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Earlier this year it dawned on me that the configuration of Christmas and New Year’s landing on Tuesdays meant that I could take from December 22nd through January 1st off – 11 days – using exactly two vacation days. Surely anybody who knows me, knows that I look at this as an opportunity […] Today is the second of five days off – Berlin, Germany, and the “Christian” world are celebrating the birth of their savior. And I get time off. So… what have I been doing with this time off? Wednesday I sped-listened to five podcasts, read two magazines, read a graphic novel, read part of a […] I’m happy to report that I’ve survived Christmas, at home, alone. Since Friday evening, I’ve watched a lot of Breaking Bad, read books, went to the gym, and took a lot of naps. I actually never left the house Saturday – temperatures in Berlin dropped below freezing and I decided that I’d rather be warm […] This year is an “Adam—allein zu Haus” kind of Christmas. Translated in to English, that’s “Adam, alone at home”, a variation on the “Kevin—allein zu Haus” them that Americans know as “Home Alone”. My plan is to avoid shopping after Saturday until after the Christmas holidays. If I could actually swing it, I would avoid […] A few years ago in Denver. My family's turkey, ready for eating (a few years ago). This is not a picture of turkey, but it is a meal I ate in Turkey. […] This past weekend was shockingly lazy: apparently I had a sleep deficit and I made up for it with a vengeance. Other than reading and taking four long naps, I did two significant things: I went to a park (where I read Straight Man, a delightful book), and I went to the gym. It was […] Schloss auf der Pfaueninsel So my guest, who returns to America Wednesday morning, wanted to visit a Biergarten – and since I have no idea where the good ones are, I called my friend, Snooker in Berlin for an idea. She had two answers, but the best answer was to go to Loretta out […] As it happens I am in the middle of a large and time sensitive project so I find myself working this weekend—and I decided to check out one of the nearby cafes, Café Bilderbuch, to see if it was a good working environment. The short answer is no, not on the weekends. The long answer […]
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