I am an American expat living in Germany. It's a far away land on the other side of the ocean. It's interesting and often weird here. If you read this and want to comment then email me at nate(the at symbol)chillmost.com. If you find any spelling or grammar mistakes, you can keep them.
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Spargelzeit
Last night Jens and I cooked up some Spargel for some friends of ours. We had about 6 people over to our place and had a feast. Boiled white asparagus, various sliced and salted hams, potatoes, cauliflower, and awesome hollandaise sauce. Not to mention lots of white wine. It was da bomb. I made dessert which was American style brownies with strawberries and vanilla ice cream. Bomb-a-licious. We gotta do that more often.
On another note, my friend R, drummer extraordinaire, has got what the Germans call Scarlach, commonly known as Scarlet Fever. I thought that had been eradicated. Who gets that these days? Well, apparently scarlet fever occurs mostly in children aged 4-8 years. It doesn't sound like fun to me. I'll be steering clear from him for a while.
F.A.Z. - English Version: "A Denglish primer"
Not much too exciting going on. Thursday was a holiday here and Friday is usually taken off as well. So I had a 4 day weekend. I did some rollerblading on Thursday. I also spent a lot of that time re-familiarizing myself with ProTools and getting to know the DIGI 002 Rack. Also interesting is the version of Reason that came with it. I got a small MIDI controller to work with it and using the Rewire function I can sync ProTools, Live and Rewire together. It all sounds very promising/interesting/rad. I just have to sit down and figure it all out. It has been almost 4 Years since I have used ProTools. It is basically the same but there are now a bunch of new buttons and functions I have to get familiar with.
In other news, M's mom had a dream which somehow has been interpreted as a bad omen for me. I'm supposed to be wary of people who are trying to rip me off and take advantage of my gullibility. Sounds like the standard program. I am usually pretty suspicious of people I don't know. I play it safe while walking down the street. Yesterday while somebody asked me for a light though, I looked around to make sure he didn't have his boys around waiting to jump me. So, thanks for the paranoia H! Sheesh.
