Monthly Archives: November 2003

i love baking my own bread — especially, as we’ve yet to find a swiss bakery capable of producing half-decent bread: the stuff you get here is of the fluffy “sorry, i’ve forgotten my teeth in the bathroom” quality. nice … Continue reading →

breadmaker arrived today! so: after work, the first deed is to unwrap the beast, clear space in my micro-kitchen, and {jargon “RTFM”} for it — for once…don’t want to set the kitchen on fire…am a bit scared by the “caution: … Continue reading →

While reading gebrauchsanweisung für südengland i came across john masefield’s poem sea-fever which i rather like: sea-fever I must down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky, And all I ask is a tall ship and … Continue reading →

6:30 i’m awake since a couple of minutes ago, woken up by a car starting outside (well, it couldn’t have started inside the hotel now, could it?). talk to doro and then get ready: shower, packing, breakfast and off to … Continue reading →

9:00 after a good breakfast (included) i start “up the hill and keep on going” (the road directions from the hotel) — in the hopes of finding b & o at the end of, no, not the rainbow, but at … Continue reading →

7:35 adliswil station: over 15 hours of train ride ahead of me, i’m off on my way to the north today, to the little town of struer in the north of denmark where we’ll find (hopefully) b & o. 8:02 … Continue reading →

one of the two blueberries on my balcony has decided to live anti-cyclic: it has started producing little green leaves in november! i hope the little bugger is not sick…

today on the train from stuttgart to zürich: shortly before zürich — just after the ICE disappears into the tunnel — the train stops: nothing unusual about that, it does that occasionally here…though, today it takes a rather long time … Continue reading →

six weeks ago we had close to 30° — now we have fog, fog, fog: welcome to winter in greater zurich… however! good news from london: what we have suspected all along, has now been proven: [a] pint at the … Continue reading →

return to work to find my thinkpad locked up…hmph…reset and reboot to find mozilla segfaulting to its heart’s content…rats. a couple of reinstalls later (none of which fix the problem) i declare the bazaar closed for the time being and … Continue reading →