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Six years and six days ago…

… I started my weblog at andrea.editthispage.com. Back then, hardly anyone (in Germany, at least) knew what a weblog was, and even fewer people had one. Back then I was a student with lots of time for surfing the web and finding interesting things to post, or even for writing long stories about my travels etc..

(This reminds me that I never got around to posting a journal for our second trip to the US back in 2002, and that I kept a journal on the computer on the third trip in 2005 so posting something about it on the web would be easier and less time-consuming. With a digital diary and digital photos you’d think that I’ll eventually get around to put something up in the near future – we’ll see if it works out.)

My weblog helped me make new friends (whom I mangaged to meet in real life), keep in touch with far-away friends and even find old friends again. (For those not in the know: Ralf and I went to school together!)

Since I started teaching I haven’t had as much time for this hobby, but I still enjoy posting interesting links or the odd photo and communicating with you. I still get e-mails from “strangers” from time to time talking about something that I posted on my weblog or asking a question, or just saing, hi, I read your weblog, so if you’re a long-time reader but have been lurking all this time, why don’t you post a comment or drop me an e-mail at my first name at this domain? I’d love to hear from you!

Ach Kinners, vielen Dank für die lieben Glückwünsche, Jörg und Ralf.

Jörg: Es war aber nicht am Sonnabend, sondern schon ein paar Tage eher, und ich hatte nach dem letzten Posting flüchtig daran gedacht, dass ich da wohl ein Jubiläum verpasst hatte, war aber noch nicht dazu gekommen, hier wieder zu posten. Danke für die Erinnerung!

Tagged – four things

Four jobs I’ve had:

  1. Tutor for mathematics, English, Latin, and physics.
  2. Typist at the Federal President’s office, transferring the information on persons who were decorated by the Federal President (is there a shorter way to say this in English?) from paper to computer.
  3. Secretary at the newspaper of the German Armed Forces Union.
  4. Teacher.

Four movies I can watch over and over:

  1. Blues Brothers.
  2. The Straight Story.
  3. The Big Lebowski, Fargo, and some others by the Coen brothers.
  4. Wallace and Gromit.

Four places I’ve lived:

  1. Hetzwege, Lower Saxony.
  2. Hannover, Capitol of Lower Saxony.
  3. Bonn, North-Rhine Westphalia, former Capital of Germany.
  4. Andernach, Rhineland-Palatinate.

Four TV shows I love:

  1. Friends.

I’ll have to pass on the other ones since we don’t own a TV. My sister got me hooked on Friends by lending me the DVDs, though.

Four places I’ve vacationed:

  1. Florence and Tuscany, Italy.
  2. Kenya and Tanzania, East Africa.
  3. Devon, Cornwall and Kent, England (two different trips)
  4. Western United States (CA, NV, AZ, UT, NM, CO, WY)

Four of my favorite dishes:

  1. Tandoori Chicken with aromatic yellow rice and spicy green beans.
  2. Murg Jalfraizee (chicken with bell peppers).
  3. Curry soup, a favourite at the moment.
  4. Tiramisu, homemade by André.

Four sites I visit daily:

  1. Too many weblogs, but i usually read their feeds.
  2. National Geographic photo of the day.
  3. Astronomy picture of the day.
  4. Weather forecast for Andernach.

Four places I would rather be right now:

  1. New Zealand.
  2. Southwest of the USA, somewhere in the desert.
  3. Outside in the snow and sun, instead of at my desk.
  4. Glen Canyon, before the dam was built.

Four bloggers to tag with this:

  1. Daniel.
  2. Ralf.
  3. Hmm, almost everyone else has already been tagged…
  4. … you!

Shout-out

Thanks for the warm welcome and for spreading the new link,

  • Hal – blivet 2.0: Serendipita
  • Ralf – Rush my log: Andrea goes WordPress
  • Daniel – Cowjumping.net
  • Al – code: theWebSocket; Another member of the Manila Mafia moves on
  • Garret – dangerousmeta! Not by chance I find Serendipita…

    • Incidentally, every single one of these weblogs is also powered by WordPress. Looks like it really is the new hotness.

    Photos from Grand Teton and Yellowstone

    Garret went on a trip to the Grand Tetons and Yellowstone and
    started to post some of his photos at photo-secession. Not only are they great shots, they also remind me of our recent trip to the area – Great Teton and Yellowstone were the very last places we visited before coming back home.

    The funny thing is, he went later than we did, yet his pictures are up on the web earlier than ours – in fact, I haven’t even had the time to look at all of our photos myself because we ended up with about 3,000 shots. I hope to find the time to sort through them this weekend; we have some family coming to visit on two occasions in the next few weeks, and I’m sure they would like to see some photos – but not all of them, of course.