• In Germany

    In Germany

    Things aren’t much different in Germany since I’ve been here last, in 2007. It’s been three years, but they still have the same foods in the supermarket, and a few more, and they still watch the same shows on TV, and a few more. The same re-runs, the same American Sitcoms, the same German original…

  • Yes, they cost more…

    … but they’re worth it. If you’re still wondering if you should fork over the extra cash to buy a product from Apple, here’s a little experience I just had. So I had trouble with my iPad. Something wasn’t quite right. But I couldn’t quite understand what it was. It’s like one of the buttons…

  • Stuffies Held Hostage

    My son has a problem. For some, it might not be a real problem… but for me it is. Well, he forgets stuff. He forgets everything that is not important to him at the time. It might be important afterwards, after he has forgotten about it, but by then it’s already too late. Take his…

  • How Erik met Karin

    How Erik met Karin

    Where to begin? Oh, I know: The internet. A computer. The very thing you’re sitting in front of right now. Without the internet and a couple of computers connected to it, and two lonely people sitting in front of them, nothing of all this would have happened, or at least, the chances for it to…

  • We’re Pigs

    We’re Pigs

    Every weekday morning I drive to work at 7:20 AM. And every morning I see this gentleman on the street, walking down the road, rain or shine, with a white plastic shopping bag in hand. The white plastic shopping bag is always full. He walks along the road and picks up what everyone else threw…

  • Meet Gracie

    Meet Gracie

    This is Grace O’Malley. The pirate cat with the missing leg. Actually, it’s not missing. Her right front leg is a bit deformed and has only one toe, with a claw attached to it, that looks like a hook. A pirate captain’s hook. Since she’s a female, I had to find a female pirate name…