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| Milan |
| 03.30.04 (10:50 pm) [edit] |
I guess this city falls in the category of "Places I'm glad I saw once even though I can't find a single reason to go back".
It was cool hanging out with Tim for the day despite the fact that it is a big, sprawling, dirty, noisy, police filled city. Maybe I'm just becoming jaded from living in a quiet little village....
The upside was that we got to see some incredibly cool, old paintings that were 400-600 years old. Unlike other museums I've been in, these paintings were not covered by glass or restricted by barriers. You could stand close enough to these works of art to see the individual brush strokes.... Amazing!
We nearly had to break into the Swiss Embassy to retrieve my passport that I left with them in the morning - I needed to have a Work Visa affixed to my passport. Normally no big deal BUT the Swiss Embassy's hours are 9am-Noon. That's it - 9-noon. They told me to come back at 2pm to pick up my Passport/Visa. A smarter man would have seen a problem with that right off the bat, but sadly I am NOT a smarter man and ended up nearly having to launch a siege to retrieve my passport. Many thanks to Tim for his pounding on glass and attracting enough attention to get us in the office!
We ended the day with the BEST chinese dinner that either Tim or I had ever had in our lives - it was delicious! We were also able to toast with the large, drunken table of Chinese people at the table next to us and were warmly received by Mr. Fu Rong Hui who is the "Advanced Advisor Vice-President and Professorial Senior Engineer for the Second Highway Survey and Design Institute of the Ministry of Communications". I swear to you THAT was the title on the business card he passed to Tim and I. I want a title like THAT!
The day ended with an espresso and a mad dash for the train (as usual). I hate saying goodbye to our visitors....
This Sunday is the Kuhkampf. You guessed it - it's time for the Cowfights here in the Valley. "Let's get ready to RUMBLE!!!" Picture the WWF, but with cows, wine and beer. And cheese. Hell, don't even try to picture it - I'll give you a picture:
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If THAT isn't a recipe for "fun", well then I don't know what is.....
I gots to work for da' man - more later!
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| Clink and Swirl |
| 03.29.04 (10:32 pm) [edit] |
So,
We will miss Tim very much. What a great week. Tim and Brian are exploring Milan today. The week has been filled with Strange, possibly gay, bars, castles full of REALLY old stuff, lots o' beer.
Here is the way NOT to pour a proper WeissBier
1. jump up and down
2. clink and swirl
It just doesn't work folks. Trust me on that. Pictures to follow.
Went to the market in Domodossola on Saturday. Had a great lunch. Brian's italian stinks )kind of like his german). Tim did pick up a nice new fresh from the sea decoration for his body and mind. It's a local favorite. He has been wearing it all weekend and it is starting to smell a bit..... ask him about it. maybe he will show you.
What else, let's see.....Tim and Karen teamed up to provide a fabulous five star gourmet dinner for friends on Saturday night. Tim's chicken Marsala rocks!!! But alas, it was an early, laid back evening. Our theory is it was the drunken 2:15am night before or there was a competing dinner party starting at 11pm that night. You decide.
Mom and Nick are coming tomorrow and weep, weep, weep, Tim flies home tomorrow. Brian is getting very excited for the cow fights this weekend. yes, the cow fights. More on that later.......
Love you all,
Karen and Brian
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| Another award! This website rocks! |
| 03.24.04 (11:29 pm) [edit] |
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Not to be outdone by the cast of "Who's The Boss", JJ Walker http://www.dynomitejj.com/fro... has jumped on the bandwagon and is endorsing this website with the "Most Dyn-o-mite Blog In The World" Award.
Hollywood insiders are reporting that JJ has not left his house in 17 days. He is allegedly glued to his computer screen, constantly hitting the "refresh" button in hopes of being the first person to read my updates.
Good Times!
Once again, I am deeply honored and at a loss for words.
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| German Lesson |
| 03.24.04 (2:49 am) [edit] |
The word for "flying monkeys with machine guns" is "Fliegenaffewaffe".
Long story!
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| Tim has arrived safely! |
| 03.24.04 (2:20 am) [edit] |
After a long, tiring and largely uneventful journey Tim has arrived safely. He would like me to make a recommendation for anyone else traveling here to NOT fly into Malpensa Airport in Italy. The flight is a little cheaper but not worth the additional hassle, bus rides, waits for trains, etc. Pay the $$ and fly into Geneva or Zurich!
Tim was taken back by the fact that in this area that we are in it is not uncommon to hear German, Italian and French in the same sentence. Most people here speak at least 2, if not 3, languages. No, English is not one of them! He is out on his own sightseeing for the day and we will meet him later for a nice meat fondue dinner, some beer and undoubtedly a ton of laughs listening to stories of his travels today.....
Tom/Kat - thanks SO much for the movies you sent over - between those and the ones that Tim brough we now have 8 or 10 new movies to watch! Love you guys!
So far I have no funny/emabarrassing stories to tell but he has been here less than 24 hours. Just give it time!
Other than that, it's just work and life as normal. Karen and I are busier than a one legged man in an ass-kicking contest right now with the project we are on. Most days it's like trying to swim upstream.....
That's it for now - gots to work for da' man!
Be good. If you can't be good, then at least be bad.
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| What A Weekend!! |
| 03.22.04 (4:25 am) [edit] |
Wow, what a great weekend! On Friday we slept in and took a beautiful train ride to Thun. This is on the edge of one of the lakes. A beautiful old city with two nice rivers running through. Visited the castle and climbed the tower for a stunning view. Pictures out soon. Then we had THAI food for lunch!!!! Omigod! The only ethnic thing we have to eat anywhere in the Valais is one McDonalds. The rest is tough meat with brown sauce and potatoes. Many of you have heard my tirade against brown sauce over the Christmas trip. We ended up sitting with vagrants and homeless people by the river and playing the guitar hanging out. It was very weird....but cool.
Then.......off to Interlaken. Oh, by the way, I forgot about the fact that Brian forgot our tickets to the concert on the refrigerator. That interrupted our spectacular Friday with a short downer period until we realized Markus had one extra ticket he was going to sell.
Okay....Interlaken. On the other side of the lake from Thun. Beautiful. Had SUSHI for dinner!!! Omigod. Off to teh concert. It is in this really ornate old building. It was beautiful. AWESOME show!
Saturday we walked all around Interlaken. Then we went to this place, the Funny Farm to hang out in the afternoon. It was the hostel where all the hippies from the concert were hanging out. Except it was this cool old hotel and hostel. We met a bunch of cool people and hung out all afternoon outside playing guitar and stuff. OH YEAH! How weird is this???? We met a girl from the Lake George NY area who attends UNH and lives in Dover in the mill buildings right behind Smiley's. She is on a three month international politics rotation in France right now. How incredibly weird is that???? She says to us, oh well I live in this tiny town called Dover. We started laughing. We were asking where and she says "do you know where Smiley's is?" We laughed even harder.
Went to HOOTERS for dinner on Saturday. Omigod. Had buffalo chicken with real french fries! Can you start appreciating the food theme of the weekend for us deprived americans? Show on Saturday night was even better than Friday night. Went to the afterparty at the Funny Farm. Very good time; very late night.
Slept late Sunday. Walked around the town some more and had INDIAN for lunch. Omigod. Slept a lot on the train ride home.
Now we are back to brown sauce.
Tim will be here tomorrow afternoon. We can't wait. It should be fun.
Well, that's all from here!
Karen & Brian
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| Tomorrow is a holiday! |
| 03.18.04 (12:17 am) [edit] |
Three day weekend - woohoo! Tomorrow is St. Josef's Day. I'm not exactly sure who he is, what he did, why we celebrate him or why he spells his name with an "f" instead of a "ph". I think he was the Patron Saint of baby aspirin, but I could be wrong. It really doesn't matter though as long as we have the day off.
Karen and I finally picked up our deck furniture yesterday and got it set up yesterday afternoon. It is soooo relaxing sitting outside under the mountains at the end of the day.
I didn't even realize that it was St Patrick's day yesterday until late yesterday afternoon. It is a non-holiday in Switzerland and there was nothing going on anywhere to even remind us. I guess there isn't many Irish people in this area.... I picked up some Guiness on the way home from work and drank 2 of them after dinner. That was the extent of the celebrating. Yippee.
The weather outside is gorgeuous today - it is sheer torture having to be inside the office. Days like this are meant to be spent outdoors! It's supposed to be cooler with clouds and some rain for the next 3 days. This was destined to happen because we have a 3 day weekend.
Elisa has joined the local girl's softball team out in AZ. This is her second year playing now and she got the position she wanted - catcher. She's VERY excited and can't wait til her first game on April 5th. Brittany is doing really well in school, snowboarding almost every weekend and is just busy being a typical 15 year old.
I spoke to Tim last night and reprimanded him for not being in Biddy's when I called him. He was diligently trying to complete some reports so he could come over here on vacation with a clear concience. I forgave him.
Not much else has happened. So I will write again next Monday and let you know how the weekend at the hippie show went. Undoubtledly, we will have some, stupid/emabarrassing/funn y monents to report.....
Bis Montag,
Brian and Karen
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| The Office |
| 03.17.04 (12:17 am) [edit] |
Introducing "Gareth Keenan - Assistant to the Regional Manager"
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I was channel surfing last night and landed on BBC for no other reason than it was in English. Little did I know I had just tuned into the first 3 episodes from season one of "The Office" http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/t...
If you can get BBC where you are, then you MUST make an effort to find out when this show is on and watch it! It is absolutely hilarious! Think of the movie Office Space, but with British humor and filmed as though it were a reality program. I can't recommend this show enough!
It takes place in the Slough Trading Estates - you may recognize this location as the home of a certain Biotech company who shall remain nameless!
If you can't find it on TV, you can buy the entire first season on DVD here http://www.amazon.com/exec/ob... The second season is going to be released on DVD in late April.
That is all.
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| This is what I own for DVDs |
| 03.16.04 (11:09 pm) [edit] |
These are the movies we currently have with us in Switzerland:
The Big Chill
As Good As it Gets
American Pie 2
American Beauty
Ali
The Graduate
Girl Interrupted
The Fisher King
Falling Down
Chasing Amy
Best of Monty Python Flying Circus
The Lost Boys
Last of the Mohicans
Gladiator
HP and the Sorcerors Stone
Grounhog Day
Lord of the Rings 1 and 2
Meet Joe Black
Matrix
Kung Pow
A Mighty Wind
Pump up the Volume
7 Years in Tibet
Spinal Tap
So I Married and Axe Murderer
Sponge Bob - Sea Stories
Snatch
The Pink Panther
Orange County
Pirates of the Carribean
Twilight
Strange Brew
South Park Movie
Kingpin
Tommy Boy
Taxi Driver
Wedding Singer
Very Bad Things
Wall Street
Wizard of Oz
So I will make my offer again - Tim is coming over here next Monday. If anybody has movies they would like to part with, just post a list and I will tell you which ones we would like. Give those movies to Tim to bring with him over here and I will pay you $10 for each of the movies. Then you can spend your new found wealth on beer.
It's a win/win situation! We get movies, you get a hangover!
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| Best Damn Blog Site on the Internet Award |
| 03.16.04 (12:58 am) [edit] |
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Tony Danza and the cast of Who's The Boss have awarded my humble little website the:
[b] "Best Damn Blog Site on the Internet" Award![/b]
I'm honored and at a loss for words.......
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| Boy it's been busy here.... |
| 03.15.04 (11:40 pm) [edit] |
Sorry I haven't posted in a few days - I was busy discovering our new tenth planet, convincing the new Spanish government to pull troops from Iraq and supervising the election in Russia. Now that I have all those tasks behind me, it's back to business.
Seems as though I have passed on the "headcold from hell" to Karen. She is putting forth a mighty effort to battle it off. Send her some Get Well greetings!
Karen and I are going to our first European hippie concert this weekend in Interlaken. We're going with a friend of ours for two nights of shows by the US jam band "String Cheese Incident" http://www.stringcheeseincide... Should be interesting and definately a departure from the type of show that I would see at home, but there is also supposed to be a large crowd of people coming from the US for this show which should make for a great time.... Time to break out the tie-dye!
The weather here hs steadily been warming up day by day. I am wearing shortsleeves today and a spring jacket as it's supposed to get up into the 70's this afternoon. I can't wait to get some lounging furniture for our deck....
Why does Florida always have the most bizarre news? http://www.local6.com/news/29... What the hell is Jeb Bush putting in the water down there?
I guess, on the whole, things are going just swimmingly.
Well that's it - gotta go work for da' man!
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| And The Award Goes To: |
| 03.12.04 (6:23 am) [edit] |
And the award for "Least Used Words in the English Language" goes to:
Karen Theriault, for being the first person to use the word "swimmingly" in a sentence since 1943.
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| TGIF!!! |
| 03.12.04 (6:01 am) [edit] |
So our dinner party went swimmingly. Lots of food was eaten, lots of wine and beer drunk. I think we pissed off our neighbors somewhere. Brian and Lorenze were having a cigarette out on the back balcony and they believe they were yelled at by someone above our balcony. Problem is, we live on the top floor. I have to wonder if it wasn't the beer........
We are going to introduce our Canadian Project Manager to the South Park Movie. He promises not to fire us.....
Brian is a SICK AND WHINY BEYATCH!! Oh my god he is worse that a small child. Although, if his nose runs any faster they could start generating electricity for a small city. He is pretty sick though and I do feel badly for him. There.....that's it.....there's your sympathy. Hope it helps.
Not sure what is up for the weekend. We were supposed to go to Thun, a beautiful quaint walking town about 1 hour north of here through the north side of the Alps, but it is supposed to be rainy and well, you know who has the sniffles. Not sure what you do here when the weather is bad. Go and see a $25 sfr movie in German?
I miss you all very very much!!
Karen
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| Billboards I Wish Were Real |
| 03.10.04 (2:12 am) [edit] |
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| I am sick |
| 03.10.04 (2:11 am) [edit] |
Sick sick sick sick - and I demand a little sympathy! I went to bed feeling "okay" and woke up with some weird head cold, headache, muscle-achy kind of crap. I came to work anyway. Might as well be sick on company time and save the sick days for having fun.
I noticed that gas is up to $1.74 a gallon. Our prescence in the middle east sure isn't driving the cost of crude down at all. Not that it's any cheaper here though. I really don't miss having a vehicle very much. It's been inconvenient a few times but not enough of a hassle to necessitate buying a vehicle over here.
We have now done laundry 3 weeks in a row without a hassle so this is probably the last you'll hear on THAT topic. I'm tired of writing about it so you surely must be sick of reading about it by now.
I WILL, however, continue to bitch for a while about the late trains in the past few weeks. It's amazing how valuable 120 seconds of your life becomes when your standing on a train platform with nothing to do but wait.
So we're having the boss man and a few Lonza people over for dinner and drinks tonight - should be an interesting mix of people. A French Canadian, two Germans, two Americans and a Brit eating Italian food and drinking Czech beer. Gonna have ourselves a regular U.N drink-a-thon in Naters tonight! Should make for some interesting dinner conversation...
I tried to ride my bike home from the store last night with (12) 1 liter cans of beer in my backpack. Don't do this. They are heavy and they throw you off balance. Live and learn.
12 more days till Tim arrives! We will be doing a lot of siteseeing, checking out castles and old architecture, etc. Eventually this will make it's way into the screenplay he is currently writing. I can't WAIT to read it! Maybe he can work a couple of dumbass, non-German speaking characters into the story as well!
Well that's it. I'm going to lunch and then probably home from work early.
Talk to you all soon!
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| This is what it looks like..... |
| 03.09.04 (12:17 am) [edit] |
This is what it looks like to sled from 8000 feet up!
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| Please help out your expatriate friends! |
| 03.08.04 (2:18 am) [edit] |
We need some new DVD's to watch! We have watched (and re-watched) every DVD that we brought with us and the cost of new DVD's is ridiculous over here. A new release is somewhere in the area of $35-$45 EACH!
So, I am going to take it upon myself to burden Tim Deal like a pack mule on his trip over here with DVD's for our viewing pleasure. Any genre is okay except for anime. Anime sucks. If you have extra anime DVD's, then I recommend finding a hobby. And Dungeons and Dragons does NOT count!
I think $10 is a fair price for used DVD's so if you'd like to clean out your collection and make a little money, just post the titles you'd be willing to part with as a "Comment" on this site and I will let you know which ones we would like. Then I'll send you a check for the total. All you have to do is get them to Tim before he departs for Switzerland on March 21.
Please help out your expatriate friends! God help me, if I am forced to watch one more epsiode of "Dharma and Greg" in German I will be forced to take drastic measures.
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| Swiss Lost and Found |
| 03.08.04 (2:02 am) [edit] |
Hey gang,
We did a little (much needed) housecleaning this weekend and have discovered a few items that don't belong to us!
I have to assume that these items belong to our recently departed (God, that sounds morbid) houseguests. The items in question are as follows:
1) One pair reading glasses and case
2) One large, hideously patterned beach towel
3) One blue, bikini style bathing suit
My first instinct was to keep my mouth shut and enjoy my newly found treasures but after further inspection I realized the following things:
1) The reading glasses don't fit my humongous and disfigured head (although the prescription was pretty damn close).
2) The towel has questionable stains that required me to wear yellow Playtex gloves for the inspection.
3) The bikini, though flattering to my hairy-man-figure, is not quite my size. And Karen won't allow me to wear the bottoms of the bikini on my humongous head anymore, even around the house.
So, if these items belong to any of you ("You" being April, Garrett, Crescent, Monique or Laura), just let me know and I will make arrangements to send them home in a few weeks with the Hon. Timothy Q. Deal after the completion of his European holiday.
Be well!
Brian
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| I have nothing of substance to say |
| 03.05.04 (5:25 am) [edit] |
I really have nothing exciting to write about but on the other hand I don't want to be reprimanded for not posting in a few days so I'll just ramble on aimlessly until I am tired of typing....
The weather here has really warmed up over the past few days - mid 50's or so. I think spring has finally come to stay.
I added a new link to the website (look 5 inches to the left) - Learn To Swear In German! Just click the link and scroll down a bit......
Karen and I are going into Italy tomorrow to do some shopping - meat, wine and produce mostly. I imagine we'll have a nice lunch while we are there as well. Sunday will be set aside for some much needed housecleaning that we have been avoiding for days now.
Tonight is laundry night. I think Fridays are a "safe" day for us to use the machines without being yelled at in a language we don't understand. If we make it through tonight, it will be three weeks in a row without a laundry mishap. I will post a new laundry scorecard on Monday - hopefully you will see that we scored a "laundry trifecta"!
I may also start keeping a running "Train Scorecard" as well. When I first arrived here the trains were all on schedule almost 100% of the time. Then April and the gang came here for their vacation and apparently caused a glitch in the matrix because we have had no fewer than 6 late trains in the last 2 weeks. I blame the Americans since there is no way to pin this one on the Canadians!
17 more days til Tim arrives! That reminds me, I need to go beer shopping as well.....
DAMN! Now THIS is a domestic dispute!
[u]Wife Reduces Husband to Tears [/u]- Thu Mar 4, 7:55 AM ET
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Well, hopefully that's enough to hold you through the weekend. Now LOG OFF here and getcherasses back to WORK!
Everybody be well and we'll talk to you soon,
Brian and Karen
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| Got a Swiss Headache |
| 03.04.04 (12:58 am) [edit] |
I think Brian has too much time on his hands.
So, the world is very very small. One of the guys that got let go in the Black Monday in Portsmouth in June is now working here in Visp (by way of Luxembourg)! So we had an enjoyable Swiss Beer evening with the newest member of the "from Portsmouth" gang. Headaches abound though.
I have decided that terrorists have invaded die Schweiz but they don't realize it yet. This morning the train was late again!!! It was a big inter regional train from geneva. Late arriving by 10 minutes and then there was a problem with the train and it could not leave for another 15 minutes. Osama......definately Osama (or maybe O-Tom-a???). That makes like 7 late trains for us in two weeks.
So tonight I am going to a 2 hour yoga class. The teacher is Indian but will be speaking Valais-Deutch (the local valley german dialect.....completely incoherent language). This should be interesting...... I'll let you know.
Brian&Karen
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| Last one - I promise! |
| 03.03.04 (2:36 am) [edit] |
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| We found Osama (or was it "O-tom-a"?) |
| 03.03.04 (1:37 am) [edit] |
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| Hmmmmm - we have visitors! |
| 03.02.04 (1:45 am) [edit] |
I was reading through the recent "comments" added to this page and realized we have visitors (forgetmaenot http://forgetmaenot.tblog.com... and Merlyn http://merlyn.tblog.com).
Karen and I originally set this page up as an easy means of keeping all of our friends in the US updated in regard to our lives over here. It never occurred to me that people we didn't "invite" to the site might be peeking in on our cyber-world and actually have an interest.
So to anyone we don't know - Welcome to our average lives! Here's some background (in case anyone even cares):
Karen and I are here from the United States for a few years working for a corporation in Visp, Switzerland. We've been together for a little over a year now, and are living in sin in a highly catholic, slightly uptight region of the country. We're having a great time exploring the incredibly beautiful, always confusing, surroundings. We speak "some" German, no French and no Italian and stumble our way through every day committing cultural faux-pax's at every turn.
Our goal here is to make our neighbors love us. I don't think 2 years will be enough time.
That is all!
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| Time flies, I guess.... |
| 03.02.04 (12:24 am) [edit] |
It just occurred to me this morning to count how many days it's been since I moved to Switzerland. It doesn't seem possible, but it's been 33 days since I left the states. I'm not sure why that seems so signifigant to me, I guess it just never occurred to me to count off the days.....
I'm convinced now that our best "stories" are going to be born from our weekend excursions. Last night was as uneventful and boring as any Monday night would have been at home. Other than the kick-ass quiche that Karen made for dinner, that is! She is turning into such a great "Frau"! Who would have thought it??
Tim forwarded me a great article yesterday about expatriates, elections and Bush - the link is here if you want to check it out http://story.news.yahoo.com/n...
And here is another one from this morning I found interesting http://apnews.myway.com/artic... By 2006 we'll have to start sending the Cub Scouts and High School Marching bands.
We got a fuse. The light works. End of THAT story.
I channel surfed for over an hour last night, trying to find a German speaking program where they spoke slowly enough for me to begin to understand it. No dice. I settled for an Extreme Fighting championship on a French channel. I don't understand French either, but ass kicking is ass kicking, in ANY language!
Then I went to bed and finished my book. I highly recommend reading "Black Mass" by Dick Lehr http://www.amazon.com/exec/ob...
It's all about Whitey Bulger, the Boston FBI and the WAY too friendly relationship between them back in the 80's and 90's! I remember following this story in the Boston Herald on and off for years up until Whitey disappeared. It's a great book - get it and read it! Actually, I think Tom and Kat may have this book as well and you might be able to get it from them if you are too cheap to buy your own copy.
I'm going to write a book when Karen and I get back to the states. It will be titled "Why The HELL Aren't There Any Laundramats in Switzerland?"
Got's to go work for da' man!
Ciao',
Brian and Karen
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| Just another day in die Schweiz |
| 03.01.04 (11:47 pm) [edit] |
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Okay...so, we got the fuse!! Of course, with Brian's famous german, it made it a little more difficult that it had to be......"Hello, do you have a four hundred milliamp fuse?" Yeah....those german lessons are working out well for him. Good thing there was another guy in the store that knew english. She became much more friendly when Brian attempted a "Zwei bitte". Then there was the mad dash to the grocery store followed by the mad dash to catch the train. No wonder I had a dream last night about my new Acura..... By the way, we have now experienced about 6 late trains in the last two weeks. What the heck is this place coming to? It is not the point that they are only 60 seconds to 4 minutes late, this is die Schweiz! Note that we realized we are very sad people for being upset about a train that is 60 seconds late. I think I will change my name soon to Theriaultmatten and start learning the Alphorn.
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| Alarmed? |
| 03.01.04 (6:34 am) [edit] |
Rockers pose as teens to hit charts
Fri 20 February, 2004 22:19
LONDON (Reuters) - An ageing rock group gave themselves a facelift by getting a group of teenagers to stand in for them on the video of their latest song, helping them score their first chart hit for some 15 years.
Convinced the music industry is prejudiced against wrinkly rockers, The Alarm gave themselves the pseudonym The Poppyfields and persuaded a group of fresh-faced youths to mime their part.
"They did it to show they wanted to be judged on music and not on their image and haircuts of 15 years ago," said a spokesman for the band.
The single, 45RPM, went into the charts this week at number 28.
The Welsh band were previously best known for 1983 hit "68 guns" and said they pulled the stunt to show how much image affected sales in the music industry.
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