Our son flew with his girlfriend to Minnesota to meet his grandmother. I lent him a credit card to ease the rental car pickup. I see in addition to Hertz they also stopped at Dairy Queen. đŠđ
Since all 3 of our admin staff are off today, weâve spent 3 hours today taking care of bicycles (broken, replacement, junk)
Third night after returning from the US and waking up feeling like you got hit by a brick (in spite of melatonin) #jetlag
So yesterday I entered the EU for the first time with my German passport. The machines at Schiphol were down, and there were long lines for both EU and non-EU citizens, so it didn’t feel very special.
Not to reveal any personal family details, but after 30% funding cuts, layoffs at rural PBS stations have begun
Wife went home last week to be with her mom, so I’m finishing out Minnesota alone with my mom. Too cold at the lake, so we retreated to town. School just started, the buses gather across the street before heading on their routes.
Our hotel in Duluth is very chill. Free WiFi, complementary bike rental, and THC gummies are available in the gift shop.
The lake is so high they took out the dock sections, and now the frame looks like a scene from a horror movie
Went to Taco Bell yesterday. It was a lot better than I remember (which was back in the ’80s đ). All staff and customers were less than half our age.
Used my German passport for the first time at AMS to exit Schengen. It was somewhat anticlimactic as US passports were using the same machines.
Wacken Sunday is normally our biggest day of the year. But with the rainy weather, many left the festival already yesterday, so we did more business on Wacken Saturday than we did on Wacken Sunday last year.
Laura Dahlmeier, Gold Medal-Winning German Biathlete, Dies in Rockfall www.nytimes.com/2025/07/3…
THIS WEBSITE WILL BE SHUT DOWN AT SOME DATE IN THE NOT TOO DISTANT FUTURE, SO IF YOU WANT TO DOWNLOAD ANYTHING, DONâT WAIT TOO LONG. tomlehrersongs.com
Watching the Euro womenâs final is especially fun since my wife and I are for different teams (she is for ENG, Iâm for ESP)
Pouring rain and our restaurant in Harburg has water dripping through the ceiling tiles into the office. Turned out not to be a leaky roof, but the water line to the steamer (for Filet-o-Fish buns).
We quietly started 3rd party delivery in our newly digitized Phoenix Center (Harburg) store. First day: 19 orders, 17% of sales, zero advertising.
