I have to admit it's getting better...

As you may have noticed, I have been faithfully adding labels to my posts. I did this in hopes of taking the time one day to update to the new Blogger "layouts" instead of using this old template, and then being able to have the labels in the sidebar. I played around a little and it seems that adding your own javascript isn't working. Or at least the script I'm adding isn't working. Which sucks, cause I really like the quotes under our blog title, and that's done by a script. So dear Blogger bots or whoever at Blogger that's reading this: Why isn't my javascript working? I know I should probably use the Google group, but I'm way to lazy (too lazy for the extra 'o' as well), I mean busy for that. So I'll have to hold out on adding any fancy stuff and keep using regular style and html elements. I might like that better anyway.

And while we're talking about "improvements" (that means I don't really think anything's improving, not that I wanted to emphasize the word and should have used bold, italics or underlining, I've been noticing that, as in: Secaucus - a town that takes "pride", hilarious), maybe some of you have heard the latest already, but all broadcast TV in the US will be digital starting February 17, 2009. That's why you keep coming back here, the insider information. And you know how those commercials are like "Have you noticed how digital has made everything better"? Well, I'm not entirely convinced. Satellite TV is digital, and whenever the weather gets little crappy, you can't watch that stuff anymore. Cause instead of the picture being fuzzy or static, you end up with this copped up stuff you can't watch at all anymore. You know what I'm talking about, right? Raise your hand if you don't, cause that stuff put a serious damper on my EURO finals viewing experience. Another reason I dislike DirecTV and the likes, you pay a monthly fee for TV, and when the weather's bad, and you'd wanna stay inside and, oh, I don't know, watch a little TV maybe, why not, weather is nasty anyway, you can't, cause the picture's gone and the sounds all messed up. So in the future, when a storm's a-brewing somewhere, and people would like to keep updated on it's development, even if it's static, they won't be able to do that with a digital broadcast, cause digital has no gray zone, it only knows 0 or 1, on or off.

But enough ranting, especially when it's so incoherent. The bottom line is, I don't think digital broadcasting is all it's cracked up to be, and I'm waaaay awesome because I listen to vinyl records.

Digestion reader (that's what you will be if you read on).

People, I don't know what I could write about. Every time I sit down after thinking "Yeah, I can write a quick little post about that" I think it's overly boring and possibly nauseating while writing, so I put it off until the time I'm in a quirkier writing mood. And you know what? That time still hasn't shown up 'round here. Like it's mad or something cause I wouldn't answer late night phone calls or didn't have its new address to send a postcard. Or maybe writing time's not mad at me at all. Maybe it's just jealous cause we just got these new plants for our window that I think are really awesome. We also have two cactuses, which I know are called cacti, but I'm not feeling any Roman vibes right now, so cactuses it is.

Speaking of which, when you call a woman a "Tussi" in German you are most likely not going to be friends with her. The translation is only supposed to give you a vage idea (I know, vague, but it's national day for the abolition of silent letters (n-dasl 2008), in case you were wondering, plus hoo kears ebowt orthography ennemawr). I'm thinking of a young woman who thinks she's hot digestion end product and wears lots of make-up and stuff like that. Anyway, we've been seeing this women's deodorant/antiperspirant in stores, and meant to tell our friends in Germany about it, but never did. Sorry, it's much less hilarious this way.

What I've been wanting to communicate is some opinion. Not so much about politics, even though I agree with a German speaker I overheard saying that the excitement building at home about Barack Obama isn't a good thing, since we don't get to vote the American president. The reason I think that German speaker was right is that ultimately, this might fuel the already deep-rooted and sometimes irrational anti-American sentiments of some Germans. Let's say the majority of Germans determines for themselves who they think should be the next American president, the right guy. Then somehow, the wrong guy wins. How could this happen? It was so clear who was the far superior candidate. Verdammt nochmal, those Americans, always making the world a worse place to live, one vote at a time. Typical! They just have no clue. At least hypothetically, that's what I can foresee happening. And I don't think it's good for Hans and Gisela to get their hopes up like that.

But like I said, I would never subject you to any political blabber emanating from my fingers like that. I have opinions about other things today. Like the latest Indiana Jones movie, which I thought was just fine, except the whole thing about aliens, which unfortunately was a rather large part. Could have done without that. Regular mysterious natives would have been just fine. I also saw Hellboy II, and liked it as well. Not spectacular, and the humor isn't all that great, but some of the visuals were expectedly awesome. Like the character that heals Hellboy (yeah, I just spoiled it, no wait, of course he wasn't gonna die, that was like saying that Hellboy wins one of his fights, so nevermind) and Selma Blair. Speaking of Selma Blair, if you've been seeing Kath and Kim previews on American TV, check out the Australian original and tell me that's not 100 times funnier than the American version will be. Well, it might be hard to tell from the website and there don't seem to be any good clips on youtube, but you can trust me on this one.

If you thought that was it you're way wrong. I also listened to some good CDs. But first, I have a question for all you people out there who enjoy some good rock music. Cause I have been feeling old lately for not knowing any good new bands that are exciting. Most online review sites I visit have too broad of a spectrum and all they seem to review is bands that traded their distortion knobs for a whiny lead singer. Don't tell me to check out Kerrang either, cause they write about Slipknot as if they're to be taken seriously. Maybe I'm just being too snicky (that means 50% snobby, 50% picky). I was able to get some good stuff I somehow never had in my collection like Dirt by Alice in Chains in the meantime, but I wanna hear something fresh. Cause the time between Tool releases is too long to not be listening to anything else. And I definitely like Aenima the best, from which you may draw your own conclusions. Part of the problem is probably that I don't end up getting new releases that I probably would like when they come out. Like System of a Down's last albums, and I have only one Mars Volta album (even though that might really be enough in that case). And I don't get reunions stuff out of principle. Good CDs I have been listening to: As I Am by Alicia Keys (go ahead make fun of me) and Rising Down by The Roots (even though I haven't spent too much time with that one). Good night.

Got Rooney?

No, this is not a soccer post. Because on this blog, we're too good for English players. Way too good. I saw this on 60 Minutes today, and even though it's from 2005, it seems to speak right from the bottom of my heart. The problem as Mr Rooney describes it still persists, too: I challenge you to go to a grocery store and find plain old milk. The closest you'll get it Vitamin D milk, which I grudgingly accept since Vitamin D isn't all that bad for you. I just saw something on TV explaining how the Vitamin D in milk isn't having a huge impact on your overall vitamin household though. Yoghurt is even worse in this country. It's all low-fat and no-fat and diet and eat-me-and-you'll-poop-like-a-champ white goo with either loads of sugar or artificial sweetener (don't even get me started on that one). But where's regular old yoghurt? It's hard enough to find plain and the "greek-style" ones seem to be a little better, but I haven't sampled them extensively due to their no-bargain price tag. I just settle for low-fat ones and try to feel smug. The other day we saw some no-fat processed cheese slices that weren't actually called cheese anymore but food substitute. How can consumers be demanding this? Buttermilk's another good one. What happened to buttermilk? It's popular with eco-fanatics and alternative types all over Germany, but over here, all they have is low-fat buttermilk. That to me is an oxymoron to begin with. I also noticed that school cafeterias and government-sponsored diet advice promotes 2% milk. But you know what I'm really wondering? What the heck happens with all the fat they remove from dairy products. I'm imagining gigantic underground lakes of dairy fat or mountains of the stuff, covered with equally enormous tarps and sold back to the people as fancy bouncing castles. Or smaller versions marketed as insoles containing only 100% natural materials.

The griddle.

Folks, they dry spell is over. We now have our very own high-speed interwebbing connection. The open wireless connections in our neighborhood have stopped working for us a while ago, so it's just in time. The stuff you've missed is Germany being runner-up in the European soccer championship and us acquiring a vehicle. If you all behave real well, there might be some pictures in the near future. We're back on the grid.