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My new baby!

Berlin, Bowling

As every Sunday I went to the bowling lanes today.
But this time I brought my new baby!
Its got nice curves, roughly twelve labs, a serial number and goes by the name of T-Zone, Brunswick.
But enough jokes … my new bowling ball (incl. bag and extra equipment) is one piece of the fine selection of presents I got for my birthday, roughly a week ago. I went to the store yesterday and today I gave it a first shot in four games with an average of 166.75 points.
With only about a quarter of a point under this year’s average its been a good start.
Looking forward for more :-)

Thanks to all the ones taking part in this present!
And of course also big thanks to all the others for their presents!

Foosball Tournament

Berlin, Movies

Yesterday was the first game day of the amazing “Kicken & Kieken” (to kick and to watch) foosball tournament!
This actually means that we, together with some 20 and more friends, are having a table football league at our place! With all the things you need for a proper league: We’ve got eleven teams, live video (and video archives), online-stats, a betting-game and some party and/or relaxing time with a movie (Little Miss Sunshine – very good) afterwards.
All results, stats and videos can be found on my webpage (you need to be a member for the latter one though)!

(Not So) Happy New Year

Berlin

First of all … A Happy New Year to all of you loyal readers ;-)

Unfortunately our year didn’t start too good …
We picked up one (or a couple) of the nowadays quite popular Noro viruses and ended up
spending New Years Eve and Day in bed and/or the bathroom.
Especially the latter one you get to know quite well … but I guess I’ll spare the details ;-)
Anyway today is the first day that is kind if normal again and tomorrow I’ll try and actually start the year for the first time … back to work that means!

Meet and Greet with Peter Jenni

Berlin, CERN, DESY, Humboldt Universität

Yesterday I had a little meet and greet with Peter Jenni, the spokesman of the ATLAS experiment. He has given a sort of “understandable-for-everyone” talk in the Helmholtz Lectures Program at Humboldt-University of Berlin. Afterwards we’ve been invited to a little reception, where I had the chance to talk a bit to our btw. very nice spokesman about this and that … unfortunately no pictures have been made this evening :-(

Dishwasher Salmon

Berlin

Another great cooking evening together with friends enjoying some dishwasher salmon!
Found the recipe in the stupid dungeons of the internet and had to try!
It worked out kind a well, maybe the salmon had a bit too much. But for a first-timer, just fine.
Just wrap your salom into aluminium foil and put it into your dishwasher and start the normal program (you might have to interupt it, not to cook the salmon too long).
Good dinner and certainly great fun!