I forgot to mention that the American style sports bar in question has MGD on draft. I can't imagine where they found it ( Read more... )

Last night, after posting and eating, I went out to Rudolfplatz to a bar called Joe Champs which is, as far as I can tell, the only place in Koln that plays real football. I watched the end of the Titans game and then the entire Pats-Chargers game. The thing with the 6 hour time difference is that a 4:15pm game starts at 10 here and goes until ( Read more... )

Took another hours long walk today, this time to the north of the city, down to the Dom, then across the Rhine. All very scenic ( Read more... )

Correction to the last post: in Germany they say 'football' but they spell it fussball. I can't figure it out either ( Read more... )

So, more on Germany. The apartment is nice (heated now) and very IKEA-fabulous. It's on the 6th floor of a building that might be a squat because I have never seen a damned person in here. If the elevator didn't move and there wasn't the occasional knocking sound I'd know I was alone. The office I'm working in is much better than the one at ( Read more... )

I did a half day of work and then took a cab to the airport. The cab driver (who drove a LNG cab. Didn't know those existed) was a bit of a character and I'm ever so glad that he felt comfortable enough around me to drop the N-bomb as I was exiting. Class is so easy to find sometimes. Boarded the plane and proceeded to sit on the runway for two ( Read more... )

So as everyone on Facebook with me already knows, my house was robbed yesterday. This came directly on the heels of my office being robbed (my laptop was stolen) and when I went home yesterday it was with a head full of "ok, I have to change things up so that my apartment is protected from burglars." I used to have a roommate home at pretty much ( Read more... )

I have a number of posts that I've started but then got caught up in other things and never finished. Most of these are music related and in the next couple of days I'm going to try to finish them off/polish them up for mass consumption ( Read more... )

"When in England , at a fairly large conference, Colin Powell was asked by the Archbishop of Canterbury if our plans for Iraq were just an example of empire building' by George Bush ( Read more... )

I am starting a new feature here at the ol' LJ ( Read more... )