(NFL) Philadelphia 7-7 New England

Super bowl half time. Boy what an intesive first half. I think Philadelphia should have score at least once more, but hey…we’ve got another half to go…and with the 7-7 at half time my prediction of 14-10 still stands :mrgreen:

Now it’s time to get something to eat, relax a little and watch the halftime show :tup:

(NFL) Super Bowl Sunday

So it’s time…for some it might be the most important sunday of the year, for me it’s just Superbowl Sunday. Pregame coverage will start at 10:30pm and the game itself will start at 0:30am (my timezone is GMT+1).

I’m really looking forward and I guess it’ll be a close game. My pick? I think it’s going to be hard to stop the Patriots as they played nearly flawless for weeks, but I’m still going with Philadelphia (someone needs to root for the underdogs!)…so my prediction is: Philadelphia 14-10 New England :mrgreen:

Carnival and all

I’m not a big fan of carnival, although it’s a quite happy time with everybody having a good time (getting drunk) and all. Nontheless I went out to Ludwigsburg (the next biggest city around) to have a little fun – not particularly carnival fun, but pub fun (if there’s something like pub fun at all :wink: ).

So we went out to Club 69 which had a Coyote Ugly party tonight (for all who are unfamiliar with the hollywood movie see here). The concept is quite easy to understand: you’ve got a pub and you’ve got one or more fine girls who are acting as go-go-girls dancing on the bar in hot clothes…then those girl(s) hand out free drinks. After having a good time there we decided it was time to move on, so we went to Tatort which is a legendary cocktail bar around here. After having ourselves some nice drinks we decided that it was time to get home…and that’s where the “problems” started. Did you ever try to get a taxi at carnival time?

So we had to walk quite a while to get to the train station where all the (remaining) taxis are waiting for customers (and believe me it’s cold out here)…but we made it and now I’m home safe without having to risk my driver’s license – I always encourage ppl to get a taxi instead of drinking & driving (mostly due to common sense and the fact that one of my best mates was killed in a car accident almost three years ago (he couldn’t do anything about it, a drunk driver hit him)).

Bottom Line:

  • It’s 3:27am and I had a good time
  • Some different drinks…around 20€
  • Paying for a taxi (sharing it with 3 mates)…around 8€
  • Being home safe…priceless

That said, it’s time to get some sleep as I’ve got to get up in some hours to play a friendly match (FCM II – GSV Pleidelsheim II)…Good night :rolleyes:

Family cheer

Today was the of my brother Michael’s final (oral) exam at the IHK and he passed!!! Now he’s entitled to call himself “Industriekaufmann” (Industrial Clerk) :tup: :tup:

Congrats!!!

Now all he needs is a job…

G’Day World Sponsorship Auction on ebay

Update: Hehe, they’re already mentioning me even though the auction isn’t even closed yet…yes, I’m known as handychef at ebay ;-)
(check out Podcast 6)
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I don’t know if you’re a podcast fan or not, but one of the best podcasters around (G’Day World‘s Cameron Reilly and Mick Stanic) are auctioning the sponsorship of their upcoming podcasts up on ebay (see the auction) – and believe it or not, I’m still the leading bidder :mrgreen:

I don’t know if there’s noone else interested or if they’re all lined up to “snipe” at the end of the auction – I guess I’ll find out sooner or later (auction ends Feb-04-05 04:10:41 PST)…

(For more infos see the announcement thread)

New Apple Powerbook

Alrighty, so some rumours were true and some weren’t. The new Powerbooks aren’t equipped with the G5-CPU and they aren’t equipped with a dual-core G4 either (at least not yet).

What do you get? Check it out at Apple.com or Apple Germany

Basic parameters:

  • 1.5 or 1.67GHz G4
  • 512MB Ram (finally a decent amount of ram as standard equipment!)
  • 12,1″ or 15,2″ or 17″ TFT
  • Prices starting at 1489€ (Germany) or 1499$ (US)

Colder than a witches’ arse

Ooooh…it’s freezing cold out here. Yes it’s 3:30am here and I just came back from a mate’s birthday party. It’s -12°C out there (that’s 10,3°F for all the American/Canadian Folks out there) – not the coldest I’ve seen, but definitely the coldest in a long time…

On another note: I gotta get up at 8am today, so it’s a whooping 4 hours of sleep for me :sad:

Dr. Greenthumb meets Mr. Bluetoe

After “injuring” my right big toe last wednesday it was already a little bit blue, but at the Bottwartal-Turnier I got hit on just the same toe again (in the match against Benningen – my hometown).

So now my toe is really blue…and I don’t know why, but it hit me: it’s Dr.Greenthumb meets Mr. Bluetoe :mrgreen:

Dr. Greenthumb (Cypress Hill)
Dr. Greenthumb (Cypress Hill)

My blue right big toe aka Mr.Bluetoe
Mr.Bluetoe