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So today, on my way home, I stopped by my local Aldi. Now I will be the first to admit that I rarely shop at Aldi, but they have been a reliable source for plain tortilla chips and I wanted to purchase a few bags of them. Unfortunately they didn’t have any—so I wasted the […] Bill Richardson. The Anna Amalia Library (in English) that burned in Weimar back in 2004 is an incredibly important resource for all things Goethe and Schiller. There is an article in this week’s Economist (January 20) detailing the current status of it’s reconstruction, “The Duchess Anna Amalia library.” Unfortunately it is a subscription required article. That said, […] Today is, absolutely, one of those days where at 3 in the afternoon, I was pooped. Well, not literally—I did not sit down at 3 o’clock and use the premium quality 5 layer Happy End toilet paper I picked up from Penny Markt today. Admittedly this purchase has been on my mind for a long […] Due to the windy weather, I just got back from a quick drive to Frankfurt. I made the quick trip to Frankfurt (total time out of the car in the city: 60 seconds) because the long-haul trains were not working today and somebody had to be in Frankfurt tonight, but did not want to drive. […] With winds up to 200 kilometers an hour (120 mph), Kyrill delivered a massive blow job to Germany—pushing all the air pollution to Russia whilst leaving a number of trees lying in its wake and Deutsche Bahn with idle trains. Including, I might add the trains from Jena to Weimar. That did stop me from […] Today is a windy scary day! Of course, if you’ve read any of the ex–pat blogs, that’s the major topic of the day—and, I suppose, rightfully so for I can assure you that any air pollution that was in Jena this morning is already at the eastern edge of Poland, if not half way across […] I’m not sure, but I think I might be getting sick again – so much so that if I hadn’t had a mountain of work to do today I would have stayed in bed and slept it off. Instead I shared my germs with the office and finished the major project, whilst starting another project […] It took me a grand total of nine hours to get home today—leaving Cheltenham on the 12:02 train to Bristol, taking a bus to the airport, waiting at the airport, flying to Frankfurt, and then taking the train to Weimar. Being in my own flat in Weimar is a pleasure. Knowing that when I wake […] Tonight I was in Woolworth’s—long gone from the American scene, Woolworth’s in England is much like the one that used to be in the USA. I was there to pick up Jelly Babies for a friend back at the office—his specific request. While I was looking at the enormous package of Jelly Babies (600 grams, […] |
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