I’m back in Germany. The flight on “Air Chance” was about as expected. Now I am so sick. The altitude didn’t help. I went to the doctor today and I have infections of the middle ear on both sides. Rad. But my vacation has been extended due to the wonderful health care system here. I’m forbidden to work til Thursday. I’ll have updates and pictures soon.

Sneaky

I am in America. I went home to suprise my parents for their 30th wedding anniversary. I was scheduled to leave on Friday morning at 10:30 hamburg time, but due to the blackout I was rerouted to Prague and then to Newark. I recommend Czech Airways. Very nice but also very laid back.

I’m seeing family and friends which is cool. I had a great time with my friend Bob who moved to NY from Chicago.

America is strange. I’ll post more about this later.

Heatwave

Dude whatever. There is supposedly this massive heatwave gripping Europe by the giblit. I admit it is warmer than usual and it could become uncomfortable for those without AC (myself included) but this ain’t nuthin’

All I got to say is: Dallas, 105 in the shade beeyatch. It gets so hot there you can feel the heat slowly convect through your skull and then pass through the outermost membrane of your brain. The term “convection” is mainly used for non-solid objects. In this case, it is as if your skull is some sort of porous gelatinous barrier so it kind of fits. Then you feel this sort of numbing heat spread out from the center of your brain down into your medulla. I feels like your brain is kinda bubbling away inside your skull and trickling down your neck. Then if you ride the border between dehydration and delirium you see funny things. Kind of like LSD without having to take anything illegal. Or so I have read about. Thats why people freak the hell out in the summer and the number of population-thinning shootings from the top of tall structures increases. It’s the heat. But like I said, what is going on here in germany is nothing and I can handle it. So don’t worry. I’m complete control of all my faculties. Besides, I couldn’t find a high-powered sniper rifle.

There is shitty rag of a newspaper here called Bild or was it the MOPO? Doesn’t matter, both crap. Anyway one of them in a front page article called on the Chancellor, Gerhard Schröder, to do something about the heat like give away ice cream and beer and have the federal government and insurance companies pay for it. Shyeah right.

Here are the blogs of two people that deal with extreme heat in the most explosive city on the planet right now:

Salam Pax: Iraqi citizen in Baghdad

Turningtables: US soldier in Baghdad

Raise the Fist!

Read This! What the hell is going on over there?

Remember, fascism and a police state doesn’t come all at once, it comes piece by piece. How far will we allow it go until we are all locked up in concentration camps.

If we don’t take matters into our own hands and do something about this now, then we are already prisoners of war.

I went to the beach on Sylt yesterday. It was fun. I think it was the first time that I went to a beach in almost 2 years. European beaches are a good thing. Very nice.

One of my favorite entertainers, Willie Nelson has endorsed Dennis Kucinich for President (Washington Post). Now that is cool. Cooler than cool. Go to the Willie page at the Kucinich for President website and check out the radio spots Willie did for Dennis. He’s also doing benefit concerts. Check and see if he is playing near you.

I went to Willie Nelson play in Stamford, Connecticut on the last night before I moved to Germany. It was awesome, and by awesome, I mean totally sweet.

Yeah. It’s my birthday. 27. Sweet. My present from Meike is a ride in a hot air ballon! Awesome. We’ll probably go next week.

Blogger, the company that makes the content management blog software that makes this blog possible, changed their software recently in such a way that the archives and the archive links no longer work properly. I gotta sit down and sort it all out. I’m thinking of switching to MovableText. Blogger is to unreliable. Somedays it works, somedays it don’t.

What i saw today

Eilaktionen (Urgent Actions)

I joined Amnesty International a few weeks ago and finally got my first newsletter from them with all my membership info. AI strives to improve human rights for people all over the globe. This is often done by bringing attention to human rights abuses through a series of letter writing campaigns in hopes that once those in charge realize, that what they are doing has been discovered, they will cease and hopefully rectify the situation. I alone can’t do much but there is strength in numbers. If it sounds like something you would like to get involved in take a look at the website: www.amnesty.org.

I wish I could use this forum to bitch about my employer. Grrrr!