February 2001

Hello Everybody

26 February 2001

Dad sure writes a lot about me. But he hasn’t posted any pictures lately. I finally talked Mom into posting one of my latest pictures. Here I’m sitting in my favorite leather chair and catching up on Winnie Pooh’s adventures. The book is a gift from my Uncle Steve and Aunt Shannon. They must be [...]

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Long for your Kiss

24 February 2001

Late Mama’s on the road tonight. On Wednesday we’ll be able to explain how she’ll be putting less miles on her tires and more miles on her frequent flyer card in the coming months. In the ‘now I feel really old’ department, my parents told me about a high school classmate of mine (she graduated [...]

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More of the Same

22 February 2001

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With or Without You

20 February 2001

Brent, our cheer in Madison MN was better: “Lutefisk and Lefse, Tus-ka-da-ha, we can beat <whoever>, ya ya ya!” And Madison is of course the Lutefisk Capital of the USA, and we have a fiberglass fish to prove it. I tried out my favorites script on my online host, a poor Pentium/133 with 32MB RAM, [...]

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Straight Up, Now Tell Me

19 February 2001

Astute readers will have noticed by now that I often give titles to my pages that have nothing to do with the content. Al names his pages after song titles, but he at least gives the lyrics. I don’t even bother to do that. My title yesterday was a current German pop song sung by [...]

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Daylight In Your Eyes

18 February 2001

Update: I finally linked to the code. For now my favorites box is just alphabetical. For a long time I’ve been intending to update the favorites box. I’m too lazy to update it by hand, so I wanted it to automatically copy (via XML) the favorites I choose on Weblogs.Com. Actually, I was so lazy [...]

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What A Difference A Day Makes

16 February 2001

Late I slept 3 hours this afternoon. I had to pick up Christopher after all, and nearly overslept. We need to think of a late-afternoon nutrition plan for him. He comes home from day care hungry (yes, they do feed him!), but a whole banana and an entire yoghurt at 5:30pm tend to ruin his [...]

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Back to Bed

15 February 2001

I thought I felt good this morning and went back to work. That was a mistake. My co-workers all asked me about my red eyes. I didn’t even know they were red, but they apparently look like I was on 3 day drinking binge. (Of course, there was noone at home to tell me that [...]

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Blog You

14 February 2001

Late < p> Mama will be back late tonight, and will have been without Christopher for over 48 hours (Monday evening to Thursday morning), I’ve been sick with some sort of head cold, and Christopher has barely batted an eye. I’m sure he’ll be happy to see Mom in the morning, though. But Mom will [...]

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The Next Step

13 February 2001

For those keeping score of Christopher’s accomplishments, he’s now able to crawl up a complete flight of stairs. I’m not sure if he can crawl all the way down yet; he did manage half a staircase crawling backwards. This is all, of course, under close adult supervision. I’m under the weather with a cold and [...]

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12 February 2001

My brother-in-law Roland, whose motto a la Winston Churchill is “No sports,” surprised me with the birthday gift of “Fever Pitch”, the story of the author’s lifelong obsession with Arsenel London. I’ll have to make time to read it. T-Online locked up on me today. It kept telling me ‘session limit exceeded’, meaning it thought [...]

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cat ^d

10 February 2001

If editors are for wimps, then what are content management systems for? Thanks to my colleague Michi for this inside joke for Unixers at the ethereal website.

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Happy 39

9 February 2001

Late Of course, my Renault dealer was more than happy to take the Twingo in for a day. Just to make it worth their while, the water pump was leaking, too. My department at work found a cool present for me: “Kühlschrank Poesie”, a German version of Magnetic Poetry, on the premise that if Mama [...]

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Funny Old World

8 February 2001

Things were hectic at home last evening. Mama was putting out fires on the telephone, using both ISDN lines and my (not her) cell phone at the same time. (Her D1 cell phone from work has no reception in Lüllau. She says that she hates my phone, but never hesitates to use it without asking.) [...]

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Kitchen Drawers

7 February 2001

I’m sure in a couple of weeks we’ll no longer think that this is funny or cute. If we were smart parents, we wouldn’t have rewarded such behavior by laughing and getting out the camera. But we did, and I’m sure we will suffer the consequences.

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Hash of hashes

4 February 2001

We were already in upstairs in bed early to rest up for the upcoming Monday when downstairs Mama’s cell phone rang. No, it can’t be her phone, Mama insisted, since she doesn’t have any reception at home. She believed me the second time. I guess her reception at home is only spotty and not non-existant. [...]

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Energy

1 February 2001

Linking to Andrea again, this time about the energy crisis in California, and whether Americans waste more energy than the rest of the world. A couple of thoughts. Back when I worked for Inter-Research, the ecologist Paul Ehrlich gave a lecture for us. He’s well-known for his pessimistic view of the population explosion, but I [...]

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