Hello there,
i spent last weekend at the so-called "Meer der Wiener" (literally the ocean of the Viennese), i.e., at Lake Neusiedl. It's a quite shallow and relatively large lake close to Vienna, on the border of Austria and Hungary. I was there with a group of friends, camping directly at the lake. Good weather, nice swimming, lots of fun.
Only one drawback: mosquitos. The area with all the nature, water and reed is famous for having lots of mosquitos. And the last couple of weeks supported this by offering the perfect breeding weather for them little basterds. I took some insect repellent with me but the bastards seem to especially like my blood. Or at least they liked mine more than the blood of the people around me.
Monday morning i counted 19 mosquito bites just on the back of my right hand. So, i decided i really wanted some numbers here: i let a friend count the stitches on my back. She stopped at about 170, but that was far from all, so right now i have more than 200 mosquito bites on my back. Feet look also like i would have chickenpox, all red dots and so on. Funny except for a little bit - or quite some - itching.
I feel like if i go donate blood now there wouldn't be much left inside me :-P
Enjoy summer, people!
Cheers
CGA
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Monday, August 03, 2009
Future train
Hello there,
look at this photo, taken on the 8th of July, 2009:
I was in a train in Germany. One of them double-deckers. We have the same kind of trains here in Austria. I was dead-tired and so a little confused when i saw the date displayed =)
My next thought was that the train system must be running on Windows Vista. Just from my personal experience - i've been working with it on my company laptop for a bit more than a year now. It seems that it doesn't like portable devices, or at least being disconnected from electricity for a while. Happens usually several times a week when booting up, it's confused and displays a weird date and time. Usually January 10th, 2006. Just after midnight. I guess that its birthday or something.
Awwwh, Windows.
Anyways, cool to travel with a train that's 20 years ahead of its time ;-)
Cheers.
look at this photo, taken on the 8th of July, 2009:
I was in a train in Germany. One of them double-deckers. We have the same kind of trains here in Austria. I was dead-tired and so a little confused when i saw the date displayed =)
My next thought was that the train system must be running on Windows Vista. Just from my personal experience - i've been working with it on my company laptop for a bit more than a year now. It seems that it doesn't like portable devices, or at least being disconnected from electricity for a while. Happens usually several times a week when booting up, it's confused and displays a weird date and time. Usually January 10th, 2006. Just after midnight. I guess that its birthday or something.
Awwwh, Windows.
Anyways, cool to travel with a train that's 20 years ahead of its time ;-)
Cheers.
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