: Work (kinda) fK at teams and then "Castle".

Rick Castle´s daughter wants to visit the Brazilian rain forest and he flips. No phones but snakes, spiders.....

My Dad likely said to Ingo when we went o Australia 1995/1999 "take care of her"? Dad let us go.

Spiders (I once nearly touched a Redback (deadly)), snakes (meep, had that, too), no phones... He later told my "little" Brother he was afraid, too - but he let me go. I had a great Dad (who trusted Ingo).

 

Thursday:  Work, chats and TIREDNESS. Laundry, wohoo.

Door-bell. I open. Postie, in English. "Thank goodness! For M...? Can you take that?" - Me: "No*. Please in front of this door". - Him: "Merci".- Me: "De rien..., bye" - Him: "Tschüß 😀"

 

Meep?

Ingo just saw a docu where people even complained no one speaks German anymore...

We speak many languages, LOL!!! Think I learn proper Spanish or Italian now.

 

*we have a small condo. I am not a post office. I WORK from home. I once was stuck with three bigger parcels over three weeks. THESE neighbors do not greet me, why do a favor (the man does, wife and daughter do not).

 

 

Friday: I always get up an hour early to watch CSI New York before work to start the day (and check blogger-mates).

My Dad and my Brother chose "dumb" names, really. 

- "Das  war ihres..." (it was hers) - "ihres" sounds like my name pronounced in German, always confusing.

- "Das gehört mir" (it´s mine) - "mir" sounds like my big Nieces name, Mia.

Dads, please, chose names that are pointy.

 

Does your name get confusing, too? Ingo always has to explain (like Dingo or Bingo without the first letter). Mine in French is pronounced Eriiiiiiis, in English like the eye, in German different again. I got used to it.

fK will take me to the cinema in Wolfenbüttel with our railway-team. 

ACK, now I have no excuse ("no discussion!!!"). We talked forever about  the bad situation we´re in and try to see the positive.

I sat on the wooden floor, jeans inside out (how did THAT happen), loading my work phone with a 30cm "long" cable whilst talking. 

Weekend: Saturday: Went to the new company´s place. Odd. The main staff is male it´s easy to remember me. For me it was tough. I kept silently asking fK - who works at least once or twice at the place (7 minutes on foot), "who is this?". And do you think I´ll remember next time?? 

We went to Guido´s for yummy beer.

Ingo took a smoke outside and the waitress rushed to me!!! To... say... "my shift ends now, good bye, have a great night." 🥰

I am a slow drinker. The waiter, to Ingo: "Another beer?" - Ingo, to me and my not empty glass: "You?". .... "Slowly?" - Our waiter waited (haha) till I was done and we got two more fresh Porettis.

Then the yummiest steak at Block House (yes, I skipped the Pizza!!!!)

Sunday: A very welcomed break! Or...?

 Munchy:

 

 Steak Mignon. Hmmmm...

Hungry now? You need energy if you go backwards in time.

Changing a channel on TV - GET UP!

 

 

"Everything used to be different: childhood experiences that no longer exist 

 

Saturday morning cartoons

 

Waking up at 8 a.m. on Saturday mornings to watch cartoons is a thing of the past. Thanks to the availability of recording and streaming devices, children can watch cartoons any time, any day." 

It is sadly true. 

Ingo and I always look forward to Sunday morning: 11:00 a.m. Löwenzahn, followed by Die Maus, a fairy tale, "normal TV". My Nieces... "on demand" No looking forward, demanding...

Ack, we are old 😉 And I love it.

 

Henry 🦁

Don´t eat mine, Henry!!!! OK, a bite....

Back To Leederville #2

Sadly Ingo cannot eat "just anywhere", so I just took pics on the way through Leederville.

But isn´t she a beaut?

I have no clue about the bunny... - is it a bunny?

This is for Sami´s COLOURFULWORLD Monday Murals.

 

Here is a different one:

 

 

Still have to start the book on Tesla (long, interesting article on wiki) - ironically the book was for free....

 

Henry's 🦁 alter ego, the Black Swan 🐣:

 

  To a yummy new week.

Film-Photo-Fails

 

In "memory" of real films I show you a few of  mine.  All we can do is laugh about the "old technology", huh?

Here we have some of Australia´s beautiful Outback mixed with a visit to some museum in...? somewhere in Australia in 1995.

Yes, that I found when I let the film rolls develop in Germany...

Buhuuuu. Or.... "art"?

Here´s more:

Dad and Bro at our parent´s silver wedding. Great plant, huh? And note the fancy knobs...

Hrgh!

Dad kept this pic!!! This was Christmas 1979, I think. Bro got the train from Santa and I made it run through this "bridge".  He made it standing - Dad was too slow to catch the right moment or the whole boy. But he kept the pic and put in an  album. 

Dad.

Fails happen and now make me smile and think of him.

Reckon my future was "printed" early... trains...

Please note the huge Christmas tree in the background....

Btw...

We met some colleagues  yesterday at the new place of "my" company, certainly also fK and her kids (they are 13 years old and taller than her!!! And she is tall herself! (they picked a donor real tall)).

View over Braunschweig. Do we really need this?

I´m really not sure. At least beautiful blue sky.

I sadly did not take a pic of the 10 microwaves (yes, 10!!!)  in the ... "dining area", but another colleague, also not so tall, he said he already complained.

Small people will have to wait for tall colleagues cause these darn thingies are HIGH UP.

That or a ladder gets installed but then... security? 

"Designers". I really do hope I a) keep my job and b) will be allowed to work from home.

Other if b) fails it will be cold food. Or waiting and asking.

Our CEO is tall, he did not see the problem.

But made a real great entry to the event. 

 

No irony.

 

Short and good. And positive looking into the future in these dark work-times.

With these hopes: Happy Sunday.

And.... series continues from the internet:

 

"Everything used to be different: childhood experiences that no longer exist

 

Metal playgrounds 

 

These days, playgrounds are built with safer materials, so kids no longer burn their toes on a hot metal slide."

 

It must´ve been early in the day and not that hot yet.

I remember  those slides in the afternoon, uggghhhhh - HOT! You?

Henry 🦁

 

 We still live, baby Henry. Don´t be a softie 😉

 

 

 

Fun place,huh! That was Mackay, QLD.

Yes, I took pics of these.

In Germany we STILL don´t have that (this was 1995!!)

SNAP!

 

This was 1995 on the way to Rockhampton in QLD, Australia.

Ingo is quite tall, btw... Green trousers,dark shirt, at the hind "leg".

I am sorry I cannot zoom in for a hint, the quality is... scroll down to see why I can´t....

I scanned with an old scanner,too.

With this "critter" ... I join...

 

 Eileen.

 

We´ll soon be on the way to "my" new company´s place, maybe I can take some pics.

I´ve been there before and was... not really happy (I 99% work from home).

And... the "new series" I found at work:

 

 

"Everything used to be different: childhood experiences that no longer exist 

Camera film

Remember the fear of taking your camera rolls to the store to be developed and hoping the photos aren't completely ruined or out of focus? Smartphones and digital cameras prevent children from ever having to have this experience."

Hahaha, so yes! Especially  long holidays like 6 or 7 months in a very hot climate (Australia).

We kept the film rolls in clothes down deep in the car where we lived in and had them developed in Germany (see first pic).

Henry 🦁

 

 

"Catch" all your critters (on camera) - happy Saturday.

It´s my "little" Brother´s Birthday today. Gosh, an old man ;-) - makes me superold.