Passing an empty playground, I discovered all these autos lined up.
Walking down the cold street, a warm flower…
Bollards do hard work, and a thoughtful Berliner knitted them some hats…
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Stuff that’s been in my head, and I want to get it off my chest. Recently I’ve been remembering a conversation that I had back when I lived in Bloomington between grad students – we were talking about money and debt. As I recall there was one spouse there, and the spouse said something like, […] There is a mythical place in Berlin. I first heard of it a couple years ago – it’s called The Bird. Rumors had it that The Bird was the best hamburger in Berlin, if not Europe, and that all burger lovers would go there and think that they were back in America. That said, I’d […] Morgen Latte. I have a strange relationship with coffee, and a terrible relationship with caffeine. Basically, if I get too much caffeine in my system, I cannot sleep. Unfortunately for me, “too much caffeine” is defined as “more than one cup of coffee”, or, even worse, “coffee after 11:00 in the morning”. Given my […] 
The air was filled with things that fly! After a busy morning that involved lots of reading, I headed over to Templehof – once an airport, today a park. A very cool flying bat! It’s legacy as an airport was fitting today: I went to Templehof to fly a kite with my SA […] Today marks 14 years since the passing of Matthew Shepard. What strikes me now is how vivid my memories are of that week 14 years ago leading up to today, 14 years ago. I was living on Braeside Drive, in Bloomington, in an apartment complex that I’ve done my best to forget—rarely pausing to recall […]
I needed a new phillips head screwdriver screwdriver because I’ve some how managed to destroy the one that I have. The new folding 2-meter measuring stick replaces the one that snapped in an unfortunate accident. The 5-meter tape measure is just for fun… My gay genes failed me […] I know that a month or so ago I praised Sankt Oberholz as my new potential regular coffee shop – but it hasn’t actually become my regular haunt – in part because it’s a 45 minute trip by U-Bahn, each way, to the coffee shop, and when I want coffee, that’s a long time.
After spending the Tag der Deutschen Einheit, a day off, getting stuff done—I’m happy to report that I’ve also spent my Saturday getting stuff done. In addition to a bit of freelancing, Wednesday included mundane chores like changing the filter on my bathroom fan. Honestly, this is not a complicated chore, but it does require […] |
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