Not a good match on the acre they call pitch…but a W is a W…the current leader (Dersim Ludwigsburg) only drew with KSV Besigheim (3-3), so we’re now only 1 point behind them with 5 matches remaining! The championship, which was out of reach two weeks ago, could become a reality after all – but only if we continue to win our matches!!!
Weird how shipping and handling cost can really boost up the total amount on a bill:
I just ordered 10 different used hard-cover books from Alibris…they cost 39,70$…now add 7,95$ per item to that…10×7,95 = 79,50$ for a grand total of 114,60$ (that’s 87,72 Euro)…
Bugger! Sadly enough this is still cheaper than ordering those books via Amazon.de or Amazon.com :wink: :-( :-)
So, the first stash of tickets was assigned in a raffle and guess what…I’ve scored some! :mrgreen:
Of all the tickets I had ordered (mostly preliminary round + game for third place + semifinal + final) I scored two tickets for a preliminary match of group C in Stuttgart :tup:
So, it’s been nearly one week since I returned from my vacation and I promised to write a little something about it. Now I’ve got a little spare time on my hands so here it goes:
I stayed at the beautiful Reemyvera Hotel, which is a 4star hotel.
Rooms: spacious as single rooms are double-bed rooms (the hotel online has double bed rooms)
Food: buffet with Fish, beef, chicken, rice, potatoes, etc – very tasty, altough it’s hard to get accustomed to rice as side dish every day…
Beach: lovely, especially as the beach is only 1 minute from the room and there a comfortable beach couches along with sun shades and a lovely beach bar
Other guests:Mostly russian, young and attractive :wink:, altough some noisy kids and (almost) alcoholics round up the picture…
People:All the guys serving you (cleaning the rooms, getting your beach towels, serving you drinks) are very friendly and make you feel right at home
So, what else did I see besides the hotel? Did a day trip to Luxor visiting the Valley of Kings, the Karnak temple and Hatschepsut temple. After a 4,5h bus ride we arrived at the Valley of Kings and it was a really hot day, so the air in the tombs wasn’t all that good…it was really interesting to see all the art on the walls and ceilings…the only let-down: the whole thing is really overrun with tourists (d’oh!) and the total time we spent there was only around an hour while visiting three tombs – all emptied by tomb raiders years ago…
After the Valley of Kings we visited alabaster stone factory (can you say: buy, buy, buy something)…before we continued our trip to the Hatschepsut temple which is really a monumental thing…carved half out of a massive rock, it was one of the most beautiful buildings I’ve seen yet. After having the chance to take pictures and stroll around a little we moved on to the shore of the river Nile to make a little boat trip. We rode on the Nile for about 15minutes until we arrived at the Luxor Hilton where we had lunch.
After lunch it was back to the bus again and off to the Karnak Temple…which is one of the biggest things I’ve ever seen…obelisks, pillars about 10m high, and all sorts of different figures of different Pharaohs…a really interesting and big site.
After that (it was already late afternoon) we headed of to a “Papyrus museum” (can you say: buy, buy, buy please)…to make our guide happy (and not get him fired) we all had a little look around before getting back on the bus…
Then it was of to the staging area where we waited almost an hour before the convoy of around 80 busses began it’s return to Hurghada – escorted by Army and police. I’ve never ever seen such a huge amount of police (with automated weapons – tommy gun) and military (with automated weapons – Kalashnikov aka AK-47). All crossings, bridges and small streets along our way were blocked by police/military until the convoy had passed – just like it was in the morning…I don’t even wanna know how much bakshisch the travel agencies are paying for that…we came back to the hotel at 11pm…a really long, but interesting day…
We discarded the idea of doing another day trip to Kairo as the would have picked you up at 1am and you would have returned at 11pm (if not later) in the evening…after doing a 8-9h drive to Kairo and a 8-9h drive from Kairo – you can calc for yourself how much time would have been left to visits the pyramids and the egyptian museum…
We spent the remaining week totally relaxing at the beach all day…only downside of the whole vacation was the flight (we booked Stuttgart – Hurghada, Hurghada – Stuttgart and flew Stuttgart – Duesseldorf – Hurghada, Hurghada – Duesseldorf – Stuttgart) which was a real bugger…nontheless it was really great to have a vacation (my first since greece 2002)…
Now I can add “Africa” to the “continents visited”…
(I’ll try to post some photos asap…)
Week 33:
Ingoal’s score: 14 points (1032 total points)
Mr. Price’s score: 23 points (1150 total points)
Missed the prior weeks…maybe I can get the stats from somewhere…
…we’re going to party like it’s your birthday… :mrgreen:
Well, well, well…so it’s my birthday today, so don’t expect to many updates (they will follow over the course of next week)…27…now it’s only “little time” till 30 :shock:
So…two weeks passed…and I’m back…
Lots of stuff to sort (around 760 unread emails, loads of real mail, etc etc)…watch this space for extended entries soon…
Alright, I’m going on a two week vacation tomorrow morning (Destination: Hurghada Egypt)…so don’t expect any new post for the next weeks… :wink:
Have a great time…I’m sure I will :mrgreen:
Legendary lawyer Johnnie Cochran has apparently died from a brain tumor. I’m just watching Larry King Live on CNN…Larry just had Johnnie Cochran Sr. (his father) on the phone.
Johnnie Cochran’s most prominent case certainly was the O.J. Simpson trial…
After recently doing the IMDB Meme in which you take the best movies of all times and mark the ones you’ve seen, I thought: why not do the IMDB bottom meme – taking the 100 worst movies of all time and marking the ones I’ve seen (the current bottom 100 can be found over at imdb.com). Alright, let’s get it started:
Hmm, so I’ve watched 30 out of 100 :shock:
How about you?
Tonight one of my forums were defaced – I guess due to my recent unawareness of a critical update (phpbb version 2.13) :-(
No real harm done, but some work to do (thank god I keep backups of both databases and content at all times, so I just really had to do the following things:
In total: 25minutes of my life…argh…and all that just to have a forum for my football-team… :mrgreen: )
…can go up in flames in less than a week. After the recent success in our first match after the winterbreak (12-0 vs Hochdorf) we lost against one of our main competitors (SC Ludwigsburg) 2-3 on saturday. Today we wanted to get back some points against SGV Hoepfigheim II, but we didn’t – instead we lost another two points by playing 1-1.
Now it’s not looking good at all: before the two matches we were only one point behind 1st place and were clear 4 points to 3rd place. Now we’re stuck in 2nd place (but only due to the fact that SC Ludwigsburg still has a game more to play) with the competition back in the game (SC Ludwigsburg did their homework today by winning 6-0) and the first place is out of reach for now (6points)…
Boy oh boy…
Current standings:
Mr. Price score: 5 points (1065 points total)
Ingoal’s score: 30 points (969 points total)
Maybe hope isn’t lost after all yet :-)
The first 6 player game ever and a really interesting one. After a slow start (losing all the early battles) it really came down to the end…Kai, Nico, Ralf and me had the chance to win, but I blew it (not buying a winnig point with the main temple) – Ralf built the wonder and hence won, despite a tie between him and me (the first tie-breaker rule: whoever builds the wonder is winning in case of a tie)…
Final Standings:
Overall winning standings:
So it’s saturday and I’m playing the ultra fast version of “Die Staemme”.
Location: Office of Osthoff innovations, Marbach
State: Detonized, 3 cups of coffee down, 1l of Cherry Coke down, more to go
Number of in-game villages: 12 3
Number of players around: 2 3 6 5
Total head count: 5
Points: 14043
Time: 9:43
More updates following…
Update: 22:21 Our biggest player was just killed and is down to one village with 1000 points…we were able to hold off more than 6000 high class units, but in the end we didn’t stand a chance (the player who attacked has got more than 20 villages…)
Update: 23:49 Second big wave of attacks against our 2nd biggest player…we’re still holding on, but the situation is getting tight…
Update: 0:33 Big wave on our (now) biggest player was held off! Now it’s time for me to develop a little more, spent the last 2hours building defensive troops and fighting on foreign battlegrounds…
Update: 01:03 Lost the second big battle…so we’re another village short :-(
It’s starting to get really annoying here…damn!
Update: 01:26 Just got my second village. On another note: another wave of heavy offense on our (now) third biggest player…
Update: 02:09 First attack on me…got hit with 500 of every kind and dropped 500 points :-(
Still holding up…
Update: 03:04 Going 12hours straight…weeeee….nothing happening for a while, so I’m upgrading my stuff…hopefully I’ll get to crush someone later on…
Update: 04:40 Just got my third village….yes, it’s going up up up :-)
Update: 05:24 We just pull off a real big attack…got a 6500points village for Kai…groovy…now I’m going to build up a big army and will try to bust a 12000points village for myself ;-)
Update: 06:00 6 o’clock in the morning…yippi…reach the 10k mountain…awake for 18h…playing since 15:00 yesterday…so 15h straight :mrgreen:
Update: 07:27 Good morning world…everything going our way now…less than 7 hours to go until the game ends…maybe we can crack the top ten after all :-)
Update: 08:08 Ooooh my, now it’s on…the #1 player (over 300.000 points) is attacking our biggest player :-(
Update: 09:14 Alrighty…we’re about to wrap it up, now we’re attacking one of our mates here (Nico)…then we’re going to stop playing…finally :-)
Update: 09:43 Finito, time to catch some sleep…yawn…