Cervicobrachial Syndrome

Since last week I was suffering from heavy pain coming from somewhere near my neck. So I decided to have a talk with my doctor and he told me that I have a "Cervicobrachial" Syndrome. Sounds terrible?? Hmm..it is not as bad as it sounds. Friday I will go to the surgeon's practise and he will find out if I am only a pretender....haha!!
The good thing of this painfull experience: I am off of work this week ;-)

iPod wireless-remote, Monster iEZClick

After 2 weeks of waiting I received my Monster iEZClick wireless-remote for my iPod and I must say: I love that item. Now, while on my bike or at my training, I can leave my iPod inside of my jacket/trousers and only have the very leight weighted remote on my belt or jacket or somewhere else. I can control volume and change tracks and playlists.
The prize of this item was fairly high but I will use it daily for 1-2 hours and it will make handling my iPod a lot easier and more fun. Cool item...highly recommended!!!

Samba Carnival Bremen 2008

Samba Carnival in Bremen is one of the top events for us to enjoy. As every year, the city was crowded with some 20.000 spectators who wanted to enjoy Europe's biggest Samba Carnival. There were Samba Groups from everywhere in Europe, drumming and dancing their way through the streets of Bremen. The main topic of this event was called "Delicatessen" this year and so we saw lots of perfect costumes...spicy, fresh and funny ones!!
We stood there, danced and watched the groups for 3 hours...but that was only the beginning. The party went on in clubs and dancehalls all night long...
Have a look at the photos of this event here.

Rockpalast

Woohooo...finally I was succesfull with searching for old recordings of the famous "Rockpalast" Nights. From 1974 on there were 2 yearly events taking place in the Grugahalle, Eseen/Germany. Rockbands playing live on stage until early morning.
I followed those events at the age of 13-20 years and of course they left a sentimental impression on me.

And as every old-aged, I am now trying to get back some memories of my youth. Yesterday I was succesfull again. By chance I found the concert of "Dexy's Midnight Runners". Wow..that was one of the few concerts that I was still searching for. That music wasn't maybe performed in highest quality, but we are talking about sentimental memories...so-who cares about quality??

I was happy to find it....and now there are only a few concert recordings still missing. I already have the Rockpalast recordings of Rory Gallagher, Big Country, Rodgau Monotones, Kid Creole, Johnny Winter, The Who and Grateful Dead ! Now I am looking for the concerts of Mothers Finest and ZZ Top. Can anyone help me finding them?

Let's build an Ark

On sunday our 5 y.o. daughter said: "We need to find 2 animals of each kind"....so, here is a short note about the weather situation in Germany at the moment.
When I got up 2 days ago on Sunday at 6.00h a.m., it was raining "cats and dogs". We needed to drive to Hanover Airport and back that day. On our way to Hanover (appr. 125 kilometres) we saw feedlands and range drowning in rain. We discovered lakes where we have never seen some before...it did not stop raining all day.
On monday it was similar. Thank god, I went by car and not by bike cause the rain was even heavier than the day before. The weather forecast already gave out a storm warning with the danger of high tides at the coast and overflowing rivers.
Today it is tuesday and it is still rainy and stormy. All those days we had a dark grey sky with mild temperatures of about +12°C!!! Crazy...we all would prefer it 10 degrees less but more friendly.
Nature is crazy...but who drove it crazy?? I have an idea of who it was.......

faster faster

After 8 days of waiting, finally the german telecom managed to switch my DSL internet connection to the speed of 6000 kbit/s instead of 2000 kbit/s.
Now it should be no problem anymore to have a video call somewhere or to use both computers for downloads or Video chat at the same time. So, if you are also using a fst internet connection, lets have a video chat from time to time if you like. Drop me a line.

Der 230. Cache, Geocaching Hannover

Today we brought Julias Mom to Hanover Airport. On our way back we decided to try and discover some caches that appeared on our GPS unit. After all we had 4 founds...unexpected and unprepared. Nice...seems as if luck is coming back...slowly.
Our founds today:
Bubi´s Flughafen - TB Motel
Das Ü-Ei
Bordenauer Kugelschreiberdepot
Neue B6

And we saw a fascinating steam-engine near one of the parking areas of a cache. Built in 1922, it was standing there in front of 3 wagons which have been rebuilt and nowadays used as a restaurant.