Today I held the door open for a woman going in when I was going out. I even waited till she was through before I went. Not only did she not thank me, she didn't even look at me, just breezed by. Way to fail at basic etiquette. Reminds me of an incident a few weeks back. We have an open bookcase in town, where you can leave unwanted books and/or ( Read more... )

It's Christopher Street Day (Pride Parade) in Mannheim tomorrow. Anyone wants to come with me? It starts at 3 pm.

In my constant quest of ridding my office of my predecessors' messes I leaved through some file cabinets and threw away:

- Blank parts lists to be filled out manually. We've had a computer system for that for, oh, about six years now ( Read more... )

I finally booked my flights to Camp Sparkle! To Birmingham because that was cheaper. In fact I paid about the lowest amount ever for a flight since Ryanair got over its first few years and started inventing all these new fees to push the price higher. Camp Sparkle only runs till Friday but I'm staying in Birmingham till Sunday ( Read more... )

Epithet of the week: "the slightly older of his two younger lovers". I swear I did not make that up ( Read more... )

Thank you for commenting on the post about my poor second gerbil passing away. Sadly, his death had less impact than the first one did. Damon was always more quiet and inconspicuous than the other two, and the neutral one in their fight. He spent more time in the nest, maybe because he was a bit overweight, until he lost a lot of weight really fast ( Read more... )

LJ's latest attempt at trying to fix the Facebook/Twitter crossposting mess while quite obviously scrambling to keep the Russians happy. If it wasn't so irritating, it'd be hilarious.

On the good side: I bought chocolate covered cocoa nibs (roasted cocoa beans) at a fair trade stand last weekend. They're delicious. And almost gone. :(

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... because men seem to be unable to even stack the dishwasher right or put tupperware in a drawer without producing one giant heap. It's not that hard!

I'm more and more glad that I'm moving out. My roommate's a nice guy, but we've never really been roommates, you know. We're just two people coincidentally living in the same house. His house. I'm ( Read more... )

Twitter makes you kind of lazy, doesn't it? All the things I used to talk about in lj I now cram into a tweet or two ( Read more... )

There's a lot of not so good things to be said for the last couple of days, but I'll just ignore those in favor of concentrating on the good that happened yesterday.

Yesterday there was the Christopher Street Day parade in Mannheim (also often abbreviated "CSD"; Pride in most parts of the world), which is about half an hour away from where I live ( Read more... )