Thursday, April 27, 2006

YAY!

24 hours and roughly 15 minutes to go until I am going to be with my beloved one again:-)
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Saturday, April 22, 2006

Fuzzy Sunray Logic

This is bizarre... I took this picture at sundown on the marketplace in frigging old Dornbirn, this is my colleague Craig hiding behind the 'palm tree'. Doesn't it seem as if either the tree seems to model the sunray or the other way around respectively?

The getaway

Sunday my brother took me to the station in Fulda... he is at the moment shaving his beard to pretend a chin line;-)


Frankfurt, big city, easy to relax (ok, only semi-relaxed in this pic).


Another eclectic observation:

Saturday, April 15, 2006

Home Sweet Home

It's been once more nearly a year since I last went "home", i.e. the place where my progenitors reside (or, more precisely, those of my progenitors who haven't broken with me), and more than 1.5 years before that last visit. Yet some things don't seem to be willing to wear off (and if only I knew what exactly these things were about); after having spent the first night there I wished I had never decided to go back there in the first place. It's nobody's fault, it's just the way it is, but it strikes me over and over again. With three people living there, you might think that some sort of sociability and commotion should be going on, but the place is just (both) empty and cluttered, from the inside and the outside.


And all the laudable plans I had of spending 'quality time' with my relations faltered just as quickly as I can neither enforce sociability upon them nor upon myself as I seem to turn to stone myself when I get there - I basically want to sleep fast until I am able to get out of there again (but you can either book the cheap train ticket or have the flexibility to leave when you feel like it). But I will leave one day earlier now anyway, as the prospect of staying here until Monday seems suffocating. Of course this cannot be the road to reconciliation either, but I am afraid I cannot help it. Yet. Maybe one day I will.

Once more travel pics

This is a "Sitzcafé" - I suppose they want to emphasize that this is not a "Stehcafé", i.e. a coffee shop where you have to stand while enjoying your café.


The hills, err, the rings have got eyes.


Deutschland's Aufstellung für 2006 - Germany's team formation for 2006 (I doubt we are in for victory).


Sickening light at the Sonic Ballroom.







This happens when you spend a night upon town with the local delinquents.... you will know them by a trail of destruction.






This reads "Plenty of room to make you feel good".



And the walls have got eyes, too.




And here is one for our Austrian friends - the "Sudermanplatz" or "the Square of the Man who wouldn't stop ranting".

Monday, April 10, 2006

Biometric Pictures - Neverending Story

Sooo... the embassy rejected my pictures once more.... the facial length from hairline to the the point of the chin must add up to 32 to 36 mm, mine is only 28..... Witness the outcome of my next attempt only here, at http://migrationoffice.blogspot.com/, Cheers, mate
Jana

Friday, April 07, 2006

Sex per email, here and now

Need Sex? The cutest spam I have received lately.

Wednesday, April 05, 2006

Biometrics

Germany has now adopted the photography standard required for capturing biometric data (and Austria is also gearing up for it). The last photograph I took myself and which or so I figured was suitable for biometrics (and also accepted by the US embassy in Frankfurt) was this one:



Alas, the German "Honorary Consulate" didn't approve - because my mouth wasn't closed and I was also too pink they claimed (but can you ever be pink enough... is a question is only asked myself in quiet).

So here comes the true mugshot, a picture I had taken especially for this passport - and another proof that my hairdo has gone entirely out of control. Must say though that (while being more than HALF a year older) I don't look half as much like the stale spinster I seem to be on the pic above. S'pose criminal energy (or the appeal of it) has a juvenating effect. This might also be considered evidence of your local photographers capacity. What ever.

Saturday, April 01, 2006

Hollywood Lookalike

Recently someone claimed that my colleague Michael has the same hair as Robert DeNiro...


That person was wrong - Michael has the same hair as Al Pacino:




(Scroll down for another Pic of Michael)

Dä lieve Jott...


dä wohnt in Kölle....