So people, I have to pack my bags and depart. I wish everyone a warm pleasant evening, have fun and may Gods go with you.

*ouch*!
*rubs carpetburns and looks at drag marks*

ts ts ts mykl. Couldn't you have at least used a cart or something? Schönen Feierabend :)

Thanks for the new home, mykl :-)

Mr. Ferrari cancelled today's lesson - he'd rather ride his motorcycle today, now that the SUN's finally come out :-) Wonder why he'd prefer that to English lessons/working on website? :-)

Hi all!
So I finally found you!
... and spaghettied!

Edith meint, das müsse "spaghettic" heißen ...

Good morning people, a very happy Wednesday to one and all. Emil, I could have added a couple of hundred more, bur it was getting too close to going-home time. :)

Moin!
Thanks for the new thread, mykl..

"tangled, bangled, spangled and spaghettied" if I remember correctly.. (Hair)
I-net doesn't run as fast as I would like it to due to a Virus scan running in the background..

Been out w't'dogs, sunny but windy.. Hubby's birthday tomorrow, so I'm gonna bake a cake and make (a) Tiramisu.. Which I am not allowed to eat *heul*
No raw eggs for me..

Test for diabetes tomorrow, gotta stay one hr at the doc.. eat nothing, drink nothing..Gotta good book..

Oh, I bought DVDs from Loriot for hubby.. Ödipussi and Pappa ante Portas (and "Ein Mann sieht rot" with Charles Bronson- which I won't watch! Awful!)

Watched a really interesting film about wolverines in FIN yesterday.. beautiful country and it looks so much like AK.. Does even have the same animals.. After that, we watched Tamme Hanken do his chiropractical things on horses.. Amazing. A former colleague of mine had him work her horse once and says the results are quite astonishing..

Moin!
in-the-attic wäre auch noch schön.
Klar, dass mir jene musikalische Aufzählung einfallen musste.

Hi, All!

Just a quickie - am off to turn in my application, but first have to purchase a "Bewerbungsmappe" - ran out of them, and companies now seem to KEEP the nice ones :-)) Cost-saving measure, most likely.

Sun's shining brightly, but freezing cold - NOT complaining...

Was sitting here printing out a CV update, when an e-mail came in requesting that I submit an offer for 106 pages - spoke with the person, hung up, only to have the phone ring - and "unknown" person had heard of me, and also wants an offer for about 10 pages....all tech mech, but at least basically on a subject I can understand (IT and robotics). Gotta get a move-on.

OH WARI, I flunked my diabetes test way back when - had so-called "Schwangerschaftsdiabetes" BUT only because I had "pigged-out" on chocolate the day before, and that morning :-))

*emerges from pure chaos*

Hi Emil, Carly and Wari *waves* we're having an 'orrible 'orrible day here. Chaos after a power failure 5 hours ago and we're still trying to get things running as they should. :(

*submerges back into chaos*

Pour mykl.. *hug*



Am going to shut down now and do some kitchen work.. Have a nice afternoon/evening!

Pour mykl, he hasn't resurfaced for hours!
Ich hoffe, ihm und allen anderen geht's gut!

Poor mykl, sending you a belated hug!

Tja, ihr habt eure der, die, das Krimskrams - und wir haben heimtückische "spelling" - pour = u.a. einschenken, pouring rain, usw. - poor = arme mykl :-(

I didn't get the 8-page translation - somehow his message ended up in my spam folder, and I was gone for most of the afternoon, saw it too late, gave him a call, but the publishing house had insisted that either he get a translator RIGHT NOW, or they would...very interesting article, and I would have had NO problem translating it...oh well, he said he'd keep me in mind.

Went to the Arbeitsamt to personally turn in my application for the part-time job - naturally, Murphy's Law struck again - they've changed their "we close early day" from Thursday to Wednesday...will try again tomorrow!!!

Beautiful weather and it did me a world of good to get down into the valley. On the way back from taking my granddaughter to her riding lesson, weather report came on forecasting more snow for the weekend. In unison, we both said: Bitte, kein Schnee mehr :-)) Pretty bad, when even a child can no longer stand the sight of snow :-)

Uiuiuiuiui! Wer den Schaden hat, spottet jeder Beschreibung!

Goo dmorning people, a very happy Thursday to one and all. We had REAL problems yesterday. There was a short power cut which threw all our communications to h*ll. My work mates were still fighting the problem after I went home, a beaten man. :( *g*

At least we now know who's to blame...

http://www.derwesten.de/staedte/unna/Radio-An...

Morgen allerseits. Uns haben Sie auch leichte Schneeschauer versprochen. Und es wird wieder arschkalt! Da bleibt man doch lieber zu Hause! Einziger Trost: vielleicht komme ich ja doch noch zum Schlittschuhlaufen jetzt wo der Schnee auf den Teichen abgetaut ist und es wieder deutliche Minusgrade gibt.

Good morning 4y, we had ground frost this morning, but now we're back into the plusses and the sun is shining. We've been 'promised' snow for the weekend, but I won't hold them to their promise. :)

...und da ist der Schnee auch schon. Bin ICH FROH, dass ich das OLLE GRÜNE GRASS nicht mehr sehen muss! grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!

*Träller "Hüttenkoller, ich krieg hier gleich 'nen Hüttenkoller" im Tangorhytmus

*auchmalwiederreinschau*

Hallo zusammen!

Hier ist auch Schnee für Freitag Abend angesagt...

So, time to think about going home. *doesn't need to think very long* Bye bye people.

byyyyyyyyyyyyeeeeee mykl!! Hope things got figured out at work!!

*still here*
A very quiet 'normal' day today Carly, have fun. Bye. :)

Bye mykl!

Just got back from another "go" at the Arbeitsamt - at least they took my application, and will explain to client why I STILL DO NOT HAVE my "Zeugnis" 3 years later...personnel made 3 huge mistakes, and still haven't provided me with the corrected version...grrrrrrr

Hi Mafi! And hello to All and Sundry :-)

Moin all!
It is dry and sunny!

Hi Emil!

Sun peeking through the clouds, BUT it just started snowing...have I said lately that I am sick and tired of that white junk???

Hallo, Carly!
Ich fand den Winter eigentlich ganz schön, aber ich hatte auch nicht so viel Arbeit damit wie Du. Die sonnige Phase hätte ein bisschen länger dauern können. Ich glaube aber nicht, dass heute noch soviel Schnee fällt, dass man noch groß schippen müsste.
Wie ist eigentlich die Sache mit der zusätzlichen Räumung entlang des "Gartens" ausgegangen?

Der Vermieter hat sich bei mir nicht gemeldet, und ich habe es einfach nicht getan - und werde es nicht tun! Die Nachbarin hat's auch nicht gemacht...ich glaube, ihre Tochter mußte es 1X als "Strafe". Emil, wir hatten hier nur Schnee, und die Sonne so gut wie nie gesehen...das zermürbt :-)) Und hier oben fühlte ich mich echt völlig vom Außenwelt isoliert - das war das Schlimmste. Ich will nur hoffen, daß ich die Halbtagsstelle bekomme, und dann nix wie weg - wieder ins Tal!!!!

Ja, dann drücke ich Dir ganz besonders fest die Daumen!

So, Feierabend!
Bis bald! *heimgeh*

2-3 inches of new snow :-((( All the lovely green spots are once again covered...

Good morning people, a very happy Friday to one and all. WE had a bit of snow last night and a ground frost, but nothing serious thank goodness.

Hi All!

Snow, but at least the sun's out :-) Waiting for the telekom guy to come and fix my phone - ever since I moved here, I've heard people mumbling away in the background...couldn't really hear what they were saying, but just that someone was on my line. For the past couple of days, I distinctly hear some (elderly) woman talking about such exciting things as "Hundekacke" :-))

edit on: The phone just rang once - same woman on the line, but not wanting to speak to me - heard her saying to someone else: Das hast du SCHON WIEDER gemacht...

Moin Carly, is that the Telecom that's coming or Ghostbusters. *gg*

More like Ghostbusters :-))

Hope you get back down into the valley this year too. :)

So, early finish today to go to daisyville. I wish everyone a pleasant evening & weekend.

Morning all!
I lived in a (more or less legal)squat in St Albans for a few years and we thought the telephone there was haunted! Each time you picked it up, you could hear the last thing that was said in the previous conversation.
Now I’m not saying that our friends in blue aren’t the sharpest tools in the shed, but if they are going to tap someone’s phone they should at least do it properly (can you imagine the fun you can have when you know someone is listening in, if they hadn’t illegally tapped it they would have tried prosecuting us for wasting police time).
The sun is out here but snow is on the way :-(

Moin.
No snow here yet, but ground frost.


Carly: That's the CIA, NSA or whoever.. You are an American citizen living in a country full of potential terrorists..Of course, the are listening to your phone... tsts.

mykl: Have a wonderful weekend and give my best greetings to daisy..

My best friend was here this morning, she's pregnant, too. Got 3 weeks head start (and 10 kg..I really feel THIN! Imagine that!!!).. So we talked about (surprise!) babies! Even the dogs got bored ;)

Carla is in fully in heat now, standing still and taking her tail away for every male to enter.. Quiet embarrassing in a way.. We separated them now, as I cannot watch over them every second.. Hope it's gonna last only a few days..

Now Wari, Wouldn't that be "fun" - a brand new baby, and 5-7 puppies in one go :-)) Glad to hear your best friend is also expecting :-)) Way to go!

Your "American citizen" remark triggered a memory, Wari. At the height of the RAF reign of terror, I had moved into my own apartment, which was almost unheard of back then here in German - "girls" moved from their parent's house, into that of their newly wed husband. My sister and I threw a Halloween party (also unheard of way back when), and our friends arrived: men dressed as women, 2 dressed as Arabs, a couple of clowns, one ghost. A week or two later, early Saturday morn, I awoke to someone pounding on my door. Stumbled out of bed, my hair in pigtails, wearing a Mickey Mouse nightgown, kitty-cat bedroom slippers - to ask: Wer ist da, bitte - AUFMACHEN!! POLIZEI!!! Opened door to see about 4 policemen armed to the teeth, machine guns and all - looking very silly when I asked: Ja, bitte?? Uns wurde gemeldet, daß sich Terroristen hier befinden würde. Me: Sie können gerne reinkommen, bitteschön. Uhhh - Nein, nicht nötig - entschuldigen Sie bitte die Störung :-))

Moin!
Man gut, dass Dir nichts passiert ist, Carly.
entschuldigen Sie bitte die Störung - Tatsächlich?

Ja, tatsächlich, Emil :-)) Sie waren sehr verlegen, und meinten noch, jemand hätte gemeldet, daß es "sehr merkwürdig" bei die Neue (6 Familienhaus, glaube ich) zugehen würden. Und gerüchteweiser hatte die RAF in Taunus mehrere Kontaktwohnungen gehabt - tja, und ich wäre eine davon, laut Nachbarn. Damals hatte ich kein Auto, fuhr mit dem Bus, und die Busfahrern haben fast die Reiheweg, mich noch als "Schülerin" eine Karte verkauft, das Gleiche wenn ich ins Schwimmbad wollte - richtig peinlich, war dies nur, wenn wir 4 (Schwester/Freund, ich /Freund) ins Kino wollten (frei ab 16) und ich oft genug mich ausweisen mußte :-)

Ja, das war eine interessante Zeit.
Wir sind mal auf der Autobahn durch ein Spalier von Maschinenpistolenträgern gefahren.

Vor ein paar Monaten wurde ich nachts angehalten, und nachdem sie sich davon überzeugt hatten, dass das Stückchen Kalkstein das ich auf der Mittelkonsole liegen habe, kein Shit war, fragte einer: "Sind Sie ein Jägersmann?"
Tja, zwei falsche Vermutungen innerhalb von wenigen Minuten ...

Emil: Ja, das sind schon Intelligenzbestien.. *gg*

Wünsche Euch allen ein wunderschönes Wochenende!
*mich in selbiges verabschied*

Na, Emil - Du Hippy, Du :-))

Immer noch Sonne pur, und ich konnte nicht weg, weil ich als auf Telekom warten mußte - der angeblich hier gewesen sei heute morgen, und mich nicht zu Hause angetroffen haben wollte - wenigstens hat die HelpDesk-Frau ihn nochmal hierher geschickt, wo er sich schon ins "weekend feeling" gesehen hatte :-))

edit on: Er hatte sein 1. "Ticket" mit der Bemerkung "Fehler liegt beim Kunden, und nicht TK" - als die Dame dies mir vorlas, meinte ich: Ach ja, ich habe mir selbst Stimmen in meine Leitung eingespeist :-)) Meine Tochter: Na ja, Mama, vielleicht hörst Du schon Stimmen :_)

Well, the snow is back full force - not a green patch in sight, streets covered, winds howling, I'm beginning to really believe that spring will never ever arrive this year :-(( And I don't feel like shovelling anymore of that stuff!!!

Moin! Got my moring "work-out" shovelling another ton of snow...sun's just come out, and I dearly wish that junk would finally MELT - and NOT come back till Christmas :-))

Moin!
Poor Carly!
Wahrscheinlich wäre es klug, sich für Ostern noch einen Sack Streusand hinzustellen.

Hi Emil! Ja, normaleweise kann man sich auf ein "White Easter" verlassen :-(( Mein "mystery Vogel" war heute wieder zum Futtern da - ist gewachsen und hat doch ein relativ lange, spitze Schnabel, sodaß ich fast wieder auf Buntspecht tippte - ABER ich habe ihn jetzt gefunden!!! http://www.naturseite.ch/bilder/garten/73.jpg LOLOLOLOLO! Woltte gerade "Distelfink" schreiben, habe aber davor nochmal den Text neben Kleinbild gelesen - Distelfink ODER Stieglitz :-))

Ach, ich hatte gedacht, dass wir uns über Diestelfink/goldfinch schon längst einig geworden wären.

Ja, aber ich hatte sein Schnabel nicht ganz so spitz/lang in Erinnerung, und wußte auch nicht, daß er auch Distelfink heißt :-) Muß jetzt eine Kleinigkeit essen, dann mich aufraffen, eine Übersetzung + eine Korrekturlesung zu tätigen...wenn's nochmal schneien sollte, soll die untere Partei ENDLICH was tun :-))

Es wird immer deutlicher: ich brauche ein Rechtschreibprogramm.

LOL! Read your typo correctly, Emil :-) When my PC went completely haywire, and Mr. Ferrari saved all my data, he also installed the "Google Chrome" browser, which has an integrated spell-checker. I only use that browser though, when working in Mr. F's company's change management system.

Ich finde ja schon erstaunlich, was diese Programme können.
Ich habe nur das in Word, aber mindestens für die Beseitigung von Flüchtigkeitsfehlern (ich lasse gerne mal ein 'is' weg) ist es super.
Bis später ...

Ja, sie sind eine große Hilfe! Ich muß aber aufpassen, weil obwohl ich stets "AE" als Standard auswähle, und Autokorrektur deaktiviere, bei jede neue Dokument stellt sich gerne D von selbst ein, und "korrigiert" mein "its" in "ist" :-)

Optimieren der Regelparameter der Achsen mittels Messungen...Achsen in Mehrzahl???

Entschuldigung, ich war ein bißchen lange weg.
Achse oder Achsen - beides ist in dem Satzfragment möglich.
Was man nehmen sollte, ergibt sich aus dem Zusammenhang.

Danke, Emil :-)) Zusammenhang gibt es eigentlich nicht, ist ein Punkt in einem Zeugnis...aber da für Fräsmaschinen, gehe ich davon aus, daß es mehrere Achsen sind :-)

Hallo Carly!
Ich hoffe, Du hast einen schönen Sonntag.
Hier waren es heute morgen -12 °C, aber ansonsten reichlich Sonne.
Wenn es aus einem Zeugnis ist, wird der Betreffende sicher mehr als eine Achse optimiert haben.
(Es sei denn, er hat eine Achse optimiert ... und das war dann auch die letzte.)

Hi Emil, :-)) Sonne hier -3°C, und ein Schock-Sonntag - seit gestern Abend habe ich gelegentlich "doppel Bilder" gesehen. Heute fuhr ich los, und sah alles doppelt - erschreckend!! Kam zurück, überlegete hin und her, aber da ich auch 2 Meißner sehe, riefe ich im Krankenhaus an - lange Rede, kurze Sinn - kam vor ca. 1 Stunde vom Notdienst-Augenärztin, die mich am liebsten heute noch nach GÖ gefahren haben wollte - morgen fährt mich meine Tochter - die schlimmsten Sachen konnte sie selbst ausschließen: grüner/grauer Starr, Hirnbluten, ziemlich sicher kein Hirntumor, tippt auf Durchblutungsstörungen, meinte aber "ohne Brille nur 30%, mit 50% Sehkraft" hätte ich gegenwärtig. Ach so, auch kein Schlaganfall...very scary!!

Oh weh, Carly! Das hört sich ja gar nicht gut an.
Ich drücke erstmal ganz fest die Daumen, dass sie mit ihren Untersuchungen die ganz schlimmen Sachen wirklich sicher ausschließen können.

Good morning people, a very happy Monday to one and all.

*kicks positive energy generator on-line for Carly*

Schließe mich den guten Wünschen an. Gute Besserung, Carly!!!

Und guten Morgen allgemein den hier Versammelten.

Maybe you simply got cross-eyed from squinting at that bird Carly :). I sure hope its nothing more serious than that!

Good morning to each and all of yous.

Hi 4Y and Galeazzo *waves*

*waves back*

Moin!
Und nochmal -12 °C!

Hi Emil, you can stop that before you even start. My fingers were numb when I got to work this morning and it was only -6. *gg*

So people, it's just about time to pack the toys away in the cupboard for another day. I wish everyone a warm pleasant evening. Till the morn. :)

Einen guten Heimweg und einen schönen Feierabend, mykl!

HI ALL! Scare's over - thank God!! They ran all kinds of eye tests, which basically ruled out anything wrong with my brain function (ha ha:-)). Eyes were completely in focus today - but, need glasses to drive with - a so-called "Fernbrille" - seeing double most likey triggered by dry, hot air in my office...they determined I'm far-sighted (1.0 diopter) and have "doppelte Hornhautverkrümung" - had to walk around for 15 minutes wearing "glasses" that looked rather like these, except my colors were red with thick black rims :-)) http://www.optik-leonhardt.de/uploads/Newspic...

byeeeeee mykl!!!

Da bin ich aber froh, Carly!

Danke, Emil! Ich auch! Auf meine Frage wegen Durchblutungstörungen antwortete Dr. - er hätte keinerlei Anzeichen dafür gesehen, daß könnte nur durch ein CT 100%ig ausgeschlossen sein, aber er hält dies nicht für notwendig! Und ich muß die Brille nicht dauernd tragen :-)

Good morning people, a very happy Tuesday to one and all. Carly. I'm glad to here that that's been sorted out.

Moin.
Alles ok. hier. Habe mir aber einen Computer-virus eingefangen, der mein gesamtes System lahmgelegt hat. Von hubbys PC aus komme ich zwar ins I-net, aber erstmal sind alle Dateien futsch..
*heul-jammer*

*mich wieder ans hacken mach*

Moin, All!

Wari, das tut mir aber Leid!! Hoffentlich kannst Du Deine Dateien noch retten!!!

Woke up around 8 am feeling very much refreshed/relieved, breakfasted, read paper, book, went to call my Mommy, and again saw two mountains - not as bad as over the weekend, but still...I just don't get it!

Good morning Wari and Carly *waves* I've not been 'infected' yet on either of my compies *keeps fingers crossed* Carly, that doesn't sound quite so optimistic as yesterdays report was. :(

Moin!
Das ist ja blöd, Carly! Auf der anderen Seite konnte man aber auch nicht erwarten, dass das von der Untersuchung allein wieder weggeht. Ich hoffe, sie hatten wenigstens ein paar vernünftige Ratschläge, was Du in Zukunft machen sollst.
Das ist ja blöd, Waringham! Viel Erfolg beim Reparieren!

Nee, Emil - Brille anfertigen lassen - und es wäre nicht etwas mit dem Gehirn. Aber von einer Millisekunde auf der nächste - echt furchterregend. Da es bisher (3 Mal) beim strahlender Sonnenschein auftrat, und mit der Dämmerung allmählich verschwindet, frage ich mich, ob meine Pupillen nicht mehr ihre "shutter function" richtig wahrnehmen - aber gestern war auch Sonne pur, und ich hatte keine Probleme....mußte ins Edeka-Markt fahren, Vorräte auffrischen, da waren wenigstens stets nur ein Auto anstatt Zwei unterwegs. Oder, da meine Augen unterschiedlich geschwächt sind, vielleicht können sie sich nicht mehr synchronisieren :-)

Huch... ich habe gar nicht mitgekriegt, dass wir umgezogen sind
*shufflesoutashamedly*

Hi Isi, easy to miss, we've only been living here a week. *gggggggg*

Well, I've been a tad busy... =)

I thought as much, but don't worry about it, we're not going to be very far away. :)

So, home time again. I wish everyone a warm pleasant evening.

Byyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

byeeeeeeeee =)

HIIIIIIIIII easy!!

So, not only did my eyes quit functioning, but telephone and Internet, TOO - more snow forecasted for Thursday - it's never gonna quit, is it???

BUT, I can see straight again :-)) And am re-connected to LEOLand.

Emil, ich hatte überlegt, ob ich mir den Spiel "antue" - und entschied dagegen - dann doch dahin "geszappt" - ich krieg die Krise wenn sie nicht endlich anfangen, Fußball zu SPIELEN, anstatt sich nur das Ball hin und her zu kicken...

Huhu, easy! Lange nicht gesehen!

Tatsächlich, Carly, Donnerstag/Freitag Schnee und Regen!
Das Ganze bei Temperaturen über Null.
Ich weiß schon, wie ich mich fühlen werde ...
Momentan ist schon wieder/noch immer Frost.
Zum K...onntest Du nicht ein anderes Thema anfangen?

Good morning people, a very happy Wednesday to one and all. :)

Good morning everybody!

When I was strolling around in the Quasselzimmer procrastinating some important but highly unpopular things like doing the housework, I stumbled across this thread and was attracted by the title... ;)
BTW, what does TESO stand for?

Hi mykl, nice to see you again :-) Did you find your motivation yet? Seems as if it's confederated with mine now...

To
Eat
Someone
Out

Hi libby, always nice to see visitors here. HA!! You mean the 'kama Sutra' caught your eye.*gg* We started life as a threadnapping a couple of years ago...and we're still here. *g* Nope, no motivation yet, but I expect I'll find it lying on the roadside somewhere on my way home this afternoon.:)

A good place for a motivation to lie... but as you know, my logic is still missing..

And I still don't understand the meaning of "to eat someone out"... Maybe more than my logic is missing in my brain.;-)

Here's number 1 libby. Modesty forbids me explaining in graphic detail. *gggggggggggg*

related discussion: to eat s.o. out

related discussion: to eat s.o. out

- Ups, mykl war schneller.

Damals hießen gewisse Leute noch anders *g*

Good morning everybody! *waves and leaves*

*sweeps up leaves* *gg*

Hi/bye Galeazzo *waves*

I'm really glad I came here, it's always good to learn some new useful phrases! ;-)

Yep, sth that you can use in everyday normal conversation. *gg*

Oh yes, and I'd really enjoy the other people's faces... *gg too*

*rofpmslmfao*
MYKL AND MODESTY in ONE sentence without a negation in between??!
Hello my dears :)

Hi Isi, *waves* hab' dich auch lieb. *gg*

Puh! I always try to be polite.....to strangers/visitors. :)

I really appreciate it ...

*bows graciously*

Libby, I ain't always polite *whistles innocently* nerves have been frayed, tempers have flown *shrugs* but we're still here. The hardest steel is forged with the hottest fires, so to say. :)

Don't worry about that, I'll surely come back here! (you may decide yourself if that's a promise or a threat...)

Unfortunately I have to leave now (procrastination's over) :-(

Bye!

Ich Dich doch auch, myklchen ;o)
Why do you call a dragonfly Libby?

die Libelle. :)

oh, autsch ;o)

's OK, it's not as if you have a lot to do with animals. *fg*

Well, mykl, dragonflies are not exactly reptiles, are they? ;-)

*chuckle* they prbably started out that way, but were on holiday when the others started to grow feet. :)

Moin!
Interesting theory, mykl!

Hi Emil, I've got loads of 'interesting' theories. *gg*

That's even more interesting.
Do not hesitate to share your wisdom with us.

*chuckle* when I think of/remember one, I'll let you know. :)

We have feet, mykl!!! We only miss the forked tongue...

Not as larvae, I think, dragonfly.
http://www.sammlungen.hu-berlin.de/media2/sam...

That's too long ago, Emil, I don't remember any more... ;-)

Haha! It's all in the collections ...

Moin.
Ein Profi nimmt sich meines PCs an.. Hoffen wir das Beste für meinen nahezu fertigen Abschlussbericht..

Dragonflies do actually have more feet then reptiles. Some of the reptiles don't have legs and feet at all.. And we all started out the same in the primordial soup (new word learned: Ursuppe). But I do hope 70 is your year of birth, not the number of your legs...

Snow again? Why? Now even I have had enough of it. Listen, whoever-you-are-up-there-is-responsible: We've had enough for this spring. Drop down that stuff again on December 24th, earliest!!

Hi Wari, *waves* THAT took you long enough! I was sick of the sight of snow 4 weeks ago! :)

Trotzdem - übermorgen ist es wieder soweit.
Hallo, Waringham!

mykl, I actually enjoyed it most of the time. I don't have to get to work, drive long distances or anything. And I appreciate the shoveling as a morning work-out as long as I'm still able to do so.. But now I've really got enough snow and want sun and flowers and to be able to work in the garden (which looks simply awefull at the moment)..

We've got sleet/rain promised most of the w/e with 70% possibility of light snow on sat eve or sun morning, but then again I'm not going anywhere further than the corner shop (2oomtrs) so I don't really care.

Waringham, it's actually the year of birth... I guess I wouldn't be able to cope with 70 legs without falling... ;-)

Hi, All! And welcome dragonfly!

Escaped from the mountain today, since I could both see straight, and NOOOOOOOOOOOO SNOW - felt awfully trapped yesterday, what with double vision, and NO telephone/Internet - nothing working properly (included me :-)) Got my glasses ordered and about fainted at the price, and then again when I realized that the KV no longer pays anything towards the bill, unless you're practically blind, or not yet 18 :-)

Hi Carly, welcome to the 'blind-as-a-bat' club. I order my reading glasses (-3) in 3's (work, home and 'spare') an expensive hobby even when you use Fielman. *g*

Moin, Carly!
Ja, das ist wieder so eine Unverschämtheit unserer sozialen Sicherungssysteme.

Hi mykl, Well, I'm "only" -1 and -1.5 :-) Had set out to get 3 offers, since about two years ago, both Appollo and Fielman set up business in ESW, in addition to the two locals. Went to Appollo first, as they offer 1% rebate per "Lebensjahr" on the frames...didn't look any further.

Emil, JAAAAA - ich frage mich wirklich, wo geht das ganze Geld hin???

edit on: Und gegenwärtig sitze ich hier vorm PC, OHNE meine Lesebrille, und sehe alles :-)

LOLOLOLOL - Just heard myself on the radio - funny feeling - on HR1's "Thema des Tages" is "Soll der A 4 weiter ausgebaut, oder nicht" - heute wird in Karlsruhe entschieden, ob die nächsten Paar Kilometer gebaut werden dürfen, oder nicht - diesmal müssen die Fledermäuse für den BUND herhalten. Bisher wurden Tunneln für Molche, Brücken für Rehe, irgendwelche Mikroben berücksichtig...und die LKWs biegen weiterhin von der A5 ab, und fahren durch die Dörfer bis nach Kassel....und das seit 20 Jahren. Ostwärts ist schon längst fertig.

So, it's time to pack my things away again and prepwre for 'home time'. I wish everyone a warm pleasant evening. :)

Bist Du interviewt worden, Carly?

Bye, mykl! *waving*

Oh, das hab' ich gar nicht mitbekommen. Tschüss, mykl!

Byyyeeeee, mykl!!

Emil, man konnte anrufen, und seine Meinung dazu äußern - und wenn ich mir überlege, daß sie für 800.000 Euro 4,000 Molche erfasst haben, für diese Molche ein Tunnel von X-Millionen gebaut haben, um dann ganz zum Schluß zu sagen, daß 98% von den Molchen eh innerhalb eines Jahres ein natürlichen Tod sterben, weil die Lebenserwartung entsprechend ist - dann noch für X-Millionen Brücken für Rehe bauen...wer bringt die Tieren bei, daß sie diese Wege zu benutzen haben? Habe mit "Ostkollegen" gesprochen, die auch solche Brücken haben, sie sagten mir, die Förster/Landwirte freuen sich sehr über die "Rehbrücken" - die Rehe verwenden sie nicht. Der LKW-Verkehr ist einfach fast unerträglich, und sie (nicht alle, aber sehr VIELE) fahren wie die Bekloppten durch die Dörfer...

So, I'm off. Tibet-Demo. Eigentlich wollten wir uns vor die chinesische Botschaft stellen, aber das hat die Stadt München vVERBOTEN! Diese Feiglinge! 20 ausgewählte Tibeter dürfen sich schweigend ewine Stunde lang vor die Botschaft stellen, ohne Tibetflaggen oder ähnliches. Nicht mehr. *kotz*
Na ja, ich bin dann mal jetz aufm Mariechenplatz :)
Tschüssi
*knuuuuuuuuuuuuutsch*

Am off, too.

Carly: At least someone with my profession got paid to count all those animals.. *fg* And they will need much more "wildbrücken" if they really plan tp install all the 440 Wolfsrudel possible in Germany.. Yes, we are the same size as Finland, so that should be possible.. Who told them to look over the fact that we got 250 people per square km and FIN got about 10???
But let's not start that wolf discussion again ;)

Wish everybody a pleasant evening.
Hope I get the PC working by tomorrow to be able to drop by..

Oh, Carly! Da kam es ja wieder knüppeldick!
Dass die Rehbrücken ganz anderen Überquerungen dienen, habe ich auch schon gehört.
Zu den Molchen muss man sagen, dass es eben wichtig ist, die 2%, die von Natur aus überleben, nicht auch noch zusätzlichen Risiken auszusetzen. Ob Millionen teure Tunnel das beste sind, weiß ich auch nicht.
Und dann spielt in Deiner Gegend doch wohl auch die Wildkatze eine große Rolle, oder? Da gibt es doch Schutzzäune, dass man denkt, man stünde wieder an der Zonengrenze ...

Haben wir schon über Wölfe diskutiert, Waringham? Wenn unsere Siedlungsdichte so viel höher ist als die in Finland, heißt das doch bloß, dass Hilfe viel schneller kommen kann, wenn man von einem Wolfsrudel gejagt wird! Ich finde das unheimlich beruhigend.

Good morning!

Anybody awake yet?

Good morning people, a very happy Thursday to one and all.

Libby, the pace of life is a little slower here than in the ZZ. We don't all have a house full of nymphs to wake us up in the morning. *gg*

Ah yes, I'll keep it in mind... *gg too*

' morning everybody. Not sure if it's a good morning, though, given the fact that all that d**n white c**p is back again! :-(

As my mother put it when I phoned her this morning: "Diese globale Erwärmung geht mir echt auf den Wecker!"

Hi Galeazzo *waves*
*ponder* If the earth's warming why's it gotten colder here. *thumps table top* Who's getting our share of the Göbal warming, that's what I want to know. :)

Moin, everybody.

It's "climate change", not global warmimg..as I've been trying to tell you ever since the topic came up *gg*

Emil, I can't remember with whom I discussed the wolves.. May not even have been in this thread..

Galeazzo: What a shame we cannot start working in the garden..

Hi Wari, ours seems to be changing for the worse *gg* Lets see what the summer brings.

Moin!
Was soll denn das heißen?
What a shame we cannot start working in the garden.
Einfach den Schnee unterpflügen!

Hihi! Good idea! But I think you'll need some dynamite to get the plough into the frozen ground... ;-)

Hi Emil, I can't see what the fuss is about either, it's only water after all. :)

Dynamite !?! *looks at libby suspiciously* I'm fresh out at the moment, the local REWE doesn't stock it any more.

Only water... lucky mykl! We still have about 50 cm snow in our garden...

As for the dynamite, well... *drucksrum* *räusper* *nachausredesuch*
Oh, I got it: Government provided us with some to clear the way between house and road when the snow was still 4 or 5 metres high ;-) *hoffentlichnochmaldiekurvegekriegthab*

Hi Wari, I sent you a message (I hope, LEO did not eat it...)

Libby, and now the snow in front of the house is gone - and the road (and the house?) as well? ;-)

*gggggggggggg*

Yeah, over the past 30 years they've gone from the New Ice Age, to the greehouse effect, to global warming and now "climate change" - soooo, no matter whether it's hot or cold, they're NOT wrong :-) And, I fully agree with your mother, Galeazzo :-) They are now trying to state that this unending white stuff is caused by global warming...makes a bunch of (non)sense - sorry, Wari.

Freezing cold here, more snow predicted for the weekend, Internet/telephone conked out on me again today...enough complaining :-)

We're still rebuilding... ;-)

Hi Carly *waves* YOU !! COMPLAIN !!! never ever *GG*

Many many years ago I/we used to go trout fishing with dynamite. It's much easier to pick them off the surface than trying to get worms to spot them underwater. :) *whistles innocently*

I guess "innocent" is not a word I would associate with you, as far as I learned about you by now...
*ggggg*

Puh! Lies, damned lies and statistics. I'm as pure as the driven snow. *back on snowy topic* I've just had a 'colourful' life *still trying to whistle innocently*

"colourful life", ah yes. What exactly does that mean?

You're not that successful in whistling innocently... keep trying! *ggg*

What exactly does that mean

Just about anything I danged please. *fg* it's about doing things you want instead of doing what's expected as an 'adult'. I still don't know what I want to be if I grow up. NO, I've never been good at whistling innocently, it's the false teeth that prevent it I think *gg*

träller
tell me lies tell me sweet little lies – tell me tell me lies
oh no no you can't disguise - you can't disguise – no you can't disguise
träller
Is this a violation of copy righs?
träller

Naughty lion! Again this annoying E 502!

mykl, I really did expect a more colourful description of your colourful life! *gg*

Puh! I'm not going to tell 80 billion silent readers everything that I've done (or haven't done for that matter). *gg*

Glaubst Du wirklich, dass das so viele sind, mykl?
Da traut man sich ja gar nicht mehr auf die Straße!

Just tell it to us non-silent readers then. We are not going to pass it on to anybody else. Ehrlich! ;-)

That's why we all use nicknames isn't it?? To protect out private lives. *ggg*

*laughs* Yeah, yeah, course you wouldn't Galeazzo. :) Maybe I'll get to the big do-nut one day and we can swop stories. :)

I agree with Galeazzo *ggg*

Pech, you'll have to get to a leo-treff one day then. :)

So, my working day is drawing to a close. I wish everyone a warm pleasant eveing. Till the morn.

Byyyyyyeeeeeeeeeeee

Yes, I guess I'll have to...
Bye!

Colourful life? Are we back to topic, then?
=)
Die nächsten zwei Tiere, die ich bekomme, MUSS ich einfach Yersinia und Vibrio nennen. Oder Regen und Traufe? Egal.

*leiserieseltderSchnee*
*summ*

Yersinia und Vibrio! Das ist eine prima Idee.

Aber eigentlich klingen sie wie ein Geschwisterpaar:
Yersinia und Vibrio, die gingen in den Wald ...
... und stießen schließlich die Hexe in den Backofen.

Hallo Emil.
Stympt, das klingt irgendwie ...vertraut :)
Nosema find ich auch einen ganz höpschen Namen.
Ich schlitter dann mal heim.
Tschüssili

Hello, is anyone here? Seems to be very quiet...

Hi dragonfly! There's usually only a couple of us who "work" the night shift - Apart from myself, Emil often pops up, as does easy

Ah well, never mind! Maybe I should take that as a signal and go to bed a little earlier tonight... ;-)
I'll see you tomorrow, I guess.

Good night!

Oh, Carly, sorry, I didn't see you... *waving*

Libby, This thread is most active during the morning to afternoon hours :-)) Night-night!

Yes, I've already noticed that... ;-)
Good night!

Ahh! Nächtliche Aktivitäten! Sehr schön!

Edith sagt: "Draußen schneit es ganz leicht."

Und jetzt ich nochmal:
atomagically
War das ein Tippfehler oder Absicht, mykl?
Auf jeden Fall ganz toll!

Good morning people, a very happy Friday to one and all.

Emil, it's a 'standard' misspelling in the ZZ tread. :) That way the table can be set to automagic/automagisch for breakfast, distributing birthday cake or whatever. *ggg*

Good morning!

I'm late today, I know... No way to wake you up :-(
Family duties came first today, and I decided to walk the children to the kindergarten instead of going by car considering the diesel prizes... (1,21 €/l)


Another few cm of fresh snow, but spring-like -2°, birds are singing happily... A bit foggy though, I can't see the mountains around but hope they're still there...

Good morning libby *waves* Good idea to walk insted of take the car. I was a car owner up to 4 years ago and I've been known to drive to the local 'corner shop', all of 250 mtrs. *gg* I can't say that I'm an enthusiastic cyclist, but it serves all my needs and I can't see me having a car again (but who knows, I may one day). :) 'Twas foggy here too this morning, but now it's just drizzling and grey. :(

*wavingback* Hi mykl!

It would be nice to get along without a car, but it's quite impossible here, at least if you've got children. We talked about the long ways to get anywhere here, didn't we? And the local "Busunternehmen" is going to reduce their number of (what is "Fahrten"?) from April, so there will be even less alternatives to get somewhere without a car... :-(

services

I'm lucky, my little town has everything I need within a 'reasonable' distance. To go shopping its about one and a half kilometers, to get into town about three and a half. There is a local 'corner shop', but I'd soon be broke if I had to do all my shoppping there. :). If I'm feeling lazy or the weather is really bad there's a bus every 20 minutes into town AND I can take my bike, 'cause it's all downhill to get home. :)

services Thank you, I'll try to memorise it *speicher*

Downhill to get home sounds good... For me it's the other way round, I live up-uphill...

20 minutes to get into town, 6 minutes to get home. Very handy if I've been to the pub. As long as I keep up my speed I don't end up cuddling too many trees (sth to do with mass and gyroscopic effect). :)

Good morning, fresh snow here as well, but MELTING *gnihihi*
Ich sags ja schon seit ner Woche: Das ist bloß das letzte verzweifelte Aufbäumen eines sterbenden Winters. SO!

Hi Isi *bussi* keep saying it, maybe it'll help. :)

I won't believe this until I see the flowers breaking their way through the snow... which is going to take about a while, I'm afraid...

Ahhh, but just think libby. All the flowers that should have already been will all come out at once when it gets warmer. It should be quite spectacular. :)

Also, ich habe schon die ersten grünen Blätter von Narzisse und Co gesehen. Und Schneeglöckchen. Und immerhin ist das hier München, also Quasisibirien ^^
*bussiback*
Und die Vögel finden auch schon, dass Frühling ist. Demnächst ist ja schon Mittfrühling (21.03.)... Immerhin habe ich an Imbolc Frühlingsanfang gefeiert ;o)

It should be quite spectacular. :)

mykl, it really is! As the snow normally stays longer here than anywhere else *g*, not only the flowers but all the trees really hurry to grow and get green as soon as the snow has vanished. You can watch the changes from day to day!
But at the moment there's still a lot of snow everywhere...

It's nice to hear the birds again. Up until last week I had wondereded why they were just singing and not flying, until I saw that their feet were frozen to the branches. *fg*

*ggggg*
You misunderstood them. They weren't singing, they were screaming for help...

rofpml

*passes easy a wischmop* *gg*

;-P
So, dann trink ich jetzt mal was zur Rehydrierung *g* und geh dann mal Reptilien ärgern...

Bye Isi, have fun.

Slight bit of snow here, too - but I don't have to shovel it - mountain was covered in fog, which is now dispersing - OHHHH and the sun just came out! But freezing cold. Plant-wise, still no sign of spring, apart from sneezing attacks, indicating that pollen must be flying somewhere in my vicinity :-)) Birds chirrping away, but more to call my attention to the fact that bird seed is running low on windowsill.

Hi Carly *waves* after the snow is gone we'll have to wait for summer so that we can complain about the dreadful heat. *gggg*

Hi mykl - Me complain?? Noooo...not much :-))

Moin.
The PC just ate what I had written.. *grmblpf*

If I reacall it correctly, it was something about bribable scientist, dragonflies flying to the kindergarden and no snow up here yet..

Hi Wari, *waves* sounds more like a bad dream than a posting. :)

hihi, Carly's just been 'given' a sex change *gg*

Moin, all!
Sonnig und 6 °C - das lässt hoffen ...

*gg* Happens every now and then, mykl - Perhaps I ought to look into it - it's a man's world :-))

Hi Emil waves*

Naw Carly, you probably wouldn't like being a man, just stay as you are. :)

"sex change" sounds interesting..
No bad dream, mykl..Just commenting on a lot of things in one sentence..

Hi, Emil - na wenn die Centigrade nun endlich über die Grenze wandern würden :-))

Well, mykl, it would be rather difficult explaining to my granddaughter that she now has a new Opa :-)) On the other hand, I would no longer have to de-gray, I could go "distinguished" :-))

Hmm, what's the female equivalent of distinguished. Elegant??

Ich glaub', ich kriege gar nichts mit. Und dann wieder dieses E 502 ...

Yeah, we've been hit with them again today. Maybe Leo needs some sunshine to warm his circuits up a bit.

Ja, ich hatte auch jede Menge 502s...

Emil, konntest Du garnicht mitkriegen, weil es nicht in dieser Faden geschehen ist :-) related discussion: Bei uns wird auch das Kleingedruckte groß ge...

#201 ...I could go "distinguished"

If you were unlucky, you'd go bald instead (ok, this would also solve the gray hair problem...) *ggg*

Wari, did you get my message yesterday?

Good point, Galaezzo! Though, if I recall correctly, the "bald" gene is passed from the mother's side...her father had a full head of white hair...my Daddy went bald at about 28, my son shows no signs of it, so far :-))

@ #205: What a little 'h' can do!

Isi, darksun in the ZZ thread is looking for someone to take to the Lenzmondfestival tomorrow and he's got tickets :) ...#202

related discussion: Zählfaden 2385 - Wuff

It's become really quiet here again, I guess you've all gone home for the weekend already...
Good bye then, and have a nice weekend!

If we'd gone home we'd have have said summat. I don't have free use of my time libby, I'm being paid to work here once in a while. Leo is 'open' in my taskleiste, but I don't always have the time for more than a quick read.

Don't be mad at me... I just had a look in here after I'd been away to take care of the children... which I have to do sometimes ;-)

Huh ? Angry? I thought it was neutral. If you think that I sounded mad, wait until I'm annoyed at sth. :)

Ich schaue erst später wieder rein.
Allen, die sich bis dahin verabschieden, ein schönes Wochenende!

I hope it'll not be me you are annoyed with... ;-)

Well, unfortunately I must go now, have to buy a birthday present for my mother... And as I told you about the long ways, I'll have to drive about 20km to get one...
I could have ordered something bei den Amazonen if I hadn't been that distracted by Leo over the last few days... ;-)

Good bye then, hope you'll have a nice weekend!

Bye Emil and libby.

So people, it's time to put the toys away again. I wish everyone a warm pleasant weekend.

Bye-bye.

Galeazzo: Yes, I got your message..and I thought I even answered.. hate this PC..keeps unlocking from the net..

I could never be so distracted to forget to order sth in Amazonien *gg* But like so many others in the bookthread, I now have to reduce my MTBR (mount to be read) before being allowed to buy another book..

Galeazzo: Tried to answer you just now, but cannot see the message in my "Ausgang" after saving it.. Did you get it?

Thanks, mykl, but I'm looking forward to a quiet weekend....... =)

Bye-bye, my dears, enjoy the two days off

Bye easy..
Am gonna shut down now and make the last tour w't'dogs..
Had internet access the whole day through.. I wonder if moving the easy chair (no pun intented) really did it..

Enjoy the weekend and don't let the bastards/weather/whatever get you down!

Got here too late to wish you all a lovely, snow-free weekend!

Wari, hast Du Deine Daten retten können???

Got home without a single snowflake, so your wishes weren't in vain, Carly.

Edith meint, da hätte ich ja wieder mal eine ganz besondere Uhrzeit getroffen ...

Moin!
Immer noch kein Schnee!

Willst Du Bedauern oder Freude ausgedrückt haben, Emil? ;o)

Hallo, easy!
Sei ganz Du selbst!

^^
Bin ich sowieso. Sprich: Hin- und hergerissen.
EIGENTLICH mag ich Schnee. Von Oktober bis zum ersten Januar.
Also:
HURRA :)))

Sehr gut!
Ich wechsele jetzt erst einmal den Standort.
Mal sehen, ob ich danach eher her- oder hingerissen bin.
Und wenn ja, wozu?

Moin! No snow here, either - YIPEEEEEEEEEE!!! But still cold as all heck!

Heard this morning on the radio:

Achtung, wir unterbrechen diese Sendung wegen eine wichtige Mitteilung der Polizei. Gesucht wird Frühling. Frühling wurde zur Letzt vor gut einem Jahr gesichtet. Wo mag er sich aufhalten? Die Polizei gibt zu bedenken, daß Frühling sehr verwirrt ist, denn sonst wäre er schon längst in FFH-Land gefunden worden. Bitte alle verdächtige Hinweisen zur Aufenthalt sofort der Polizei melden. :-))

Hi, Carly!
So ein Scherz kann einen ja erst recht runterziehen, wenn es draußen so trübe ist.

Stimmt, aber ich fand's lustig :-)) Und sehr clever gemacht.

Tschüss, bis später ...

Byeeeee - hunger habe ich :-)

Carly, your missed-spring-story is really nice! ;-)

Good night everybody!

No snow, but lotsa rain.. Water came into our bedroom this night.. Cannot sleep with windows closd so the wind brought the rain in..

Wg der Daten weiß ich noch nicht, der PC ist seit Freotag nachmittag beim Fachmann und hubby holt ihn nachher wieder ab.. Mal sehen.

Wünsche Euch allen einen wunderschönen Sonntag!

Hi All! Running late today :-) No snow, so far, but howling COLD winds! Glad to hear that you weren't flooded away, Wari :-)

Sonntägliche Wortmeldungen - wie schön!
Macht es Euch gemütlich!

Hi, Carly und Emil.
Was Anderes bleibt einem bei dem Wetter gar nicht übrig. Kamin an und kuscheln!

Hello all :)
Vielleicht bin ich ja blind, aber, Wari, was ist denn passiert mit Deinem Computer? Außer, dass er ab und an Postings frisst?

Hi easy (and Emil), Wari's PC contracted a virus, I think :-((

Und schon wieder ein Tag erfolgreich Nichts getan...na ja, nicht soviel wie ich tun wollte, getan. Lange geschlafen, vom Berg eine Stunde geflohen, gelesen, in LEOLand verweilt...jetzt ist gleich Bad putzen dran.

Oh, that sucks...
I have been very busy doing nothing this weekend as well. It's called recuperation, Carly, and it's quite legal every now and then ;o)

Es müsste doch jetzt eigentlich auch schon die Frühjahrsmüdigkeit eingesetzt haben.
Noch ein Grund mehr reichlich zu schlafen ...

Ja, Emil, müßte eigentlich die Zeit sein, aber ich taufe es in "Winterleidigkeit" um :-)) Still haven't cleaned my bathroom, BUT I DID put on a new pot of coffee and got my granddaughter's birthday presents properly wrapped, fed Kimmy-cat, talked to Mommy...:-) Been quite active, haven't I??

Das scheinen doch alles recht vernünftige Aktivitäten zu sein, Carly.
"Winterleidigkeit" - nicht schlecht.

Danke, Emil - die Witterung angepaßte Aktivitäten :-) Schöne Rest-Sonntag - und vielleicht bis später!

Good morning people, a very happy Monday to one and all.


:=)

Good morning!

I really thought I would be first this morning...

Well, maybe the next time... ;-)

I found a nice joke yesterday. You might have known it already but it was new to me so I wanted to share it with you...


An elderly couple, Margaret and Bert, moved to Texas. Bert always wanted a pair of authentic cowboy boots, so, seeing some on sale, he bought them and wore them home.

Walking proudly, he sauntered into the kitchen and said to his wife, 'Notice anything different about me?'

Margaret looked him over. 'Nope.'

Frustrated, Bert stormed off into the bathroom, undressed and walked back into the kitchen completely naked except for the boots. Again he asked Margaret, a little louder this time, 'Notice anything different NOW?'

Margaret looked up and exclaimed, 'Bert, what's different? It's hanging down today, it was hanging down yesterday, it'll be hanging down again tomorrow!'

Furious, Bert yelled, 'AND DO YOU KNOW WHY IT'S HANGING DOWN, MARGARET?'

'Nope', she replied.

'IT'S HANGING DOWN, BECAUSE IT'S LOOKING AT MY NEW BOOTS!!!!'

Without changing her expression, Margaret replied, 'Shoulda bought a hat, Bert. Shoulda bought a hat.'



;-)

See you later...

dragonfly: *rofl.*
Is it in the jokes-thread already?
*goes to have a look*
It isn't, so I'll post it.

Moin moin Wari *waves*

Nice one libby *gg*

related discussion: Jokes 2 (only English please)

Moin!

My PC caught a virus and was at the Doc..I came here via hubby's PC (good we have two). But that one has some problems connecting to the Internet when other people around us are busy online, too. It's a LAN-network I installed.
Now, my PC is back from the Doc, faster than ever, with a new Antivirus program and most data saved (apart from those I was working with when I caught the virus and shut down by disconnecting it from the power supplies immediately..)

Had some snowflakes this morning when walking w't'dogs, but it's to warm for it/them to stay. At least, there'll be spring officially by the end of the week.

@Galeazzo:
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Stadt_der_Tr...

Habe ich grade als Hörbuch gehört.. Besonders gerne mag ich "Dölerich Hirnfiedler" = Friedrich Hölderlin..

@mykl: Moin! *waves back* There was a car from Unna in our street this weekend ;)

*laughs* There was one parked across the road from daisys house last week as I was visiting. Seems everyone takes every opportunity to travel away from Unna when they get a chance. :)

And did you ask him/her to take you with him/her next time??

But is Unna that awful? Well, it was raining the last (and only) time I was there, but cannot be it.. *fg*

Gooooooooooood morning Vietnam and all the other countries on this planet. Had a lovely ITB and am now oh so happy to be back in the office. BUT hopefully I'll change offices on May 1st - got a very interesting offer to develop a "Kompetenzzentrum Sprachen / Sprachschule" for a private education institute in Stralsund. They offer 150% of my current salary and holiday entitlement - now I only need to make up a concept of how to go about building up a language school till thursday - all and any ideas are welcome. :)

Moin, All!

Well, 4Ys - Hiring me would be a step in the right direction :-)) Just kidding :-)) Are they starting from scratch? Or do they already have the basics, such as a building?? What languages? Need a few details.

Snow's back...and Mr. Ferrari cancelled his lessons for this week, too - last week sick, this week backlog of work - there goes another 120 euros down the drain. My granddaughter wasn't too thrilled about all the new snow arriving on her birthday, either :-)

4y that sounds quite cool. details needed for sure.. Are you going to hire teachers?

Tach Carly nad 4Y *waves* sounds like a good job 4y, but I wouldn't/dont have the foggiest idea how to go about it.

the dirty details:

The place is a private institution whose mainstay was to provide "überbetriebliche Berufsausbildung", mainly in Tourism, which was paid for by the Arbeitsamt. Now the funds from Arbeitsamt have all but dried up, so they are looking for new lines of business. They also had "Weiterbildungsangebote" for a long time, but hardly any languages at all. They have the buildings, one English and one French teacher - but no real concept (not sure about technologies like a language lab, but I don't think so).

What they want is to build themselves up as a language school for a) companies who want their employess to be trained and b) for individuals who want to learn a new language / improve their language skills. English is of course a must, I see additional potential here for Swedish and Polish for the (tourism) industry and Spanish, French & Russian for individuals.

The prob I have is that they themselves don't quite know what they want,apart from something with languages to earn money with.

Obviously the nice thing about that is that you are quite free in what you develop, the downside is that there isn't a clear focus. Part and parcel of the job is going to do some teaching myself (no prob there) and doing acquisition of customers from the industry and doing the general sales & marketing - not just for the language school but for all of their services.

Now what I have to come up with is something like a rough timeline of what should be done till when and how I envisage the language school to look like in 6 months, a year and 2 years. I just don't have any experience with language schools, so I'm in a bit of a quandery here.

And yes Wari, I might be hiring teachers at some point in the future. :)

It's really all about where to end..
Apart from language courses for say, technicians, other business people, "normal" people just needing it for a vacation, providing certificates, teaching pupils or children in kindergarten-age..
You could offer "crash-courses", weekend seminars, weekly courses, language holidays.
I don't really know if Stralsund is central enough to get people from all over Meck-Pomm come and learn there..
Apart from English, French and Spanish, Russian and Polish would be good. Perhaps you can even find some "exotic" native speakers for Portuguese, Dutch, Danish or Swedish..
It all depends on the budget, doesn't it?

Oh, btw: What about "Deutsch für Ausländer"? It's a big topic in schools here.

And are you actually going to teach or perhaps provide help for teachers, too? It's a trend to teach English starting from class 3 at the moment, but most of the teachers in the Primary schools haven't learnded how to teach English..

Now the funds from Arbeitsamt have all but dried up, so they are looking for new lines of business

Sorry 4Y, the cynic in me says this job is going nowhere, if the money has all but dried up with what are they going to pay you...........and for how long. Germany is full of small companies and businesses that go broke within weeks of the 'existenzgründer' money running out. :(

mykl, They've been in the business for 18 years. It's just that they lost their main-customer, the Arbeitsamt now.

Wari, thanks - there is some food for thought there.
my personal list of language priorities here for the area would be:

- English
- Swedish (plenty of swedish tourists here, so should be interesting to companies and individuals alike)
- Polish (close to border, Polish ppl coming here in ever increasing numbers for shopping / holidays)
- Spanish (for holidaymakers)
- all other languages
- Deutsch für Ausländer needs some market studies - not that many Ausländer here in Meck-Pom ( Fernsehtipp :))