German TV ZDF has postponed the evening news to wait for the new pope. They don’t even postpone the news for national elections!
Mother-in-law’s 95th birthday today. Five of six grandchildren were there, and even the mayor stopped by with a certificate!
Looks like Trump did take over Canada, just not how he thought. “Canada election: Liberals projected to win 4th term, but unclear if minority or majority” www.cbc.ca/news/poli…
We normally love our work, but the past couple of weeks have been so that I’ve been eyeing the calendar for when my German state pension starts (3 years and 5 months)
I’m not saying this is me, but the Windsurf API is down this morning and I can’t get any work done 🤷♂️ #VibeCoding (via www.reddit.com/r/theprim…)
Spent 2+ hours today moving a washing machine and getting the right parts to install it in an apprentice flat. That’s the glamorous life of running restaurants.
ICE in western Minnesota “Indonesian student detained by Ice after US secretly revokes his visa” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2…
Easter Fire, the social highlight of the year in Lüllau! “Für das leibliche Wohl ist gesorgt” means refreshments will be available.
Can we bring a baseball statistic to the 2. Bundesliga? Magic number for HSV promotion is 13 points (3rd place Magdeburg can at most get 64 points, with 13 points in the next 6 matches HSV has 65). #NurDerHSV
This is our town’s “Altes Rathaus” where I just applied for my German ID and passport. My data was in the system already, so it took just 5 minutes and 107€.
Inspiration from my hometown, and Kris has helped me see what a treasure my hometown is: Grief brought her back to western Minnesota. Now she’s helping restore her hometown. www.mprnews.org/story/202…
We don’t know anything about Minecraft (our son was more into Flight Simulator), but the global movie promotion is going gangbusters in our restaurants.
This is not my first stock market crash, so I’m not selling, but I did buy a “MSCI World ex US” EFT today
Reciprocal tariffs sound to me like a bigger and better Brexit (and by better I mean kills more GDP)
The ZDF docudrama Rosenthal is worth watching. www.zdf.de/filme/ros… Rosenthal (Hans Rosenthal soll die 75. Sendung von “Dalli Dalli” ausgerechnet am 9. November 1978 live moderieren. Als jüdischer Holocaustüberlebender kaum denkbar. Wird er vor die Kamera treten?)
We have an excellent manager whose parental leave ends this summer. She’d love to come back part time but can’t get child care in Hamburg. She’s better off going on unemployment and hopes to come back in 2026. #PoorGermany
We not only have a published author in the family, but also a prize winner. Our niece Freya Petersen has won the Seraph prize for “Best Debut” German Fantasy Novel for “Die Mutter der Masken – Säure” awarded during the Leipzig Book Fair! #Seraph2025 www.instagram.com/p/DHv6cUx…
Dawson-Boyd is the neighbor town, not my hometown, but we’re streaming their MN State Championship game from Germany anyway. (PS They won!)
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